Connectivity- I think i just experienced a form of "unproductive" connectivity. I just logged on to post to this blog and before i could even type the first word i received a text from a friend asking me if i wanted to go out. Maybe that doesn't sound so profound but it has happened for the past three blog entries! not sure that's a positive effect but it sure shows some sort of connection, does it not?
Synchronicity- without going into too many specifies here i seem to experience synchronistic occurrences often. i usually refer to my friends that i have on the east coast. just because they are so far away and far removed from my daily activities. on top of that, there is also a three hour time difference between us. But over and over again, at least once a week, there are synchronistic things that happen. I think that due to the convenience of technology, ironically enough, these instances can be realized more readily. What i am referring to here is texting. there are many times when something will happen that reminds me of a friend, or an event and i send off a text to a friend. and wouldn't you believe that they often experience something similar at the same time. if it wasn't for the simplicity of texting maybe those occurrences would go unnoticed. I wouldn't take the time out of my daily activities just to call a friend ever time a thought or emotion relating to them pops into my world, but sending a text is quick and easy. and through this simple form of communication i can see synchronistic phenomena...does that sound like a Verizon add or what? lol
I was just thinking about how technology enables us to confirm synchronistic happenings. I was rearranging my room last night when some prayer beads that a friend of mine gave me all fell off the string they were hanging on with quite some force. He was given these by a monk on top of some huge mountain in china, and I was given them after his house burned down and I was helping to clean up. Afterword I wondered what he was doing at that exact moment. Then my thought train went on to set up an observation group where we all call or text each other to check our sense of such an event occuring.
ReplyDeleteDoes this confirmation really matter? Isn't synchronicity also about the personal meaning imbued in the happening? Besides, isn't there a quality feeling to a synchronistic event? Does confirming it only weaken our ability to sense it intrinsically?