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Make me Uncomfortable

17:34 / 14.02.07

While reading The Invisibles and listening to Sufjan Steven's album Illinoise, right as I turned a page and read the words "In my mind" the line "I made a lot of mistakes/in my mind, in my mind" played, with the song and my internal monologue syncing up exactly.

Thats sort of a prelude to the kind of year I've been having so far. My new years resolution was to start working my way through The Artist's Way, a workbook for creative recovery. One of the main tenets of the book is that synchronicity exists, is active, and is extremely helpful, and should be ridden to it's completion. As Paulo Coelho points out in The Alchemist, "When you want something, all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it." So I've been looking out for Coincidences and Synchronicity. Imagine my surprise and delight when I checked the book list for one of my classes, only to find that we are to read Carl Jung's "On Synchronicity." And in a random conversation, one of my friends, unprompted, happened to mention the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, which is just another term for synchronicity (as it specifically applied to one man's serendipitous noticing of things related to the german terrorist group and his broader realization that such events occur all the time, but with different triggers).

So, meta-synchronicity? Or maybe it should be called synchronicity-synchronicity?

Synchronicity has been pervading my life pretty heavily as of late, in any case. An art project involving the collection and cataloging of orphaned gloves found frozen on the sidewalk has led to various adventures and weirdness triggered by looking far too intently and excitedly at the sidewalks and roads of Pittsburgh, not in the least a dozen orphaned gloves found in under a week (most of them left handed, and most of them women's gloves, if you are interested. It's a very weird curve- I guess men just don't wear gloves that much comparatively, and one is more likely to hold on to their right-glove given that right-handedness is the predominant trait. The mind staggers).

16:39 / 02.03.07

A girl has started work with me, who sounds and looks pretty much exactly like the lovely Nina we know and love- so much so that I almost went to hug her and ask when she moved to Brighton. Turns out her name's Val and she's a completely different person, but I keep double-taking when I see her, it's eerie.

17:06 / 02.03.07

FOR GOD'S SAKE KEEP THEM APART! KEEEP THEM APAARRRRT!

17:30 / 02.03.07

"Kill us both, Spock!"

19:57 / 07.03.07

I've just recorded one of the biggest coincidences to happen to me lately - even my dear neighbourhood sceptical was dumbstrucken by this coincidence.

It involved a french beer glass that I saw in my boyfriend's magazine and I declared that I wanted it, the answer from my boyfriend being laughter, but then only two days later did I decide to visit the local opportunity shop, and that glass in question was standing right there for only 3.20 Australian Dollars.

w00t.

Visit my blog www.cryptolizard.com to read the whole thing with pictures!!!

19:58 / 08.03.07

I'm at the metro stop on the way home. I start assigning deities to other commuters on the platform. One guy is on his mobile, so he gets to be Hermes (communication). There's a chinese dude walking around looking kind of pissed off and checking me out hard, so I figure he gets to be Mars. Next to us there's a girl sat reading her book; she gets to be Athena.

Train comes, I get on the same carriage as Athena, and everybody in the carriage is reading. Freaked me right out.

19:00 / 11.03.07

I was walking to the inner city with a few friends of mine yesterday, talking about the reasons why I didn't think it was ethical to buy a stolen bike off the street. My bike just got stolen a few weeks ago, so it felt a little personal.

Just as the argument was beginning to get a little heated, a shabby looking man on a -no doubt stolen- bike asked me if I wanted to buy it. Strangely enough, this is only the second time this proposition has been made to me in my life, and for it to happen at just that time, was pretty weird.

17:22 / 12.03.07

The people at the end of our house have just put up a ladder to fix their guttering. I spent a goodly long time thinking about their guttering this morning.

My sister asked me about something in an email exactly at the same time as I texted her the reply to a question I didn't know she was asking me.

I quite often have communications coincidences. I'm starting to think they are more than coincidences. The other evening I got a picture of something bad happening to The Beautiful Man in my head. I ignored it and didn't ring him. Then it actually did happen about half an hour after I'd though it.

And yes, Emberleo, those Universal moments, they are 'pinging' you are so right. That's by far and away the best word for it. Thank you.

20:19 / 12.03.07

I've taken to leaving offerings of money and bookmarks I've found in the library where I work on the railway bridge I cross to get there every morning and, after leaving a particularly big tip before a trip to London with my lady friend, and I started getting asked about this, but didn't really feel like articulating something I wasn't all that sure about. It mostly just felt right (and also since I started this there's always a seat, guards remember they've checked my ticket and, when I've really needed it, trains seemed to have been late and just waiting for me at the station... ).

So anyway, we're reading on the train and I start wondering why I am doing it, put my book down, look out the window and immediately pass a large building with the word HERMES above its door. That was nice.

