Week Three Homework

Synchronicity



What evidence can we find for synchronicity? Evidence is everywhere. We simply need to be open to seeing it for what it is. By calling things "coincidence" we close ourselves off to the possibility of synchronicity and the connectivity of humanity. I think that our need to define things and put parameters around them is really more a function of our own self-imposed limitations than the true functioning of the universe.

The other night I ran into a friend at a coffee shop. We had a short chat, a couple of laughs, and went our separate ways. I dreamt about him that night. It wasn’t a bad dream, just . . . weird. Then I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep. So I got out of bed at 3 am to do some work on the computer. After firing up the laptop, I find that in the time I was wrestling with this weird dream about him, he was sending me an email. The email wasn’t exactly the same context as the dream but in a similar vein. That’s not coincidence.

I think our lives are littered with examples like the above. We simply need to open ourselves to seeing them for what they are. I also think that if we can open ourselves to understand our influence on the universe, we could be so much more effective in generating change.

Connectivity

In my spiritual community we use an analogy of the ocean to explain connectivity. We are the ocean. Meaning that we are each part of the collective consciousness. When the ocean crashes against the rocks at the shore, the collision shoots up a spray of droplets. It’s here at this point that the droplets forget they are part of the ocean. By their perspective, they are simply these droplets, totally separate and disconnected from any other droplet. In fact, they are still part of the ocean. It’s simply a question of perspective that makes them think they are a totally independent entity.

We are each part of the collective consciousness and can have access to that consciousness if we can but open ourselves to see it.