#meaningful coincidence

[conscious-pisces]

Genuine appreciation/contentment can lead to many synchronicities.

Just give thanks.

For all that already is.

Right here. Right now.

“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.” —Carl G. Jung

[thebardostate]

A Premonition of Death

My Aunt Carol died just now, and I noticed the moment when she passed. I am alone, 2000 miles from her. I texted my husband immediately after I got my premonition that Aunt Carol was gone.

Goodbye, Aunt Carol. Safe journey to you until we meet again beyond the veil.

[thebardostate]

@aturinfortheworse As the linked article from the Smithsonian Magazine made clear, Anaxagoras was exiled for political reasons due to his association with Pericles, not because of his philosophical beliefs. That was just the pretext that his opponents gave (ostracism/forced exile being commonly practiced in Ancient Athens.)

@raginrayguns We can have a scientific explanation of what causes (e.g.) a total eclipse, but in all such cases it's ambiguous whether the evidence supports theism or atheism. A total eclipse involves several remarkable coincidences: the relative size and distance of the Earth, Sun and Moon; the unusual characteristics of the Earth-Moon binary system; and the fact that, in the long history of the Earth-Moon system, the window when totality is visible at the Earth's surface coincidentally overlaps with the rise of human civilization.

C.G. Jung defined synchronicity as a coincidence paired with deep psychological meaning. It's that hair-standing-on-end feeling you get that a self-aware cosmos is winking at you. The necessary size/distance ratio is just a matter of ordinary probability and statistics; totality has been observed in the Jovian system, for instance. But a synchronicity is more than just coincidence. It a meaningful coincidence - one that reinforces a psychological message. Statistics can't address meaning, so it just ignores it; this reductionist stance loses critical data and biases our conclusions. To truly understand synchronicity requires a rough sense of the odds that a total eclipse can happen at all as well as the psychological context that only witnessing an eclipse can provide.

That's why theism isn't so easily dismissed - in the ancient world, or the present day. It is entirely possible that the cosmos is self-aware and is using synchronicities to communicate with us. As Heisenberg said -

Being an atheist in the ancient world must have been so funny because it's not like you have any alternative explanation for why the sun rises or sea storms or why there are phases of the moon. You're just kind of like, "fuck those guys." Professional haters since before they made copper. And I think that's pretty great.

[conscious-pisces]

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”

—Albert Einstein

[thebardostate]

A Reincarnation Experiment

Bodies and brains experience space and time, since they are part of the physical universe and are subject to its laws.

But I believe that minds are eternal. They exist outside of time, which is why we only ever experience the subjective, eternal present.

Repeated studies have found that human actors can (slightly) alter random number generation in computers. This effect, while small, has been replicated over several decades under varied conditions.

I hypothesize that minds can imperceptively influence probabilities at the quantum level, but that it takes considerable practice to accomplish and is difficult for minds to do during the course of a lifetime while they are bound to bodies and brains. Even if successful, such manipulation would be virtually indistinguishable from random noise. We attribute it to "luck", and haven't we all known someone who seems to've been born with more/less than their share? Apart from "luck", it appears to require focused intention and affect for an embodied mind to pull off. This power to manipulate probabilities diminishes if it is overused, which is why statistical analysis can't pick it up from large samples except as a slight patterns of deviation from expected results over many repetitions. In other words, "luck".

Research on NDEs suggests that, in a crisis situation, an embodied mind can temporarily "step back" from the brain and slow down/speed up the perception of time. I believe that minds are able to do this because they exist outside of time. In a life-threatening situation your mind can review potential futures and select one. The mind then backs up the chain of causality from the desired future state to a critical earlier moment when the future is "set" by a chance set of entangled quantum outcomes. Your mind then makes the necessary quantum observations to ensure that the "right" outcome occurs at the proper time. If I'm correct that the physical Universe is superdeterministic, then hey presto the resulting quantum entanglement should ensure that the desired future event comes to pass. The physical Universe was created by minds to act as a stage where they could embody and shape Reality.

Minds that are unbound from brains and bodies (e.g., during the bardo state between lifetimes) are considerably more powerful than embodied minds, and can influence events more strongly. There are reports that individuals who are highly adept at meditation can influence the circumstances of their rebirth (e.g., the Dalai Lama is in his 14th reincarnation at present, and a centuries-old prophecy predicted that the 14th Dalai Lama would be very great as well as the last of the line.)

That is how I intend to test my hypothesis. After my passing, I will attempt to reincarnate as an orange cat with distinctive markings. Reincarnation research suggests that birthmarks can be passed on from one lifetime to the next. I've asked my husband to mark my deceased body with a large, easily recognized and visually distinctive pattern and document it with photographs. If successful, I will be reborn as a cat having a birthmark on its fur that corresponds to the marks left on my body at the time of my death. I will attempt to use the quantum entanglement idea to return to my husband as this cat. There is of course no guarantee that I will be able to do this, but if I do it will be strong evidence that my theory is on to something.

