Why am I writing a blog about synchronicity? What does synchronicty mean anyway? I first heard the term in college when the band "The Police" had a pop song called "Synchronicity." I never bothered to find out what the word meant until over a decade ago. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrealted or unlikely to occur together by chance and that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.[1]
Once I knew the word's meaning, I realized I experienced these occurrences quited often. This blog is written for me to have a running record of my almost-daily happy coincidences. When I have a sychronicity, I feel like it is a hug from God above assuring me that I am in the right place at the right time.
I will share my God hugs from earlier that day, or some of my favorites from the past. I play a synchronicity game with myself where I hear my songs sung or written by my favorite singer, who coincidentally is the singer/songwriter of the tune "Synchronicity," with
the single name monicker, Sting. Wherever I am when one of his songs comes over the loud speaker in a store or restaurant, I say to myself something to the effect of, "I guess I must be where I'm supposed to be right now." I called them "Stingchronicity" moments.
I look forward to you sharing this year of Adventures in Synchronicity!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity , Tarnas, Richard (2006). Cosmos and Psyche. New York: Penguin Group. p. 50. ISBN 0-670-03292-1.
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