Week #3

EVIDENCE FOR SYNCHRONICITY

I have been thinking about this one through the entire week. Once again, I am glad to be asked to try to "prove" such a thing as synchonicity stands as another thing I just accept in my daily life. I often experience thinking of someone and having them phone, or reminded of something I need to do and a song comes on about it moments later. I believe that there is some sort of spirit that graces me, and find it strange how I quickly write it off as another act of this "other worldly" being. (I am not a relgious person so I stray away from the term "god"). I think it is important for me to revisit these moments and ponder to the possible energy that is present among our universe that causes these events to happen. It is not hard for me to believe that there is a greater web of energy that creates such moments, and that there is a way to explain it.

As for evidence, I think the only evidence is in the actual events, and that they happen time and times again, to people of all faiths, all over the world. I am not sure all the ways that people make sense of it, but I am more curious as it seems easy to place it on a God, or just "coincidence".

I play poker at card clubs as a pure hobby since I love numbers and cards, and something that I have always been very amused by and also victim of is the occurrence of superstitions. There is a man that turns his chair three times to the left everytime he wins a hand. There is another man that takes off all his jewelery every half hour, sets his clock, and puts it back on every 30 minutes. I find myself tapping three times on my cards everytime before I look at my hand. What we are in effect trying to do is call on this "energy" that is somewhere out there that will in fact give us the winning hand. I am not sure if this superstition has any effect on the outcome of my hands, but I am a smart, logical person, and I have no intention to change my habit. In fact, I think it works. I look forward to asking these men more about it, and wonder if they will choke on the idea of synchronicity having a reason.