Top Ten Tips for Stalking Synchronicity

As some of you may know, and most of you probably won't know, these top ten tips are included at the beginning of my first lecture on synchronicity, as a little guide to the phenomena. I clarified, in this lecture, that there would be a more extensive explanation of these top ten tips in an appendix of the lecture notes; this is that appendix. If you find these ideas interesting, I recommend you check out my lecture series on my Youtube channel, which I will link at the end of this article. More importantly however, if any of these ideas strikes a deep chord of resonance within you, contact me and let me know how and why. I always love to learn about the experiences of other people who are open to the magic of reality. Enjoy the piece!

These are my 'top ten tips' for stalking psynchronicity:

1. Everything is a metaphor.

This is simultaneously one of the most powerful and most dubious of all of the ten rules - I actually assumed that I understood and had accepted its meaning long before I had any true perception of the profundity of the proposition. At first, when you begin to study psynchronicity, it is enough that you merely treat the rule as true, that you treat occurrences as metaphors: it is pragmatic to do so, as any embedded information is only going to be caught by one who is searching for the hidden links of meaning. So, if it is possible to interpret a negative consequence as a metaphor for the decision which caused it, then it is profitable to do so, as making this connection can only aid in the establishment of better behavioural routines. In other words, at first one treats the rule itself as both *merely* metaphorical and hyperbolic at that. It is only once one has garnered enough experience with this rule that it becomes plausible that everything really is, in its nascent experiential state, a metaphor.

If we begin to clarify that the metaphor is the brain's natural depiction and interpretation of an archetype, this theory that everything (in the sense of every object of experience) is a metaphor becomes somewhat more palatable, because the world is processed by the unconscious mind via a series of inherited prototypes for modelling experience; these prototypes are the archetypes, and they manifest as metaphors. This is most readily visible in dreams, wherein the complexity inherent to the task of articulating what is beyond the conscious linguistic frame forces the mind to employ bizarre imagery which spells out, in its own way, the meaning of the drama of the dream. It is as if "there is a metaphoric at the root of all classification", and a dream is simply the most primitive methodology for modelling that your mind can employ. Dream language is metaphorical because metaphor is the language of pre-conscious thought, and indeed it is the primordial language and structure of experiential reality.

That everything is a metaphor is a profound truth, the depths of which one can only rely on experience to verify. Prior to experiencing the depth of the reality of the statement, one cannot help but view it as 'mere metaphor' itself, which it most certainly is not. It is one of the most important and powerful of all the rules because it, along with the second rule, underlies all the rest: most of the others are but artefacts of the first two principles. Everything is a metaphor because that is the most basic way in which human psychology relates to the reality in which it is embedded, and when one is experiencing anomalies (and consequently things are not just what they seem to be but are rather something more) it is important to remember this truth. This truth allows one to make the connections that are necessary in order to prosper; it allows one to see the world in such a way as to react to the metaphor when it appears, rather than reconstructing it in retrospect and recognizing it then.

Everything is a metaphor because every consequence is prefigured in the decision which brings it about, and learning to identify that likeness is the key to understanding your mistakes and integrating resolutions. Additionally, often our deepest and most authentic thoughts and feelings are revealed in the smallest and most insignificant things, and by learning to look at each gesture and each exchange as a metaphor, one learns to see their interactions with the world as a fount of near limitless meaning. A failure to recognize how our simple choices and movements expose the underlying machinations of our minds leads to a blindness with respect to the full reality of our world. On the other hand, perceiving the world as metaphor predisposes one to receive the signals reality is sending.

That everything is a metaphor is inevitably true, as the way that we model new territory is by adapting old language to fit the novel purpose demanded by the unknown land.

