Synchronicity
It’s a term first coined by Jung to explain that odd phenomenon of things suddenly working out exactly as they’re supposed to, especially at times when we’re able to keep our minds open enough so that we can receive the information.
There was a certain amount of that with the Eckhart Tolle - Oprah program. I learned that technology isn’t always all it should be, and that it’s perfectly all right for it not to be. People didn’t seem dismayed by the failures. If anything it allowed them to see just how daring this webcast was. For me it went one step further because about the only bit of the show I did manage to see that night had to do with being fully present. It came at a time when I truly needed to be reminded of that message. I’d found myself slipping into some old spaces, feeling old hurts that had nothing to do with the present.
Of course, feeling old wounds is what keeps grudges alive. It feeds the negative part of the ego its daily dose of poison. We need to be present to the now.
And Eckhart is right - we have to learn to think and be in a different way, because if we don’t we’re going to keep polluting, keep destroying, and keep on killing each other until we are in a wasteland (if we are fortunate enough to survive to see it).
To be reminded why we are here is no bad thing. We’re here to become more aware so we can be more loving and more peaceful.
