Strange days happen. You think of a person you haven’t seen in 20 years and then receive an email or phone call from that person. You’re thinking of your favorite song, turn on the radio, and there it is. You’re driving and hear a voice inside your head tell you to put on your seat belt – moments before another car slams into you.
Synchronicities defy the odds – so much so that when they happen you may experience a momentary out of body sensation. Or possibly just a spine tingling jolt of amazement.
So what’s really going on here? What are we tapping into?
Modern technological humans are linear beings conditioned to believe in beginnings and endings, minutes and hours, days and years. We live in a linear dimension where one realm is all we need for survival so that’s the realm we deem as real. But what if our minds shifted momentarily to catch up with what was happening ahead of us in our linear world? What if we experienced that car crash in non-linear time for an instant before it actually happened in linear time? Could that be the basis of a synchronicity?
Other non-technological people, such as traditional Yaquis, believed in multiple overlapping realities where one could go back and forth among 48 worlds through a change of focus, much like turning the dial of radio. In these societies time was non-linear, where it was believed that everything in your life was occurring simultaneously. Your experience was dependent on where you “pinned the tail on the donkey.”
Ghosts and other nonhuman entities existed simultaneously along with the “everyday world” and could be experienced when realms crossed.
In our modern world, there’s a much harder line between what is real and not real. Ghosts and UFOs don’t exist.
And then one day you see one – and your perspective changes. You begin to think in terms of the universe and not just your world.
The shifting of perspectives began very early for me. At the age of two I heard a voice tell me to focus on particles of dust dancing in a sunbeam that was pouring through a window in late afternoon. I was told to never forget that moment.
Subsequently I have had substantial encounters with “non-ordinary” reality. For several years as a journalist with the Arizona Republic newspaper, I wrote a column on metaphysics called Offramp. Readers sent me their experiences with synchronicities and I would edit the copy for readability.
Quite unexpectedly, as I edited and wrote about the synchronicities of others, I began experiencing my own synchronicities – one after another. Odder yet, the reporters who sat near my cubicle were also having bizarre coincidences. It was though I had connected with this paranormal realm by thinking about it every day and treating it with respect.
It all culminated in a mysterious assignment to Los Angeles where I met literary sorcerer Carlos Castaneda for lunch, and later became friends with his ex-wife Margaret (read my Carlos Castaneda Trilogy).
When I stopped writing the column, the synchronicities also stopped – for me and everyone around me.
What does it all mean?
I’m not an expert in metaphysics, the paranormal or synchronicities. Unlike others who write on these topics, I really have no idea what’s going on. What I do know is that non-ordinary reality is real.
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