Being a counselor myself, it has always been a challenge to break through the vial of ignorance (unawareness) as to understand why certain things, and paradigms, occur as they do. I have come to understand coincidental events by degree(s) toward the groove, the groove being the main thoroughfare of events with the highest probability of reaching a definitive outcome (i.e., syncronicity). For the individual, what mechanism or medium distinguishes each experiences from being a happenstance to that of being divinely ordered? How much of an experience is self-generated, intrapsychically constructed and ordered? How strong of a role does subjective, intuitive, and intra-psychic perceptions play in the natural order of things? When is an experience a true reflective event (syncronistic) from an inflective psychopathology? Discerning “reality”, under normal conditions, is a highly-complex series of activities that occur on a sub- and unconscious level. Personal awareness, as the theory goes, stems from a psychosocial-cognitive/emotional interaction of observing inflective and reflective elements that culminate from an objective and subjective stew. Witnessing common patterns and correlations point toward the deeper connection to the world in which we all live.

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One day I was reading about Twin Flames on my phone in a MAC cosmetics. I googled it because I heard about them through someone else. I was trying to figure out what this intense connection was I had with a man. I’ve never experienced a connection like this. We could literally be in each others presence for hours and not speak. It was all eye contact and what felt like telepathic communication between us. People have told me that I even look like him. Anyways, I think the connection we had was too intense for him to he walked away from what we had in fear I think… It was like ying and yang. Both so different but underneath it all we were the same person. But back to the story… I finished getting my make up done, got off the chair after being in deep thought about him and our connection, comparing the signs of a twin flame relationship to ours and everything fit the description. Suddenly I heard a song come on singing about TWIN FLAMES!!! So random, what were the chances of me hearing that song when mac playss their music through a satelite radio, its on a constant shuffle of songs… But there it was. I took the SE as a confirmation that my thoughts about him being my twin flame were true.. What do you guys think??

I’m in the middle of your book; I’m enjoying it quite bit.  I heard you on Skeptiko.

The thing is, I’ve known on some level that it was me/us creating SEs . . . I think I realized this first when negative ones started surfacing after having been too mentally involved in negative thoughts . . . and then that the SEs would change as I changed. 

I’m driving at a question here, though: there’s something greatly comforting about seeing SEs both ways: as being subjectively created and as being objectively (outside ourselves) created.  When we consult the Tarot, for instance, I’ve always felt it was a reading on how we felt inwardly about what we were inquiring about at the moment of inquiry . . . That is, that the reading would reflect back to us what was already inside of us . . . instead of what an outside authority had to say ont he subject.  

The thing is, we sometimes want the outside confirmation of something.  If we ask, will I succeed at this or that, and the Tarot tells us, “yes,” we feel better about it if that “yes” is from an outside God.  

What are your thoughts on this?