Synchronistic Events

[Deb]

Wyland is from Michigan and went to the same art school that I went to in Detroit (now named College for Creative Studies). We had some of the same teachers.

Hah! Another coincidence?

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH,

Thanks for sharing.  That is really cool.

Back in 2008, while in Honolulu, my wife and I got the opportunity to see him and meet him in person. He was at his studio in Honolulu, on a Friday evening and while their he painted a whale picture in about 45 minutes in front of the audience. It was impressive to see just how fast he can paint a first rate picture.

Back in the 1990's he came to Newport, Oregon and painted a large (maybe 50 foot) mural on the side of a building. This mural consisted of a picture of grey whales, which travel up and down the Oregon coast from Alaska to Mexico, twice a year. Once down and once back. It was awesome to watch him paint this mural. 

I've read, that he says that he see's the whole image in his mind's eye visually, while he is painting. That's pretty awesome.


-jbseth

[jbseth]

Hi All,

I was reading, "The Nature of the Psyche" the other day and came across a term that Seth uses in this book called "significances". I think that what Seth has to say here about significances, has a lot to do with how synchronous events actually occur. Here he gives an "Aunt Sarah" example of how events can occur that is quite interesting. Like many of the topics that Seth discusses, this discussion of "significances" gets kind of deep and as a result I had to read through it several times to grasp the significance, no pun intended,  , of it all. (Note: The usage of bold font below is mine.)


NotP, Chapter 9, Session 788

Dictation: Basically, events have nothing to do with what you think of as cause and effect. This is perhaps apparent to some degree when you study dream events, for there the kind of continuity you are used to, connecting events, largely vanishes.

Instead events are built up, so to speak, from significances. But let us forget that term for a moment and consider association, with which you are already familiar, since your stream of consciousness operates in that fashion. By its very nature each consciousness is a particular, peculiar, and unique focus of awareness which will experience any possible realities through its own characteristics.

It also "stamps" or "impresses" the universe with its own imprint. No portion of the universe is inactive or passive, regardless of its seeming organization or its seeming lack of organization. Each consciousness, then, impresses the universe in its own fashion. Its very existence sets up a kind of significance, in whose light the rest of the universe will be interpreted. The universe knows itself through such significances. Each consciousness is endowed with creativity of a multidimensional nature, so that it will seek to create as many possible realities for itself as it can, using its own significance as a focus to draw into its experience whatever events are possible for it from the universe itself. It will then attract events from the universe, even as its own existence imprints the universe as an event with the indelible stamp of its own nature.


And how do "significances" operate?


Significances fall or happen in certain patterns, and when these become very obvious they appear as cause and effect. They are simply heavy-handed significances. Your associative processes and habits are perhaps the closest examples that can give clues of how significances operate. Even then, however, associations deal with the passage of time, and basically significances do not. You might think of your Aunt Sarah, for example, and in a few moments the associative process might bring you images of periods in the past when you visited your aunt, of her friends and neighbors, the articles in her house, and episodes connected with your relationship.

(9:49.) At the same time Aunt Sarah, unbeknown to you, might pick up a blue vase, one that you had just seen in your mind as belonging on a shelf in her living room. Touching the vase, your Aunt Sarah might think of the person who gave it to her, now on the other side of the continent. That person, perhaps thinking of buying a present for someone, might settle upon a vase in a flash of inspiration, or suddenly begin humming a song with the name "Sarah" in the title, or possibly even think of your aunt. If on the other hand any opposing associations existed anywhere along the line, the "chain" of association could be broken. The last lady might consider a vase, for example, but reject the idea. Because of the time element, it seems to you that the first episode caused the others, and that your first association concerning your aunt brought about the "following" events.

The inner significances, however, the associations, existed all at once, to be tuned in to at any point of time. They had their reality basically apart from time, even though they appeared within it.

Actually the three sets of events could easily occur to the three people at once, and if no normal communication happened no one would be the wiser. The inner tapestry of events deals with just this kind of association. Emotional intensities and significances compose the nature of events. In dreams you work with the kind of intensities involved, exploring multitudinous significances. These are like charged emotional patterns, formed of your own highly personal emotions and intents.

Using such significances as yardsticks, you accept or reject probable events. You imprint the universe with your own significance, and using that as a focus you draw from it, or attract, those events that fit your unique purposes and needs. In doing so, to some extent you multiply the creative possibilities of the universe, forming from it a personal reality that would otherwise be absent, in those terms; and in so doing you also add in an immeasurable fashion to the reality of all other consciousness by increasing the bank of reality from which all consciousness draws.

[... 2 paragraphs ...]

Now: There is no such thing, basically, as random motion. There is no such thing as chaos. The universe, by whatever name and in whatever manifestation, attains its reality through ordered sequences of significances.

- jbseth

[Sena]

Each consciousness, then, impresses the universe in its own fashion. Its very existence sets up a kind of significance, in whose light the rest of the universe will be interpreted.

jbseth, thanks for this. This is very original teaching from Seth.

[Deb]

Small synchron event but a hit as far as I'm concerned.

I have been emailing with someone I met on this forum for maybe a couple of years. We've never met in person.

Well a couple of weeks ago I had a dream that I was told I'd been enrolled in a writing course. I was really surprised (and a little dismayed) because it's not something I am interested in and didn't remember signing myself up. But then I thought about it for a moment and figured I'd give it a shot, who knows, I might enjoy it.

