Great Syncronicity Blog & Book

"SYNCHRONICITY: the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that can't be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer. Or: meaningful coincidences."

I wanted to introduce the work of new friends I've made in the Blogosphere, Rob and Trish MacGregor. They have a wonderful blog about synchronicity: http://ofscarabs.blogspot.com. and have been collecting stories of synchronicity for a forthcoming book, 7 Secrets of Synchronicity: Your Guide to Finding Meaning in Coincidences Big and Small. (http://www.synchrosecrets.com) The book is scheduled to be published in August 2010.

"If you've found your way here, then it's likely you have experienced meaningful coincidences - what psychologist Carl Jung called synchronicity. Here, we explore the phenomenon in depth and invite all of you to participate. If you have synchronicity stories you would like to share, drop us a note at macs@synchrosecrets.com. "

The Macgregors write about their book, "In February 2009 , we started a blog - www.ofscarabs.blogspot.com as a research tool for writing a book on synchronicity and gathering stories about the phenomena. It was our first experience at blogging and we weren't sure how the process worked or what the response would be. The first week, we got 38 hits - mostly from friends and family. So we set up a Google alert for "synchronicity" and began sifting through dozens of links the blogs and sites that filled our inbox each day. When we found genuine synchronicities, we left comments and invited people to share their stories on our blog. By June when we sold the book - 7 Secrets of Synchronicity: Your Guide to Finding Meaning in Coincidences Big and Small - we had more than 7,500 hits. Before the blog's year anniversary, we had nearly 50,000 hits and had collected hundreds of powerful stories about synchronicity."

I've always been fascinated with synchronicities, and have made an effort to record their occurrence in my own life. Ever since I took on my Spider Woman Project, synchronicities have abounded - I've come to think of them as a thread the master Weaver throws my way, here and there, just to keep me awake. A funny one is on view below - it occurred in 2008 when I parked in Midland, MI, to get a cup of coffee, enroute to view the show of "Spider Woman's Hands", a community art project, at the Creative Spirit Center there. I had initiated the project in 2007, but they completed it that spring without me. Participant panels went around the wall, the thread held in each Icon's hands being passed to the next, and finally disappearing out the door. This, I like to think, was Spider woman's whimsical approval for our efforts on Her behalf. I look forward to the book, and my congratulations to the MacGregors for their dedicated and fascinating work!