Barb and I are out driving, looking for yard sales to find a camera. We stop for a newspaper to look at yard sales classifieds. I put two quarters in a paper vending machine. It bothers me a bit to spend fifty cents on a paper that we only need for classifieds, I am cheap that way. Down the road, we stop at a yard sale. I open the door and find two quarters next to each other on the pavement right outside my door.

Interesting synchronicity, John!

I'd actually like to open up a discussion regarding the mechanism of synchronicity.  Maybe start building up some theories as to the nature of synchronicity and begin figuring out the how's and why's of it all!

Let me quickly share another example of synchronicity with you.

Last year I partcipated in a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.  While hiking through Shenendoah National Park in Northwestern Virginia, I met a family just around sundown at one of the lean-to shelters in which I was planning to turn in for the night.  Incidentally, only moments before arriving at the shelter I saw my first black bear on this hike!

So I met this wonderful family who were hiking through the park for one week.  We spent the entire evening talking and eating together, just getting along really well!  Throughout the remainder of the week I found myself hiking and sharing meals off and on with them.

At the end of the week, before they departed for home and I continued my journey North, we all exchanged information, hugged, and went our seperate ways.

Several months later, after I had gotten back to New Jersey and was beginning to settle in, I recieved an e-mail from one of the family members.  She told me that she decided that she wants to hike the A.T. this year and wanted to know if I could stay at her apartment up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for six months while she is away.  I figured that since I wasn't tied down to anything at this point that it would be a lot of fun to do so.

This was right around the time that I was thinking about The Matryoshka Project for the first time.  I walked over to the local public library and borrowed "Journeys out of the Body" by Robert A. Monroe.  On the back inner sleave of the book it stated that he had been planning to open up a facility within which to scientifically explore and experiment with the OOB state in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia!

Naturally I was curious as to whether or not this ever came into being.  I typed in some related words on an internet search engine and lo and behold!  There it was!  The Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences!  I had to know exactly where it is located in relation to where I am currently living (In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia) and, as it turns out, this most fascinating facility is only but a mere 15.2 miles away from me!  Right down the road!

Needless to say, I recently sent out my resume!  What an interesting twist of events!

Michael

Speaking of synchronicities and the Monroe Institute, and I can't remember where I read this, but Monroe decided to design a tower for the institute. Later, he found a picture of a tower designed by one of his forefathers in Scotland. The similarities between the two towers were eerie.

Wow, I posted that above post at 11:11.

I smell conspriacy.  

Pharoah wrote on 02/12/07 at 14:31:06:


11:11....that's a whole new can o'worms

It means different things to different people.  There are even books about the 11:11 phenomena.
What it means to Jeremy is a nice definition, too.

I've dealt with the 11:11 for years.  It's definitely not coincidental, for me anyway