| p>I will never forget my surprise the first time I sat in a | | | | flows naturally from that. |
| Tarot class and the "client" sitting across from me | | | | Synchronicity: |
| shuffled the cards and handed them to me. I laid the | | | | Carl Jung, who coined the term "synchronicity," was a |
| cards out in the pattern we were given. I then began | | | | contemporary of Freud as well as a psychologist and |
| reading the cards from the descriptions in my notes. | | | | professor. He came to this theory because he noticed |
| The reading was quite accurate and amazed us. She | | | | "coincidences" played a very meaningful role in our |
| did the same for me. We were stunned. I have seen | | | | lives, but were unlikely to have happened randomly. For |
| the same excited reaction from my students. " How | | | | example, one patient dreamed of an insect, a golden |
| on Earth did I do that?" | | | | scarab. While telling Jung about the dream in session, |
| There are several possible theories to how this works. | | | | Jung just happened to look out the window, saw a |
| Some people believe that there are beings in other | | | | golden scarab flying by, and reached out and grabbed |
| dimensions existing in the same spaces with us who | | | | it. He gave it to the client and said, "Here's your golden |
| guide the reading. They can be labeled "The Higher | | | | scarab." This event facilitated a major breakthrough |
| Self", angelic forces, spirit guides, etc. Other people | | | | for the client, as you might well imagine. |
| believe that somehow thoughts are transmitted from | | | | Famous psychologist Carl Jung actually read his own |
| client to reader, or that the reader is responding to | | | | Tarot cards daily, according to his autobiography |
| subliminal cues. These cues can not explain why | | | | ("Memories, Dreams, Reflectios") and was fascinated |
| telephone Tarot readings can be so accurate. But if | | | | by the I Ching. He suggested synchronicity might be |
| you know a bit about quantum physics/mechanics, it | | | | responsible for how divination works. He believed |
| becomes easier to understand. | | | | dreams were part and parcel of synchronicity, and |
| Bells Theorem states: "No theory of reality compatible | | | | were also to be observed carefully for that reason. |
| with quantum theory can require spatially separated | | | | Synchronistic events, unfortunately, are not easy to |
| events to be separate." This means that all distant | | | | study, using the currently accepted "empirical" model of |
| events are in constant communication; interdependent | | | | science. This may be why many scientists state that |
| and interconnected, and that each and every single | | | | we have reached the end of empiricism. The scientific |
| particle must know exactly what every other particle | | | | method cannot measure everything! Some things, like |
| in the universe is doing to know what it needs to be | | | | love for example, definitely exist, but cannot be proven |
| doing at any time. This further implies that every | | | | using empiricism. For anything to be proven empirically, |
| particle in the universe is always in touch with an | | | | the outcome must be repeatable. Synchronistic events |
| "Organizing Consciousness." | | | | do not seem to occur in this way, thus it is not possible |
| Fritjof Capra explains the Bootstrap theory. "The | | | | to prove their existence using the empirical method. It |
| "bootstrap" philosophy declares that we must abandon | | | | requires that the experiencer trust his own senses |
| the idea of fundamental building blocks of matter. | | | | more than the scientific method (remember, we |
| There are no fundamental entities whatsoever - no | | | | cannot prove love exists). This of course requires that |
| fundamental constants, laws, or equations. The material | | | | a person be capable of self-validation, and not be |
| universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated | | | | seeking validation from outside the self. |
| events. None of the properties of any part of this web | | | | What makes Tarot work? The answer probably lies |
| are fundamental. They all follow from the properties of | | | | somewhere in science, rather than within the |
| other parts, and the overall consistency of their | | | | "airy-fairy" or within purely psychological explanations. |
| interrelations determines the structure of the entire | | | | All I know is that it does work, as do many other |
| web." | | | | forms of readings. |
| In other words, all that exists is interrelated; | | | | I leave you with this. In Gary Zukav's book , "Dancing |
| inter-connected in a vast web. So it should come as | | | | Wu Li Masters," he points out that all reality boils down |
| no surprise that in our interconnectedness, my client's | | | | to is energy moving. No one has ever yet observed a |
| past, present and future shows up in the layout of the | | | | particle. Once you really "get" that, you begin not to |
| cards. Every atom and molecule in the Universe | | | | wonder how a Tarot reading works, but why you |
| knows what every other atom and molecule in the | | | | cannot walk through walls! |
| universe is doing at any given time. Synchronicity just | | | | |