2. Everything is connected.

As stated above, this is one of the underpinning principles of the entire enterprise of stalking psynchronicity, and it goes a long way to account for the phenomena which is experienced in a flow state while being guided by psynchronistic qualia. If this principle is accepted, the phenomena become suddenly less perplexing, though certainly no less complex overall; this effect is largely due to the explanatory power possessed by the notion in relation to non-causal meaningful connections between supposed 'mere' coincidences. When you remember that everything is connected, you are best positioned to explore and pursue the resonant connections between ideas, words and people, as you will be on the lookout for whatever parallels might exist between contexts that, on the surface, have no relation whatsoever. Knowing that even things which appear to have no relation at all are connected and related to one another by virtue of their both being artefacts of the same fractal reality justifies the conceptual exploration of one context in light of another despite any apparent disconnection or distance between the two.

This simple fact, that everything is connected, is most obvious and apparent in our relationships with others, but a sophisticated soul learns also to cultivate a relationship with reality writ large and by doing so, is guided by an octave of order which transcends them: the fractal order of the total reality. A resonant relationship is a window into the transformative potential which is hiding within each and every soul, and it contains hints at the larger pattern of your life. In this way, each person who is in your life is there to teach you something, and when we meet the same type of person again and again it is because we have failed to understand that everything is connected and therefore we are failing to achieve the goal expressed in the next rule: to learn the lessons that the world is trying to teach you.

Everything is connected because it is all, in the end, one thing: existence itself. Whatever existence is, all things which exist are connected in virtue of having the same basis: being itself, the root experience and the root of experience. Since all things which exist have their thinghood in common, that commonality becomes a connection between all things. It is not controversial to suggest that the nature of existence is profound, and that human beings have not yet figured out that mystery. It is not even known if we will ever figure out the ultimate nature of reality/existence, and there are certainly a great many brilliant minds who think that it is not possible. Since we do not know the ultimate nature of existence, it is entirely plausible that this fractal formula which is common to all things that exist has properties and consequences which we cannot, at present, imagine.

Given this inherently plausible possibility, the notion that everything is connected by the mysterious notion of existence becomes a more palatable explanation for certain mystical aspects of transcendental experiences which resist reductive integration into a rationalistic framework. This is to say that the general plausibility of psynchronistic phenomena is buttressed by the conception of reality as possessing some fractal qualities which constitute a superstructure consistent and common among all existent objects, and that this conception of consistent relations between all objects becomes a foothold through which we might gain traction in the world when attempting to analyze the mechanics of such phenomena.

Once an individual realizes that everything is inevitably connected, their eyes will be opened to the myriad mysterious connections among all things which are, in fact, there - if one has eyes to see and ears to hear, that is.

3. Always look for the lesson.

This directive is much more straightforward and less esoteric than the two that have come before it, however it too has a depth which is easily underestimated. This rule speaks to the nature of the signs, as they always point to what one has yet to integrate into their conscious understanding of the world or of themselves. It is frequently that lesson which one has not yet learnt which repeats itself in our experience, and constellated around such experiences are a series of signs which are associated with the event. If one can learn to attune themselves to the signs, which function as indicators of the phenomenon and stand as expressions of the pattern which animates the problem space, then they can use them to inform their real-time capacity for resolution. When one is always looking for the lesson, the lessons which are embedded in experiences that repeat every day become more visible to us, and the signs which can be used to predict incoming issues are brought into high resolution by the insistence on learning from one's experiences - all of them, that is. When our experiences repeat themselves, so do the signs that go along with those experiences, and when we see signs that we have seen before (which we sometimes believe we understand) we must force ourselves to attempt to see them anew, and to learn what has been left in the dark.

This rule can be conceptualized, like many of the others, as a useful rule of thumb which you aren't required to regard as 'true', so to speak. More accurately however it is a rule of the game of life, in that the world is the eternal teacher, and we are all its humble students. Each and every time that we experience negative consequences in our dealings with the world, we are forced to reflect upon our shortcomings and the way in which that failure was prefigured within our strategy from the beginning. By always looking for the lesson, we optimize our receptivity to the teachings of the world and ensure that we do not have to suffer the same experience again and again before we learn our lesson and achieve our growth.

