The dragonfly is certainly a friend of Openhand I remember on more than once occassion sitting in the garden in the warmer months as a dragonfly landed on Chris's face, resting there for a while. Best friends! My most memorable dragonfly experience was on the Napali Coast in Kauai, where an enormous swarm of dragonflies flew by and around me! Magical! Once of my favourite creatures.

The dragonfly is such a symbolic creature, being of two different worlds - both the pond and the air. They represent to me our innate shapeshifting nature, moving from the density of the pond into a 'higher', lighter world, taking flight. We could say that upon shedding their old skin once and for all, symbolically they are ressurected into the higher paradigm.

During their 'pond' phase they shed their nymph skin several times (similarly we seem to keep shedding and shedding our layers too) and finally the skin splits open and the dragonfly emerges, taking flight. A powerful animal totem of enlightenment.

that's interesting, I have also been pondering about the totem of Dragonfly. I used to see so many many of them along with lots of butterflies just a couple of months ago whenever I went out for a walk, then winter came they all disappeared. I also find the particular colors of butterflies fascinating, I saw mostly black and white butterflies, I wondered why these two colors always appeared interchangeably. I still see butterflies on occasions even in winter (I live in subtropics so it's not that cold), they can appear in some most unexpected occasions. I don't think they symbolize enlightenment for me, but my life has certainly been going through some shapeshifting lately.

the most fascinating animal I saw recently was a little green tree frog on a bunch of half rotten bananas I stored in my flat (I eat mostly a fruit diet so I usually store lots of fruit in my room). Prior to that I was doing a self enquiry where I had to list all my afflictive points of view, mostly the things I was unwilling to admit and feeling embarrassed about. I was just about to write about my relationship with my parents and was feeling a little stressed doing it and decided to take a break and have some fruit, and then I picked up a bunch of bananas (quite rotten) and saw a frog on it. I was spooked by it and felt deeply it's symbolic of something. I did a little googling on the frog totem, in my case it seemed to suggest some sort of healing, but I'm not very sure, I would love to hear others thoughts on this.

I just find it fascinating and feel deep gratitude how mother earth opens new doorways of understanding for those who seek the Oneness and Unity of Life. It is often through nature that ther within lies the ''sign'' we need for that moment,enriching and guiding us, making our lives more rich and unified with all our relations, when we expand our consciousness outwards .We see how connected we really are as pure consciousness, ''I'' apart of ''it''.''It ''apart of ''I''.

The frog to me symbolises ''cleansing'', and teaches us to honour our tears for they cleanse the soul,replenishing the parched body ,.mind and soul and supporting where it is needed.....

Isn't it amazing how much there is to connect with in all kinds of different ways......and to see the reflections.Reminded we are never alone....

Hi Lei,

I always find that to truly understand the meaning of signs and synchronicity such as what you've experienced, we need to open inside and allow spontaneous higher intuition to answer the questions for us.

A couple of things come immediately to mind for me when I read your story. Firstly that frog symbolises metamorphasis. So the invitation to peel away new layers. The rotten bananas are also clearly very symbolic. I'd say they represent the false self and the need to look at your physical behaviours more closely - what are you still doing that is conditioned?

Even apparently 'good' behaviours might have come from conditioning and might not fully serve us. So for example, why is it that you only eat fruit? And are you aware of where the fruit comes from? Is it imported? I guess your bananas are. I ask because as we truly begin to unfold, there's something very important about becoming more intune with the location around us. Eating food that is indigenous to where we live. This may not always be completely practical. For example I feel to eat a predominantly raw diet, but this is not always feasible in the UK without importing food huge distances which doesn't feel aligned.

Am not saying what is 'right' and 'wrong' though. What I am saying is that the mind often forms doctrines - "I only eat this" - when really what I believe serves us best is the spontaneity of the soul to guide us moment by moment in what we do. Only then can we overcome conditioning and find the internal harmony of the moment.

I trust this helps

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks! yes metamorphosis and pealing away the layers of false self, I resonate with this very much.