[thebardostate]

Irks me when paranormal settings portray demons as irrational for hating God as if he didn’t unleash plagues, floods, and knocked up a married woman. God: I will make mortals desire food but sometimes the food will hurt them Angel, seconds from rebellion: what the fuck is wrong with you

[pepperpixel]

Some art of Tori from @misfitmccoward ‘s Naruto fic Plasticity! Because!! It’s such a good fucking fic…! I had to do fanart for it!! honestly after I first read it I was so fucking hype about it that I was almost like “omg.. I have to do an animatic or something for this. it’s SO GOOD” but. My ability to do animatics has kinda flushed down the drain recently ghghg- But! Still!! I had to at least draw some fanart for it…!

[torchickentacos]

Congrats to people in the Baltimore tag for getting me THIS close to breaking my 'no arguments on tumblr/no responding to stupid shit' rule, which I'm still half breaking right now. Anyways, insensitive memes and ridiculous conspiracies over a total anomaly/freak accident aside, I'm so sorry to anyone affected by the Baltimore bridge collapse, and hoping the missing people are found. Also extending sympathy to people with intense car anxiety/bridge phobias. There's tons of bridges like that in the VA/DC/MD/PA/DE/overall Chesapeake area, and I'm very sorry to those with anxiety who now have to cross those bridges daily on their commute despite recent events.

[finelythreadedsky]

oh my god. all those inaccurate jokes about archaeologists and ancient historians chalking anything they don't understand down to "ritual purposes"? that's literally what herodotus does.

[thebardostate]

I think the Emperor Constantine had bigger things on his mind in 1054

Rare Byzantine coin may show a 'forbidden' supernova explosion from A.D 1054

In A.D. 1054, a nearby star ran out of fuel and blew up in a dazzling supernova explosion. Though located 6,500 light-years away, the blast was clearly visible in the skies over Earth for 23 days and several hundred nights after.

The explosion, now known as SN 1054, was so bright that Chinese astronomers dubbed it a “guest star,” while skywatchers in Japan, Iraq and possibly the Americas recorded the explosion’s sudden appearance in writing and in stone. But in Europe — which was largely ruled at the time by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX and the Christian church — the big, bedazzling explosion in the sky was never mentioned, not even once.

Why not? Did the church simply ignore this spontaneous star, or was a more nefarious plot to cover up the reality of the cosmos at play? According to new research, a clue to the answer may hide in an unexpected place: a limited-edition gold coin. Read more.

[harrywelsh]

bringing home a little kitten from a guy in my calculus 1 class tomorrow evening...i didn't really realize it till now but tomorrow will be 3 years to the day since my cat died

[quercussp]

so here's my question to you:

in this new era of dapg what are we going to freak out about and overanalyze?

we need a new thing

[journey-to-the-attic]

Happy to hear you liked it :0))! More thoughts aha

Ik is fully aware there's something up with these animals which is why she doesn't immediately call up like the RSPCA or something but she still isn't expecting some of this. She swears she sees the snake watching the TV so she puts it on for him while she goes to school, and when she gets back Levi's managed to change the channel and is now watching an old Pokemon rerun.

Ik listening to some Mozart and then the peacock comes in and sits down next to her. He is very purposefully not looking at her but she can tell hes enjoying the music. He lets her give him pats after this.

Asmo will sulk for hours on end if either Ik or Zhao doesn't take some time to brush him every day.

Cat Satan seems pissed off a lot of the time but he's always very sweet to Ik and her dad, it's mainly his brothers that he keeps hissing at. He makes friends with Hyde and sits with Ik whenever she's reading. He starts butting her with his head so that she'll read to him. Eventually he figures out how to hold books open himself.

Ik's dad is so confused. Belphie likes him because they're both very tired all the time so he can nap in his lap without being disturbed by fidgeting like Ik likes to do.

Also imagine Lucifer getting a crush on Zhao and whenever he sees him he involuntarily starts displaying his tail lol

aw the idea that satan is the sweet one kinda hits :'( he's a lovely boy but his wrath and repressed family issues just isolated him so he's more open with those who aren't his brothers.... ik reads her textbooks to him because he's eager to learn about everything and he purrs to cheer her up when she's sad

zhao comes home from work and collapses on the couch and belphie sees him and is immediately like "it's free real estate" and is napping on him within five MINUTES (also the zhaolu thing is really cutee)

ik lets snake levi surf around on her phone attempting to play temple run. it doesn't really work but he appreciates the thought. not every day you meet a friend who's willing to buy you frozen mice to eat!

[alice-chan-chan]

"I'm left behind…always. I wanted you to live longer than we did. That was my wish. Goodbye".

[surgicalpen1sklinik]

depression hitting hard rn apparently

[conscious-pisces]

“If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.”

—Wayne Dyer