Terence McKenna on Synchronicity

[Magical Realist]

Fascinating personal experiences and amusing anecdotes by Terence. It's all about being in the flow of the Tao...

https://www.google.com/search?q=terence+...KSTLc,st:0

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AUDIO EXCERPT: People report that after intense experiences, their lives are haunted by synchronicity. Well, psychologists get rid of this kind of anecdotal material with all kinds of semi-weaselly arguments. Such as your sifting intellect has been shifted from the background to the foreground.

So now you are paying attention to the environment, and it is giving you messages. And we all know that schizophrenics move into mental spaces where every license plate carries a message, and every headline is about them, and every conversation among the people they pass on the street is about them.

But we also know that we ourselves dabble with this belief that the world is entirely independent of our minds, and objective, and unaware of us. It's the kind of science fiction in which we operate. And then the real truth that appears to our perceptions -- the truth of our immediate experience -- is that the mind is a concentric field of diminishing intensity that can draw events and circumstances far from the ranges of probability.

[...] A guy quits his job and rips off the hotel, and that it is coincident with an internal state, a private musing of somebody else. And when the two things come together the coincidence of it is absolutely excruciating.

Kat had an experience -- she's not here to tell it -- but she went to Mexico when she was 19, and traveled all over Mexico, and took LSD at a certain temple. On the LSD trip in this place she realized that she had been conceived there. And when she confronted her parents with it, it was true --- that she had been conceived there.

Now of course you can say in growing up this must have been a story told around the dinner table. And then under LSD the child brings it out. But sometimes these things just peel reality apart.

[...] The schizophrenic who looks at the license plates passing on the freeway is simply the lowest grade worshipper of numbers. But when you really let numbers into your existence, coincidence runs rampant...

[Magical Realist]

Statisticians confidently assure us that coincidences, even 1 in a million flukes, are bound to happen. But I still suspect some underlying meaning to them anyway. Call me superstitious. I don't care. Between the universe being normal, and the universe being strange, always bet on the strange. And even to wishful thinkers real miracles can occur.

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