Do you believe in Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity?
Power Gives Birth to Passion (Cutts, 2008)
Jung offered synchronicity as conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious and felt that it described a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history–social, emotional, psychological and spiritual.
On the journey of living my Vision I have had many intense experiences of synchronicity. I could, I guess, dismiss them as mere coincidence but I see them as clues to my destiny, signs that I am on the right path. According to one of my favorite teachers, Deepak Chopra, “When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.” He calls this state “Synchrodestiny” and says that when you are in this state it becomes possible to achieve the spontaneous fulfillment of our every desire.
The Power of 10-Tuesday night was one of those times of intense synchronicity. I was facilitating a Women’s Vision Quest session in Charleston, WV. It was a particularly powerful night and you could feel the energy in the room. I sat with a group of 10 women sharing their visions with one another. They came from all different walks of life and had very different visions but there were so many themes that kept coming up again and again; following your dreams no matter what, overcoming fear and inertia, a drive to find their purpose, fear of success/failure, the struggle between putting others first vs themselves. But there was also another theme that kept cropping up; 10. Woman after woman kept saying things like, “it was 10 yrs ago”, or “I’ve known you for 10 yrs, or “I thought about this 10 yrs ago but have only acted on it now.” We all started to notice this and began commenting. 10 just kept coming up again and again. We noticed that there were 10 women in the group, then I recalled that 10 had been my magic number, the number of women I hoped to attend!
What does this all mean? Is it merely coincidence? I might say so except for the fact that whenever I am experiencing a high degree of synchronicity it is always a sign that I am firmly on the right path. Everything feels right and a magic hangs in the air. As I drove home the next day through the gorgeous mountain terrain I also decided to take this as a sign that 2010 is going to be a great year!
So what do you think…mere coincidence or synchronicity with a deeper meaning?
(first posted 12.18.09)
