Synchronicity: a coincidence with moral or spiritual significance:
Michael Savage: I spoke to a rabbi last night…I said “I don’t want to do the God Talk on Sunday, I have nothing to say. What should I say?” So he said to me, “Just read a Psalm of David,” he said, “that brings great things down from heaven.”
The dialog starts at 8:55 and ends 10:10 (timestamped below) with Savage discussing the problem of the thinking, rational mind of a human and faith. Rationality, it would seem can be a barricade to faith.
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SYNCHRONICITY
This is where synchronicity came in for Carl Jung, who noted its ability overcoming rational obstacles to healing and perhaps faith. For it was in the context of therapy & healing that his story of synchronicity transpired…
Quote: In his monograph Synchronicity (1973) Carl Jung (1875-1961) reported a synchronicity with a patient during psychotherapy. The image of a scarab beetle had appeared in patient’s dream and as she told Jung about it, a scarab-like beetle appeared at the window of his consulting room. Her amazement triggered positive psychological change.
A young woman of high education and serious demeanor” was being treated by Jung. Jung could see that her quest for psychological change was doomed unless he was able to succeed in softening her rationalist shell with “a somewhat more human understanding.” He needed something to help transform her. He remained attentive to the young woman, while hoping something “unexpected and irrational” would turn up.
She was describing a dream from the previous night about a costly piece of jewelry in the shape of a golden scarab. He heard a tapping on the window. Jung opened the window and plucked a scarabaeid beetle out of the air, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata). Jung commented that the beetle “contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.”
The beetle, closely resembling the golden scarab, was just what he needed and just what she needed. “Here is your scarab,” he said to the woman, as he handed her a link between her dream image and the external world.
My synchronicity (a coincidence with moral and spiritual meaning?)
Just as Savage finished the words at 10:10 “…This is the problem of the thinking person; this is the problem of the human being with a rational mind” I turned backward to look out the window just as a bird was descending to land on the backyard grass. This bird:
What’s interesting is that Mourning Doves are pretty prevalent in Arizona, but not so much the Eurasian Collared Doves.
What’s also fascinating, besides the timing of the bird landing, is the symbolism of the Dove along with its name.
DOVES AS SYMBOLS
Quote: Symbological concepts pertaining to doves since the Mezopotamian age: symbols of god, love, peace or even war…
EURASIA:
Russia and Ukraine make up a good part of Eurasia
“Doves…are used in many settings as symbols of peace, freedom, or love. Doves appear in the symbolism of Judaism, Christianity (the Holy Spirit) and Islam…”
Timestamped: At 19:58 Savage talks about the hourglass. He mentions that the hourglass was sometimes used by priests to time religious sermons (not unlike Michael’s today?).
The Eurasian dove has unique marking on its feathers: a collar like a priest…
Besides the synchronicity of the dove landing just when Michael was talking about rationality and faith, and his Rabbi said a reading of the Psalms bringing “great things down from Heaven,” were there any other synchronicities that perhaps I missed, since Michael touched on several themes including war and peace?
I’ve had numerous interesting synchronicities in my life: signposts and confirmations of directionality along the way because I, too, have a rational mind.
Make of it what you will, don’t…or won’t.