The bananas I eat are actually locally grown, my province (Hainan island) is the most southern part of China, a major fruit producing region in China, that's part of the reason I moved here. I don't feel so much identified with a raw vegan identity, though that might had been the case in the past, right now I eat mostly fruit (I also eat vegetables and nuts) for the sake of simplicity and convenience. I just can't be bothered to cook, I used to eat the same junk food every day before I was vegan. Now I just eat fruit, it's a lot easier, it's more healthy and environmentally friendly and it has also eliminated my needs for all sorts of chemical products, things like shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, soap etc.. I simply don't need them as my diet is clean. But I don't mind to eat a cooked vegan diet if I'm in the UK.

Lei

Hi Lei,

Sounds like your diet is really great - especially as the fruit is local and you're combining that with vegetables and nuts too. Actually I used to eat that way and find myself being drawn back to that - it's just much more challenging being based in the UK.

So I sense the rotten bananas synchronicity was to do with peeling the layers of the false self away more.

Best wishes!

Chris

Thanks Trinity . There really is synchronicity in this.Last night,I saw something crawling in my hair..and guess what- it was a tiny crawly caterpiller.Where it came from, I do not know other than from the Light.How it got tangled in my hair......

I felt it was re-enforcing the message you actually gave about shedding old skin, sveral times, as I feel I am in that process at present-in rleation to where I stand in society and th epeople in the systems. To me it was a a message of more transformation as I feel less anger about the behaviours of the people in the systems and more of a feeling that I want to integrate more and shine my light and accept more.....and rise above the density and feel the Lightness as that which is not serving falls away....

Something has broken free anyway for me.And I feel like I am learning to integrate and not internally fight..

Hi, Thanks Chris, I love my raw vegan lifestyle, it's super simple and environmentally friendly. I used to binge on nuts to numb myself, but that tendency has been gradually resolved so I now love my diet even more. The only problem is the lack of organic vegetables and greens here in China, I'd love to eat more greens, I always feel better on them, but they're often heavily sprayed here so I don't eat them as much as I like.

Yey!

Hi - I've just registered as a new member... so hello to you all. I wanted to share my story as I felt it was significant and wonderful at the same time. I recently was having a conversation with a colleague last Friday, where he was sharing with me how the funeral of his father went. During the service his sister shared a snippet of "The Frog and the Dragonfly" story, of which was I vaguely familiar with. He went on to give a quick recap, and described how his father is now "flying free" no longer bound. I was moved by his story. So on Sunday I was working at the local hospital, where I was approached by a patient's relative who gave me a gift. She said "this is a gift for you as you are beautiful". I accepted the gift which was presented in a black box. I was intrigued... it wasn't chocolates. So I quickly finished my duties, so I could see what was in the box. To my surprise it was a necklace with a pendant of a Dragonfly!! How amazing.. I felt overwhelmed with joy... but more importantly the significance of receiving this gift following my conversation with my colleague. I decided to do a bit of research on the story and what message( were in it for me - and amazingly I came across the post from Theresa on this site. It also links in with my journey as a lightworker/starseed/healer and spiritual teacher on the ascension path. This is a wonderful site and I'm happy to be connected. I look forward to reading through the many articles and connecting with likeminded souls on a spiritual journey. Have a wonderful and blessed Easter all.

In Love and Light
Karyn

You must have deserved the pendant! Keep shining your joyful and free sense of being, with New Visions &Light Blessings this coming Easter.x

What a wonderful story Karyn - thanks so much for joining us on Openhandweb and sharing.

We've had many encounters with the mystical Dragonfly. During one summer, practically everywhere I went, they kept landing on me! I do believe they are the bringers of Enlightenment.

Speaking of which, have you watched our "5 Gateways" movie yet? It's produced by the film makers Smiling Dragonfly! If you've not seen it, you can watch it here...5 Gateways

With love and blessings

Chris

I "accidently" wandered across this post. I put that in quotes, because I don't think anything is truly "accidental" or "coincidental". I have experienced an astronomical amount of synchronicity in my life in these last few years, and I felt compelled to share some of my story.

