Kirby Surprise - Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind

PRAISE FOR SYNCHRONICITY

Awaken your innate and ancient ability to detect synchronistic patterns in your life and surroundings and unravel their meaning, urges Kirby Surprise. The author lucidly explains how our brains are, in fact, predicated on this ability to detect patterns out of the morass of sensory stimuli we take in at any given moment. Not only can we detect these synchronistic events around us, but we should. Even more, we can directly participate in the manifestation of synchronistic phenomena through vigilance and focused attention. The author beckons us to change our reality by changing our relationship to synchronicity and offers practical guidelinesand even a set of seven gamesto put synchronicity to work in your life. Youll find this an entertaining, edifying, and engaging read. Read on!

Dale Harrison, PhD, Elon University, member of the 2010 Yale University Synchronicity Summit

A true thriller from cover to coverKirby Surprise proves that there really is nothing more fascinating and mysterious than the human mind.

Linda Watanabe McFerrin, author of The Hand of Buddha and Dead Love

Dr. Surprise is at once psychologist, bard, modern shaman, and cartographer, offering anyone who reads this book an empowering new perspective on our own awesome power of creation.

Lori A Jespersen, PsyD, author of From This Day On

Once the butt of jokes and derision, the concept of synchronicity is now a topic that is being taken seriously. Quantum physics, chaos and complexity theory, and on-local phenomena have found this arcane perspective to be a surprising contemporary framework from which to understand many puzzles of the cosmos and of humanitys place in it. Kirby Surprise has provided his readers with an original revision of synchronicity that may well take his readers by surprise!

Stanley Krippner, PhD, professor of Psychology, Saybrook University, and coauthor of Personal Mythology

The Art of Coincidence,
Choice, and Unlocking Your
Mind

By
Dr. Kirby Surprise

Copyright 2012 by Kirby Surprise

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Surprise, Kirby.

Synchronicity : the art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your mind / Kirby Surprise ; [foreword by] Allan Combs. -- 1

p. cm.

Summary: Synchronicity examines the evidence for the human influence on the meaningfulness of events, and the way

the modern computational model of the mind predicts how we create meaning. It demonstrates that these events, based

on the activity of the mind, are caused by the person who perceives them-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60163-183-1 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-60163-643-0 (ebook) 1. Coincidence. 2. Coincidence-- Psychic aspects. I.

Title.

BF175.5.C65S87 2011
153.4--dc23

2011037687

This book is dedicated to Allan Combs. Allan is that rare person who makes his students reach for what is possible. An extraordinary educator, he also demonstrated a deep humanity, sincerity, and kindness in his willingness to help bring this book into reality. Above all, his encouragement and generosity of spirit have been a guiding light during the creation of this work.

I would also like to thank Linda Watanabe McFerrin, writing teacher extraordinaire. Her wisdom as a writing coach made this book possible. She possesses the rare gift of understanding how to foster a writers talents, while gently explaining with razor wit what he needs to do to create marketable work. Her patience, skill, and understanding of the art of writing and business of publishing were invaluable.

Chapter One
You Have an Amazing Ability

Chapter Two
Dont Believe Everything You Think

Chapter Three
Full Spectrum Reflection

Chapter Four
The Diagnostic Dilemma

Chapter Five
Synchronicity and Enlightenment

Chapter Six
Satori in a Can

Chapter Seven
The Big Picture

Chapter Eight
More to You Than Meets the Eye

Chapter Nine
Mystical Mumbo Gumbo

Chapter Ten
Tulpaware Party

Chapter Eleven
Mystery Tour

Chapter Twelve
Altered States of Consciousness

Chapter Thirteen
Illusions and Anomalies

Chapter Fourteen
Practical Magic

Synchronicity refers to those random yet seemingly meaningful coincidences that enrich our lives, sometimes to our amazement, sometimes to our distress, and sometimes to our delight. At such times, it seems that the cosmos has orchestrated this or that event just for our own private viewing. In that moment, we seem irrevocably embraced by a universe much larger than ourselves. Whether this synchronistic event is trivial or profound, it is in this instant personal, enigmatically meaningful, and cosmic.

Perhaps it is not surprising that people have been searching for the deeper meaning of their relationship to the world around them since the beginnings of time. Among the most ancient relics of ancient Chinese civilization, dating back more than 5,000 years, are the bones of sheep, boar, deer, as well as the shells of tortoises, fired to create seemingly random patterns of cracks in their surfaces thought to augur the shapes of future events. Much later, Chinese Taoists would create a simple and profound method of sensing this larger shape of reality through the tossing of a set of small yarrow sticks and, using the book of interpretations titled The I Ching or Book of Changes, interpreting the patterns in which they fall. The idea here is that each event that surrounds us, especially those that might seem random, reflect the greater reality in which we live.

One is reminded of the Taoist story of the rainmaker, brought to a village in hopes of ending a serious drought. To the amazement of the local people he did nothing at all except move into his new home and begin to live quietly there. Eventually, though, it began to rain! When folks asked the rainmaker his method, he said that when he arrived at the village he immediately sensed a lack of harmony, so he settled in and began to live a peaceful and balanced life. Eventually his own harmony began to spread, and since rain is part of the natural harmonious order of things it soon began to rain.