Week Three---Synchronicity .....

What evidence can I find for synchronicity?.... Last Saturday was the first anniversary of my mother's death. Her death was sudden and even a year later, I feel like I am only beginning to adjust to the energetic shifts that I feel surrounding this experience. I consciously decided that I did not want to acknowledge this day in any sentimental way. So it begins....I do not get to the beach very often, but on Friday evening, I got this strong urge to be near the water. Making this plan come together for the next day was no easy task, but I was a bit obsessed with the idea. So Saturday, I go to the beach ....and it is sunset. And it comes to me---why I am there, had to be there. When my mother passed, I was living abroad in Edinburgh. After a brief visit to the States, heading back to dark and stormy Edi did not appeal, so I went to the south of Portugal where it is warm and sunny this time of year. I had been feeling very confused about life and death and everything before and after, and a bit perturbed in general, having this feeling that my mother's energy was around me. I spent six days sitting on a cliff high above the ocean watching sunsets. Convening with nature. Gathering myself. Sitting on the beach this past Saturday, something settled in me. A kind of knowing. I felt like I was brought there on this marked day....apophenia or synchronicity?---What would Jung say?

How would I explain connectivity?....To me, 'connectivity' sounds like a technical word---a term used when speaking about internet access and cell phone reception. It also rings with connotations of 'disconnection', as though one is either connected or disconnected. But in a Universe where everything is relative---energies overlapping, shifting, condensing, diffusing..... in my view, disconnection is not possible lest the whole pulsing orb of it all unravel. Some connections are so long and slack that a sense of connection, tension and tethers, is not immediately felt, but it is there if one seeks it out. I think of the human body and how its systems function in symbiotic relationship. It is its own universe. The digestive system, circulatory system, immune system, the skeletal system ....organs, arteries and veins, glands, muscles and bones, nerves ....neurons, antibodies, bacteria, hormones ....all aspects of our physical bodies are connected. We have a pulse. And as beings, grounded in our self-centered existences, I feel that we are all connected. Our individual universes overlap, our consciousness intermingles and mutually constitutes our realities.