In 2006, I made the choice to seperate from my ex. Shortly thereafter, the very Universe went nuts on me! My whole life, literally began to turn inside-out, upside-down and I am still riding that roller-coaster thrill ride most of us call life!

About a month after my seperation, I met someone in quite an astounding way. The night I first met them, my life literally flashed before my eyes... and something within me began to reawaken.

Shortly thereafter, this person relates a story to me about dragonflies. It seems that a friend of hers had passed on and at the funeral, a dragonfly came and landed on the coffin.

From that point forward, the dragonfly would play a significant part in my own life and and reawakening. It's gone far beyond the aspect of selective perception and entails extreme amounts of synchronicity.

To give just one example:

I was texting with a friend, putting together my "divorce party"! I mention the name of the person above in a text... and two dragonflies go swooping by me. I call my friend and tell her what just happened. As I'm talking to her, I find that several dragonflies (dozens) are now swooping around me!

The very next day, I'm on the phone with a friend I had not talked to in about a year. As we are catching each other up on our lives, I mention that someone again. Here come the dragonflies again!

During my divorce party, the first friend shows up wearing a black dress embroidered with (you guessed it!) dragonflies. I don't know if she did that to mess with my head or (as she claims) she just threw it on and never thought about it. Either way, the gift shop in the hotel I was staying in at the time was literally full of dragonflies... especially the greeting cards... a very significant number of them... much more than you'd ordinarily suspect!

I've reached a point on my journey where I was willing to accept that the reason the person above came into my life was to wake me up, shake me up, help me rediscover myself and bring me back to a spiritual path. I was willing to accept that is what it meant and I could now continue my journey.

However, lately something is happening that I can't really explain. On the relationship side of my life... something seems to be stuck. I'll meet someone I like and it either goes absolutely nowhere, it's an impossible situation, that person will disappear out of my life just as quickly as they appear or things just fall apart for no reason I can ever fathom...

But it gets even stranger. Everytime this happens (and I do mean everytime!) the synchronicity and the dragonflies swoop back into my life and remind me of this person that started it all!

There's only one problem. There's no way to reopen that door that is within my power at the moment. So why does this keep happening? Why is the relationhip side of my life in this place it refuses to move forward... and why do I keep getting pointed back to a point I have no way to return to?

I'm at a point in my life where I feel so free, I am awed and fascinated by life, I enjoy each moment to the fullest and I've had the most amazing experiences... the one thing that seems to be missing... is having someone to share it all with... and that one part of my life is a complete paradox!

I'd appreciate your comments and insights.

Thank you!

Hi CrazieDan (interesting name!)

Welcome to the Openhand forum - you're welcome here

Dragonfly 'medicine' is indeed powerful and wonderful. To me (and others) it relates to the journey of enlightenment. The Dragonfly begins life 'under water' then changes form to rise above the water - it's a great metaphor.

You ask about your relationships or why they keep breaking down? One of the things we've noticed in our work here at Openhand is that when someone asks a question from the soul, the soul always answers within the persons own words and often immediately afterwards.

So after you'd asked the question you say...

"I'm at a point in my life where I feel so free, I am awed and fascinated by life, I enjoy each moment to the fullest and I've had the most amazing experiences."

My intuition tells me this is exactly why. I'd say you're being invited to join the 'fast-track' of spiritual evolution. Sometimes this can work with a supportive partner where both parties are changing quickly. My observation however is that this is rarely the case.

The most important thing on this part of the journey right now is introspection. Watching what you feel inside as you observe external synchronicities. It's about letting false identities unwind until you become the true self. When we're in a fixed relationship, the tendency is to focus more of our attention outside of ourselves and unless the other person is evolving just as quickly, there's a tendency to hold each other back.

Not only this, but we need to learn how to become completely and awesomely okay with who and what we are being by ourselves - absolutely complete and whole without any need whatsoever of another.

