Stop Calling It Coincidence: The Secret of Synchronicity | Alan Watts

Have you ever thought of a friend you haven't seen in years, only to receive a letter from them that very afternoon? Or opened a book to the exact sentence that solved your greatest dilemma? We call these moments 'synchronicities,' but Alan Watts suggests they are much more than mere accidents.

In this profound exploration, Watts challenges the Western mechanistic view of a 'clockwork universe' made of separate parts. He argues that our rational minds often dismiss these meaningful coincidences because they threaten our illusion of isolation. What if the universe isn't a collection of separate objects bumping into each other, but a single, intelligent process—a 'happening' where you are not an observer, but an expression of the whole?

Drawing on the analogy of a dream, Watts reveals that synchronicity is simply a glimpse into how reality actually works all the time. When the illusion of separation drops away, we see that the universe is a beautifully choreographed dance where the 'right thing' happens at the 'right time' because everything is move by the same current.

Stop viewing your life as a series of random collisions and start seeing the invisible threads that connect the dancer to the dance.

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