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What is wrong with synchronicity and coincidence as definitions of spiritual revelations, experience of Practice, and/or answered prayers (etc)? Living In Synchronicity: The Power of Meaningful Coincidence | Natural Awakenings Magazine
When prayer is associated with coincidence it is more than likely taken negativity or dismissed (or so have you) as if the laws of nature that involve synchronicity and coincidence can not be spiritual unless it did not happen by chance. Why is that?
A true story.
Mother, my friend's friend Sara, and I all have something in common. We were all checked to see if we had some form of cancer because they found something on my mother's breasts they will soon recheck. My friend's lump wasn't cancer but something else similar but the doctors say it was benign. I have a tumor of my pituitary gland and it is benign (very low risk of becoming cancerous).
Mother won't get checked into September. They're deciding what treatment they will do for my friend's friend. They're "watching" the growth of my tumor so it won't cause other symptoms cause of the size....
.... nonetheless
My friend and her girlfriend Sara was on edge when the doctors told them "it doesn't look good." My friend had a few signs which was the good news (not cancerous), she also got a few others like she told me when she and her girl were eating at a restaurant, on the table was a little christian pamphlet of testimonies. One of the testimonies and stories of change was a woman who was being checked for cancer and her husband was with her praying to god-she didn't have it. Another (and totally weird to me) I sent her a prayer quote by facebook saying that if there wasn't anything else to say in prayer, thank you is enough. A couple of nights before she told me the good news, I had a dream I was dying from cancer. The last day of my life when I died I woke up. Mother has dreams of premonition. I never had so the experience was new. All of these things happen within a day my friends thought it was from god.
My friend says god was working with her. Of course she doesn't see these things as coincidences or synchronicity but I have these things every single day. I don't believe in god and any spiritual force to attribute these things too, but they exist nonetheless. I guess it's a part of life maybe people dismiss as if S/C are somehow inherently bad or mundane.
It makes people differentiate the believer and disbeliever, the spiritual and non-spiritual, the this and that. It also makes it seem if it's not religious or have some sort of gnostic, mystic, or new age spin it's too mundane to be part of a spiritual conversation. Why is that?
While believe in any spiritual religion or concept regardless the religion, faith, Practice, and theology would be nice to have, not all of us have these things to fall back on to quote on quote "explain" what these S/C should mean. Which is fine....
Also, this made me wonder because my dream was so vivid I wondered who could it be referring to-my friend's friend, my mother, or myself. I also notice the more personal the S/C a person has, the more he or she will say it's not any of these two things....and even more so.... dismiss the need to "prove it to non-believers" as if maybe they don't want to be challenged for something each of us may have but interpret differently without any religious connotation to it.
Anyway. This is all in the journal section. I just thought that S/C isn't a bad thing at all.
Why do we see it as a bad thing whether separating it from religion or seeing it as mundane or diminishing the nature of the spiritual experience?
Why is it taken negatively (or possible from imagination)?
To understand this more, why can't people who have these experiences talk about it without feeling they are trying to validate their experience to others?
It would be a nice thing to talk about in general but I put this in journal cause though I am extremely curious, I have a huge premonition it won't go that far.
When prayer is associated with coincidence it is more than likely taken negativity or dismissed (or so have you) as if the laws of nature that involve synchronicity and coincidence can not be spiritual unless it did not happen by chance. Why is that?
A true story.
Mother, my friend's friend Sara, and I all have something in common. We were all checked to see if we had some form of cancer because they found something on my mother's breasts they will soon recheck. My friend's lump wasn't cancer but something else similar but the doctors say it was benign. I have a tumor of my pituitary gland and it is benign (very low risk of becoming cancerous).
Mother won't get checked into September. They're deciding what treatment they will do for my friend's friend. They're "watching" the growth of my tumor so it won't cause other symptoms cause of the size....
.... nonetheless
My friend and her girlfriend Sara was on edge when the doctors told them "it doesn't look good." My friend had a few signs which was the good news (not cancerous), she also got a few others like she told me when she and her girl were eating at a restaurant, on the table was a little christian pamphlet of testimonies. One of the testimonies and stories of change was a woman who was being checked for cancer and her husband was with her praying to god-she didn't have it. Another (and totally weird to me) I sent her a prayer quote by facebook saying that if there wasn't anything else to say in prayer, thank you is enough. A couple of nights before she told me the good news, I had a dream I was dying from cancer. The last day of my life when I died I woke up. Mother has dreams of premonition. I never had so the experience was new. All of these things happen within a day my friends thought it was from god.
My friend says god was working with her. Of course she doesn't see these things as coincidences or synchronicity but I have these things every single day. I don't believe in god and any spiritual force to attribute these things too, but they exist nonetheless. I guess it's a part of life maybe people dismiss as if S/C are somehow inherently bad or mundane.
It makes people differentiate the believer and disbeliever, the spiritual and non-spiritual, the this and that. It also makes it seem if it's not religious or have some sort of gnostic, mystic, or new age spin it's too mundane to be part of a spiritual conversation. Why is that?
While believe in any spiritual religion or concept regardless the religion, faith, Practice, and theology would be nice to have, not all of us have these things to fall back on to quote on quote "explain" what these S/C should mean. Which is fine....
Also, this made me wonder because my dream was so vivid I wondered who could it be referring to-my friend's friend, my mother, or myself. I also notice the more personal the S/C a person has, the more he or she will say it's not any of these two things....and even more so.... dismiss the need to "prove it to non-believers" as if maybe they don't want to be challenged for something each of us may have but interpret differently without any religious connotation to it.
Anyway. This is all in the journal section. I just thought that S/C isn't a bad thing at all.
Why do we see it as a bad thing whether separating it from religion or seeing it as mundane or diminishing the nature of the spiritual experience?
Why is it taken negatively (or possible from imagination)?
To understand this more, why can't people who have these experiences talk about it without feeling they are trying to validate their experience to others?
It would be a nice thing to talk about in general but I put this in journal cause though I am extremely curious, I have a huge premonition it won't go that far.
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