vrijdag 27 maart 2009

Synchronicity: a fair wind to find the destiny

Synchronicity is a term suggested and developed by Carl Gustav Jung. It describes an experience when two or more events (seemed to be totally unrelated) take place simultaneously. It might look like a coincidence, but in case of synchronicity there is a hidden meaningfulness. For the person who observes synchronicity it feels like there are supernatural powers are involved.

You can talk about synchronicity when you get a message or a telephone call from someone at the same moment you were thinking about this person. Or you met an interesting opportunity at the moment you begin to consider it. Like you decide to change your job and do something connected to your fragrant hobby and meet an old colleague who tells you about a vacancy for a sales assistant in her perfumery store. There is even more synchronicity when you realise that this perfumery shop is in your favourite part of the city or much closer to your home than you current job (and you’ve already started to hate long bus trips).

Synchronicity belongs to irrational domain and is not easy to understand, explore or analyse. You can experience it, make guesses or try to understand the meaning and finally accept or reject it. But it slips away anytime you try to explore it within rational framework.

Synchronicity exists beyond linear time or causality when one event causes another and they happen always in a certain order. If you don’t study for a chemistry test you fail. A cause (not studying) induces a certain effect (fail at the test). Within the timeline a cause is always in the past and the effect is always in the future. It’s different within the synchronicity – there is no timeline there. You might fail for a chemistry test because you are not meant to become a chemist, no matter if you were studying for it hard or not. In this case a cause lies in the future and the effect in the past. In fact, within the synchronicity both cause and effect are always beyond the time and always here and now – you fail for the chemistry test (always as well as here and now), because you never (moment beyond the time) meant to be a chemist. It’s not quite simple, but it’s the way synchronicity works.

And what if you are meant to be a chemist? Then something magical can happen. You will feel a fair wind each time you are making efforts to become one. As if all puzzle pieces falls together because they are belongs to each other. And at the same time you might get serious troubles if you try to take another direction. As if someone doesn’t want you too.

You might ask who is the One who dare to predetermine MY destination? The One is nobody, but us. Deep in our heart (again an irrational domain of emotions and intuition) we always now what we want, what do we like and what way we are the most happy to follow. But we don’t always follow our heart, because of prejudices, different points of views, family traditions, rules, education etc. Synchronicity can easily reach our unconsciousness and try to show us our destiny. The choice is always on us.


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