Every happening is really a teaching, and every teaching is a happening for a reason that one cannot know in advance, for it is his path as of yet unlit by his lantern.

One who always looks for the lesson is always ready to learn what the universe has to teach him.

4. As above, so below.

Another way to express this principle is "the microcosm reflects the macrocosm and the macrocosm reflects the microcosm"; it is one of the more historically rooted of the maxims/axioms which I include in my top ten tips, and its meaning is one of the most difficult to elucidate of the ten. It is taught in the tradition of alchemy as well as in hermetic philosophy and a number of other traditions, however its essential meaning is the same no matter where you might find it. The specific interpretation, on the other hand, might vary somewhat, however as a central guiding thread one can refer to the notion of the nature of the universe reflecting the nature of man, and the nature of man reflecting the nature of the universe. In other words, it is the notion of the ideal man as being the universe writ small and the entire universe being the ideal man writ large. A helpful way to express this notion is to say that the order of reality is fractal, and that the same laws which guide the stars in their orbits also lead man in his endless circum-ambulations here on the Earth.

One of the reasons that this principle is difficult to articulate is that many of the connotations and interpretations which become available through experience of the second rule are hidden and therefore arcane to someone who has never had direct experience of the magic of reality in the form of psynchronistic phenomena. It is precisely this sort of connection between what happens in the universe at large and what happens in your own miniature universe (your soul, let's say) that is hard to grasp intellectually unless you have had experience of it. It is not so hard to understand intellectually, however, that the world at large and your own inner world are governed by the same fractal formula; that this might have implications which exceed what one is capable of easily appreciating is, similarly, not difficult to grasp. To give an example, however, it might be wise to consider the parallel notions of emotional weather and meteorological weather; these two phenomena, though they occur at different scales and through different forces, have a certain analogical relationship with one another and this is not some kind of accident. A similar observation can be made when comparing objects of different scales but which share the same pattern, such as examples of spirals or trees/branches which share exact proportions at various scales.

To round out our conception of this rule however, it might be most helpful to consider the Renaissance notion of the Universal Man. This was the idea of the polymath genius who had so integrated his various studies of the world that he was able to intuit unseen connections between fields of knowledge after a mere moment's consideration of a novel and unexpected question. More than this however, it was a man who blended together different disciplines, putting into his various practices of such things as art, poetry, philosophy his knowledge of such things as engineering and carpentry, perhaps. Significantly, this relationship was not one way, but rather such a man would inevitably try to understand each of the various objects of his study in light of all of the others, in virtue of the fact that the principles which bind together the world apply at every scale. Although this sketch of the character of the universal man might appear to be hyperbolic, the quality which cannot be emphasized enough is that of the unity of his character and knowledge. This is the way in which he was truly a Universal Man.

There is a secret and profound reason that the ancients thought we ought to know that 'As above, so below'.

5. Language is Magic is Transformation.

Magic is a complex idea, and it will be discussed in more detail in the relevant lecture, however what is important here is simply a conception of achieving what is apparently impossible by subtle means.

Of all of the top ten tips, this is perhaps the one which will be most readily misunderstood by the masses, and so it is the one I must toil to clarify as best as I possibly can. First and foremost, the magic of language can be apprehended in the power of description and naming, namely that the act of describing the phenomena of the world grants us a foothold with respect to interacting with them. A label or a name is a handle, and the conjuration of such a handle makes reality manipulable; the magic of language goes far further than this however and becomes much more recognizable in its capacity for redescription. Description in itself is a double-edged sword, because in the very same instant that it grants the user of the language a handle on the phenomenon in question, it constructs a box for the experience to which the object is then expected to conform.