That morning I got an email from this pen pal friend saying she was very excited about a writing course that she had just started. She had a great class and was very excited about it. Because we've never talked about writing, writing classes or courses, I couldn't help think it was more than just a coincidence. Fun stuff!

https://consciousreminder.com/2018/01/09/dream-telepathy-studies-prove-humans-can-communicate-dreaming/

[LarryH]

Yesterday I watched a Netflix DVD – a 2015 Norwegian disaster film called The Wave. Earlier in the day, I stopped by the library and picked up another movie that was at the bottom of my Netflix queue of 34 movies (which I organize by number of stars assigned by Netflix based on my prior ratings, highest first). This was an obscure 2016 American independent film-noir sci-fi movie. I had other choices, but why would I on impulse decide to take out the lowest-rated movie on my long list? At the beginning of The Wave DVD, as usual, I watched the previews of other movies. The first preview was of the obscure movie that I had just picked up at the library. At first, I thought that I had popped in the wrong movie. After watching The Wave, I popped in the movie from the library. The first preview shown was of The Wave. So, two obscure movies of different genres, made in different years and from different countries, each including the others' previews, watched back-to-back, was a nice synchronicity in itself. But I haven't mentioned the name of the second movie until now: Synchronicity. I have no idea why it had that name. The story did not really have examples of what I would call synchronicity. After the movie, I watched an interview with the female co-star, and she said that they discovered that she and the male co-star had gone to the same high school in Atlanta, which she referred to as "a nice synchronicity".

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH,

That's a nice set of sync events, the 2 movies and their previews, and then the title of the second movie along with the male and female costars who both attended the same high school.

I just noticed that this topic has 155 entries, that's awesome too.

- jbseth

[Deb]

two obscure movies of different genres, made in different years and from different countries, each including the others' previews, watched back-to-back, was a nice synchronicity in itself. But I haven't mentioned the name of the second movie until now: Synchronicity.

Awesome, that made me laugh out loud. I LOVE this stuff! BTW how were the movies?

[LarryH]

BTW how were the movies?

I rated The Wave with 4 stars out of 5 because I couldn't give it 3.5 stars. I love foreign movies, mostly because we are only exposed to the best. Some people don't like subtitles, but I don't mind them at all, and I like hearing the foreign languages and trying to pick out the words similar to English. The movie is a suspense thriller centered around the collapse of the side of a mountain into a fjord, causing a tidal wave that threatens a small resort town. The focus is mostly on one family, including the scientist who was the first to warn of the impending disaster and his wife and two kids. Great special effects and very suspenseful.

I rated Synchronicity with 2 stars. It was a little hard to follow for the first half. It was compared to Bladerunner in the reviews, but that is being overly generous. The music did remind me of that in Bladerunner, but by a different composer (similar to Vangelis, but not as good). All of the scenes, every set, every building, every room, all the clothes were grey or close to it, and there were always glaring light sources, evoking a harsh, somber mood. The focus is invention of a time travel device by a young scientist, the manipulating man funding the experiments, and the scientist's love interest whose motives and allegiances are unclear through most of the movie.

[dougdi]

This is a really good one involving Robert Monroe.

https://labofevolution.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/robert-monroes-reincarnated-tower/

[LarryH]

Very cool, dougdi - thanks!

[LarryH]

I had an uncle who was a welding apprentice for Ford Motor Co in the '30's. One day, he was asked to go out to a home that Henry Ford was having built for a friend and do some welding for some window frames. Years later, he had three children, two boys and a girl. They all went to Clare Bryant Junior High, named after Henry Ford's wife. The girl, my cousin, ended up marrying a man whose father was an architect. When my uncle's family was invited to the architect's home, it turned out to be the home that my uncle had worked on decades before. The architect had known about the house's history and had been intrigued at the prospect of owning it. Henry Ford's "friend" had been Ford's mistress. My cousin and her husband eventually inherited the house and brought up their children there.

[Deb]

@LarryH you always have the best synchronicity stories! I have one myself from this week, but it was not pretty and I'm not sure I'm ready to share. Still puzzled over the "why" of it.

BTW Edison and Ford were buddies. I've been through Edison's winter property (home and lab) in Ft. Meyers, Florida several times, and their properties were right next to each other. I was a big fan of Edison until I found out what he did to discredit Tesla. Dreadful stuff.

[Deb]

OK here are two little ones, not earth shattering, but fun.

1. A couple of days ago I had coffee with a friend I see maybe once a year. While we were catching up, I asked her if she'd talked to a mutual acquaintance, Leti, lately. She said no, they hadn't talked in at least a couple of years. It's been even longer for me.

Leti was a client of mine several years ago. I introduced the two of because they are both interested in nutrition counseling. I have a lot of tomatoes in my garden this year and told my friend I should call Leti to see if she was still into canning and wanted some (Leti had bought tomatoes from me a few years ago.)

Later, heading home, I made a mental note to myself to call Leti when I got home. And then there she was, calling me!

Since we haven't been in contact for maybe 3 years, I assumed my friend had called her after our conversation. Nope! Leti just wanted to know if she could refer her sister to me for help with her website. And yes, she wanted tomatoes! She stopped by in the afternoon and bought 15 lbs.

2. Today I spent a little time walking around an outdoor local art show and sale. A woman wearing a dress that caught my eye was looking at a booth. The fabric was very pretty, pale green background with pink flowers similar to the Arizona Original Green Tea label. As I was thinking about how much the fabric and the tea label looked similar, another woman came walking towards me wearing the same dress. They didn't even notice each other and they were less than 20 feet apart.

[Deb]

Or maybe more coincidences.

Two weeks ago I flew to Ireland via Providence, RI. I CANNOT sleep on airplanes because the accommodations are uncomfortable in every way. I kept thinking about one flight I was on many years ago where I ended up seated in a row by myself. I was able to lie down and actually slept for a few hours. It was amazing.

