Over there, in that thread, Panda says:
"Synchronicities - I used to experience these very frequently a few years ago, at what was a very magical time in my life, but not so much these days. Is that the norm? can you be more in synch with things in year, and less in synch the next?"
Seems to me that tapping into the synchronicities of your life, or better, life as is, is magick or the root of magick. Way back in the day when I was first exposed to TOPY thinking and the legacy of Psychic TV et al. with their magickal 23 I was bedazzled by how often this mysterious number actually did manifest in life, if only I was attentive to it. A few years later I came across a book by E.E. Rehmus in which he defines 23 as the number of synchronicity. This I found intriguing for what did he mean?
Seeing as I have been thinking and working with synchronicity now for about twelve years, I would like to share a few insights with y'all, my gentle readers. First, the twenty-three thing seems as a tool, training wheels if you will: a way to cause yourself to become attentive to synchronicity in your life. Over the years I have come to recognize that there is nothing in this world which is not a synchronicity (similar to how everything is magick). For example, the "fact" that the sun rises everyday appears to me to be a synchronicity that occurs with regularity. I mean, isn't it somewhat strange that each and everyone of us experiences this occurrence each and everyday. I think that what tends to happen is that we start to take these wonderful synchronicities for granted and merely start looking at them as everyday occurrences, and this is how we become disenchanted with the wonder of the world.
This is in part due, I feel, to the driving force behind the Spectacle Society: we are always looking for the next big event, and damn, it simply isn't anything at all if it isn't bigger, louder, wider, phatter, and more wicked than the last big event. So the simple synchronicities that weave a life, any life—your life—together get washed away by the hunt for the next mind blowing event.
See, the thing is, and I think that certain indigenous peoples in North America feel this way, or did at one time before white people devastated their culture, we have to meet everyday as fresh, as brand new. We need to wake each day reborn so that the sun’s appearance in the sky is a huge synchronicity that we share with the other people in our lives and not merely the same old scientifically explainable fact of life. We need to re-enchant our lives and reawaken our child-like sense of wonder at the simple things that we come to take for granted. The search for twenty-threes becomes the search for any meaningful correspondence between seemingly unrelated events: why is the sun hanging in the sky to greet you every time you get out of bed (assuming, of course, you wake up sometime during the day and that it is not cloudy)? Choose your own adventure.
Which brings me to my second point: you do get to choose your own adventure, because this is what interpreting synchronicities (and interpretation in general—more or less) means: you see the connection, so you get to tell yourself a story about what the connection means and what value it has in your life. Of course, the story you tell will never be completely original. The meaning and value of the correspondence you see might come from your religious or cultural background, it might lay in the authority of Crowley or the tribe of elders to which you belong. The meaning and value might be generated within the context of your favorite movie, book, or comic, and it might simply stem from the depths of the psyche. Regardless of where your meanings have originated from, the important part is that you seek to manifest meaning and value in your life. Put differently, as magicians we create the meaning and value of the synchronicities we experience, and we have the courage to stand on our interpretations of the correspondences: to know, to dare, to will.
The third thing I‘d like to share (to round off this little post on synchronicity with a equilateral trinity in harmonic correspondence with {0, 1, 2} = modthree). The twenty-three training wheel device serves to show, if you really want to see, to what extent the individual can shape and mold his or her reality. As I’ve noted above, first it gets you to seek out patterns of meaningful correspondence, then it gets you to create a meaningful and valuable interpretation of the created correspondence, but isn’t this simply creating the life you live as you live it? Put differently, an individual who decides to walk a magickal road in his or her life is taking on the responsibility of a god/dess—his or her own creator. I’ve noticed that what occurs with the magickal will is that reality manifests in such a manner that the internal desire matches the external world; that is, the psyche aligns itself with the material world to give rise to synchronicity. Put differently still, to look for twenty-three is to create the opportunities that reveal twenty-three to you.
Anyway, to answer Panda’s concerns from my own perspective: Yes, I know that synchronicity comes and goes in my life; that is, it is more present at some times than at others. However, I feel that my being is always in synch with the realities that make up the {internal, external} world, but it is merely my interpretation of those realities that might be out of synch. Put differently, we are always dancing the dance that is danced, but sometimes we feel the beat stronger than at other times: it is not that we are missing the steps, but only that we are not attentive to the dance. You are never out of synch, but your interpretation most certainly can be.
m3 = MMM = 444 = 0 (mod3)
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