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The GUT
As above, so below...might that suggest something along the lines of, "War in Heaven?" Certainly some sort of battle going on, eh?
If we see it here, wouldn't that also suggest "there?" I'm of a mind so.
lostgirl
1ofthe9
I'd also like to draw folks attention to this...very interesting book. I know nothing about the author. However, he managed to touch on pretty much every topic we've hit on in this thread in the course of writing fiction. It was pretty surreal reading...
You want to talk about "surreal"?
I have a very dear friend who grew up in Kingsburg, CA and was born the same year as the main character in this book!
Aaannnd that's not even the 'surreal' part!! You may have to just trust that the following 'outline' has more 'woo' (as Gut would say) in it than words can tell:
This woman (I'll call her 'G') and I are the only two people we know (not counting my ATS 'friends') who 'believe' in the sort of things discussed in this thread...
We met online on a type of website (a very short-lived one) neither of us had ever (or likely would ever again) join, due to a watching television show that we both only happened to 'catch' as result of personal life 'flukes'..
Having 'hit it off' in personal messages at that website, we decided (for the first time we ever even imagined doing such a thing) to exchange e-mail addresses, and (again highly unlikely event) traded phone numbers...
Within just a few phone calls, we discovered so much in common, it's truly as if we've always known each other - despite differing 'ethnic' backgrounds, lifestyles, and still living in the same general areas we each grew up, which are about as far apart as two people can live and still be in the same country...
We have exactly the same (very open-minded) 'non-religious' spiritual 'beliefs'/philosophys....and here comes the "woo", believe it or not...
....We literally 'prayed' ourselves into each other's lives...
..I mean, for just a few weeks prior to our 'meeting', we had each been (again, literally) 'praying' for: "someone I can 'really' talk to"...
Okay, reading back, this sounds way less "surreal" than it actually is, but....
...There's also book you mentioned and the odds of:
A. It being set in "Kingsburg", which is a teeny little farming town one wouldn't expect to find as a setting in a work of fiction..
B. The fact that you didn't say anything 'about' the book in your post (not even the title), but I decided to follow the link and check it out anyway...
C. In the past week or so, I have been 'praying' (when I use that word, it is in the sense of a sort of 'directed' meditating) to see some (definitive) 'synchronicity', as well as wondering whether I should 'bow out' of this thread...
D. I have also been 'praying' for some sort of 'reassurance' (won't go into details), but as in some sort of 'sign' regarding my friend, G...
I don't know, does all this count as something "surreal"?edit on 16-3-2014 by lostgirl because: (no reason given)
Well, at times this stuff has freaked me out. Information seems to find me as strange as it sounds. Its almost like the inverse of Vallee's fiction -> reality thing...
The Pranksters never talked about synchronicity by name, but they were more and more attuned to the principle. Obviously, according to this principle, man does not have free will. There is no use in his indulging in a lifelong competition to change the structure of the little environment he seems to be trapped in. But one could see the larger pattern and move with it - Go with the flow! - and accept it and rise above one's immediate environment and even alter it by accepting the larger pattern and growing with it.
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
cuckooold
Synchronicity is a phenomena that has affected me from time to time through various points in my life. What I wonder about is if 'synchronicity' is being experienced, or there's simply a confluence of cricumstance/events/consciousness, that allows one to actively perceive what in fact may be happening all of the time, we are simply just unaware of it.