This box constitutes the frame which is then projected onto the world, thereby constraining the experience by virtue of the way in which it is being analyzed and construed. The capacity, then, for language to transcend its own limitations and break free of the frame in order to forge a new relationship with the object is magical precisely because it renders possible what was once impossible. Language both sets the boundaries of our very existence and allows us to transcend and transform those limitations. In the first instance it allows us to predict and manipulate the world, and in the second instance it allows us to see beyond the edge of our predictions and models to see the world as it is for a moment, and then to remake our image of the world and consequently ourselves in that image.

This magical capacity of language is manifest not only in the process of naming and describing objects, but similarly with the elucidation and logical clarification of thoughts. Oftentimes it is the case that we do not quite understand just what it is we think or quite how we feel until we begin trying to explain it to someone else, and the process of speaking our truth allows us the opportunity to hear ourselves and reflect on how our words would have landed had they come from another's lips. In addition to this, there is the process of the dialectic which itself is such a boon of conscious articulation, as through the back and forth procedure of asking and answering one is able to get a grip on whether or not what one is thinking really does make sense, when it becomes clear what is being said. That is, once one notices what is being cloaked by language, rather than revealed.

If, as Wittgenstein said, "the limits of my language are the limits of my world", then the capacity to reforge the magical chains of language means the capacity to remake one's world anew, and therefore to make what was impossible suddenly not only possible, but actual and concrete. It is unclear whether this capacity to bring forth order out of chaos and recast one's perceptions of the world and of themselves could even have a concrete limitation at all, except the uppermost peak of what is possible in the absolute universal man. And what limitations might bind such a being, we cannot begin to say, because we are chained right where we are. What is the terminus for a being who has mastered the trick of transcending limitation, except complete and total mastery over existence, in all its manifold manifestations? Perhaps this is saying too much, for perhaps nothing can be said about it. But what else would such a trick be except the very same thing that we mean by magic, at least when the outworking immediately follows the inner transformation and the two fuse together in a form of flow.

Perhaps though, if we take a more familiar path - one through the literary world - we could elucidate the essential meaning of the magical quality that language undoubtedly possesses. Just as the key to truly masterful and insightful poetry is what might be called active imagination in alchemy - the capacity to vividly picture or imagine what you are trying to describe and create - so too in the process of innovating and renovating linguistic structures does this capacity play a central role. This ability to bring before your mind the object of your imagination and reach for it with your words is a gift that few poets have, but which is immediately identifiable when you see it. It is this talent that results in the birth of new metaphor: the poet is possessed by the mood of the poem and must find words to fill out its form and give it a body, and where one does not have the words, a figure - something that will at least show the shape of it - will do. This mood, the particular way of being rooted in reality that the poet is experiencing, receives its outworking and its form through whatever means are at hand, and oftentimes positions are filled awkwardly out of necessity. When, however, the perfect metaphor is picked upon - whether by chance or by fate, no-one can know - there is an immediately palpable resonance to it, one which can be extraordinarily elevating in its outworking into an accurate model and its final crystallization as technology.

Magic is the cultivated skill by which an individual is able to make manifest in reality acts and feats which, by all rights, ought to be impossible. Magic is about creating a conceptual resonance within one's linguistic structure that builds to the point where your will becomes reality. If magic is impossible, it is only because we do not believe in its possibility, for when we do, it becomes our science.

I saw a great quote recently, attributed to Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." We will pursue this idea more thoroughly in the final tip.

Language is Magic is Transformation precisely because it allows you to transcend your LiMiTations.

6. If it doesn't ring like a bell for everyone, it's not quite right.

Ringing like a bell is an auditory metaphor for the feeling one has mentally when something 'clicks' (which is just a tactile metaphor instead). In other words, it fits into what we understand or resonates with our experiences, and this tells us that it is likely to be correct. In the absence of this response, which everyone knows both intuitively and from long experience, one must assume that the specific linguistic formulation which is being employed is not sufficiently refined to permit broad consensus from all participants in the dialogue. Consequently its absence is an excellent indicator that there is yet distance to travel with respect to the attempts to articulate in consciousness the nature of the experience within which we are all ensnared. On the other hand, when you say something and it rings like a bell for someone else they will enthusiastically agree, and further articulated exploration of the supposedly shared conception will be seen to bear out the judgement that you were, in that moment, completely understood. This is sometimes called 'being on the same wavelength' as another person.

