synchronicity?
What do you think of Do you think synchronicity is meaningful?
Yes.
12(85.7%)
No.
2(14.3%)
I've never experienced any such coincidences.
0(0.0%)
If you said yes:
Synchronicity is a sign of Divine Providence, or some other manifestation of God's Will.
1(7.7%)
Synchronicity is a sign of an underlying order in the Universe, such as fate, but not necessarily a sign of a deity at work.
3(23.1%)
Synchronicity is manifested by the will/brainwaves/something of humans.
2(15.4%)
Synchronicity is proof of the human ability to recognize patterns in the random.
1(7.7%)
Synchronicity can best be described by something I will type in a comment.
0(0.0%)
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Comments
I actually know what I would LIKE to think, but I don't think it's what I really think. Got that?
I would define synchronicity as the experience of recognizing a pattern whose origins, whether authentic or not, are not initially evident. The different methodologies we apply to probe the origins and nature of synchronistic patterns say more about us than about the patterns; sometimes someone applies rigorous scientific method to a synchronicity and discovers a new active principle; or one could apply psychological method and see the synchronistic phenomenon as revealing about the observer; or one could attribute it to astrology, or a deity, or a conspiracy, etc. The experience of perceiving a pattern where one was not expected is synchronicity; the act of pursuing and/or creating an explanation tends to be a cultural choice.
I personally believe there is plenty of scientific evidence (from UVA's reincarnation research, the Global Consciousness Project, the whole realm of quantum physics, etc etc etc) suggesting there are nonlocal, nonhuman forces that act in our lives that we do not yet fully understand, and many synchronous phenomena point us in the direction of greater understanding or appreciation of these forces...while others are just totally random shit that happens to appeal to the human drive to perceive patterns EVERYWHERE and the human need to think the world's a less random place than it really is.