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Inducing Synchronicity

19:06 / 10.07.03

Hey, I'm back to the magick forum. After a long hiatus caused by having nothing to contribute to the discussion I've returned with a question in hand.

How does one induce synchronicity? We've all heard of 23 but how does one induce synchronicities of, let's say, little black doggies or whatever. (And, yes, I do realize how many times I've siad "Inudce synchronicity in this post.)

20:08 / 10.07.03

Eat lots of acid.

20:17 / 10.07.03

More importantly how do I turn off the little black doggie thing.
I`m guessing you know very well how to cause em.
You`ve just done it.

23:19 / 10.07.03

I've found just taking note of them causes more and more to happen. There's always some little thing. Whenever you notice one, write it down on a scrap of paper or something. Once you've begun to notice a lot of them, say more than three in one day, you can start willing them to happen (with mixed results).

The Knights Templar Boogie Machine

23:58 / 10.07.03

whats worse is when you get synchronicities within synchronicities...

Ha Ha...

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01:15 / 11.07.03

If it's induced, is it still a synchronicity? Or are synchronicities supposed to be spontaneous?

Who's your Tzaddi?

03:13 / 11.07.03

Tzaddi's All Purpose Synchronicity Spell

Repeat after me:

Whoa, that's weird

03:15 / 11.07.03

entitything, it's still synchronicity, but it's no longer serendipitous.

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11:55 / 11.07.03

See, I thought synchronicity was a near-synonym for coincidence-- an event which happens at the same time as an apparently unrelated event with remarkable similarities and with no common cause. If the common cause is that you're willing such to occur, then it's not random, and the meaning is obvious-- you're willing them to occur.

Or maybe I'm making all this up. Oh well.

Thanks for the attempt at clarification, Qalyn, even if I'm still swimming in muck.

14:23 / 11.07.03

I think the "common cause" part is assumed on the part of the general public, but for us magicky types there is always a common cause, even if it makes no sense. Coincidence? Sure. Everything is a coincidence, but what's this one about?

14:27 / 11.07.03

you and me both entitything. I was always under the impression that they were spontaneous too.

Plus in my limited experience/experimentation with this I've found the more I've tried to will a synchronicty (say thinging about sonething I'd like to happen and "willing" a couple of magpies to fly pass as a kind of blessing or good fortune to my thought) the less they appear (or worse in the example, only the one magpie appears).

Maybe the key is not to will them into being as such but be open to anything that can be considered as a synchronicity.

Anyway surely if you go about willing these events you lose that little mental jolt that is part and parcel of it.

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14:20 / 12.07.03

Maybe in magic there are no coincidences, then. I'm still working out what my attitude towards synchronicity is in the first place. I notice them when I notice them, and I'm usually quite pleased with myself/it for having constructed such an amusing phenomenon, but I'm not really sure what I think it means.

Shortly after reading about the Captain Clark/23 synchronicity I started hearing radio commercials, both joke and real, at 23 minutes after the hour featuring people named Clark. This happened about five times.

I suppose this is my way of telling myself to pay attention? After all, if you aren't on your toes you'll miss the in-jokes.

15:00 / 12.07.03

Here's my two cents' worth (plus the late fee...)

I firmly believe that there is such a thing as randomness - that things that "look" connected (or at least connected enough to trigger the "whoa, that's weird" response) can happen by coincidence without any common cause.

I also firmly believe that there is such a thing as synchronicity - things happen that "look" connected and are connected by a hidden, possibly unknowable link that has nothing to do with accepted cause&effect.

The trouble is telling the difference between the two... Not sure why that might be important, though.

If you want to "induce" synchronicities, start acknowledging the connections you see on a daily basis... and then make your own. Write stories linking disparate events through "inconsequential" items - maybe the principal characters in each event share a birthday or were wearing the same shirt when those events happened? Make up three people who were eating paella on a tuesday evening, then follow them for a week.

19:43 / 13.07.03

I talked with Enamon about how we used to induce the 23 synchronicity in other people. I had completly forgotten the process until a few days ago. Basically you'll tell the person about the whole 23 thing and then you start activly looking for it. You strain yourself to find it and then just stop. When you stop looking the synchronicities abound.

Why'd I ask the question? The idea is to induce synchronicities of money dropping into my lap. Cause it beats getting a job. Lazy? Yes. But..uhm..it might work.

15:05 / 15.07.03

*delurk*

while it sounds like "just look for them" is a bit of a cop-out, there's a passive Attention-paying that brings out synchronous events disturbingly often for me. Willing them to happen just frustrates it, but there's a quantum effect of Observation changing the world around you just enough to pop 'em into existence.

mind you, if you get good enough at it, it's enough to drive you mad. i regularly throw things at the radio / random mp3 player / threaten background music in shopping areas. apparently, i'm music-Attuned.