Intuition gets a lot of flack but, as they say, 'when you know, you know' and although knowing without knowing how you know might be a problematic thing to intellectualize, it is exactly what is symbolized by the metaphor of the ringing bell; it is the resonance of recognition, of identification, and it is how you know that you know, even though you are not quite sure how you know. Certainly, you could not easily explain it to someone else, but what impact does that have on your confidence that you do indeed know? When it clicks into place, there is no doubt; the pattern does match, and you feel sure. When this happens for every single soul who is participating in the exchange, then you know that you really have something worth remembering. It is these particular articulations which can be described as crystallizations, and it is they which resound within the soul undeniably.

If it doesn't ring like a bell for everyone, it's not quite right. In the moment that it rings true for everyone, a crystallization has occurred.

7. If you want to hear the music, you need to make less noise.

"The music of reality is a transcendental symphony the likes of which we have never known; it is a beautifully immaculate mystery of such profound depth that we have always only ever just begun to scratch the surface of its arcane secrets. The world that we experience is filtered and construed by the framework we project onto the world, and we perceive only that which we have developed the faculty for - all else is lost upon us, and we are blind to it, keen as our vision may be. The proposition is simply this: there is an octave of order in Nature which exists and is manifest above what you are capable of perceiving, and this is what is meant by psynchronicity."

This rule relates to what is known as the signal-noise problem, which concerns the process for separating a signal from the irrelevant information, known as noise. With respect to being receptive to the music of the world, the most common source of noise is the human psyche and its compulsive projections about the nature of the world that one inhabits. We have many conceptions and affective reactions to the things that we experience which obstruct a clear-minded perception of the way things are, and oftentimes our experiences are heavily conditioned by what we expect or desire to happen. There is a plethora of information in the world which is filtered out due to our tendency to focus on ourselves and our reactions to the things we encounter, however it is possible to reduce the level of noise emanating from your perceptual apparatus in order to increase the range of receptivity that you are capable of exhibiting. It is a relatively common experience, for instance, that one's judgement can be compromised if a situation evokes an intense emotional reaction from the individual; this is an example of noise.

There is in fact quite an extensive tradition surrounding this notion that the mind produces much noise which can be stilled by the practice of prolonged concentration, also known as meditation. Mindfulness is one of the more popular forms taken by this focus upon reducing the level of internal noise being generated by the machinations of the mind, and the Buddhist discipline is a great reservoir of resources for the kind of training that might be helpful to an individual looking to develop their skills in this area. For more information on the synchronistic perspective on this concept and the associated techniques that can be used to achieve this particular quietude of mind, it would be useful to review the second lecture in my series 'Stalking Psynchronicity'. The lecture in question is called The Orienting Signal and these topics receive an extended discussion therein.

The musical metaphor is incredibly informative, and deserves more attention in this exposition of the rule. The first association that surfaces within the mind is that of harmony, and from there consistency and goodness appear. The reversal also proves to be quite illuminating, in that errors, mistakes and missteps can be characterized fairly as notes of discord within a song. It is also instructive in the purely practical sense, in that one can readily confirm via experiment that making too much internal noise (for instance, eating potato chips) can make it quite difficult to hear the music that issues forth from beyond your own self. Furthermore, we all know what it feels like to get goosebumps from a piece of music, or to feel that it is speaking your experiences forth in a way that you had never imagined possible. This experience of resonance with music can be extrapolated and experienced on a grander scale: a cosmic scale. Man plays an active part in the music of reality, in that transcendental symphony, and until he realizes that his song is part of the larger and more exhaustive melody, he is too caught up in his own music to hear the music of the world. The things which man continually and compulsively does which separate him from this continuity of melody are the ways in which he is generating noise that drowns out the music.

