Synchronicities: Why Do They Come In Clusters?
Near Santon Downham.
Parked up off a lane.
Ping.
Signal message.
Driscilla with a question.
Why do synchronicities seem to happen in clusters? I'll go months with nothing, then suddenly everything seems connected.
DOK: The first thing to do is figure out what synchronicities are, and maybe fathom why they happen.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung coined the term in the 1920s.
He saw them as meaningful coincidences, and thus came up with a term for it.
The question I’d ask is: is something bigger than us directing them, and in effect, directing you? Like showing you a path to follow.
Or do we generate them?
If it is us, then synchronicities cluster because attention itself operates in clusters.
When somebody buys a red Mini Cooper, they suddenly see red Mini Coopers everywhere.
When somebody becomes interested in Ancient Egypt, Egypt appears everywhere.
Not because reality changed.
Because attention changed.
That doesn’t mean synchronicities are merely psychological.
It simply means that consciousness may be part of the mechanism.
Or are synchronicities a direct connection between us and something vaster?
If so, then the clusters could be down to you being more connected with the vastness of the cosmos… for one reason or another are more attuned, more in the flow… and thus are more likely to notice.
Almost like natural psychotropics are flowing, and you are closer to the root of reality.
Equally though, one friend of mine had some very striking synchronicities revolving around going on a retreat, which she had been considering.
Somebody even walked into the restaurant where she was working with a t-shirt with the retreat’s logo. And I think somebody else came in talking about it. There were quite a few of these surrounding the retreat.
First thing most people think is, “I am being directed to go.”
But by whom?
A higher power?
Personally I would prefer to be the one to choose. And not hand over agency to a “higher power.”
As it happened for my friend, there had been a lot of reports of tics in the region where the retreat was. Given Lyme Disease this was off-putting.
So I said: “You choose. Be your own god.”
The idea of higher powers goes back countless millennia.
Maybe it’s now time to have agency for ourselves.
To be sovereign.
That said, synchronicities make me think of the Simulation Hypothesis.
Like we are in a video game.
But even then we are exchanging the idea of some advanced intelligence game player looking to direct the game in our simulated universe.
Although if we are a player character then we have some leeway to choose.
We’d assess the synchronicity and consider whether to take that path, or try another one during our quest in the video game.
Under this model, then synchronicities might come in clusters as the game player, be it advanced intelligence or perhaps AI, would be dropping them to see what we choose to do.
To sum up:
Synchronicities might come in clusters because something external is trying to get our attention.
Or because our subconscious mind has become focused on a particular pattern.
Or because reality itself is stranger than we think.
Personally, I don’t know.
What I do know is this:
When synchronicities arrive, I pay attention.
But I don’t surrender my agency.
The coincidence may be offering a suggestion.
It doesn’t get to make the decision.
That part remains mine.
Observe. Notice. Remain sovereign.
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