Thursday, November 2, 2023

Synchronicity

Synchronicities appear in different ways. One example is when you, for some reason, come to think of an old classmate you haven't met since high school thirty years ago, and then you suddenly bump into him in the afternoon.

Another example is when someone has a weird dream about a relative and later gets to know that he died in a car accident that particular night.

You can also wonder about a word or a concept you have never understood. Then suddenly, you find the answer in a stupid magazine you would never ordinarily open. You found the magazine on the bus, on the empty seat next to you, on your way home.

I think that the Santorini synchronicity was an exceptional kind of synchronicity. We did not know each other before, but we were connected through Isla Mujeres and Monica. Maybe also in some other mysterious way. But we were not supposed to get married and have a life together. Perhaps the purpose of that meeting was simply to open our eyes to the mystical dimension of life.

That meeting proved to me that there is a mystical dimension in the world. However, I am not at all interested in New Age stuff and YouTube spirituality. And I am not interested in religion. I am a die-hard skeptic. How can it be that almost all spirituality seems so silly and simplistic? (Not all.)

I am scientific-minded, but science dismisses spirituality as woo-woo. When Galileo offered the Inquisition authorities to have a look at the moon through his telescope, they refused to look. They were not interested; they knew he was wrong beforehand. Science today is like the 17th-century Catholic church.