If you wish to hear the music of the world, you need to make less noise because if all you can hear is your thoughts, opinions and feelings about the way things are, you will miss much about the nature of the world.

8. Pay attention to the omens - the repeating themes in life.

Omen is a word that has fallen out of cultural favour however the notion has a subtle significance to it which is often underappreciated. It is quite aptly regarded as a superstition, but the patterns of our lives manifest themselves in every different shade of colour, and the most common tongue for an archetype is what we might call an omen: a metaphorical hint at something which is to come. An excellent example of what might be considered an omen would be a roman soldier who is leaving his house in the morning and trips over the threshold. Such a man might well reconsider everything he had planned for the day, as the trip was potentially a portent of something to come on his daily trip out into the world. In this example the extrapolation is quite clear; the act of tripping over a threshold could be a precursor expression of a faltering at a crucial moment in something important, something close to home. Often however we would simply write such a thing off as mere coincidence, and get on with our day without a second thought. It's only in retrospect that one learns to connect such happenings with future events - only once one has seen, ignored and suffered for it.

An example of omens that we intuitively accept, that makes perfect sense to us and which we might even recognize, interpret and integrate unconsciously in our day-to-day lives, is the literary phenomenon of foreshadowing. Frequently we will hear ourselves or a loved one say something to the effect of "I should have known, I had a bad feeling about him ever since such and such", but what is then described seems to other people a relatively harmless faux pas. What appears on the outside as a coincidence or a misunderstanding is, on the inside, coloured by a chord of significance, as though your inner consciousness knew that it had a meaning which your rational ego chose to neglect because of the lack of apparent logical connection.

Of course, it's a natural function of the rational mind to dismiss such things, and indeed we would be wasting our time with much triviality if we validated every odd connection that the brain had ever made. Sometimes, things really are just coincidences - this cannot be denied. Yet, it must be affirmed at the same time that all things are metaphorical and that all things are interconnected. Quite an intellectual quandary, don't you think? And yet these are the facts of our lives, whether we will acknowledge them or not. One of the ways our mind tells the difference between those things which really are omens, or signs, and those things which are not, is through long experience and the startling capacity of the human memory, especially when one considers verbal traditions of knowledge as well as textual ones. We know the omens from the coincidences because the nature of creatures such as we is to circle on this circling orb of ours, and as we circle we experience the same situation more than once.

Connected to this repeating experience are phenomenological indicators which are constellated and sought out by the mind as it sees the event coming, even if the conscious ego will not admit this to itself. The more significant the lesson that is contained in the repeating cycle, the more the signs will stand out to the mind's eye and insist to be integrated.

The capacity to transcend repeating cycles is based upon the ability one has to see the signs and heed the omens; both of these are predicated upon one's propensity to pay attention.

9. Around any resonant dialogue on psynchronicity, the signs will precipitate.

The signs are falling from the sky, and it is literally raining meaning: golden drops falling on our heads. When we pay attention and open our mouths, drinking in this gold, we become inspired and the spirit of god, so to speak, moves in us. Having partaken of this transcendent gold from up above, we might now share with others this precious story about how the world showed us what was what and how we were wiser for it. If we truly integrated that lesson and grew to the maximal extent made possible by that sweet honey from up above, then the resulting story is the kind of find that other people will want to know about. Hearing about how someone else conquered a dragon in some sense allows you to partake of the treasure hard-won in that conquest; stories impart upon us information about the world. When two individuals share truly significant stories with one another in a back-and-forth of resonance and relatability, of individuality and identification with the other, their conversation gains a certain kind of energetic charge known as resonance that then results in the precipitation of related information in contexts which are supposedly unrelated, but which are secretly related in a way that you haven't yet discovered.