So, I get on the plane in Providence, knowing the flight was near capacity, but kept an image of myself sleeping in an empty row. Sure enough, there were maybe 3 rows that were empty and I was in one of them. I did lie down but didn't get any sleep as the seats are smaller these days and the arm rests and seat belts are in the worst places. But it was still great having a row to myself!

Then headed home the other day, even though I had paid extra in advance to choose my seat (row 14 window), the airline did not honor that. It was a 10.5 hour flight. The only window seat left was in row 47! But I took it, since a window is better than center on a flight like that. I thought there would be no way to get a row to myself again, but kept the image in my mind of being curled up in a row of my own even though the flight was once again near capacity. Son of a gun, they closed the doors and I still had a (2 seat) row to myself! Even more impossible to lie down, but I had some room to keep stretching out in different directions so that my body didn't seize up from sitting in one position for 10+ hours.

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

I'd say that those were 2 great examples of using "Creative Visualization" to "Create your Reality".

Great job. 

-jbseth

[jbseth]

Hi All,

I came across the following set of synchronistic events from the book, "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers". While this story is somewhat long, the sync events that occur in this story are really quite amazing.


First some background. The book, "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers" contains the true story, as written by Annie Kagan, about her brother Billy. Apparently Billy was the "black sheep" of the family, while Annie, his sister, was just the opposite. Billy was always in trouble, into dealing drugs, spent time in prison and just never seemed to get his act together.

One night Billy, in an alcoholic state, ran out into the street and got hit and killed by a car.  Sometime after his death, Annie began to notice that Billy would occasionally communicate intuitively / psychically with her. Much of this book is about Billy's messages and how they seemed to be helpful to others.


In chapter twenty nine of this book, Annie tells us the story of taking Billy's ashes to Jamaica, a place that he very much loved, so that she could release them there.

Billy requested that she take and release his ashes to a place called Dunn's River Falls.
He also tells her that when she does this "there will be a sign."

Then Annie asks Billy if he could do something special with her guide, such as having his name be William. She also asks Billy if she should leave her bracelet at home because she didn't want to lose it. This bracelet was very special to her, it belonged to her meditation teacher. In response to this, Billy tells her, "If the falls takes your bracelet, it will be a good thing."

Next Annie takes a taxi to the falls and the first thing she sees is a huge banyan tree. Since she's always wanted to see one but never has, Annie wonders if this was the sign that Billy was talking about.

She then goes over to seek out a guide, to help her navigate the falls. At this, she notices one, sitting alone in a corner, who seemed to be downhearted. She asks him if he would come here, and as he does, she notices that his name, written on his shirt, is "Willie". 

Next, she then tells Willie that her brother died about a year ago and that she's giving him a funeral today. She also tells him that her brother loved Jamaica and loved this waterfalls. She says that she wants to release his ashes in the falls but is scared to death that she will fall and kill herself. In response to this, Annie noticed that a change came over Willie, and he told her that he would help her.

After they climbed up to the first pool, Willie helped Annie get into the pool. While in the pool, Annie said that she felt Billy, in the sunshine, shining down on her. Then, as she released some of Billy's ashes she cried and smiled and cried some more. She also said that she noticed that Willie had also shed a tear or two.

Then they climbed up the falls the rest of the way, Annie gaining confidence in her ability to do so with Willie's guidance, releasing Billy's ashes as they went. At the top of the fall's Annie and Willie talked about how this falls is a very spiritual place and Annie noticed that Willie's sad face was now smiling.

After finishing the climb, Annie returned to the rental shop, where she rented her shoes and excitedly talked to the 2 women still working there. She told them her story about her brother Billy and how she thought that Willie was the best guide in the world. The women then tell Annie that Willie had a brother who had died at about the same time as Billy. Furthermore, they also told her that Willie's brother had died right there at the falls.


After returning her shoes, Annie ran to find Willie.  Once she found him, she asked him why he didn't tell her about his brother and he replied that he didn't want to spoil it for her. Willie then tells her that his brother had been drunk that day and was clowning around acting crazy. Then he slipped and hit his head on the rocks and died. This happened at the first pool where Annie released some of Billy's ashes.  Willie said he saw it all, he watched him die and it still hurts so much.

Annie takes the silver bracelet off of her wrist and put it on Willies. She then led him over to the banyan tree where they sat down and she proceeded to tell Willie her story about Billy and how Billy's been communicating with her.

When she was done, Willie then thanked her for this and then he told her that he's felt like death had been chasing after him. He said that his sister died, just a little while before his brother, and then his father had just died last week. He then tells her that today was some kind of miracle.

After this, Willie once again thanked Annie and also asked her to thank her Brother for him. Then, as Annie was getting ready to leave in a taxi, Willie tells her that he'll, never forget either her, or her brother, Billy.


For anyone who's interested, here's a video of Dunn's River Falls, Jamaica.



-jbseth

[Deb]

Wow, what a story. It makes me wonder if Willie's brother was a counterpart of Billy. Thanks for that! I'm thinking I'll have to read the book.

Thanks for the video too, it was nice to see. Jamaica was actually my first trip out of the USA decades ago, my ex had surprised me with the trip. Dunn's River Falls was closed because there was supposedly no water at the time so I never got to see it in person. Also, a funny aside, we were on a tour bus and I noticed that while all resorts had US, Jamaican and I think Canadian flags up the day we'd arrived, the second day all the US flags had been taken down. I asked the driver what was going on (thinking I should be concerned). He shrugged and with his Jamaican accent said, "I don't know miss, maybe dey washing dem." Lol.

[jbseth]

"I don't know miss, maybe dey washing dem."

That's funny Deb. 

-jbseth

[Deb]

"I don't know miss, maybe dey washing dem."