13:49 / 14.03.07

I've been trying to woo a lady lately, and we have a little flirty ongoing joke about how we think the same things. Yesterday, we are emailing and she asks me what I'm reading at the moment. We are reading the same book, and we are on exactly the same page. Cripes.

14:22 / 14.03.07

Wow, that is freaky, coq. Sparky connection with that one!

18:46 / 14.03.07

Well I think so, even though the coincidence didn't really hit me that hard. She thought it was super freaky, but it doesn't seem to have improved my wooing powers any.

22:55 / 14.03.07

This is my first post and all the coincidences that have been happening to me the last month or two make this the perfect thread to start on.

I will just tell you the most appropriate one to put on a discussion board that originated from the Invisibles.

I am a huge Morrison fan and I finally got around to getting the Invisibles (the whole 7 books on ebay for 66 bucks!!!)

I read the first few books and the connections to my life were amazing.....I was having an experience that I have only heard people talk to me about when they have a religious conversion after they feel the Q'uran or the Bible is speaking to them....

at some point I took a break to visit an old friend in Irvine...

we talked about old times living together on campus at UCSD and got to talking about the night we ate some psilocybe cubensis mushrooms that I had grown over the course of a few months. Well, I was raised Catholic and ended up having a vision of Ganesha the Hindu God of Obstacles (recall when King Mob is tripping on LSD at the cliffs and shouts "My God has an elephant head!" or something along those lines...) My friend had been in the other room while I was experiencing this looking at his poster of Picasso's Guernica, which he still had on his wall in the new place. We also talked about Eazy-E, a nickname he had given me based on how crazy he thought I was =)

So! I go home and get back into the Invisibles. Soon enough, the character Eezy-D pops up. This was trippy because at first the series was just speaking to my past experience, NOW it was referencing stuff from HOURS before.

Later on the characters in the 1920's have a seance and one of the woman goes on a sort of mystical journey. One of the scenes is her standing in front of a giant sized image of Picasso's Guernica.

So there you have it. I don't want to make this too long but SO much more has happened since then (this was only weeks ago) in terms of coincidence...I read one of the posts above about it being a single that you are "on the right path" or something along those lines and I do indeed feel that way.

I am so happy to have this community to share ideas with and look forward to reading what you all have to say.

Peace!

Eazy

22:59 / 14.03.07

what the hell?!?! After posting above I started reading more of the other posts on this thread....

Telephone and Telephone Bells, I just read yours, and I was JUST talking with my professor about Sufjan Stevens like five minutes ago AND I just borrowed The Alchemist from a friend to read.

Ok so I'm going to ride this...

23:15 / 14.03.07

So we're on names today. On the telly so far:

Mr Swann, the RSPCA Vetinary General.

Mr Innocent Chagonda - the Lawyer for Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwe opposition leader jailed yesterday.

Corporal Payne - the only man to be convicted for the physical abuse that killed Baha Musa in the Iraqi detention trial.

First Mr Swann appears. I'm all, "Oh, He's called Swann! And he's a vet! Ha ha!"

Then we laugh about Innocent Chagonda. "How weird", we say, "Coming straight after Mr Swann."

When Corporal Payne comes on the telly I stop laughing and think of this thread.

18:21 / 15.03.07

Two little ones.

• I received a friend request from one of the men who own the comic store I like to use. As I was contemplating whether I need another myspace friend, my parents called me into the living room and the other owner of the store was on the tv. (Regional news piece about my local market.)

• The path I like to walk my dog on has street-lighting that doesn't always do as it should. Last night I paused under one that wasn't working to light my ~cough~ "cigarette" and as I sparked my lighter, the lamp came on too.
Which I particularly enjoyed because it made me feel awesomely cool and is also an image I've used in something I've been trying to write for the past year.

Disco is My Class War

23:56 / 15.03.07

I sent a wish out last week and the week before for a better casual job: no phone interviewing; 8 hours for two days a week rather than 4 hours, four days a week; better paid; using my skills instead of feeling like a machine reproducing the same script over and over, etc.

Then last night I was at my call centre job and randomly asked my manager how often supervising jobs are advertised. I've been thinking that I should ask someone about that for months, but I just assumed the jobs would be advertised on a noticeboard at work, and that the absence of notices meant none were available. My boss said, "Awesome! You'd make a great supervisor! And they're really short at the moment! And you should talk to X person tomorrow, because they're about to advertise and you can get in early!"

It looks like maybe I'd have to do 3 days a week, not two, and I'll have to listen in to other people and write reports on them (not great fun). But it requires leadership, which I can do, and good pep talk skills, which I can also do. And it's better paid.

