Synchronicity is the seemingly random, unexplainable coincidences which occur, such as when I happen to look at the clock and see it’s 420 all the time (for the record, I never did well smoking pot). Or maybe you want to find an agent for your book and you meet one at the dog park.
I think synchronicity is very qualiadelic. Qualia reveals itself to us when we need it, but we don’t always notice it. If we understand it, sometimes it is a physical law, like gravity – like when the apple fell into Newton’s genius. Sometimes we don’t understand it, like when we see a murmur of starlings all flying and moving together so quickly, so poetically, that it defies explanation.
But qualia explains it, and it explains synchronicity. The starlings are all reacting to the same qualia. Imagine a bunch of rafters floating a river – the currents and eddies bring us through without harm, but no scientist – not even AI – could calculate the exact water mechanics of it. It is too complex. Well, the starlings, like the rafters, just go with the flow.
We have no sense of what qualia the starlings sense, but it tells us something. The same qualia can reveal itself to us, to all of us, and coordinate our lives from afar. When this happens it is synchronicity.
Synchronicity is like Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance. The messages of qualia can speak to us like this: imagine a person on a hill yelling, and two people on separate hills, too far away to hear each other, both reacting to the person in the middle.
They say that synchronicity is some higher power reaching out to us. I agree. They say it is the universe, or some divinity. I agree, but I believe it is mediated to us by ecosystems – ecosystems are like the person on the hill in the middle. The earth is in touch with the universe, and we are in touch by virtue of our earth and its ecosystems.
Synchronicity is the planet’s way of speaking to us, and ecosystems reveal the messages to us with qualia.
And what is the message for us? We are out of harmony with the planet. And what is the action we are supposed to take? Don’t take so much stuff! Eschew the human, addictive landscape!
It is time to focus on qualia and not matter. Be qualiadelic – put your faith in ecosystems right here on earth!