Hah! Another synchronicity. I have not told that story about Jamaica for probably 30 years or more.

Last night my ex texted me. He's in Florida, where we lived part of the time we were married. His mother recently died and he was down there to help his father sell the house. He needed to get out of the house for a break and drove over to our old neighborhood, sent me a picture of a house and asked if I knew what it was. It was not our old house. He texted back "Lou's house." Lou was a neighbor, an acquaintance really, we were not really friends with Lou. But Lou had asked us to ride with him to the airport in his car. He had a flight to catch but didn't want to pay for parking so we were to bring his car back to the neighborhood. When we got to the airport, my ex presented me with the tickets for us to fly to Jamaica and Lou drove himself home.

My ex and I only rarely keep in touch. The timing of his text could not have been better—I had not even remembered the neighbor's name, only that the trip was a complete surprise.

[Deb]

In addition to this, I think that there might be some interesting synchronistic activities going on here as well?

I for one think so. I've noticed for the past couple of weeks our different topics have been crossing over each other like a braid. I've never noticed that before. It feels like there's something going on.

This Russian Doll of synchronicities for me just came full circle today and I'm blown away. And chuckling to myself:

Just a little background info before I get to the "good" stuff. I'm a graphic designer who happens to be able to develop websites too. I'm no tech wiz but I manage. In July 2014 I purchased The Road to Elmira for Kindle. In June 2017 I asked Rich Kendall (New York Boys) if I could purchase a signed copy of his book. At some point in our communications I mentioned I'm a GD and he was more than welcome to contact me if he needed help with any future projects. He said he was coming out with another book, and I cleaned up the photos for the book. After that, he introduced me to Mary Dillman and I helped her with a couple of small projects. Then a few weeks ago Rich asked if I would do the design and layout for a new book he was working on, which I've been working on since.

So, on to the synchronicities. Kate Holton (The Seth House) emailed me last week about Seth's "experiment that was never tried." She had bought a used copy of Seth Speaks from Amazon three years ago and the name Michael Goode was written inside. Oshara Waago (The Seth House), Kate's partner, knows Michael and told Kate who he is. One of the original class members. Michael also helped Oshara put together a Spirit Board, another synchronicity I'll explain in a bit.

Fast forward to last year when I was making the Seth House website and illustration. Kate and I communicated quite a bit at the time and I'd brought up the experiment, giving Kate the page number in Seth Speaks (pg 163, Session 546). Kate pulls out her SS and stuck in that page is Michael's original receipt for the book. What are the chances? I asked Rich Kendall the other day if he knows Michael and he said yes, he knows him very well, they were close friends when growing up. AND Michael did the design and layout for many if not all of the Seth books Rick Stack has published. If you have The Early Class Sessions, The Early Sessions or The Deleted Sessions, look at the copyright page and you'll see his name. To add to that, I actually used the copyright page from one of those books as a guide for a layout idea, since I've never actually made a "real" book before. I was focused on design and never noticed his name.

Kate has put two and two together and feels she's being pulled towards do the experiment and emailed Michael and me last week for input. I've already sent her my vision of how that could work, we'll see what happens.

So as far as the spirit (aka Ouija) board connection: Another client asked me to move a bunch of websites and domain names around for him asap. I told Rich I'd have to carefully spread my time between his book and the website migrations. That client is Robert Murch. He is an expert on Ouija boards and has a museum. I made a website for his non-profit Talking Board Historical Society about 2 years ago, and a promotional one for him this past year for speaking engagements. I'm also currently designing a new website for his new The Salem Witch Board Museum. The only thing that would make this better is if it was for The Elmira Spirit Board Museum, lol. God I love this stuff!

Oh I'm not done yet. The first time I met Murch was at a bbq at his house. I was invited by a friend of mine who is renting the mother-in-law apartment over his garage. I asked him if he'd heard of Seth/Jane Roberts and the famous Ouija board. Murch got very excited—he had read the Seth books growing up and would LOVE to have that board. I introduced him to Ron Card who owns Jane and Rob's Ouija board. I knew Ron would never part with it, but Murch did get some high quality photos of it. Murch has really embraced the Seth life and is the nicest and wisest person I know. So much so that I accidentally called him Seth when telling someone about him the other day.

Murch has told me he has some things of Jane's, an original manuscript or something, and plans to give them to me the next time we get together, which may be a while. I'm really curious about what they are!

I think next I'll ask Rich and Murch if they know each other.

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

That is really some awesome synch events.

Hey, could you keep us posted on both Rich's new book and whatever Kate's going to do with the "Experiment that's never been tried". Even if we don't get invited to participate, I'm really curious to hear about what she plans to do.

Maybe I'll start a topic on this so that we here could kick around some ideas. Would that be OK with you?

- jbseth

[Deb]

Hey, could you keep us posted on both Rich's new book and whatever Kate's going to do with the "Experiment that's never been tried". Even if we don't get invited to participate, I'm really curious to hear about what she plans to do.

Maybe I'll start a topic on this so that we here could kick around some ideas. Would that be OK with you?

Yes, of course. I just sent another edited version of the print book to Rich today. Once that's finalized I can work on the Kindle version. He was hoping for a pre-Christmas release, but we're way ahead of the deadline.

Starting a new topic sounds like a great idea, I'd love the input! I figured I'd start a post anyway when Kate gets back to me with a positive response. I still need to email her with today's contributions to the synchronicities.

