Synchronicity today

Synchronicity was the term coined by Carl Jung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung) for what he termed “meaningful co-incidences”. This wonderful story appeared in the British press on October 28 2005. 87 year old Bob Michie was out for a drive in his 1954 “R” type Bentley saloon on a lonely country road, when for the first time the motorcar which has done 120,000 miles broke down. The car was towed to the nearest garage where mechanics diagnosed a broken rotor arm, which supplies the spark to the distributor. No-one had any idea where another could be obtained, then amazingly the mechanic flagged down an A.A patrol van, the mechanic joked to the patrol van driver, “you would not have a rotor arm for a 1954 Bentley in there would you mate” ? Incredibly the driver had had one on board for 28 years and within minutes the 51 year old Bentley was back on the road. Psychologist Carl Jung ( 1875-1961) believed there were no such thing as co-incidence and that at some level all things are linked, students of occultism, and Jung was one, use everyday signs and objects as signposts to information outside of the normal ranges of perception.Although most modern schools of psychology pooh-hooh these theories, primitive man and societies where man is in touch with the natural world, have always used these abilities to good effect. APOPHENIA this is the term for explaining away that there is nothing other than random circumstance at work, and that to suggest so is perhaps a signpost of mental illness, Some say that creativity and psychosis are linked, and dismiss the 3 primary categories of synchronicity, as developed by Jung and now used in every single divinatory school. AUGERY. No where is this more visible that in the science of Augury, where biblical prophets would read from the flight of birds, carrion crows and similar were seen as unlucky and dubbed “birds of ill omen” The prophet would section of a piece of sky to be read, by holding out his arms and meditating for birds to fly through this area, in Rome the Latin name of this section was “templum” from where we derive the term “template” And when worship moved into fixed buildings these became known as “temples”. Before a battle, only the army commander was allowed to predict the outcome.From the Latin terms, avis Bird and speciosee, we get the word “auspicious” and expert Graeme Donald tells us that “ a junior officers victory was said to have occurred- “under the generals auspices.” I will often demonstrate how this technique was used in medieval palmistry, and its application in modern psychology to the hand-print. Today synchronicity is around us all the time, emotionally, physically intellectually, In fact in every part of our lives, and we must make doubly sure we have time to look, and absorb its meanings.