In one of his previous posts Deepak raised the question regarding the relationship between synchronicity and accident. Following are some insights from the consciousness-integrated holistic scientific perspective.
Synchronicity is an accident upside down. While synchronicity is an accidental simultaneity of occurrence of two or more unrelated but meaningful or desirable events, an accident is a random synchronicity of two or more unrelated adverse or harmful events. Hence, synchronicity is nothing but a desirable or meaningful accident while an accident is an undesirable or meaningless synchronicity.
Synchronicity from Wikipedia:
“Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together temporally in a meaningful manner……Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events" or "meaningful coincidence." Jung believed that many experiences that are coincidences due to chance suggested the manifestation of parallel events in terms of meaning, reflecting this governing dynamic.”
In religious circles, the term synchronicity is often mischaracterized to represent connectivity or non-duality. However, in reality, synchronicity represents duality or multiplicity that accidentally happens to occur in coincident time. Both synchronicity and accident require two or more separate events happening randomly and coincidentally in time and space. The spiritual connectivity or oneness, on the other hand, represents non-duality and oneness wherein both time and space dissolve ending duality or multiplicity. Synchronicity can only occur in finite or non-zero time and space. Hence, synchronicity is not oneness or connectivity as misperceived by the time-afflicted ego. One cannot glorify synchronicity as spirituality since it is as much a rolling of dice as an accident. God or consciousness does not play dice.
Synchronicity is also sometimes confused with destiny or good luck because of its happening in time and its perceived meaningfulness or desirability. Similarly, an accident is often characterized as fate or bad luck because of its undesired and random outcome. Both of these characterizations are nothing but biased judgments founded in the prejudice, convictions, beliefs, and fixations of the ego or mind.
True oneness is realized in the choiceless awareness of the egoless consciousness wherein chosen prejudices of both synchronicity and accidents dissolve along with time and space. In other words, eternity and omnipresence of universal consciousness dissolve both synchronicity and accident. And that is genuine spirituality or enlightenment.
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