One thing I deleted from my post was another little detail that to me fits in: I've been to Murch's house a few times now and would see his progress in getting the museum together. He moved here from Boston and still has tons of boards in storage. But, I noticed that while he had many boards in various world languages, there was not one in Russian. I have a fascination with Russia and Russian history. I've been there a few times and loved it (with a few synchronistic connections I won't bore anyone with), have been learning the language. I realized that Murch didn't have a Soviet era style board. So I made him one as a sort of gag Christmas gift. So I too have created an Ouija board, had a member of this forum who moved to the US from the Ukraine confirm the lettering was correct, just like Michael the graphic designer/Seth student created a board.

Murch posted it to Facebook on February 18, 2019, with this caption. Image attached below:

"Ouija spells C-O-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-? Hi friends, while Mueller investigates if collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and the Russians, the Talking Board Historical Society was hard at work trying to discover the method of the alleged communication, and we believe we found it! H-A-P-P-Y—P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T-S—D-A-Y-! (Soviet/Russian board by Deb T and Trump board by Occult Boards.) Уиджа заклинания С-Г-О-В-О-Р?
Товарищи, в то время как Мюллер расследует, произошел ли сговор между кампанией Трампа и русскими, Говорящая Доска Историческое Общество усердно пытался найти способ предполагаемого общения, и мы верим, что нашли это! С Д-Н-Е-М П-Р-Е-З-И-Д-Е-Н-Т-А  Robert Murch, Chairman of the Board - Talking Board Historical Society"

Ha ha ha, you can't make this stuff up.

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Here's another synchronous event.

Recently my wife and I have been watching episodes of TNG ("Star Trek: The Next Generation) as we've only recently discovered that we have access to these shows via our cable network.

We watched these shows many years ago (in the late 80's and early 90's) and loved them, but haven't seen them since. Re-watching them now has been fun, because there like all new episodes. It's been so long that we don't remember much about them.

Anyway, just this morning I was going through a "TNG Companion" book that I bought many years ago at a star trek convention. In this companion book I was looking for information on an episode that I recalled, that had something to do with a space probe affecting Captain Picard, such that he lives basically an entire life on a distance planet in the timespan of about 20 minutes on the Enterprise. It turns out that this specific episode was called, "The Inner Light" and it occurs near the end of Season 5.

Anyway, at the front of this companion book, I had written a note in it, many years ago (early 1990's) from a friend of mine by the name of Doyle. In this note, I had written down what Doyle had told me, was the meaning of the Star Trek "Warp Factors".* 

I have no idea if what he told me was true or not, but I wrote it down anyway so that I could later check it out.



Today about an hour after I did this, my wife got a "Happy New Year" message from Doyle via Face Book Messenger. We haven't heard from him or his wife in perhaps 10 years or so.

Wow.


* Doyle told me that in Star Trek, Warp Factor "x", was, x cubed, the speed of light.

Thus:

Warp Factor 1 was, 1 cubed the speed of light, or 1 times the speed of light.
Warp Factor 2 was, 2 cubed the speed of light, or 8 times the speed of light.
Warp Factor 3 was, 3 cubed the speed of light, or 27 times the speed of light.
Warp Factor 4 was, 4 cubed the speed of light, or 64 times the speed of light....

-jbseth

[LarryH]

I was looking for information on an episode that I recalled, that had something to do with a space probe affecting Captain Picard, such that he lives basically an entire life on a distance planet in the timespan of about 20 minutes on the Enterprise.

jbseth, I believe that my favorite episode. Is it the one where in that other life he marries, has children, and learns to play the flute? The whole experience was so that a lost civilization would not be forgotten.

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH,

Yes. That's the one.
It's one of my very favorite episodes too.

-jbseth.

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Yesterday on this forum, Sena and I were talking about the various topics around Christmas and Christmas time. I told Sena that I really liked the lights.

Today on Bing, the image that came up on my laptop was the attached image. This image is called, "A Field of Light at Sensorio" and its by Bruce Monro.

What an interesting coincidence. 

-jbseth

   

[LarryH]

My college illustration instructor, Syd Mead, died a few days ago at age 86. His futurist visualizations and designs for movies and major corporations inspired and entertained us all. My post #4 on page 1 of this thread is about one of my favorite synchronicities, which involves how he ended up signing some copies of his illustration books for me. You can see some of his work in the link below.

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/12/syd-mead-dead/

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH,

It must have been awesome to have him as your instructor.

I really liked his artwork on "Blade Runner"; I've always thought that was really great movie.

I agree with Syd about the Pontiac Aztek, I think it's just plain ugly.  I can see why he thought the 61 Cadillac was cool.

- jbseth

[LarryH]

Here's a really nice 10-minute YouTube showing Syd Mead's work:

[Deb]

My college illustration instructor, Syd Mead, died a few days ago at age 86. His futurist visualizations and designs for movies and major corporations inspired and entertained us all. My post #4 on page 1 of this thread is about one of my favorite synchronicities, which involves how he ended up signing some copies of his illustration books for me. You can see some of his work in the link below.

I remember your post about him! Wow, sorry to hear that. What an amazingly creative and talented person. I don't know how people come up with visions like he had, creating such intricate designs with imagination. I loved the Blade Runner scenery, it was so moody and futuristic. It created an atmosphere that really sucked me into the movie. I had to watch it a few times in order to take in all the details.

You were fortunate to have him as an instructor, I bet you learned a lot from him. And wonderful how he shared his talents to educate others. It would be great if someone made a documentary about him.

Ha ha, the Aztek made the World's 15 Ugliest Cars list. For me it's been a tossup between the Pacer and Gremlin.

[Deb]

Yesterday on this forum, Sena and I were talking about the various topics around Christmas and Christmas time. I told Sena that I really liked the lights.

Today on Bing, the image that came up on my laptop was the attached image. This image is called, "A Field of Light at Sensorio" and its by Bruce Monro.

Cool synchronicity. Seems that Bing is very, very good to you.

