Synchronicity

I've been reading a lot about Jung's theory of synchronicity recently. I've always been one that believes in collective consciousness, or some would refer to it as collective unconcsciousness. I feel that there's too many times in my life where coincidence can't explain the things that happen.

So I watched an episode of, 'William Shatner's weird or what' where he examines the case of Kevin and Penny. Two people who against crazy odds both end up saving the other's life 7 years apart. I'm not going to get into the mathematics of this, because it takes a lot of equations into consideration. but the thing that I found fascinating was when they started talking about quantum mechanics, and how they believe it's possible for people to become quantum entangled. Meaning that two people can become entangled in such a way that anything that happens to one of them, is communicated to the other regardless of distance.

It just got me thinking about the direction my life has gone, and how sometimes it seems you've chosen a certain path in a specific direction, and somehow, it leads you back to the same people, or a place you didn't expect. I'm no physicist, but I think this is an interesting thought.

Today I read an except from Thich Nhat Hanh that I thought was very applicable.

According to the teaching of Interdependent Co-Arising, cause and effect co-arise (samutpada) and everything is a result of multiple causes and conditions... In the sutras, this image is given: "Three cut reeds can stand only by leaning on one another. If you take one away, the other two will fall." For a table to exist, we need wood, a carpenter, time, skillfulness, and many other causes. And each of these causes needs other causes to be. The wood needs the forest, the sunshine, the rain, and so on. The carpenter needs his parents, breakfast, fresh air, and so on. And each of those things, in turn, has to be brought about by other causes and conditions. If we continue to look in this way, we'll see that nothing has been left out. Everything in the cosmos has come together to bring us this table. Looking deeply at the sunshine, the leaves of the tree, and the clouds, we can see the table. The one can be seen in the all, and the all can be seen in the one.