Rob MacGregor - The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. Your Guide to Finding Meanings in Signs Big and Small

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

No book is written in a vacuum. We owe our deepest thanks to all of you who visited our blog, who contributed stories to this book, and whose insights into the mystery of synchronicity have broadened our knowledge.

Thanks also to our agent, Al Zuckerman, who went through the book with a Virgos attention to detail, and to Pisces Paula Munier, who saw the larger picture.

Creativity lies at the heart of synchronicity.

The space between is the space that liesbetween the observer and the observed; it is thespace of the creative act that brings a poem orpainting to life.

F. DAVID PEAT, PATHWAYS OF CHANCE

Manifestation is a creative art. As with any other creative endeavor, the more you practice manifestation, the better you become at it. The greater your proficiency, the greater the possibility that synchronicity will coincide with your manifestations. In fact, they may be one and the same.

Think of three objects you would like to see or find today, objects you know will make you feel joyful. Lets say your objects are a rose, a circular gold pendant, and a dragonfly. Spend a few moments concentrating on these objects. See each object vividly in your imagination, holding the image in your mind for at least a minute and a half. While you think about the rose, for example, hold the image until you can see the bright red petals, green thorny stalks, and sharp-edged green leaves. Do the same with the gold pendant and dragonfly.

Then go about your day. If youve visualized vividly, then its likely you will find each of these objects within a matter of hours, but not necessarily in the way you expect. For example, you may push your shopping cart across the supermarket parking lot and notice a dragonfly hovering above the shrubbery in the median. A few minutes after you get home, the doorbell might ring and a deliveryman hands you a carton containing a dozen red roses. The roses are for a neighbor who isnt home. He asks if youll give them to her, and as you take them you notice hes wearing a gold pendant around his neck.

It helps if you have a clear reason for selecting an object. During the dead of winter, a woman in Madison, Wisconsin, who hadnt seen the sun for two weeks, wanted very much to see a sunflower during the course of her day. Sunflowers invariably brought her joy and made her think of warmer, more hospitable seasons. Even though the snow was flying, she believed her desire would be manifested. She felt no resistance.

She met her daughter for lunch that day, at a restaurant neither of them had been to before. As she walked in the front door, the first thing she saw was a huge wall poster of a sunflower. Was this experience a synchronicity? Definitely. But it was her strong desireand the power of her intention and imaginationthat brought about the manifestation, through the law of attraction.

In the Harry Potter books and movies, imagination enables the young wizards to travel into those spaces between in order to master some new magical feat. Learning to fly a broom in the Quiddich matches, for example, starts in the imagination. You have to see yourself in your minds eye flying and controlling the broom. Likewise, when Luke Skywalker is being tutored by Yoda in harnessing the Force, he must first learn to do so in his mind, with his eyes closed. In the movie Practical Magic, all the magic begins within.

Its well known that professional athletes enter the zone, the space where they visualize their shots, their plays, and push themselves to the maximum. They see it in as much detail and with as much precision as possible, practicing everything in their heads, before they make their moves.

As Coleridge said, Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. If we look at creativity as an archetype, it makes perfect sense that when were in the grips of that archetype, in that powerful flow, were creating a fertile environment for synchronicity.

Most of us have a creative talent or interest we would like to nurture and develop. But we find all sorts of reasons to procrastinate. We tell ourselves we dont have enough time or money to pursue what we love. Maybe we fear well never be able to earn a living doing what we love. But the bottom line is that if you dont try, if you never take the leap of faith and believe in yourself, youll never know just how creative you are. And if you fail to nurture your creativity, youll close yourself off to synchronicities that could lead you to the right opportunities and people at the right time.