Over the past ten years I have become acquainted with synchronicity and its presence in my life. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.
One of the best examples I can use to illustrate began when I noted and took a picture of a license tag which read “I am 007”. I posted the picture to my Facebook page, as I many times will do when I see an interesting tag. During the day, both my sister and daughter said they had also seen the same car with the same tag. A bit later, another FB friend recognized the tag and said in 2007 he had purchased a car from the same man.
The synchronicity continued during the day when a friend from Michigan (I live in North Carolina) sent a picture with the inscription “Kala23”. He sent the picture to me to assist me with a project entitled “365 days of 23’s,” in which I take a picture of something that contains the number 23. The friend’s last name is “Bond” and his first name is “David,” the same as mine. Se I had seen a picture of a tag denoting James Bond and a friend with the same last name became the lastest contributor in my “23” project. His first and last name held special significance in the synch.
I also had posted the story and the pics to three synchronicity groups I belong to on FB and one of the other members of the group informed me that the next Bond movie, which is scheduled to premier in two months will be the 23rd in the series of Bond pictures. The synch involved a vanity plate, two family members who saw the same plate, a friend who had purchased a car from the man, and finally the 23rd movie in a series that featured the fictional James Bond. Such connections I consider to be rare indeed.
Synchronicities are all around us each day,,, if only we are willing to look for them and make note of the connections being shown. Order amidst what sometimes appears to be the chaos in our lives.
David Lee 