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Here's another interesting sync event.

Yesterday LarryH, announced that the object for ESP Experiment 005 was a hammer.

Today my wife and I were watching "StarTrek: The Next Generation". This particular episode was called "Shades of Gray" and it was Season 2, Episode 22.


In this episode, Commander Riker, or Number 1, was stung by a poisonous plant on a planet that they were investigating.

About 12:00 minutes into the episode, there was a conversation between Riker and Captain Picard, where Picard was talking about Rikers lack of upset at the plant. In response to this, Riker said something like, "When you drop a hammer on your foot, it hardly makes sense to get angry at the hammer."

-jbseth

[LarryH]

Today my wife and I were watching "StarTrek: The Next Generation".

Hah, I just came here to share a Star Trek-related synchronicity and found that the last post was about a Star Trek-related synchronicity.

Last week, I watched the 1960 WWII movie Hell to Eternity starring Jeffrey Hunter. I had never seen it before. A young boy loses his parents and is taken in by a Japanese American family before the war. As a young adult, his foster brother is played by George Takei, who later played Sulu in the original Star Trek series. Before seeing that movie, I had ordered and received the second season (2019) of the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery from the library. This series takes place in the Star Trek timeline a generation or so before the original TV series and stars a black female character curiously named Michael Burnham, who as a child was fostered by the mixed-race parents (human and Vulcan) of Spock and grew up with him. Then in Sunday's paper, there was an article entitled "Captain Kirk 2.0", which focused on the character in Star Trek: Discovery, a captain Christopher Pike. This character was resurrected from the original rejected 1964 "Trek" pilot. He made "only a fleeting appearance in the series, mainly so the pilot footage could be recycled." Then, the very next episode of Discovery that I watched began with "Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery..." and then it shows a scene from that 1964 pilot. I was surprised to see that in that old pilot, captain Pike was played by Jeffrey Hunter, the star of Hell to Eternity that I had just watched! So that movie had two major characters played by actors who later were in the original Star Trek series, and the main characters of both the movie and Discovery were the subjects of interracial adoptions. The timing of me seeing the movie, reading the news article, and watching the very episode in a year-old series that introduced the character 56 years ago that was the topic of the article seemed quite a coincidence.

Beyond that, possibly of interest to readers here and quoting from the article, "'Trek' aficionados were thrilled this month to learn that Pike (now played by Anson Mount), his first officer "Number One" (Rebecca Romijn) and the still-evolving, pre-Kirk version of Spock (Ethan Peck) would be following up their season-long stints on 'Star Trek: Discovery' with a brand-new show. Called 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' it is set in the decade before Kirk takes command."

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH,

Hey, nice group of sync events.

I've never heard of the 1960 movie, "Hell to Eternity". However, I do know that Jeffery Hunter also played in a movie, I think it was called, "King of Kings". It was about the life of Jesus, and Jeffery played Jesus. I think that it came out somewhere around the time of 1960.

My wife and I love the Star Trek shows. Right now we're watching season 5 of Star Trek: Voyager.

We've watched the "Discovery" shows with Michael Burnham and the new "Picard" show. We thought that both were great.

Thanks for the "head up" on the upcoming "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" series.
We'll be keeping our eyes open for that.

-jbseth

[LarryH]

How often do we see "this author predicted THIS in his or her book"? And the author is like, "just a coincidence." LOL.

Yes, the most recent is that decades ago, Dean Koontz wrote a novel about a pandemic that starts in a lab in Wuhan, China. He did say that it was "just a coincidence".

And not that long ago, there was some publicity about some books written around 1900 about a young boy named Baron Trump, the son of a U.S. president who lives in luxury in Manhattan. There were references to Russia, protests in the street, and a guy named Don. I think there were even more tie-ins with the current administration, but I cannot recall them - something like the last name of one of Trump's advisors was the same as a character in the book?

Then there's the novel about an unsinkable ship called the Titan that sinks when it hits an iceberg, written before the Titanic existed.

[pyromancy]

Sometimes I don't know if it's manifestation, synchronicity, or premonition.

I was reading more about pyramids lately and was curious about the Washington monument. Particularly the pyramid cap, the pyramidion as it is known. It is made of copper and other materials at the monument to absorb lightning. I've been reading about properties of copper minerals because they conduct electricity and destroy viruses with oligodynamism.

Then recently, the Washington monument got struck by lightning and injured some national guard at the D.C. protests. Bizarre.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lightning-national-guardsmen-injured-george-floyd-protests-washington-dc/

[Sena]

I came across the following set of synchronistic events from the book, "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers". While this story is somewhat long, the sync events that occur in this story are really quite amazing.


First some background. The book, "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers" contains the true story, as written by Annie Kagan, about her brother Billy. Apparently Billy was the "black sheep" of the family, while Annie, his sister, was just the opposite. Billy was always in trouble, into dealing drugs, spent time in prison and just never seemed to get his act together.

jbseth, thanks for recommending this book. I downloaded it last year, but only finished reading it today. I am posting an extract from the book which I found interesting:

