and things have been disappearing from my apartment recently.

OK, you twisted my arm, I have to tell you my disappearing stuff story. I’ll try to shorten it. I had a dolly (a metal pushcart with small flat base that reaches up to my shoulder level and that can carry several hundred pounds in case it’s called something else in other parts of the country) and I wedged in under a particle board bookcase while trying to move the bookcase an inch or two. It was impossible to move without destroying the bookcase and by the time I realized that I was too tired to take everything off so I left it there. Every time I ate the thing was staring at me and finally I tuned it out.

One day while sitting at my table I got a strange feeling that someone was at the table with me playing a trick on me about something in that room. Several months later I came home to find my dolly outside in the rain. My landload had borrowed and returned it. I asked my Mother when he had come by to move everything and she replied that he hadn’t, everything was exactly as it had been on the dusty, double stacked, bookcase. I remember seeing him from a distance with a dolly like mine weeks before but thought he had bought one like mine at a flea market because mine was very old.

The next day my landload apologized for having kept it for so long. He just knew that I thought he was planning to keep it forever and he showed me the new one he had bought. He told me that my Mother let him borrow it. She wouldn’t have forgotten that because she would’ve had to tell him, ok but you have to get it yourself, and she know I would have to put everything back on the shelves.

I lived in two apartments in that building and stuff disappeared from each one. Sometimes it reappears, usually not. It happens in cycles.

But its good to really study these variables like you are doing.

I sense certian peoples whole energy signature, when they comment on my blog or leave a message in my inbox. Its almost like i can smell them. I am very in touch with the energy signatures of anyone in a room I am occupying.

So in that sense I think its non locality in terms of the space dimension. The time dimension in terms of cause and effect is harder to gauge but In the case of an e-mail. My impression is I have an e-mail from so and so and I feel their energy and I check and there it is.

Personally I don’t think it’s quite that esoteric. But neither do I think it’s as mundane as ‘coincidence’. It’s more about how people think, and what counts as significant. Which when you dig into it starts to look /really/ bizarre. Like, a very simple explanation with huge and unexpected ramifications.

At first it looks like your thinking about the other person caused them to ring you. But maybe their ringing you caused you to think about them ringing you: cause and effect reversed in time. Or did their ringing you cause the subliminal thought ‘they might ring me’ to become significant? Like Schroedinger’s cat, the thought bimbled around your brain for a while in an unresolved state, and would have been dismissed without being remembered except for the coincidence of your being rung. The phone rings and your brain opens the box, and discovers that the thought ‘they might ring me’ is alive and well. The interesting question is: where did the half-thought, the hypothesis ‘they might ring me’ come from?

> I knew somthing was going to happen related to my driving the car

I’ve heard this off loads of people. Where they suddenly feel they’re going too fast, so they brake, and round the corner there’s like a tree across the road or something. There’s a really famous example with a racing driver who avoided a crash for reasons he couldn’t explain at the time… later, photographs of the scene revealed that the crowd were all looking the wrong way as this guy came into the grandstand (i.e., not at him, at the pileup round the bend) and he realised the problem entirely subliminally and slammed on the anchors.

Subliminal awareness of someone about to ring you is harder to explain. But one could imagine shared brain patterns triggered by some external stimulus that gets each party thinking about the other. Non-locality? Or one cause, two simultaneous effects? Or is that the same thing?

It’s like, when there’s two people, between them they can drag an idea out of the ether, give it a name. This has dark magic overtones. But it also reminds me of a verse in the gospel of Thomas.

Coast line coming up!

Now, take that ocean and hit it against some territory.

You’re hitting super wow territory with an ocean.

I love how simple but also completely neologized that sentence is. It’s like out of a scifi novel.

I have also been ritually putting my head underwater three times at the completion of every bath for the diminishment of that as a fear I have had since being a child.

unlocking the doors and revealing a balcony that juts out over the ocean.

I went backwards and read the comments section first. I don’t do dream imagery well but “those” dreams happen when I get dipped in water. I’ve always thought this is why people created baptism. The “big dream” I referred to above happened after people walked me through a watery park, through a temple and into a pool. They had to relax me to get me to go into the water then they changed the pool into a kiddie pool but I kept trying to avoid drowning. When I couldn’t take it anymore the dream stopped. I thought this was just my dream imagery but I read someone else’s discussion of her dreams and she saw cityscapes of people in pools. When I read this I thought that this was a way that “they” could create the future.

