Parrots And Pirates And Synchronous Events
“Temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events.” That barely comprehensible phrase is how Carl Jung once described what he called “synchronicity.” Fortunately, it isn’t all that hard to understand: improbable events happen that did not cause one another, and that seem connected in some way that appears to mean something that isn’t immediately obvious.
Here are three improbable events that seem connected and have happened to me recently.
First, I have been hanging out in and around the new Rio Salado Audubon Center in Phoenix, doing research for a book. I say it is improbable because, if you had told me three months ago that I would be doing that, I would have said something like, “Huh?”
