The last post discussed synchronicity in general terms, and made the point that
it clearly shows that we live in much larger reality than we know, run by
unknown hands. By an amazing ‘coincidence,’ the latest version of Nexus
magazine (Vol. 17, No. 3) carries a story about synchronicity from Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and posted on
Listverse, http://tinyurl.com/lgmkbk.
Here are a few examples from that article:
Poker
Synchronicity
In 1858, one Robert
Fallon was shot dead at a poker game for cheating. Fallon, the other players
claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and
none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a
new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By
the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had
turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600
to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player
turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!
Photographic Synchronicity
A German mother who
had photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a
store in Strasbourg. When World War I broke out, she was unable to return to
Strasbourg, so she gave up the picture for lost. Two years later, she bought a
film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn
daughter. When the film was developed, it turned out to be a double exposure,
with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her
son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original plate was never developed,
had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.
Revenge
Synchronicity
In 1883, a Henry
Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide.
The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had
killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland
had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree, so
he was the only one of the trilogy still alive. Years later, Ziegland decided
to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree was so big that he decided to blow it up
with dynamite. Amazingly, the explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s
head, killing him.
Presidential Synchronicity
The lives of Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams, two of America’s founders had some interesting facets.
Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of it to
Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it. The document
was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both
Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years from
the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
There are many more
examples of synchronicity, such as the last Hoover Dam worker to die was the
son of the first worker to die.
My favorite example
involves the book titled Futility:
the Wreck of the Titan, written in 1898 by Morgan Robertson. The
story involves the sinking of the ocean liner Titan, which strikes an
iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic. This is eerily similar to real life, in
which the Titanic sank 14 years later in 1912.
Both ships sank in
April in the North Atlantic, having struck an iceberg, Titanic doing 22 knots,
and Titan doing 25. On the Titanic, 2,200 people perished, with 2,500 on the
Titan. Titan was 800 feet long versus the Titanic at 880. Both had a top speed of 25 knots and were
called ‘unsinkable.’ And Titan carried only 24 lifeboats, Titanic, a
mere 20.
Please comment with
your favorite synchronicity story.
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