Learning to walk the path is being able to watch all synchronicities and to understand what we're being shown. It's not just about having 'good' moments like Dragonflys appearing everywhere. It's also being able to see that your inner configuration of consciousness is creating EVERYTHING - even the supposed 'bad' moments - like not being able to stay in relationship. That's a synchronicity too.

So it's about accepting what your consciousness is creating, working to realise why and then allowing yourself to unfold a new aspect of beingness which that particular landscape encourages. Clearly right now you're being encouraged to be on your own and to forge a powerful and permanent connection to spirit.

Blessings

Chris

I am currently on the Big Island in Hawaii and was videotaping at Waipio Valley yesterday and as I'm focusing on the breathtaking cliffs and landscape and long black beach, a dragonfly flitted in front of my view, then two more, so I filmed them instead, it was lovely...then, naturally, I see this forum topic this morning:))
xo

Thanks Chris. I agree very much with what you are saying and the last 5 years of my jouney have been exactly that realization. I guess that's the point I was trying to make. I was willing to accept that this is what it all meant.

I guess that's what is confusing me so badly at this point of the journey. Why are the syncs still pointing back at her? Why does there seem to be almost an active force that seems to operate in my life despite what I say or do and doesn't seem to indicate any internal issue I am aware of... I honestly feel that I've reached that point I am ready for that aspect of my life to move forward... yet it doesn't and when it doesn't, I get pointed back to her. Why is this still happening? What more do I need to learn? What am I missing? Or is it something about her I'm meant to realize? Am I being held back from moving forward because she somehow is still important to my life? Am I meant to be patient in the present moment because somehow that closed door is meant to reopen?

I've torn myself apart looking for internal reasons why at this stage in my journey I've reached this blockage and I just cannot see anything that should be/could be/would be holding me back. So unless it literally slaps me right in the face, I'll have no realization of what it could be and leaves me asking questions like those above.

I very much desire to get to the bottom of this and find that open door (be it forward or back) that allows me to continue my fascinating journey... and is it so bad that when one is on this kind of amazing journey... to want a little company along the path?

Hi CrazieDan,

You ask the question and again immediately answer with your own words...

"I've torn myself apart looking for internal reasons why at this stage in my journey I've reached this blockage"

Why is the journey continually pointing back to the lady it began with? exactly because going back there is tearing you apart. That's the point! You need to keep going back there and exploring it until it doesn't tear you apart any longer.

Here's a clue I feel given to share. When a soul comes into incarnation, it notionally splits into two - into twin flames. It notionally 'tears itself apart' (using your words). Half comes into incarnation, the other stays out - it provides the polarity which causes an incarnated soul to be drawn to ever higher harmonies back to the place it incarnated from.

At some point on our journey, our Twin Flame will make us aware of it. It will appear reflected in the people, nature and general circumstances around us. The tendency is to identify with the subject through which the reflection appears - typically with a person. We're being invited to see through the person and instead connect with that essence of ourselves which is manifesting through them.

Th invitation is to feel love for the subject, but know it as the Twin Flame and then draw that love back inside of ourselves. In so doing, we learn how to love but be totally unattached.

We've written about Twin Flames (and soul mates) in an article here...
http://www.openhandweb.org/soul_mates_and_twin_flames_0

