Synchronicity
I noticed that when I travel I have a lot more synchronicities than when I stay home, following a series of synchronicities or living synchronicities is a lot of fun. It often result into new knowing that are difficult to express in words, it is like it improves the self in a invisible sort of way.
In 2006, I was still living in Belgium but in the summer I went in holiday in Almeria (Andalucia, Spain), it was the summer fair and all hotels were booked I was forced to stay at a hotel 40 KM away from Almeria. One day I stayed late because I wanted to go at the fair it was during the night I missed the last bus, I thought I could go back with a cheap taxi ….at around 1.30 AM, I decided to go home but to my horror taxi price to my hotel was a flat rate of 40 EUR I didn’t have that money. I accepted the idea that I will have to sleep in the street or on the beach until I can take the first bus the next
morning.
Then some girl I met at the fair told that she can offer me a ride back at my hotel with her car however, she had no idea of the location of my hotel , I handed her the business card of the hotel she didn’t recognize the place however her boyfriend had a look at the card and he knew the place, he even knew a short curt to go there. I was saved we took the car and went there the other town where my hotel was is very difficult, large dark avenues with no signs it will have been impossible to find the hotel me and just the girl. Her boyfriend was very much needed. I wanted to offer them some money for the service after all they have to go back, it is another 40 KM , they refused they were just happy to offer me the ride then they left I have never heard of them again.
As a side note that girl is originally from Waterloo (Belgium), I’m also from there……
…this whole adventure put a strong sense of safety in me, later during other travels, I put myself in all sort of troubles and I always managed a happy ending, like when I was lost in Barcelona with only 4 EUR and no mean to go back home…that time also I managed a happy ending, I still have this sense of safety, I know things can go bad during my travels but I’ll manage well.
There is interesting comment in the Datre Material on Synchronicity:
JOHN: His next question is… “On a different note: I have noticed strange occurrences that have happened too often to be coincidence. This is simultaneous but unrelated occurrences of words. For instance, I am reading the word “potatoes” and at exactly the same time I read this word I hear it uttered on the radio/TV (just a small example out of many). Is this just “one of those things” that do happen sometimes, or is there some synchronicity here that is an indication of something deeper?”
DATRE: It is a significant synchronicity. It is showing you what you’re doing. Who’s creating the picture? You’re reinforcing what your picture is. Whether it comes through the eyes or it comes through the ears, or feeling tones or sensations on your skin or whatever. It’s a reinforcement it’s saying - ’see, see what you’re doing’. Now you’re going to be looking at those a little differently.
You will have some ‘random’ thought - as you call it - go through your head, some little phrase, and you will see it in a magazine, you will see it on a billboard, you’ll see it on TV - the exact same words. Now, that shows you something. You see, because of all the distractions that the humans have you have - shall we say - buried that which you call ‘instinct’.
Why is it, that cats or dogs - either one, family pets - know prior to a phone ringing, prior to someone coming home - they ‘know’ - because they work more from ‘instinct’. But you have that same ability, but you don’t pay any attention to it. You don’t ‘follow’ what you have thought or what you’re thinking. You’ll say, ‘well that’s insignificant and don’t pay any attention to it’. The FUN is getting something that says, ‘oh, I should go to such and such and do such and such a thing’. Follow that. You’ll say, ‘well, I haven’t got the time’. Okay, so you missed having some fun. The FUN is following that which you call, basic ‘instinct’.
Its not basic ‘instinct’, its telling you something. You’ll say, ‘well, I should stop on the way home and get a loaf of bread’. ‘Oh, well that’s not important’ and go on home. The next day you’re out, ’stop here and get a loaf of bread’. So you walk into the store, go over to get your bread, its discounted. Have you told yourself something? Have you had FUN? No! You haven’t paid any attention to it. ‘Oh, grumble, grumble, I had to stop and get bread’. You didn’t see the FUN in what you were doing. You’re in a play with yourself and you don’t realize it. Begin to play. Something pops into your head, go for it. ‘I haven’t got the time’. Who in the dickens is making the picture for you in the first place? You’re doing it yourself.
You’ll say, ‘well I have to be at such and such a place in such and such a time’. Well quit looking at the clock and say, ‘well, I have to be there at 7/8 o’clock’. All right, just tell yourself, ‘I have to be there at 7 o’clock’. When you get there - if you have “belief in yourself” - and you walk in and look at the clock, it will be exactly 7. ‘I have to get dressed in an hour’. All right, quite stewing about it. Say to self, ‘I have to get dressed in an hour, I’ll be ready’. And you will be. That’s when life becomes interesting. Everyone thinks that they have to become “spiritual” in order to discover what they and this particle existence is all about. The first step to understanding yourself or anything else is paying attention. Paying attention to the ‘little’ things changes the ‘bigger’ picture. Focus.