In another dream I was allowed to see some sort of mechanism behind this but it can’t be explained. I’ll have to see something related to this and use that as an example. Since I bucked so hard and got myself out of the water the next time it happened I was led to believe that I was in a sort of submarine on a couch. The water was drained from the chamber I was supposed to go into (so I felt safe) and I saw what I was supposed to see.

You’re hitting super wow territory with an ocean. Good thing you don’t have a problem with water (hee, hee, hee.)

I am prescient too, but my symbolic language I use to forsee events is not well developed or somthing.

I had a long dream and all elements fo the dream have come true so far. The one I tried to manipulate changed on me. I thought a woman would accuse me of trying to steal her man and chase me down a hallway. I became convinced that I knew the man and took what I considered subtle steps to reassure both his wife and a female coworker of ours that, no way, not my type. (He’s the man who’s name my Mom saw float across her field of vision in a previous comment. He’s a gay married Alpha Male so way too screwed up for me.) The moment passed and what happened? I left to spend the weekend with my best friend. I just happened to take the same commuter train her husband took. When she picked us up we ignored her suggestion to cross the street where she wanted us to cross at and made her circle around and she was steamed for a day in a half. The images in the dream were flexible enough to allow for both events. Sneaky dream weavers!

Tim, So what does your right brain think of synchronicities?

Not sure: nothing? It doesn’t “think” in that way at all. It instead notates things that are important, and then links them to other things it “thinks” are important…?

I think God does give you messages. I think its good to nail down what isn’t a message from God and what is, probably you could have instances where your mind plays tricks on you, and things actually that are a message.

Without having a meaningful way to sort all that out, we are very much stuck.

I think that when you think of some one and then they call you, its an example of “non-locality”

Yes, what is being exposed is a faulty assumption about separateness and identity. Reality itself is not being busted.

You know, like a little pleasantry? Because I get signals to do that stuff.

but that still wasn’t it, so stubbornly, I hit submit anyway. Looks like I screwed the code up.

See what I mean? There is all this communication going on, but I don’t translate it accurately, and not only that, all the parts of my brains don’t get along and even get passive aggressive with each other.

synchronicity.

and things have been disappearing form my apartment recently.

small things. a flashlight. a t-shirt. irritating.

and when i posted the picture of the bvm something wonderful did happen, not more than an hour after i posted the picture.

I think God does give you messages. I think its good to nail down what isn’t a message from God and what is, probably you could have instances where your mind plays tricks on you, and things actually that are a message.

Speedbird,

I think that when you think of some one and then they call you, its an example of “non-locality” that is somehow, you tap into each others consciousness from wherever you two are in the world. For example, I was with my mother at the airport recently and she was keeping her cell phone turned off. Occasionally she would check it and always when she did she had just gotten a message. She said “ooh, I must be psychic” actually she is. I am too. Maybe everyone is.

But anyway, I work here and am on the computer, then I go do something and whenever i have written somthing on my blog or a message board, and someone responds, I know. My explanation is that space/time is an illusion that part of my consciousness transcends. I am simply open to signals from this consciousness. People with a materialistic model of reality probably have these signals too and block them out.

I am prescient too, but my symbolic language I use to forsee events is not well developed or somthing. I know somthing signifigant is about to happen but I don’t know exactly what. Like this past weekend I was driving my sisters car with my Mom, Sister and my niece and Nephew, and we were going from Newhampshire to New York. I knew somthing was going to happen related to my driving the car, that would get an emotional reaction out of everyone in the car, I couldn’t tell what it was. I could feel the emotional aspect though. The picture I had in my mind was the car driving over a highlighted section of road. What the hell could that mean? I thought maybe it meant I would have to hit the breaks or skid and have a near miss or somthing, but everyone would be ok. But the mental picture was not clear.

So anyway, I was nervous, and driving slow, because the roads were windy. Then I was driving down a big hill on a straightaway on a new section of road and then I got pulled over and got a ticket. Everyone had the emotional reqction I felt ahead of time. Then after I took off i could relax it had passed.

Sounds about right, though I don’t know about the hemispheres thing. It’s like, you’re thinking about someone, and then they call you up… the mind interprets that as powerful juju. I wonder about how this relates to all sorts of other things. Time. The perception of cause and effect. The foundations of science. It feels like a really deep important thread. Creation. ‘A’ did not /cause/ ‘B’ /but/ the two are related. Like a circular bootstrap argument, lifting itself into existence out of nothing.

‘People think time is like a line. But it’s not. It’s more like a sort of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimeyness’ - The Doctor [something like that, anyway!]