Best wishes

Chris

This is really synchronistic as today whilst walking a dragonfly started flying towards me and was getting in my way and kind of stopping me from moving forwards. It's colours were bluey green. The colours of communication,trust,peace and the colours of the heart, unconditional love.It was so clear to me at that moment as I was walking in a lighter flow, that I was being too preoccupied with external stimuli which provoked false thoughts about some realitie sthat I knew I had to drop right at that moment,because the thoughts were not really allowing me to connect deeply within to what I know to be true and real. Basically an old thought pattern, a very FALSE IDENTITY indeed, that I watched and felt it die like a moth into dust from light. I began thinking about the Dragonfly and the B&B place where I stayed at Glastonbury . Then I read these posts. I think that this is so true using Chris' words ''that when we are fixed in relationship our attention is outside of ourselves and unless the other is evolving just as quickly, there's a tendency to hold the other back''. Really it becomes clear that it is pointless to be with anyone other than a soul mate, and best to be alone if not. And when a person really does find in the end that everythiung is inside oneself and in some sense self sufficient, there does seem so longer a point even to be with any-body. Yet, I am wondering what this unattached loving of another is, because most people fluctuate through these states and then get entangled to much in emotion. It shifts back to walking side by side - a different kind of fully conscious love. There almost has to be a death of the former. Yes a death, those are blockages , as they dis-integrate- often we don't want to see them go, so we hold to them in our futile pursuits. I think it's more about rebirth into a new light, a new way of being, attached and unattached at the same time, a NATURAL PROGRESSION OF EVOLUTION.

How does a person remain truly unattached ? .I wonder , how true is this really pushed to its limits and toothpicked meticulously ?.....
.Yet, how honestly real that actually truly is. Others do seem to show us something only about our inner configuration about ourselves and where our internal blockages really are..
And until we look inwards and confront them I imagine we will just keep being shown a mirror, again and again until we explore and unleash what holds us back in life. I think a lot of people (without tryiong to judge too much) do look to another merely to take the spotlight of self- only but to find it in another which will again reverberate back unto self. Just a reflection ,an ILLUSION. Until we are whole. And when we are - I guess we have to ask ourselves what's the truth in it all. What's a lone wolf anyway? It might find lot's of adventure , mostly challenges on its way that it might not experience when it chooses to join the pack.

Thanks again Chris, and I get what you are saying, but once again I must remain a bit contrary (forgive me)

It doesn't "tear me up" to "go back there". It wouldn't "tear me up" at all to let it go and move on, either. What does "tear me up" lately is this point of my journey where I want to move forward, but the syncs keep pointing me back... synchronistically, my horoscopes lately have also been saying there is a focus of "looking back" in my life, talking about "second chances" and "opening doors"... and there are aspects of my current life that suggests that "chapter" of my life may not be over... and they say that at this moment that I SHOULD be focusing back on the past, contrary to the advice that is usually given in these scenarios!

Which is interesting that you bring up "twin flames". I'm not so sure I buy into that particular theory, and I don't really believe in "the One and Only One" theories of soulmates, but I do believe in soulmates... in my view, soulmates are not necessarily people you are born to be with... so much as certain people that come into your life and encourage your growth... and in that sense, this lady certainly WAS a soulmate!

Which is why I wonder about the syncs lately... I am happy and content to accept that was the reason she came into my life... to bring me exactly what was needed for me to rediscover myself and my path... so I can't help but wonder right now... why are the syncs still pointing me back? I honestly thought that part of my journey was over... and it's time to move forward! Is there something I'm still to learn, has she still a role to play in my life... what is it about this particular time in my life that is still to be discovered before I can move forward once more?

I had one particular horoscope that was quite clear in stating that "the way back IS the way forward"! Now, I don't live by these things religiously, but when they are synced so clearly to what I am experiencing, I do tend to pay attention!

What gets me about this current enigma is that it seems not so much about me "letting it go" as that IT won't let ME go... if you can understand that perspective. I can't help but wonder and question right now what is to be revealed from this current impasse in my journey.

Now... Teresa... I must say that you write beautifully and my syncs with dragonflies have revealed similar things on my journey... the dragonfly sometimes represent illusion and learning to see through the light the truth about what you may currently be experiencing. In my journey this has only seemed to apply in one very obvious way. Otherwise, the dragonfly for me has been much more symbolic of transformation and emerging, letting the light transform my inner self and allowing my true being to "take wing"

And yes, this lady I speak of was very instrumental in that process in my life and there's a part of me that will always love her for that, that's just a part of who I am and isn't anything that should stop me from moving forward... I don't see it as an attachment, so much as gratefulness for the role she has played in my own discovery.

