| The universe is a dance of possibilities.
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| | door, having mistaken the room for
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| You dance with it when you fall into a
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| | another place that he had been seeking.
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| flow, a rhythm, where more of the
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| | Rationalists like to oppose the idea of
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| possibilities that you desire start to
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| | synchronicity as apophenia, a tendency of
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| show up.
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| | the mind to seek and perceive
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| Carl Jung called this state of
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| | connections between unrelated phenomena.
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| "meaningful coincidences" synchronicity.
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| | However, apart from the obvious fact that
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| The classical true story of the golden
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| | synchronicity appears to have a strong
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| scarab beetle best illustrates it.
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| | meaning to those who experience it,
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| In an article called, "Synchronicity, An
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| | sometimes transforming them in a way that
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| Acausal Connecting Principle," Carl G.
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| | they could not have imagined, like Jung's
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| Jung shares a true story that has now
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| | ultra-rational patient who needed a nudge
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| become a classic example:
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| | by the universe to have her psychological
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| "A young woman I was treating had, at a
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| | breakthrough, an even stronger argument
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| critical moment, a dream in which she was
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| | to support the Jungian "discovery" of
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| given a golden scarab. While she was
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| | synchronicity, I believe can be found in
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| telling me this dream I sat with my back
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| | viewing the situation from the
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| to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a
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| | perspective of quantum physics and the
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| noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I
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| | idea of an intelligent universe.
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| turned round and saw a flying insect
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| | Everything is energy and this energy is
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| knocking against the window-pane from
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| | organized by intelligence. This
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| outside. I opened the window and caught
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| | intelligence is not individual but
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| the creature in the air as it flew in. It
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| | cosmic; it is an impersonal, non-linear,
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| was the nearest analogy to a golden
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| | infinite organizing awareness.
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| scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a
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| | Thus, we live in three domains.
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| scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer
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| | There is the domain of the "world of
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| (Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its
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| | appearance." This is the every day world
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| usual habits had evidently felt an urge
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| | where an oak tree is a solid mass of wood
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| to get into a dark room at this
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| | that can hurt your foot if you kick it.
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| particular moment." [Coll. Works, vol. 8,
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| | There is the domain of "the quantum
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| 843]
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| | world." This is where the oak tree is
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| Jung explains "The meaningful connection
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| | not at all solid but a constellation of
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| is obvious enough ... in view of the
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| | atoms, which at the subatomic level is
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| approximate identity of the chief objects
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| | not a collection of solid things, but
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| (the scarab and the beetle)." [CW, vol.
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| | only patterns of probability that dance
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| 8, 845]
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| | in and out of existence.
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| The scarab beetle showed up because the
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| | Then there is the domain of "pure
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| patient was stuck in a thoroughly
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| | intelligence." This is the infinite
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| rationalistic point-of-view, which
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| | organizing intelligence that organizes
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| prevented her from experiencing insight
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| | the life-form of the tree so that it
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| into her problems.
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| | grows from an acorn into an oak tree.
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| The timely appearance of the scarab
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| | Since at the quantum level, every
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| beetle, something that stood outside the
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| | particle appears to be in instant
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| realm of rationality, caused her to
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| | communication with every other particle,
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| experience the paradigm shift that she
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| | at the level of the world of appearance,
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| needed to experience psychic healing.
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| | a thought is an attractive force that
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| This transformation in her psyche was a
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| | brings more of what you think about into
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| symbol of rebirth.
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| | your experience. Thus, through the
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| As Jung wrote: "The scarab is a classic
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| | agency of pure intelligence acting on the
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| example of a rebirth symbol. The ancient
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| | quantum field, thoughts, which are
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| Egyptian Book of What Is in the
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| | wavelengths, affect other wavelengths to
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| Netherworld describes how the dead
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| | bring you the subject of your thoughts.
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| sun-god changes himself at the tenth
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| | In order to tap into the flow of
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| station into Khepri, the scarab, and
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| | synchronicity, a connection with pure
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| then, at the twelfth station, mounts the
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| | consciousness and with the quantum world
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| barge which carries the rejuvenated
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| | is necessary. This connection is
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| sun-god into the morning sky." [CW, vol.
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| | established through a specific pattern of
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| 8, 845]
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| | thought, which we call an intention.
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| Here is another example, told by Jung.
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| | Carlos Castaneda's definition of
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| A man named Monsieur Deschamps had a
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| | intention best explains how it is the
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| neighbor, Monsieur de Fontgibu, who gave
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| | connecting force between the three
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| him his first plum pudding when he was a
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| | domains. He says, "In the universe,
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| young boy. In Paris ten years later,
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| | there is an immeasurable, indescribable
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| Deschamps orders plum pudding in a
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| | force which shamans call intent, and
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| restaurant but discovers that the last
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| | absolutely everything that exists in the
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| serving was sold to de Fontgibu, who is
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| | entire cosmos is attached to intent by a
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| unexpectedly in town and at that same
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| | connecting link."
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| restaurant. Years later, Deschamps is
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| | The dance of the universe is the flow of
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| once again offered plum pudding at a
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| | synchronicity, and this synchronicity is
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| social gathering. As Deschamps tells the
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| | something that you can invite into your
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| gathering about the earlier coincidences,
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| | life by holding the intention of
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| he is shocked to see de Fontgibu, now a
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| | consciously creating your reality.
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| senile old man, barge in through the
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