Ask: What is your experience with synchronicity?
“What is your
experience with synchronicity? Have you found meaningful synchronicities
occur between your outer and inner experiences as your awareness of Truth has
deepened? Would you have called meeting E and experiencing a Holy
Relationship such a synchronicity because you were ready for that Vision at the
time? And do you think that she left your company because you needed that
particular trial as well, in order to deepen your understanding?” - OT
This mind has observed that the quieter and slower it has
become the more it sees connections, coincidences, patterns, and relationships
that are all around at the level of form. Some refer to these connections, coincidences,
patterns, and relationships as “synchronicity”. This mind does not see any
special meaning in them. It is natural to see them given the interconnectedness
of things at the level of form. This mind seeing them also has no meaning.
Seeing them is simply the natural result of a quieter, slower mind that is more
mindfully present.
The self’s meeting E (the woman with whom it experienced the
Holy Relationship) and the unfolding of that relationship and all that followed
is simply the story of this particular “Liz” in the greater story of time. It
has no meaning, either. Yes, the self was ready for the experience or it would
not have happened. And E did not leave because this self needed a trial. She
left and this self chose to see it as a trial until she chose to learn valuable
lessons from it. There is nothing making things happen for a reason in the
universe of form. What happens in the universe of form is the result of cause
and effect at the level of form. Things happen and the mind decides what it
will tell itself about what happened, depending on what it wants to learn. So
sometimes a self also makes its own synchronicity by deciding to view things as
connected whether they really are or not.
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Comments
this was especially helpful
'It is natural to see them given the interconnectedness of things at the level of form. This mind seeing them also has no meaning.'
and
'Things happen and the mind decides what it will tell itself about what happened, depending on what it wants to learn. So sometimes a self also makes its own synchronicity by deciding to view things as connected whether they really are or not.'
i have a question about this though
'There is nothing making things happen for a reason in the universe of form. What happens in the universe of form is the result of cause and effect at the level of form.'
i understand it in the way that there is no real universe of form, so nothing real could be making anything real or not real happen or not happen 'here'! i understand it that the statement 'there is something making things happen in the universe of form' being true would have to mean that an actor and an acted upon must exist.. the split would have had to occur.
oh, hang on.. so is what youre saying here like.. nothing i see has any meaning but the meaning i give to it?
revised question! things dont just happen right.. as you said, within the universe of form, there 'is' (appears to be) cause and effect at the level of form. so in the illusion, is there only one cause? the decision maker, or learning/choosing mind? so there is only ever one of two 'meanings' we can give to anything?
So, as a personal self, are we just gleaning from what occurs to "fit our personal story"? Fits our narrative? except - now knowingly, we can practice interpreting things with the HS rather than with the ego?
I appreciate what you are saying. That IS a problem I have. In the case of this weeks blog I'm not upset with anyone (that I'm aware of). I'll think on it. When I wrote 'everyone has their own understandings and beliefs' I didn't want it to appear I was looking to debate the topic or step on anyone's toes (Liz). Not that she would care anyway:)
The other thing I was thinking about when I wrote my comment was the topic we have been talking about off and on over the past months. That the Course says one thing but the persons spiritual journey may reflect something else. That's what I am experiencing with this topic. The Course is clear on it's definition of the illusion. But then in many places it is saying that the Holy Spirit IS active in the world of form. Last week I wrote about the echo's and harmonics of prayer which is a reference to form. There is a paragraph that I have been searching for without luck that I like very much that reflects this same thing. If I find it I'll post it.
I thought about your comment. Your not specific on what caused you to write it so I'm guessing your projecting.
there is absolutely no meaning whatsoever on the level of form. nothing happens 'for a reason' in the form of communications/occurrences that have potential to lead us to awareness of truth. so.. even our growing in our awareness of truth has no meaning.. cos its not happening in truth? learning doesnt mean anything, cos it only happens at the level of not truth. but we can learn in ways that lead toward truth. is that right?
so, in the case of the cockatoo feathers, it was the result of cause and effect here in the separate selves experience. period. and mind will choose to endow it with meaning OR use it as a reminder that form is not truth? if im endowing the happening with meaning, im trying to bring light to the darkness, or truth to form?
one more question.. in regards to 'Christines" quote.. is that about cause and effect at the level of form? and how accepting that can be a path to moving beyond attachment to form?
"My True Self rules everything." 1. "It is impossible for anything to come to me that I have not asked for. Even in the world that I perceive, I rule my destiny.What happens is what I desire; what does not occur is what I do not want to happen. I must accept this, because this is how I go past the world to my Extension of God, Which is my True Will, in Heaven, Where my Holy Self abides in extension of God."
im wondering, does that mean that this minds desire for the feathers caused that cockatoo to drop them in front of me? (or rather, was one of the causes) but the event had no meaning!?
So, the cockatoo feathers, as an example of what you really liked and wanted appeared not from your reaching out, but from your reaching in to the Holy Consciousness which we are. And the form has meaning presently only to you/me, then at some point we won't need form to know/remember Truth.
That quote of Christine's refers to your experience (peace or conflict) not to the actual events that occur. Or, if you want to make it refer to what happens in form, you choose to have the experience of form so therefore you must accept all that does or does not happen as your choice. The HS always looks at the larger picture. Only the ego nitpicks the details.
I do not know to which cockatoo feathers you refer. But, in any case, you as a person are part of a larger tapestry of cause and effect. You are part of a greater whole. You do not make things happen by yourself. You do not live in a vacuum. It is always the universe living through you. So your thoughts do not cause something to happen. Your thoughts and the happening are the same thing. To put this another way, you knew on some level that the feathers were to fall. Afterward your knowing this seemed significant to you so you gave it meaning.