"I was kind of cocky about being dead, but if this would have happened right away ... well, I wasn't ready for it. I had to be prepared for this kind of majesty. As I stand before my Goddess, my appearance is changing. I'm getting taller and thinner, and overall I'm looking more like her. I call her my Goddess because somehow she is mine. For the first time, my Goddess moves her perfect ruby lips. Hers is the intoxicating flute-like voice I've been hearing all along. She sings me her name: Shvara. It fills me like a mysterious perfume I have been forever seeking. Shvara smiles a smile so gorgeous and powerful, if there could be a smile like that on earth, all war would end and everyone would stop what they're doing and go feed the hungry children. It is that powerfully good. I'm not sure I could have withstood the power of that smile before this moment. Then, my Goddess sings me her full name: Shvara Lohana. Do I really belong to the same tribe as this magnificent Goddess? I try to control myself but have to ask, "Does that mean I will be with you forever?" Her smile dazzles me. "In this dimension, forever is longer than you can imagine." I admit that sounded disappointing, but she didn't exactly say no, right? This time, hearing Billy through my crown chakra opened its petals into a lush flower. As Shvara's beauty entered my soul, my heart beat so fast I thought it might burst. Instead, it melted like a burning candle, filling me with molten grace. I searched the Internet to see if the name Shvara had any meaning. I was fascinated to learn that Shvara is the short form of I-shvara, a Sanskrit word, Sanskrit being the sacred language of ancient India. So Billy's description of Shvara as an Indian goddess wasn't a coincidence. What delighted me the most, though, was discovering that in Hindu tradition Shvara means Supreme Lord. And when Shvara takes on a feminine form, she is no less than the Supreme Goddess, the one and only Goddess above all others. Was Shvara Lohana an actual Divine Being or a vision Billy was having? Was she his personal God or was she God? Is God actually a goddess?"

Click for full size image 

[jbseth]

This time, hearing Billy through my crown chakra opened its petals into a lush flower.

Hi Sena, Hi All,

Was Annie actually in touch with her dead brother Billy?  Who's to say?  I'd like to think that perhaps she was, but then again, maybe she wasn't.

If Annie wasn't in touch with Billy, then all of this was her experience and not Billy's experience.

Throughout the book, it seemed to me that Annie was associated with Eastern / Hindu religious concepts. She mentioned that her crown chakra opened for example. Given this then, I'm not surprised that she would experience gods and goddess, in the form of the Hindu traditions.

This is no different than if she were associated with voodoo, she might experience  spirits in the form of voodoo traditions, or if she were associated with say, Hawaiian beliefs, she might experience Hawaiian gods and goddesses such as Pele.


Personally, I prefer Seth's explanation of All That Is over Hindu, Voodoo, Hawaiian, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, ... explanations of who or what is God.


- jbseth

[Sena]

Personally, I prefer Seth's explanation of All That Is over Hindu, Voodoo, Hawaiian, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, ... explanations of who or what is God.

jbseth, do you now regret recommending the Billy Fingers book? I personally am glad I read it.

[jbseth]

Hi Sena, Hi All,

Not at all. I really enjoyed it.

I personally think that it's quite likely that she was, in fact, in contact with her brother.

As I recall, there were quite a few times when what she picked up on, were pretty amazing experiences.

- jbseth

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Here's another interesting synchronous event that just occurred to me today.

Lately here in this forum, Deb and I have been talking about Richard Bach and his books. Deb told me that she read his book "One" and that the story behind it was a kind of probable reality type of story that has to do with Ricard and his wife.

Since I've never read this specific book and since it sounded pretty interesting, I thought I'd see if our local library has a copy. It turns out that our library does have a copy, and so about 3 weeks ago, I ordered it electronically. This afternoon, I was notified electronically that this book was ready for pick up and so I went and picked it up.


In the last 6 months or so, my wife and I have been binge watching all of the various Star Trek shows, both the new ones like "Picard" and "Discovery" and the older shows like, "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager", etc.  Just recently, we've started watching the old Star Trek shows, "The Original Show" with Captain Kirk, Mr Spock and Dr. "Bones" McCoy.

This evening during and after supper, we watched the last episodes of Season 1 and the first two episodes of Season 2. The very last episode that we watched tonight was Season 2 Episode 2, which was titled, "Who Mourns for Adonis".  For those of you who may remember, this is the episode where Kirk and company run into a being on another planet who claims to be the god, Apollo.  In this episode, there is an actress who plays the part of Lt. Carolyn Palamas, who is an archeologist or anthropologist and she goes down to the planet with Kirk and company and then seems to really fall for this being, Apollo.  The person who played the part of Lt. Carolyn Palamas, was the actress Leslie Parrish.


After watching this last show, before going to bed, I thought I'd take a look at this book that I got from the library today, Richard Bach's book, "One". In this book, Richard starts out by telling a story about him and his wife, Leslie, who's flying in his plane. It turns out that his wife, Leslie, is the very same actress who many years before, played the part of Lt. Carolyn Palamas, in this Star Trek episode, Leslie Parrish.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708488/?ref_=ttep_ep2

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663562/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Now, how synchronous was that?  

- jbseth

[LarryH]

It turns out that his wife, Leslie, is the very same actress who many years before, played the part of Lt. Carolyn Palamas, in this Star Trek episode, Leslie Parrish.

Star Trek pops up again in this thread. See my post from June 5. Also, my old illustration instructor Syd Mead (also mentioned in this thread, Jan 30) was a set designer for the first Star Trek movie.

As an aside, since this is not really a synchronicity, Jonathan Frakes (Captain Picard's "number one") was in my wife's graduating high school class. I went with her to her 15th high school reunion, and he was there. This was before the release of Star Trek: Next Generation, so I didn't know him, but he was known as an actor from some daytime soap, and word had spread that he would be in the new Star Trek show. He's still involved, having directed some of the Star Trek: Discovery episodes.

[Deb]

It turns out that his wife, Leslie, is the very same actress who many years before, played the part of Lt. Carolyn Palamas, in this Star Trek episode, Leslie Parrish.

Wow, good one!

Yes, Star Trek keeps coming up here. I haven't seen the show since the original series. I'll have to watch some of the new stuff and see if I get hooked.

