Just had a rather remarkable synchronicity that I thought I'd share with you all-another wonderful reminder of the amazing Mystery of it all. Jung coined the term "synchronicity" to indicate a form of acausal linkage between an external event and an internal condition. I'll try to spare you too many personal details-just enough to tell the tale. I've recently begun using some shamanic practices to supplement my spiritual regimen, which has been of essentially a Buddhist nature for many years. Was surprised to encounter, (no I don't necessarily believe Jesus actually spoke with me), the figure of Jesus/Christ appearing as my tutelary spirit and shared with me what the next step of my personal journey toward greater wholeness needed to be. I sat down where I always do to do my meditation, starting from shamanic beginning before moving into a more Buddhist approach. Then found myself as I sometimes do spontaneously moving into the "Jesus Prayer" of a contemplative sort. Literally the second I began to do that the evergreen within feet of my window filled with robins. Don't think I've ever actually seen a flock of robins and seldom see any this time of year.
Beyond the fact that birds are mythologically related to spirit, is a very personal connection. About 25 years ago my first wife spent months dying in a hopsital. She had many paranormal experiences during that time such as near-death visitation of her long deceased mother and spontaneous recall of apparent previous life. She died in South Dakota while the state was still in winter and she said she only wanted to be able to live until spring. The day she died I'm sitting in her Catholic priest's office attempting to make funeral arrangements. He's droning on and I'm too filled with grief to care what he's saying, tuning him out. I then hear a constant tapping and I look up to a window over his right shoulder. There incessantly tapping at the window was a robin, the first I saw that year. I guess since "New Agers" assert that synchroncities are there to emphasize something important about one's path at that moment, guess I'll listen to its message.
Just a tale for folks to mull over. have a good one, earl
Beyond the fact that birds are mythologically related to spirit, is a very personal connection. About 25 years ago my first wife spent months dying in a hopsital. She had many paranormal experiences during that time such as near-death visitation of her long deceased mother and spontaneous recall of apparent previous life. She died in South Dakota while the state was still in winter and she said she only wanted to be able to live until spring. The day she died I'm sitting in her Catholic priest's office attempting to make funeral arrangements. He's droning on and I'm too filled with grief to care what he's saying, tuning him out. I then hear a constant tapping and I look up to a window over his right shoulder. There incessantly tapping at the window was a robin, the first I saw that year. I guess since "New Agers" assert that synchroncities are there to emphasize something important about one's path at that moment, guess I'll listen to its message.
Just a tale for folks to mull over. have a good one, earl