EddieAllenPoe
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- Mar 19, 2019
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I figured I would post this for anyone who might be bored. I've found it is definitely an interesting thing to think about. I think you have to be formally introduced to the concept of a synchronicity before you start spotting them. They're a little like black swans. They exist and they're out there in the world but you won't see them happening everywhere and all the time. Once you see them though they're kind of magical.
Let's start by defining what synchronicity means. I stole this from wikipedia...
Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.
Let me give you a recent example of a synchronicity I've had. One day I was obsessively researching how to commit suicide by ingesting parts of the Yew tree. My whole mind was focused on EVERYTHING I could find about the Yew plant and people who have committed suicide with it. I think up until recently I've never actually heard of Yews. The whole topic was kind of new to me. I only had a small memory from when I was younger and my father told me to not eat a certain red berry because it was poisonous. It turns out that was the same berry from a Yew bush.
Anyways, later on in the same day I was reading about Yew trees I noticed something funny about the TV show that was playing. The man on the show was crafting a wooden bow. Can you guess what he was talking about? He was talking about Yew trees and how their wood makes excellent bows. Kind of weird, huh? Seems like a weird coincidence. Not long afterward I got up and drove somewhere and on the way I got stuck behind a car. The car had a sticker on it that said "#StopSuicide".
Okay, okay. So what? These are just coincidences, right? Yeah. That's exactly what a synchronicity is. They're unique coincidences that happen without any obvious causal relationship. You could also say these things are what you might call confirmation biases. For example, if you think "I am going to see a red car today" then you're more likely to see all of the red cars. This could be. It's not quite the same thing though. The funny thing about synchronicities is that they can often involve some fairly rare content. If you walked outside right now after reading this and saw an actual Black Swan you would know exactly what I mean by rare.
It's interesting for me to think about synchronicities because it makes me question reality a little bit. Could events in the world be tied together in ways that aren't obvious? I don't know. I think it's possible.
I once found this interesting video where they do a "Synchronicity Walk". I'll include it at the end. Do you think these people are simply crazy? Let me know if you've ever experienced a synchronicity. Even if it was something small like seeing your birthday numbers at the grocery store.
Let's start by defining what synchronicity means. I stole this from wikipedia...
Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.
Let me give you a recent example of a synchronicity I've had. One day I was obsessively researching how to commit suicide by ingesting parts of the Yew tree. My whole mind was focused on EVERYTHING I could find about the Yew plant and people who have committed suicide with it. I think up until recently I've never actually heard of Yews. The whole topic was kind of new to me. I only had a small memory from when I was younger and my father told me to not eat a certain red berry because it was poisonous. It turns out that was the same berry from a Yew bush.
Anyways, later on in the same day I was reading about Yew trees I noticed something funny about the TV show that was playing. The man on the show was crafting a wooden bow. Can you guess what he was talking about? He was talking about Yew trees and how their wood makes excellent bows. Kind of weird, huh? Seems like a weird coincidence. Not long afterward I got up and drove somewhere and on the way I got stuck behind a car. The car had a sticker on it that said "#StopSuicide".
Okay, okay. So what? These are just coincidences, right? Yeah. That's exactly what a synchronicity is. They're unique coincidences that happen without any obvious causal relationship. You could also say these things are what you might call confirmation biases. For example, if you think "I am going to see a red car today" then you're more likely to see all of the red cars. This could be. It's not quite the same thing though. The funny thing about synchronicities is that they can often involve some fairly rare content. If you walked outside right now after reading this and saw an actual Black Swan you would know exactly what I mean by rare.
It's interesting for me to think about synchronicities because it makes me question reality a little bit. Could events in the world be tied together in ways that aren't obvious? I don't know. I think it's possible.
I once found this interesting video where they do a "Synchronicity Walk". I'll include it at the end. Do you think these people are simply crazy? Let me know if you've ever experienced a synchronicity. Even if it was something small like seeing your birthday numbers at the grocery store.
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