The Synchronicity Experiment
NOTE: This experiment is planned to be carried out next summer in a group/conference setting. Please watch this space for exact details coming later.
The Idea
Synchronistic events have been observed by C G Jung, who noticed that there are events, which are NOT causal to each other, yet seem to be in some mysterious connection. Sometimes an inner event (for example in a dream) corresponds to a later event in physical reality, which seems to be highly significant for the person who experienced it. For instance, I had a client who was visited by a wise old man in one of our hypnotherapy sessions. The sage revealed to him important details about his purpose in this life. At the end, the old man gave him a blue marble, and said: it was to prove that all of this was 'real.' The next day, I received an email from this client, who said that the most remarkable little thing happened to him the next morning. As he stepped out of his apartment building, he found a blue marble, just like the one he saw in his vision, just there, on the side-walk on the street, in physical reality.
The research on synchronicity is fascinating, as it suggests that paying attention to synchronistic events can lead to a more conscious, more purposeful path in life. One client described it as if lifting a veil, beyond which reality shows itself. A reality which is responsive: it doesn't necessarily manifests everything we might think, sometimes it also gives us the optimal challenge to fulfill our intention, but it is a reality which we are organically a part of. The illusion of separateness fades for those who have experienced synchronicities, they feel empowered in life, knowing they have a choice every minute and a very real chance to move their lives with their intention moment by moment, in the desired direction.
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But there is even more to it. As human consciousness is evolving towards a next stage, we can observe the slow, but already detectable emergence of a collective consciousness. There is preliminary evidence suggesting that our individual consciousnesses are not or must not be separate entities, but can - like a computer connecting to the internet or like brain and nerve cells forming a neurological network - become connected. This is a connection in a sense that it can form an intelligence higher than the individuals forming it, either in a sense of forming a shared field (like Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, which has been observed by Christopher Bache occurring in a human group) or in a sense of beginning to share realities which previously were entirely subjective (e.g. shared dreams).
Group synchronicities may also be of the kind that individuals who are on the way to increase their awareness and intentional co-creating, will easier find each other, for whatever their shared and/or compatible purpose is.
Group synchronicities may also be of the kind that individuals who are on the way to increase their awareness and intentional co-creating, will easier find each other, for whatever their shared and/or compatible purpose is.
The Set-Up
One the first day (after a general talk about the topic) there will be a group meditation (guided visualisation) in three steps:
1. Connect to your (own, personal) authentic purpose.
2. Feel the (energetic) connection to the “network” (of all other participants).
3. Send intent into the network for making connections to help your purpose mutually.
1. Connect to your (own, personal) authentic purpose.
2. Feel the (energetic) connection to the “network” (of all other participants).
3. Send intent into the network for making connections to help your purpose mutually.
The Study
For the next three days, participants are requested to watch out for and document any synchronistic events which may be connected with the unified intent. We watch out for connections which link people with similar and/or compatible purposes together and thus help them be part of a collective higher purpose.
The cases of synchronicity will be collected and qualitatively evaluated. The results will later be shared on the internet, through published article(s) and perhaps live at future integral meetings.
The cases of synchronicity will be collected and qualitatively evaluated. The results will later be shared on the internet, through published article(s) and perhaps live at future integral meetings.
Comments
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