Well, the example I used in class last week was when I was still living in Michigan (Not many of my stories really have to do with living OUT of Michigan, considering I've only been in Cali for about five weeks now). In any case, it was a few years ago when I was driving my second car (A white 1987 Pontiac Grand Prix, for those curious) home from the mall with my girlfriend at the time, Carolyn. I mentioned her in my first post regarding a recovered memory.
Anyway, for the weeks previous, I'd been trying to tune into myself and how I felt and what I was thinking and how my body reacted before, during, and after seeing a police car. Eventually, it became something like an intuition that I could sense cop cars, and oftentimes where they were in space compared to me.
I'd been trying to hone this skill, and for the better part of that summer (I did a lot of driving of both her car and mine, so it was easy to practice), I could feel when cops were around me. I suppose it could be seen as coincidence, but it's more interesting (and more fun) to see it as something that I controlled, something that could be made sharper or left to become dull.
But I digress...
It was night time (probably about 10-1030pm, so outside of head- and streetlights, you couldn't see much. This particular street only had a few streetlights, so it wasn't as if I could see what was ahead of me. As we passed an intersection, a somewhat familiar feeling washed over me and I turned to Carolyn and said "There's a cop next to us." She was puzzled by the statement, but as I looked in my rearview mirror, a white car with typical Holland P.D. markings pulled out and turned the same direction I was heading.
When I've told this story before, I compared that skill to that of a radar detector but I obviously had far less sensitivity to it than the circuits of something specifically designed for that purpose.
I feel that this is one of my better experiences with synchronicity. I also noticed that as Fall rolled around and school started back up, I was driving less, and the ability to know where cops were feel to the wayside as my homework assignments started picking up.
2. Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity?
I think the Zits comic above is one of the better examples of connectivity and synchronicity. Jeremy is always able to tell who's calling as the phone is ringing. His mom refers to him as the "Human premium phone package."
Anyway, I believe that some people can take that connectivity and, as I did in my story above, hone it to the point of an ability and use it when they want to. I know people who have been friends so long that, in a moment of complete silence, a simple look to one another can tell them what they're thinking. And once that moment has passed, both of them will burst out laughing because of how their connection works, and because they both fully understand what was going to be said, or what needed to be said.
As for an explanation, I don't really think I can give anything terribly concrete. Or at least, what I believe as my explanation isn't something I can fully put into words. As I mentioned above, I believe that an instance of synchronicity can be isolated and focused upon, and that once a person knows how to utilize it, that they'll be able to use it when they want or need; or in my case with the cop story above, it will just passively happen as long as you're aware of how you feel and what you might be thinking.
I think that's probably as much as I can say, although I fear it may already be too convoluted.
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