The Universe is your stage
Synchronicity: A Theory of Interactions, part 4: synchronicity as a system response
What an amazing time in history we get to live at!
We are the Legacy left by our ancestors.
We think the way we think largely because of them. We feel what we feel largely because of them. We live in a technologically connected world because of their inventions. So many International conflicts today have their roots in Our ancestors’ epochs.
Right now, each individual person can make choices which are amplified and affect all the rest of us. A single video or tweet can go viral in less than a day and change global culture!
Our contributions matter
Indeed, the problems are amplified too. Climate change, systemic racism, and social and economic injustices have global footprints. What we do now about these problems has tremendous leverage over the way our collective future unfolds.
In the last post I described how the journey of light can be retroactively adjusted when we observe it in our telescope. Well, this is because the SpaceTime medium that it seems to move through is actually holistic. Light doesn't travel gradually: it leaps in whole intervals across space and time!
A connected cosmos
In some sense, the whole Cosmos is connected. This is what physicist and chemist Gilbert Lewis called “virtual contact” between ourselves and the shining stars (Lewis in fact made up the term “ photon”.) So it should be no surprise that we need to look at the whole Cosmos as a single system. When synchronicity happens, it's a system response.
Everything we do, every choice we make, every word we say, is like a poke to the system. A response follows, one way or another. The response of this universally connected system is unlikely to be in exactly the form you expect. Like the arcade game where you drop a little claw into a pile of toys to try to pull one out...when there's so many possible responses, you have to figure on being surprised!
Try this for yourself: A great way to experiment with this is to notice if you're needing feedback in some area of your life right now. For instance, you might think to yourself “I'd love to feel more appreciated”, or “ I’d love to get closer to a certain friend.” You might find that you get appreciation from the most unexpected places, or that you get into unexpected conversations and make new friends just as fulfilling as the one you had in mind.
Circumstances will arise to make it so.
For example, I was at a house concert last weekend with family and friends, and had a difficult interaction in which I was afraid to speak up about something. I felt invisible. Then at that very moment, an old friend from high school came up from behind me with a big smile! She was oozing appreciation! Still, I couldn't quite let it in. I tried to shake off my morose by dancing with my nephew, and standing there was another old friend that I hadn't seen in a while. We weren't even that close of friends, but it was enough to give me what I needed. I relaxed, let go of the past, and got a nice hug.
When we need comfort, it can come from lots of places in the “ Universal system". Speaking of which, it works both ways. I was reflecting just the other day how special my relationship was with my high school music teacher, Bob Schleeter. I feel like he really believed in me and was always interested in me and showed up to support me. I commit this week to letting him know I appreciate him! Maybe it'll be a synchronicity for him….
You have a personal relationship with the universal system, And your stage is as big as you can imagine!
Welcome to a Leap to Wholeness
We are starting a new series of social media posts around my second book, Leap to Wholeness, How the World is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt. One of the big themes in the book is identifying the filters that color the way we look at the world and ourselves. When we can identify a filter or belief we have, without trying to change it, we naturally start to see it better and it's easier to see beyond it. I offer this as a way of healing our old patterns of behavior.