What this means, in practice, is that around a resonant dialectic connection - an eye-opening discourse between two individuals which switches both souls on, and which elevates their conceptual understanding of the phenomena through their openness to the incoming information within the interchange, this attention will amplify the anomalous signal. How this typically manifests is through the content of the dialogue appearing both before and after the dialogue in question, such that the substance of the discussion is constellated as a symbol in a disparate context. Of course, this sudden appearance of signs before and after a conversation reminds me very much of rain, hence the metaphor of precipitation. This effect, which is a normal part of human life, is even more pronounced when this elevating discussion between two souls concerns the very mechanism of being elevated; it is as if topic of spiritual evolution were supercharged with energy, untapped potential beckoning to be unleashed.

Attention amplifies, especially when the experience elevates. When one begins to pay attention to something which will increase their capacity to pay attention, the world begins to open up to them as their attention amplifies what is possible. The elevation then experienced causes elation which leads to a self-feeding loop wherein, through the joy of discovery, the wonder of Being is re-discovered. This wonder then fuels one's curiosity, and the world readily yields its secrets to one who genuinely searches for them. One only has to know where to look.

Around any resonant dialogue on psynchronicity, the signs will precipitate.

10. All things are possible to one who is willing to believe.

This, the final rule, is also known as the Tinkerbell principle due to the fact that when she is not believed in, Tinkerbell (a magical fairy) begins to die - her light begins to fade. In the same way, when one refuses to believe in the implicit potential of what a foolish man might call 'the impossible', the magic fades from the world and then you have indeed sealed yourself within a reality in which it is precisely what you have called it; impossible. On the other hand, if you are willing to believe in the possibility that the boundaries you project upon the world might be transcended in your quest to grow were you to truly believe in your goal and your capacity to realize it despite all odds, what you will find is that the world conspires to help you succeed. It is quite the incredible fact, entirely unbelievable unless you have experienced it, that the world should want you to succeed, and that if you should believe in yourself and rise to the challenge that the world has posed to you, the world reacts to your movement and meets you halfway. Indeed, even what I am saying now will sound, to those whose minds are swayed by the closure of their rationalistic systems, quite impossible, but again, the principle rings true: All things are possible to one who is willing to believe. As much as one might doubt the capacity of their dreams to be made real, belief in their ability to work through the problem even if it takes a thousand attempts is a much better projective framework than one which decrees that it cannot be done. For, in saying that it is impossible, one makes an implicit commitment to the notion that it would be pointless to try - or even to explore the issue any further - and this commitment then goes on to stifle all growth.

I wish to repeat, at this moment, the quote from Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."

When the rule says 'all things', it means not only everything conceivable but everything of which we cannot conceive as well, as this involves an implicit recognition of the role that language plays in constructing for us the world that we experience. This willingness to believe is recognizable also as a suspension of judgement, a reluctance to project closure upon the full possibilities of nature simply because you could not imagine how such and such a concept might be possible. It is not such an unrealistic suggestion, really - we all do the very same thing whenever we watch a movie. For the purposes of enjoying the drama and perhaps receiving what the media has to offer us, we all practice suspending our judgement and believing in what would be (in the world that we inhabit) simply impossible, and we all find that this is an enjoyable and fulfilling exercise. With reality it is the same; it is only when we are willing to suspend our judgements and beliefs and engage in the drama of life that we are able to learn something new about the world which was not prefigured in our preconceptions about it.

All things are possible to one who is willing to believe, because the most powerful limitations that we will ever experience in life are the ones that we impose upon ourselves, and the willingness to believe in what is beyond those self-imposed limitations is the necessary precondition to the realization of that potentiality.

To one who is willing to believe, there is nothing which is impossible.

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Thanks for reading this elaboration of my Top Ten Tips for Stalking Psynchronicity; if you found this interesting or it stimulated your thinking, you can check out my lecture series on my Youtube channel here.

Have a great day, and pay attention! :)