The Path of Synchronicity

Align Yourself With Life’s Flow

by Dr Allan G. Hunter

Synchronicity, or Just Dumb Luck?

Most of us have noticed them – those moments when things go just exactly right.  These are the times when the right person turns up at exactly the perfect moment to save the situation; those occasions when it feels as if the stars have aligned miraculously to move you to where you need to be. You can call it luck, or Karma, or coincidence, or the Guiding hand, or God. You could thank your Guardian Angel, the spirit of your ancestors, your patron Saint, or simply call it a miracle.

Sometimes we call this ‘friends’. We look at our dearest friend of dozens of years and know that we couldn’t have trodden the path we did without that person’s help – that he or she was exactly the person we needed. And perhaps that friend is truly a miraculous gift.

We have plenty of words we can use to attempt to describe this. But how do we understand it? And if we understand it, then what do we do about it?

The day after I got married my wife and I boarded a plane for England, and, for the first and only time in my life in which I’ve made hundreds of flights, we were upgraded for free to first class. We sprawled inour luxurious leather seats, sipped champagne, and felt blessed. Simple luck, perhaps? Or a hint from the universe?

Then there is Bob M., an independent bookstore owner and a friend of mine, who was three months behind on his rent, and his store was about to be shuttered on him for good. He decided he’d play the lottery that night and if nothing happened he’d shoot himself. Since he also worked as a security guard, he had his revolver ready. That night his four numbers came up – and the amount he won was exactly enough, to within a few cents, to pay the backlog of his rent. He was delighted, joyous, relieved – and also puzzled. For he wondered what this was telling him about the nature of the universe he lived in, and what it might mean.

Just coincidence, right?

Or, as he said to me, should I be spending more time in church?

His situation raises some important questions. Does fate solve all our problems for us? Well, we know that isn’t always true. So why does it solve some of them and not others? Answering these questions may mean we have to think in new ways about our experiences, and sometimes it means we’ll have to visit an idea several times before it lets us feel its meaning.