1 As you go into this weekend, I again ask that you all give a thought, love and prayer for Ravi Sharma and his family. He seems to be doing a little better, so here's hoping all goes well.
2 For those of you who sent the good thoughts out there, thank you. I was able to tell his brother that both Ravi and his family have more good people out there than they could ever imagine, and that we all are wishing nothing but good.
3 I thought about good thoughts and how they have certainly worked in my own life over the years. More often than not I have found that staying positive and keeping the light works.
4 Not in every case, mind you, but in my humble experience, there are many positives when good thoughts roll.
5 Moving on, Part One: A lot of this ties in with the entire concept of synchronicity. Good thoughts. Particles. Prayers. Hope. Here is a bit about how it all fits:
At the beginning of his 1987 blockbuster Synchronicity, author F. David Peat offers this definition from Tom Chetwynd's A Dictionary of Symbols (New York: Granada Publishers, Paladin Books, 1982.):
Synchronicity: Meaningful coincidence, significantly related patterns of chance.
6 My pursuit of the Heidi Chronz eventually led me to that significant word. I had heard the Police album, of course, but it was the very awesome and charmingly beautiful Shawna Fleming who clued me to the entire concept of synchronicity, and how it seems to line up perfectly with what has happened to me, as well as to many former/current students, staff, family, and friends through the years.
7 The book covers more than simply the coincidences, by the way.
8 It challenges old school scientific treatment of acausal incidents in life, and how we may live in a much more spiritual world than we think.
9 I won't go through the entire book, but it would certainly back the idea of prayers and thoughts as perhaps undefinable particles that may literally exist in the "material" world.
10 Great concept with light shades of evidence. Light shades. Synchronicity. Thoughts. Coincidences. Particles. Hope. Good thoughts. If we throw it out there it all may work.
11 Has science bought in? I'm not so sure I have. And yet...
12 Let me put it this way: I have yet to see a complete physical manifestation of this spirituality. I have yet to have a true spiritual vision. I have yet to see a ghost, even though I spend much of October on this subject.To this minute. I haven't because a ghost has yet to match this challenge:
13 I challenge any ghost on this planet or the next to appear and hand me a million dollars. (It used to be a hundred. Thanks Obama!).
14 So far, no takers.
15 So my scientific mind screams, "No proof; no pudding!"
16 That should be the end all.
17 However...
18 I have had too many times when things have worked, year in and year out. I have had many prayers answered positively, even though I am not outwardly a prayer guy.
19 In Peat's light tome, one of the pioneers of the synchronicity movement was a biologist from Austria, Paul Kammerer. At the turn of the last century he collected hundreds of stories and experiences involving coincidences and what he referred to as the "clustering of events."
20 We locals call them "Heidi trips," if that helps.
21 I have neither the time nor the wherewithal to report all of his findings, but I would like to share one in hopes it may give you an idea of what is in this little relic. This is an excerpt from Synchronicity:
22 "The type of coincidence that intrigued Kammerer is exemplified by the story of Monsieur de Fortgibu and the Christmas pudding. A certain Monsieur Deschamps, while a boy in Orléans, was given a piece of plum pudding by a certain Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later he discovered another plum pudding in a Paris restaurant and asked if he could have a piece. He was told, however, that the pudding had already been ordered--by M. de Fortgibu. Many years afterward M. Deschamps was invited to partake of a plum pudding as a special rarity. While he was eating it he remarked to his friends that the only thing lacking was M. de Fortgibu. At that moment the door opened and an extremely old man, in the last stages of disintegration, walked in. It was M. de Fortgibu, who had got hold of the wrong address and burst in the party by mistake."
23 Sound familiar?
24 I don't know too much more about Mr. Peat except that his book is of interest to me personally as I have certainly been shown and have shown excessive amounts of coincidences over the years. Just yesterday I played Vincent Price's epic The Tell Tale Heart for my students, for example. I gave a brief history of Price in all my classes. Last night I turned on TCM to write this. A Vincent Price film, Jules Verne's Master of the World was playing. Here go. For visual learners:
25 That's not so unusual this time of the year, but the very fact that the movie came on right as I was writing the DN is at least a coincidence, albeit a minor one. There it is, just above these words. Not planned. Coincidences. Synchronicity.
26 They add up, especially this time of the year. None of this is or has been something I ever wanted, prayed for, nor really ever thought about. This psychic "greatness" was thrust upon me. I never asked for any of it.
Here is a second coincidence, albeit small. I mentioned "pudding" in item 15, above. The passage I chose as an example of Kemmperer's synchronicity involved pudding. The two thoughts seemed unrelated at the time. I'm sure somewhere in the back of my mind they were, but it wasn't by design. It just flew into my head. I'm not that deep.
27 Over the years I have gone on to consider much of this phenomenon my companion. I don't claim to be psychic at all, but I certainly have had experiences that have convinced me there is a spirit out there, and that it can be partially controlled.
28 And I have certainly thrown good thoughts into the mix, quite often with positive results.
29 Proof? Examples?
30 No point. I have given "proof" and "examples" for years and years. I have documented tons.
31 I have had things publicly happen, often things that have occurred in "clusters."
32 I guess what I'm trying to say is that the stuff works. Can we cause negative things with negative thoughts?
33 Of course we can, and we do, many of us without even realizing it. Sourpusses.
34 That's the bad-day syndrome. I have to check myself when I get into that mode because it is an idiotic pursuit.
35 It's hard to explain. But sometimes a series of things do go wrong. I'm not arguing that one.
36 And sometimes several things go wrong. But don't you think that sometimes we bring still more bad stuff down on ourselves when we pursue a bad mood?
37 Switch it up and smile.
38 Switch it up and move good thoughts out there.
39 Things have a way of righting themselves, especially if you throw the good thoughts into the mix.
40 It seems so easy.
41 You'd be surprised at how many people would become cynical and negative just reading this stuff.
42 Okay then. That's about all I have to say about that one.
43 I no longer have the time nor the energy to explain things that have clearly happened to me over the years.
44 I report occurrences, clusters, coincidences, and often, good thoughts.
45 I don't stand around making stuff up.
46 The stuff finds me, and then I have fun with it. That's it.
47 Then I smile along.
48 Try spending the weekend staying consciously as positive as possible.
49 Throw some of that to a family that needs the love and the thoughts.
50 I think it beautiful that Ravi's family asked for that from the entire community.
51 It's a nice gift to give to a family who is going through all of this right now.
52 Throw the love out there this weekend.
53 I'll join you with all I got.
54 Pray and share the love.
55 See you again.
56 Peace.
~H~
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