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[cactiphile]

Apart from this song being overtly sexual, it also makes
me very suspicious of reality. For some reason I mention
it to wife wife, and she states she's never heard it before.
The next monring she hears it on the radio for the first time.

I find sycronicity totally disturbing, as it seems to go beyond
coincidence, and happens far too often, making me doubt
that this reality is real.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Cactiphile
(going slightly off his head)

 

[registered "^^"]

reality?

don't ask me. i'm stuck on a vette!

 

[LRC_]

reality?

don't ask me ... i'm a sports car ... with a hitch hiking bear passenger ... lol


oooooohhhhhh what a ride !!!!!!!!


seriously .... every once in a while you have to wonder what forces guide us. what made that particular song pop into your head? did you somehow know it would be played the next day? many times i have been delayed on my way out, then i pass a bad accident and i realize that if i hadn't been delayed i would have been in that accident. makes ya wonder.

 

[Starfish]

Well, I am aware of what you are going through, via personal experiance.



Okay, well, here is the way I see it.


I don't really deem this incident you are discribing as terribly weird compared to some, but because I have things of this nature occur often, I can totally relate.

I will give examples....

Not so uncommon things like, my husband says what I am about to say before I say it, or I will have a thought or idea and I feel it swell in me and then sort of blurt out of my body as a feeling and then subside and then two seconds later he'll say what I thought. That is weird, but not exactly what you are getting at.

Here is something more significant...

One time Acura made a car commercial where they had one of their Sedans drive through a painting of lines, whilst a song was played. Well the music caught my ear as something I'd heard before but couldn't remember the name or where I heard it. It was just music in the commercial, but I vaguely remembered words.. So for a week I mumbled the tune and what words I could and couldn't get it.

It bothered me. It made me feel old and an inadaquate mind, because the tune was like burnt into my heart and I had no idea why. That weekend I saw the commercial again, and it was just like pouring salt on a wound. I was haunted by it. Really bothered.

Well, Monday came, and I went up to school and that day between classes I decided to go to the library. Kind of a senceless act, but like I was being persuaded by some idea that made me feel as though it came from me, but displaced somehow. Well, upon entering the library I sat at a table and got out my books and notebook. I tried to do my work, but one thought, quite unrelated to anything that I was currently doing in life, popped up. I suddenly despirately wanted to know if my school's library had any books on communal living.


Funny thing is, Why? Why would that happen. I am a hippy. I know more about communal living via experiance than a book can hold. I could write a book. What made me want to look? Well, I went to the C section (ouch) and I looked for Communal.... I came across the section on Communism and I breezed through and saw this bright yellow book's binding staring me down. I just grabbed it. I didn't bother to even look at the title really at first to see if it was about Communism or communal living. I opened it up to the middle, and began to rapidly flip to the front, as I uncontrollably do with hand sized books. Well, funny thing was that I found myself on the page before the title page and there were the words to the music I had heard......

Tis a gift to be simple
Tis a gift to be free
Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right
Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
~Traditional Quaker Song

Okay, now, it was amazing that this happend when it did. I had enrolled in school, not really knowing what I wanted to do, but I thought I'd try to make a go of it. I was feeling trapped by the end of my second semester. I didn't know why I had done this. I was frustrated and didn't really know why. I had lost sight of my basic views in the daily clutter of homework, life and being detached from my culture.


This simple song, a song that shaped and influenced my basic beliefs, by singing it as a Girl Scout, and being that I am from New England, I see that I may have heard it sung by women at Sturbridge MA or somthing too. Anyway, it was as if I need to be told that although I don't feel I am sharing the life of my fellow communal family on a daily basis, I am always and always will be with them in spirit and heart. (I didn't belong to a commune. I am a Rainbow warrior, and we are everywhere ) Check Adoratrice's thread "Starfish, my fellow Rainbownian" for a website link, if you are interested in knowing more.

So you see, I see that more significant incidences of synchronicity, that hold a great deal of circumstances all leading to a point of amazing coincidence, as being forms of spiritual guidance, if in fact the person needed the information.

But Hell, I am a freaking nut......I might as well mention that I have very solid reasons to believe that the idea of 'angels' came from and actually are 'aliens' and that yes, our reality is being 'toyed' with and that this is even the result of it. That 'toying' is all about why we are here to begin with.


Hope this doesn't make you more paranoid.

 

[*bratcat*]

i don't know if this is good or not...

 

[cactiphile]

The husband and wife thing I can understand,
I often 'read' my wives thoughts, often on
purpose just to annoy her by saying things
before she can. But I just assume that this
comes from having shared the same experiences
for so long that our 'mindsets' are similar.

The scary thing about synchronicity is not that it
happens but that it happens so damn often.
Often I notice it when I'm reading, that after talking
about something, that word or expression or
subject will appear in the book I'm reading that
same night, even though I've not seen or heard of it
for years.
Maybe is just some strange form of ESP.
Which I hold beliefs in 50% of the time. Mainly
from odd experiences like going to a resturant for
a pizza, and the resturant wasnt there....
...they started building it 3 months later.
or Knowing EXACTLY what someone looks like
before you meet them in person.

My minds melting....


And if theres any guilding force or Angel watching
over me, I think his sense of direction is worse than
my wifes and he drove me right off the rails many
years ago.


Cactiphile

Reality is a bloody strange way of organising the universe.

 

[registered "^^"]

synchronicity

esp or just a sense of knowing what you know you shouldn't. it happens very often to some people. yet you have those who say , ok give me the lottery numbers. it can very strange and exciting, all brains have the capacity for it, most just ignore it. i tend to pay to much attention to it, but not any more, you can't change the future only get hell for trying, just enjoy the novelty of it.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Have any of you read the Celestine Prophecy? This syncronicity idea is pretty much what James Redfield describes as the "First Insight".

"The First Insight is a reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. We are experiencing these mysterious coincidences, and even though we don't understand them yet, we know they are real. We are sensing again, as in childhood, that there is another side of life that we have yet to discover, some other process operating behind the scenes."

If the idea intrigues you, you'll probably really enjoy the book. Check it out.

 

[p_p_man]

Apart from this song being overtly sexual, it also makes
me very suspicious of reality

I think the words are more like:

One eyed, one horned, yellow purple people eater...

it came out at the same time as that other great smash hit...


Oo Ee Oo Ah Ah, Dim Dum Dumilily Dum Dum
Oo Ee Oo Ah Ah Dim Dum Dumilily Dum Dum

Great music and even greater lyrics...

 

[cactiphile]

Mustang Sally: Thats sound like the stuff, I might take a look.

PPman:
Oh yes you can't beat any song, that goes be dum di diddy dum.
They just don't write nonsense of that quality any more!


C.

 

[beckbabe]

OK, and the real words are....

"He was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater"

Every time I learn a new word I hear it everywhere, probably because I'm listening, many people gloss over words they don't know without even realizing it.

I do believe in some ESP, but I also believe in coincidences.

 

[cactiphile]

Wasn't there something about straight jackets in the song as
well?

C.

 

[cactiphile]

Re: OK, and the real words are....

Every time I learn a new word I hear it everywhere, probably because I'm listening, many people gloss over words they don't know without even realizing it.

Hmm I'm a bit complusive about knowing what words mean,
I either look them up or ask my wife whos a walking
dictionary. So I know it not just me glossing over this.

Another example is the day of the pruple people eater incident
we (my wife and myself) were discussing the subject
of sychronicty, before we settled into to our bedtime read.
Half a page later, there it was on the page in front of me,
the damn 's' word.

C.