Synchronicity

For a brief moment an old friend crosses my mind. How I miss hearing that persons voice. Then the phone rings and its that friendly voice on the other end. Reaching into my change purse to realize I’ve run out of money too fast, again. Then hours later I find a $20 bill in my coat pocket. Turning on the radio to hear a song that describes exactly what I am feeling at that moment. Watching a movie and seeing before me a metaphor of my own life unfold. We’ve all had moments of profound connectedness and when we tune ourselves in, it becomes undeniable that we are all interconnected. If you’re familiar with Deepak Chopra’s works, then you’ve probably heard him discuss the aspects of synchronicity. In particular, Chopra talks about a Holographic Universe and the connection of meaningful coincidences in SynchroDestiny. James Redfield, the author of The Celestine Prophecy, also discusses interconnectedness at length. In 1982, a research team led by Alain Aspect discovered that under particular circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with one another regardless of the distance between them, be it 20 feet or 20 billion miles apart. David Bohm, a physicist, believes that Aspect’s findings imply that objective reality does not exist, and that regardless of its seeming solidity, the universe is a enormously detailed hologram. He leaves us with this imagery to better understand what he means: Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case. Bohm says that this is precisely what is happening between subatomic particles in Aspects laboratory experiment. Meaningful coincidences start to make sense, and all things in reality could be seen as a metaphor, for even the most random events would express some fundamental symmetry.