Today I was with a friend who, along with me, knew this lady and we had some very stimulating conversations about her and the role she has played in my life. Back then, I think this friend had no understanding of the things that were happening in my life at that time but our conversations today revealed that she understands a lot better how I view it all now and has enough compassion to show she gets it that it's not about "issues" but about wonder!

While we were hanging out today, we visted the book store. She was looking for a particular book and I was wondering about at random dabbling in a bit of bibliomancy... quite revealing bibliomancy at that!

One of the things that popped up for me was, of course, dragonflies. I found a book called "The Curious World of Bugs" and of course I can't help but look up dragonflies! Then I notice that the page markers throughout the entire book are dragonflies! And what the book said about dragonflies didn't go into the usual speel about illusion or transformation... but was primarily focused on how dragonflies mate! I couldn't help but laugh and giggle as I read quite a number of parallels to my own journey!

There was one part which described the shape that is formed when dragonflies mate that was referred to as a "wheel" or even a "heart" shape... and that reminds me of a picture I used on a blog just a few days ago where it shows a drawing of 2 dragonflies in exactly that shape!

Bottom line... I don't what this means! All I know is that particular aspect of my life doesn't ever budge lately, despite my mood, my outlook, my actions... and the syncs keep pointing me back... and when I look at those two things together... I can't help but wonder about it!

I just wish I knew what it is I am supposed to discover so one of those doors will finally open... forward, back... don't matter... just let me move from here! LOL!

Peace my friends! And thanks for the insights, perhaps something will "click" soon. For now, I'm looking forward to a camping trip with that friend above and some peace and solitude in nature. I find deep conversations with friends and getting in touch with nature are two of the best ways to work things through our souls!

Hi CrazieDan,

"It doesn't "tear me up" to "go back there". It wouldn't "tear me up" at all to let it go and move on, either."

The language of the soul is frequently subtle and often metaphoric. If we take the gifts we're offered literally and then get into the intellect about them, the risk is we miss the gems.

Best wishes

Chris

So about a week and a half ago, I am driving to work. I get stopped by construction. I wait for awhile for the road crew to open up the road again. I wait. I wait some more. Finally, I decide to turn around and take another way.

As I'm driving East and come to the next main road heading South, the lady I've spoke about in these posts drives right by me! I was astounded, especially since she has been so much on my mind lately.

If I hadn't got stopped by the road construction. If I hadn't waited just as long as I had. If I hadn't turned around and taken the exact detour I had... this "close encounter" would never have happened!

Late Sat night/Early Sun morning I was having a conversation with that friend I was camping with. This friend is someone I met at the same time I met the lady above and who used to know this person, same as I. I have begun to confide in this friend about the synchronistic experiences I've had with this lady. Before, she would never really say anything or give me her opinions, but lately and especially this weekend, she opened up and we had a fabulous discussion about the supernatural, how "things happen for a reason", consciousness creating reality, fate, destiny, synchronicity and many other topics. During the conversation, she opened up and showed me compassion and agreed with me that when it comes to the "syncs" I keep experiencing that there must be something to it all.

Sun night when I get home, I randomly stumble across this lady's facebook profile. Coincidence? Synchronicity? What is going on here?

I wish I knew what to do! At the moment all I feel I can do... is wait, watch, and see what unfolds.

Dare I shake Indra's Web and see what falls out? *grin*

Sincerely,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Fantastic that you say "At the moment all I feel I can do... is wait, watch, and see what unfolds."

I wanted to share my changing understanding of synchronicities. Initially when I began noticing them, I felt they were pointing in a particular direction or had a particular meaning.

Increasingly, I see they are often an invitation to deeply explore my feelings or soul's truth around a certain issue. As a simple example, I was recently exploring a trip to Canada and experienced a number of synchronicities around the potential trip, such as my cousin posting honeymoon pictures from the region I was interested in travelling to. At first I was drawn into thinking that this and the other things that happened must be signs, that's what I was meant to do, but as I watched how I felt while looking at the photos, I realized (more so with hindsight) that the photos weren't stirring my soul, something didn't feel quite right. I realized (with help from a dear friend) that my motivation to this destination was mind led and distorted.