So today I'm taking my resume into work and hopefully getting myself a promotion! Thanks universe. Offerings coming your way stat.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

04:25 / 16.03.07

Today in my Symbol and Ritual class we just got through talking about Michael Taussig’s Book Mimesis and Alterity (which was amazingly informative and wonderful. Perhaps I’ll start a thread about it) and then my professor put on a movie that he said portrayed mimesis very well. So he put on his favorite movie Ghost Dog about a guy who finds some samurai books and becomes like a samurai (more or less). We didn’t finish it, but during this one moment while a French man was selling ice cream I had the craziest déjà vu experience in a long while. Anyways.

Later that night I went to put my shoes on in my living room and the tv was on, it was scrubs. Suddenly the janitor of the show comes on with a stuffed dog and some guy yells “ghost dog! Ghost dog!” which was strange. This then triggered a weird occurrence as I left the apartment then later that night another message revealed it self through NBC television.

Jeff Goldblum was sitting at a bench with a man and the man said something like “You want to be a writer? You need to find a new person” or some such. This is weird because I do in fact want to be a writer and have been thinking about it quite a bit lately. Then I found out that Jeff Goldblum was talking to a ghost. Freaaaky!

Make me Uncomfortable

05:22 / 16.03.07

Eazy Eun: Yeah, its weird how Sufjan does that. And I hope you enjoy the alchemist as much as I did.

I recently went on a little adventure ritual trip down to a park in downtown Pittsburgh. The whole trip was synchronicity-tastic. I've been doing a lot of stuff with city magic- trying to draw energy and understanding from the urban fabric, and specifically on this trip is was the graffiti that spoke to me most.

I've been on spring break this week, back "home" in San Francisco, and on a bus ride there I again kept seeing graffiti that really, really spoke to me. I've been keeping a notebook of it all, and plan on writing up some "nonsense" spells based on it.

Anyway, just keeping yinz posted.

14:11 / 20.03.07

Damn, this can't be good.

I was reading this:

"Astrologically, the Spring Equinox signals the entry of the Sun into Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. The Moon is already in creative Aries and we can see unrealized potential everywhere we look. We are reminded that cycles begin with anticipation of what may unfold, yet we may have more to say about our future than we thought. Visualizing our astrological New Year is a great start, but then we must make an effort to move in that direction."

When suddenly I hear just oputside my window BASH! A car crash. Wrong direction! Crazy Aries moon...Thank goodness the emergency services are here now.

16:58 / 21.03.07

I was going to put this in the Lyrics of your Life thread but decided to put it here, which turned out to be a coincidence. I'll explain...

This morning there was a big crash outside our house. A motorbike, car and van involved, all the services came, road closed all day, big kerfuffle. Three ambulances, I saw the biker getting stretchered into one with neck and leg braces on and stuff so I hope they're OK. Anyway, as I left the house to go to work the tow truck was taking the van away, and as I started up my MP3 player The Smiths came on singing 'There is a light that never goes out' and the line '...and if a ten tonne truck/killed the both of us...' played as I looked at the scene of a ten tonne truck at the scene of a crash.
So. I went to my local newsagents a hundred yards up the road to get some juice and chatted to the proprieter about it, and he said he'd heard a guy died (though I don't hink they did). While there, I noticed the local paper had the front page headline 'SACKED FOR BEING A WITCH!' so I got a copy to read and discuss that here ('weird', I thought, 'I was just thinking about the Temple because of the Smiths coincidence') and took it to work.
While at work, opposite the piece about the wiccan was a brief article about and a big picture of the guy who runs the newsagent I'd been in, where I got the paper I was reading... so I came here to post about it and found it directly follows Justrix's coincidence involving a car crash.

So what does that mean then?!?

Make me Uncomfortable

17:40 / 21.03.07

I'm telling you- I've accidentally triggered some meta-synchronicity. Just ride it out, man. Ride it out.

17:41 / 21.03.07

I am not sure what it means means, Quantum, but it makes my head hurt a little bit.

Considering the Vernal Equinox, which followed an Eclipse, the Sun moved into Aries, and till about today at approximately the time you posted, (I think), the moon was also in Aries. Conflicts, collisions even, under these influences are foreseeable. Also, wouldn't the Vernal Equinox current create a propensity for growth, transition, and new beginnings?

The "witch" headlines...that is a bit much.

11:21 / 22.03.07

GORD.

It's GORD. The Metero headline is "The Gord giveth and the Gord taketh away" referring to Gordon Brown's budget plans. I've received some circular bumf for my consultant's attention featuring a gorrila called Gordon, (GORD) for short, who has been tamed with Prontium or something. And I'm in the middle of typing up a massive clinic all about Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (Hence GORD the gorilla, of course, so not so much of a coincidence).

