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Synchroncities from New X-Men?

Augury

03:27 / 28.03.04

I've been reading a lot about how people experience 'synchronicity' when they are reading 'the Invisibles' (haven't read it), and i recently had a similar experience while reading Grant's NXM.

I've just moved to a new town, and I was driving home from work - and got myself lost. I wasn't really concerned, and i was thinking about the Phoenix and its role in NXM. Then, all of a sudden - I drove past a building - called 'Phoenix'! I was overwhelmed by this huge sense of being amazed and feeling very positive.

I drove for a minute longer, and then i knew where i was again. I later found out that the building was a halfway house for teens, which i thought was kinda relevant to Phoenix imagery (rising from the ashes of our lives, burning away what doesn't work etc).

So anyone else had a 'moment' w/ NXM, or more specifically the Phoenix?

- Augury

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:44 / 28.03.04

Halfway house for teens - or for "gifted youngsters?" Heh.

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I swear Cassie Nova's one nasty little meme that keeps cycling through my thoughts.

ciarconn

12:29 / 28.03.04

Oh, I did have a very strong sichronicity with NXM... but since it coincides with Cyclops... i'd prefer not to ellaborate...

Augury

05:48 / 29.03.04

Being somewhat of a 'newb' to the whole magick thing - how does one know the Syncrhonous from the Coincidence?

Thoughts?

illmatic

06:05 / 29.03.04

Well, that's the crux of magick isn't it? I don't know if one does most of the time. You can defintely delude yourself that cosmic coincidence central is on your case if you're in that mindspace (been there). I'm quite agnostic about most synchroncities unless they seem personally significant. Divination using a symbol system from which elements are selected "randomly" - such as tarot cards, runes or the I Ching, is basically the art of controlled coincidence/syncronicity. I put the word "randomly" in quotes because if you stick using a system for any length of time you'll begin to get information that seems beyond the bounds of coincidence.

PatrickMM

00:50 / 13.10.04

I feel like ever since I finished the series, I've been so much more aware of the phoenix, and it's metaphysical implications, the idea that you have to be broken down and destroyed before you can rise up and become whole again. It's the same stuff that GM covered in The Filth, and those two works really work in concert as a whole, covering the idea of the phoenix.

I don't know about specific synchronicities, but that phoenix just keeps popping up in my thinking.

salix lucida

18:01 / 13.10.04

"I feel like ever since I finished the series, I've been so much more aware of the phoenix, and it's metaphysical implications, the idea that you have to be broken down and destroyed before you can rise up and become whole again. It's the same stuff that GM covered in The Filth, and those two works really work in concert as a whole, covering the idea of the phoenix."

I don't know about NXM, but I was having a conversation the other night about Morrison's work in general, and wondering unread what extra intent and general themes he'd put into the Filth. And then I checked *this* thread on a whim. mm. meta-synchronicity.

Potguns

23:19 / 13.10.04

My cat had a slow decline whilst I read the filth, regardless to Reiki and whatever I could do to help it. I don't need that kind of synch in my life.

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