As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been taking part in a new forum on synchronicity which is associated with an upcoming film called Wonderland. I started a thread called “Could something be speaking to us?” after which the site administrator, Luke, understandably began asking me what I think is speaking to us. He posted his latest request yesterday:

Hi Robert

Thanks for sharing. Your model makes sense and is a good basis to work from.

But here you say it seems that synchronicity has it’s own voice. What do you think the source of that voice is? Why is synchronicity jumping in and reminding us to spend more time with loved ones, for example?

Luke

 So I finally decided to answer him, and once I did, I thought I would share my answer with all of you as well.

I guess I’ve been dodging this question of yours because it can so easily give the wrong impression about my model. But you’ve asked it enough times that I think it’s about time I answer.

My best explanation for what is speaking to us through these extreme synchronicities is God. I don’t say that as a kind of prior faith conviction that must be assumed from the outset. In fact, for many years that isn’t how I saw what was speaking. I thought it must be something in my unconscious mind. However, the phenomenon itself slowly pushed me in that direction.

As I catalogued and worked with this phenomenon (and I probably process about 75 such occurrences each year, both from my life and from the lives of others), I began to get more and more of a feel for the “voice” that was coming through. It is extremely wise and insightful. It sees into people and situations at an astonishing depth. It clearly sees an incredible potential in us, yet at the same time doesn’t mince words about our shortcomings. It can be extremely blunt. It doesn’t coddle us, but definitely seems to want our happiness, as it constantly appears to be steering us in positive directions. Indeed, it urges us in the direction of the highest ethical values. Additionally, it has demonstrated a remarkable ability to see into the future (I have some great stories about that). You know how you get a feeling over time for another person’s level of wisdom, such that with some people your respect for their “voice” grows and takes on weight over time? That is how it was with me with this phenomenon. Over time, it took on a god-like feeling for me.

A couple other things were relevant in this regard. One is that different instances of this extreme synchronicity would comment on the same situation, and when they did, they would always say consistent things about it (and often on exact same date in subsequent years!), such that when you put them together, they acted like different pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, forming a larger vision of that situation. These visions are invariably detailed, sophisticated, and original. They always strike me as beyond normal human ability.

The other is that different people will often have these synchronicities about the same situation, and whenever that happens, they will express the same basic perspective. If you didn’t know, you honestly couldn’t tell whose was whose. In other words, in my experience of this phenomenon, there seems to be a single voice speaking, no matter who it is speaking to (I have some great stories of this, too). The source of this phenomenon, then, definitely seems to transcend the personal.

My best way of explaining this is by reference to God, or at least something god-like. It may not be God. It may be a wise and prescient collective unconscious that is able to express itself through the intelligent organization of seemingly random events. But there does seem to be a single intelligence that is expressing in the lives of different people. My database for this is currently quite small. It encompasses only my life and the lives of other people I’ve worked with in this regard. So as I encounter this phenomenon in the lives of an increasingly number of people, I might find that this impression of mine has been incorrect, that the phenomenon really does say irreconcilable things as it expresses in different lives.

My main point is that my God explanation is, in my view, evidence-driven. It is a tentative conclusion that comes at the end of the process, not a faith assumption that is assumed at the beginning.

And that is one of the things I love most about this phenomenon. In a world that gives us a thousand reasons a day to believe there is no God, here we have hard physical events that are naturally suggestive of God, and perhaps even genuinely hard to explain without God. Doesn’t this world need something like that?