This is also not really a synchronicity, but Alan Nimoy, Leonard's nephew, was my chem lab partner in high school. It was the blind leading the blind. He looked just like his uncle, except for the pointy ears. 

[LarryH]

This is also not really a synchronicity, but Alan Nimoy, Leonard's nephew, was my chem lab partner in high school.

That reminds me that when I was working for a design firm in California, a lady in Marketing claimed that she had been asked out by Leonard Nimoy. She referred to him as "Leonard Nemo". We doubted her story. She had a reputation at work for using way too much perfume. Maybe Vulcans don't have a sense of smell. 

[jbseth]

Hi LarryH, Hi Deb, Hi All,

Those are some awesome "Star Trek" stories everyone.

Deb, the blind leading the blind in a chemistry class, sounds like a potentially explosive event to me.  

When I took a chemistry class in a community college many years ago, I can remember my Professor telling us that when he was a young man, he and his friends use to go down to the Mississippi River and throw handfuls of pure sodium (which reacts violently with water) into the river, just for fun. 


LarryH, maybe Vulcans do have a good sense of smell and that's why she's not married to Leonard Nemo.  




And then, there's this.  I just started reading this book, "One" by Richard Bach. In the third chapter, the Richard and Leslie of the late 1980's, run into the Richard and Leslie of 1972. The Richard and Leslie of 1972, haven't met each other yet, but they both unknowingly have just rode up in a hotel elevator at the same time together.

As they both leave this elevator, the late 1980's Richard writes the following in his book, "One" in the third chapter.

"And that we don't know what's going on, I thought, doesn't keep us from being the ones in charge. It felt like a baby-chick roundup, these two going in opposite directions when we knew their destiny was to spend the rest of their lives together."

(The bold font in the above quote, is mine.)




Now, along with this, just 3 days ago, at another location in this forum, under the topic of "Laughter is the Best Medicine", Deb posted a video about a woman, Camille, who found a rescued baby chick that was lost in New York City. Camille took this baby chick home with her and over time they have become fast friends.

Then, in response to this video, on the same day that Deb posted it, LarryH replied, "Now, I'm gonna feel guilty next time I eat chicken!  "

-jbseth

[Deb]

Well I guess we're all still on the same page here!

I thought it was interesting Bach felt he and Leslie were meant to be together forever, he's on wife #3 at the moment. I have to say I've never heard the term "baby-chick roundup" before. I've had baby chicks before, they're like popcorn in a popper.

BTW I found Nemo.

[jbseth]

Hi Deb, Hi All,

In regards to finding Nemo, I'd say that there's something fishy going on here. 
(That was bad, I know, I'm sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself.)


In regards to Richard Bach and Leslie Parrish, I also had the same thoughts. The internet says that they got divorced in 1997. So much for being soul mates for life.


I did a search on her on the internet and I found out from Wikipedia that she's really a pretty interesting person.  She's been an Environmentalist since the 1950's and she was quite involved in stopping the war in Vietnam.  She talked to Bobby Kennedy and really encouraged him to run for office in 1968.

She created STOP (Speakers and Talent Organized for Peace) and on April 4, 1968, her and Leonard Nimoy, who was also a STOP member went to San Francisco to open Eugene McCarthy's new headquarters. Only later to discover on that day that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot. As a results of this, both she and Leonard Nimoy cried throughout the speeches that they gave that day.

Along with all of this, it also says that for the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull, she was the one who was responsible for the care of the film's real-life seagulls, which she kept inside a room at a Holiday Inn for the duration of the shoot.  I wonder if this is the same Holiday Inn that he mentions in his book, "One" where they went up in an elevator together, each not knowing the other person, at that time?

All in all, it sounds like she's quite a bit more than just your typical actress.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Parrish



-jbseth

[jbseth]

Interesting

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Well, here's another synchronous event that I experienced recently.

During the recently past Christmas time, I rediscovered an "a capella" group that I really enjoy who calls themselves "Pentatonix". This group of 5 people, sings a lot of Christmas music. I really enjoy this group because the quality of their music is, for the most part, absolutely outstanding.

However, in addition to doing Christmas songs, they also cover many other people's songs, including, "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkle, "Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen and "Imagine" by John Lennon, just to name a few.

Being an "a capella" group, they make all the sounds that you hear with their voices and bodies. That is, there are no musical instruments used in the vast majority of their songs. Kevin, one of the members is an amazing "Beatboxer". 



Anyway, recently I came upon a video of them singing the song "Amazing Grace" and so I decided to check it out. Not because I care that much for this specific song or its message (being a Sethite, I hold a different belief system) but because this group almost always sounds so amazing whenever they sing a song. Anyway you can check it out at the link at the bottom if you like.

In this video where the Pentatonix sang the song, "Amazing Grace", the location itself is really beautiful. I did some digging into this location and discovered that it's a place called "The Wayfarers Chapel" which is located in Rancho Palos Verdes, in California.  Rancho Palos Verdes, is a suburb of the Los Angeles area and it's on the sea coast, slightly north and mostly to the west of Long Beach California (where the ship, the Queen Mary, is located).

Furthermore, this location, "The Wayfarers Chapel" is a National Memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg.  According to wikipedia, Emanuel Swedenborg was a Christian "philosopher". Furthermore, according to the wikipedia site, Emanuel Swedenborg had some very open ideas about Christianity, somewhat more "Seth like" in nature and his theological revelation, where a man appeared to him, and gave him his divine inspiration, also sounds a lot like some of the experiences that happened to Jane with her "idea construction" and Seth related experiences.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg


At another location in this forum, we have recently been talking about philosophers.

https://speakingofseth.com/index.php?topic=1376.msg18124#new



Here's the link to the video of Pentatonix singing the song "Amazing Grace".

-jbseth