I could be totally wrong and don't want to discount your experiences in any way, they are really powerful, but I do wonder if your synchronicities are possibly an invitation to explore your feelings and inner truth more deeply?

I've just reread the full thread and Chris has put this very eloquently when he says "The most important thing on this part of the journey right now is introspection. Watching what you feel inside as you observe external synchronicities."

With love and light, Fiona

Thanks Fiona,

I have explored my feelings on this, endlessly. I've tried to point that out in this discussion, repeatedly. Been there, done that... been down that road before... several times.

My intuition tells me that inward is not the right answer here. We can debate that point all day and just go round and round in circles... twisting and turning, looping and swooping... just like dragonflies dancing.

Counsciousness creates reality. All well and good, and I won't deny there is a lot of truth to this... but we are all co-creators in this process but we are not The Creator... although we are all part of that process. I create my reality... you create yours... but it's all the same reality all meshed together.

If several people experience a synchronicity... then whose inner creative vision was it... and whose inner personal growth is addressed?

You see, everything is interconnected... and we are all part of that intricate and interconnected web. We do not live in our own personal universes, we do not create the reality we see and experience solely by our own inner mechanisms. We effect it, yes... what we see, feel, think, emote and respond to effects realty... agreed... but everyone else who is seeing, feeling, thinking, emoting and responding is also effecting that reality.

On some higher spiritual plane, perhaps we are all just one being reflected through a myriad of facets changing reality as a whole... but in our human existance, we are but co-creators effecting the same reality we all exist in.

Not all the effects, signs and wonders we see and experience have an inner cause... sometimes what we see, feel and experience is a reverberation of something outside us within that intricate interconnected web. We experience it because we are attuned to it, we are on the same wavelength and we resonate with it... it does not always mean that it originates within us.

Personally, I would argue that synchronicities are not always a facet of some internal personal issue. I'm not saying that isn't true in some cases, I'm just saying I don't believe it's true in all cases. Many people seem to fear looking outwards to some force beyond themselves which may have some connection with their experiences and insist that it must be some internal mechanism alone. I find that view extremely egoistic... somehow it must be all about ME!

And isn't spiritual seeking about rising above the ego?

No... I am only one small part of a whole. But I, like everyone else, am intricately interconnected with that whole. Not everything that manifests itself does so because I somehow will it to. I'm not the only one experiencing this reality.

I recently discovered that not only I, but her and one other (and possibly a fourth person) at that particular crossroads all have had some connection to this marvelous and beautiful creature. Is that an accident? Is that random? Is that a coincidence?

Or is it a synchronistic manifestation of some unseen connection between the 3 (or 4) of us?

With that similar connection... is it then just an accident of random static of a chaotic universe that we all met in the same place at the same time? Or is it some unseen connection of a Universe that is very much alive and intelligent?

I know what I believe... and I don't believe it's all about just I.

I admit it irks me sometimes when some people are so assured of their own "spiritual understanding" that they become so smug in their beliefs that they feel they own the only pathway to the truth and insistently assert that their POV is the only way to percieve an issue.

I, for one, am not afraid to look outside myself for answers... I'm not afraid of peering into the mirror of another's soul to find that which I percieve there might be the true source of that which is inside myself is only a mere reflection.

I've enjoyed telling my story here.. and I do appreciate the insights that have been offered, but I've been down those roads many times before and I feel my anwers lay in a different direction...

No, I'm not saying that internally I'm perfect... none of us are... I'm not saying there are not opportunities for internal personal growth... that's a quest that never ends. But what I am saying is that I've searched inside myself, I understand my feelings in this matter... and I haven't found anything that should be causing this particular paradox in my life... so I'm looking with a different perspective. Perhaps it is some outside force which holds me here because some other external factors need to align before I can proceed along my path.