13:48 / 22.03.07

I forgot to mention, but one of the cars involved was a Volvo.

13:59 / 22.03.07

I have Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease. Technically it's the fallout from a Heller's myotomy to fix Achalasia, but that's still a bit of a coincidence right there.

Yesterday was a weird Wednesday full of unlikely events for me, like a novelty spike as Mackenna might say. After posting here I found a colossally rare magical book in the computer game I'm playing that I've been after for months*, then we played some dice games and during the learning my friend was explaining how to score, we asked what happens if you get 123456 on a roll of six dice and he said it never happens. Demonstrating, he instantly rolled 123456 (gutted, it would have scored really well) and it was spooky. As we were discussing the Wednesday of weird coincidences, I rolled and one of the dice landed on it's corner (!), then I rolled five sixes straight out and scored 1800 points. Which he'd also never seen happen.

Weird Wednesday.

*Kelek's Grimoire Of Power, w00t!

11:30 / 25.03.07

This is all very strange and weird. I like it!

Where is the witch story Quants? I want to be angry about it.

16:12 / 25.03.07

Argus headline said 'Sacked for being a Witch'.

After the madness of the equinox things have settled down a bit. Lots of people I've spoken too said the same thing though, it was a weird time.

03:13 / 30.03.07

OK, so things have been... strange... at work lately.
Today, in one of the ever-rarer idle moments, I went back into the Dao De Jing thread and started plugging away with the zhongwen.com dictionary at the next passage up. The first word (in a rather mystifying short sentence) was heng. It means "perseverance."

Later in the day, I change channels to a side writing job in which I'm going through the I Ching at irregular intervals and writing commentaries on the hexagrams in a blog. The next hexagram in line is heng, perseverance. It's the second hexagram in the "Lower Canon," the half of the book that deals with human affairs. It's paired with the first hexagram, xian, as depicting two halves of a marriage -- xian is young newlyweds, heng is an old couple. The tradition has it that xian shows a dominant young woman and a submissive male suitor, while heng depicts an active male & obedient wife.

Right in the middle of writing that, I get handed a folder with this story in it. "Write this up for us." Uh... oh. OK.

And now, Mordant Carnival is getting into it, too.

DEAR UNIVERSE DASH
MESSAGE RECEIVED STOP
NOW WHAT DO I DO ABOUT IT STOP
END

08:58 / 30.03.07

2 things about Perserverance in the IChing.

1: I read somewhere (wish I could find it again) that "Perserverence" is potentially a newer translation of the word, and that "magic" might be more accurate in context. I don't know if it's true, but I do find that most of my IChing readings that include that word make at least as much, if not more sense with "magic" swapped in.

2: An awful frelling lot of the hexagrams have the word "Perserverence" in them.

And yes, Emberleo, those Universal moments, they are 'pinging' you are so right. That's by far and away the best word for it. Thank you.

Sorry for the delayed reply. Um, I forget that "Ping" is jargon to other people. Like "Grok" and "Bandwidth" and a handfull of other potentially unusual words I use regularly, they're just vocabulary to me.

--Ember--

13:25 / 30.03.07

And this morning, the next file I get is this one. Normally, we wouldn't be running two stories this similar in the same issue.

BUT SOMEONE HAS A MESSAGE FOR GRANT.

15:43 / 30.03.07

You might be getting the Gawain treatment, grant.
I'd suggest doing something thoughtful that displays appreciation of your partner's equality. Use your partnership as a sympathetic hologram. Afterall it never hurts to pour out a libation of appreciation and love at the feet of your spouse.

18:21 / 02.04.07

Earlier today I heard Dolly Parton's '9 to 5' on the radio, and was struck by the lyrics and thought I'd put them in the lyrics of your life thread. I do shift work at the moment but have an interview for a 9-5 job sometime this week, and then an hour or two later walking to work a car at traffic lights honked it's horn which got my attention, and it turned out to be two young ladies playing the same song very loudly and singing along at max volume just as I walked by. They seemed to be having a great time, so I'm taking it as a good omen, but needless to say it's been stuck in my head since. Grr.

Make me Uncomfortable

02:41 / 03.04.07

Some unhappy synchronicity:

I recently did a double-header cleansing ritual involving, for the most part, fire and water. That was about a month ago. About a week ago, I came down with a 5 or 6 day fever/chills and sweats conbo. Fire? Water?

Hmmm.

That, or I was just, you know, sick.

17:09 / 04.04.07

I'm slightly freaked out that the grammar thread in convo just percolated to the surface.
My elder sib just sent me an email telling me to look into internet grammar classes and I was tooling around the 'Lith slacking. Handslap noted.

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