Can someone explain synchronicity to me.

[Swede]

I've read some of Jung's theory,but I can't wrap my head around it yet. My interest in this was renewed by a couple coincidences that happened to me just recently.

[RagingInMiami]

1. Put on the Police album

and it will all come to you

[Nevernose]

3. LSD helps, too.

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2. ask explained by mr. sumner:

With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity

A sleep trance, a dream dance
A shared romance
Synchronicity

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible

If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi

If you act, as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity

A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity

It’s so deep, it’s so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity

Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity......

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4. and a good example of the phenomemon, once more from the gord:

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can’t hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There’s only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn’t think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
Cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark scottish lake

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There’s a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away

[Nevernose]

5. One of my all-time favorite songs

From one of my all-time favorite bands

[brentspeak]

10. Hey, isn't that your mother on the phone? Thus, 'synchronicity'? n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. You'll notice that in the second stanza he sings "loch" instead of "lake"

As in Loch Ness.

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14. i know. snarfed lyrics from one of those notoriously error-fillied sites.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. The lyrics sheet of the album itself is totally borked

At least in the LP version. A sizable chunk of "Every Breath You Take" is missing.

Edit: yes, the original lyrics sheet also has "lake" instead of "loch".

[orpupilofnature57]

16. Best explanation, BEST THREE MAN BAND EVER!!!

[Swede]

6. Hahaha. Jung's synchronicity.

Maybe Friday is a bad day to ask something like this.

[indigobusiness]

7. Profound

coincidence.

[jdots]

8. Robert Anton Wilson

has a great site you can google,he is an avid fan of that and many wacky subjects.The site is huge & filled with mind blowing topics.

[Swede]

9. Thanx. nt

[azoth]

11. Synchronicity is Jung's term for

will driven reality. Nothing is coincidence - the individual brings all things to the self, driven by the unconscious. Meaning is everywhere - one only needs to be aware, to look, to notice.

That work for ya?

[Forkboy]

13. I was just asking the same thing

;-)

[azoth]

17. Oh bravo! That's a winner for laugh of the day chez moi. TAKE a bow.