I can tell you... if you were in my shoes, you'd understand why I begin to suspect that some other force than my own will is in operation in this matter.

I bow down to that higher will by searching both within and without. There are forces in this world far greater than me and I acknowledge those forces by not looking just at "self"ish reasons for what is occurring.

I admit that I am only a small part of this unfolding... and as I said in my previous entry... "At the moment all I feel I can do... is wait, watch, and see what unfolds."

Whether the answers come from within or without... remains to be seen.

Daniel

Daniel,

If I might be quite frank, it feels like you were drawn here looking for answers - you're being helped but resisting what's being provided. In so doing you're beginning to waste both our time and yours.

You say...

"I have explored my feelings on this, endlessly. I've tried to point that out in this discussion, repeatedly. Been there, done that... been down that road before... several times."

Feelings aren't something you explore then say "I've done that, got the tea-shirt, thanks!" If you really want to understand synchronicity, it's an ongoing constant language that constantly speaks to ones feelings - that's what walking the path is all about. If you want to keep running in circles in the outer world chasing dreams great, but if you really want to cut to the chase, you'd need to explore - MOMENT BY MOMENT - the emotional feeling impact. To really get to what that does to you inside. My sense is that when something big like this happens you have an inner 'blind spot' - you become insensitive because of some past pain. So you close down, don't feel and instead identify with what's happening outside.

You say...

Not all the effects, signs and wonders we see and experience have an inner cause... sometimes what we see, feel and experience is a reverberation of something outside us within that intricate interconnected web. We experience it because we are attuned to it, we are on the same wavelength and we resonate with it... it does not always mean that it originates within us.

Yes indeed, we are all within an interconnected co-creative web. We are all creating it together. The point about synchronicity is that particular events within the overall landscape will spike in our individual consciousness. I may see a woman in a red dress walk by me and it means nothing. To you, for some particular reason, it means everything. You and I both created the overall landscape, but your consciousness creates the spike in energy and draws you into the event for a reason.

So yes, there is an energy and force outside of ourselves and literally everything is not about "ME" as you put it. The point about synchronicity is it points to feelings within where we ARE having an impact in the outer world. The question is - when this happens - do we choose to look inwards and figure out why? Or do we just stare into the spotlight like a blinded rabbit?

The choice is all yours

Chris

Thank you Chris for making my point, exactly!

You're right, I am wasting my time here, though I would question who is the "blinded rabbit". You sit here and try to take my own words and psychoanalyze me from your own POV, while never actually listening to mine. You apply your own inference to the things I say, rather than listen to what I really infer from my perspective.

You consistently point to things I have already looked into and made my peace with. Your insistence that things as YOU see it must be the only path to the truth is sad.

Yes, I came here looking for answers, for differing perspectives, to bounce my thoughts off of others of possibly similar mind and perhaps find some new angles. I also came her to share what I believe to be an amazing journey to me... both inwardly and outwardly. I hope that has fascinated the people here and leave them to wonder... even as I myself do.

I did not come here to be psychoanalyzed and preached at. Yours is not the only path to truth. It's sad that you insist it is. I appreciate the perspectives and stories I have found here. I have gleaned insights form the others here, but your own insights are all things I've already considered and explored... I agree with a lot that you say... it has indeed been part of this path to explore those things in my life... but from my own perspective, it goes beyond those things... it goes beyond just me.

To all here (even you Chris)... I wish you peace along your journey!

Daniel

Rather than peace on your journey Daniel, I wish you whatever is meant to arise (even lack of peace) that may take you further forwards.

Very best wishes

Chris

CrazieDan wrote: "I'd appreciate your comments and insights.

If you say this, then don't be surprised what comes back to you....

especially if you are (in your words):

"not afraid to look outside myself for answers... I'm not afraid of peering into the mirror of another's soul to find that which I percieve there might be the true source of that which is inside myself is only a mere reflection"

Reflections abound.

Trinity
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