All things were always connected and as we progress through many and varied levels of increasing awareness we begin to see it..
Synchronicity is never personal.
The human hunt for “a personal meaning”, a cause, effect, path and outcome is a hunt for a non linear universe to fit into a framework of linear human thinking. But as with all great spiritual lessons the answers aren’t logic and construct or concept, they are peace, contentment, connectedness, acceptance, belonging – getting further connected to the universe at the energy ( soul ) level, and more away from hard logic and mental construct.
Thus another example of ‘aspirational spirituality versus actual spirituality’ as i call it where its not about learning anything new, its about walking the spiritual path of continued evolution and enlightenment..seeing more and more how there is purpose and meaning and connectedness in everything the universe does, and there always was.. BUT at a total level not an individual level, because we are truly a part of the whole.
As the human ego ( “me” ) takes its position that we can stand separate from our universe and her inhabitants and to judge everything including the existence of a creator, we face an awesome challenge of escaping that prison of “being outside looking in” which is merely an illusion, and to switch to develop to the more enlightened states of being part of the whole which created us and less of that separate “me”…
At that point the logical constructs to which the physical plane is restricted – those of linear meaning and purpose, cause, effect and outcome… dissipate, and we come to understand that the meaning is the journey and the journey is the meaning..and then we feel both connected and free..
If we took for example the purpose of a caterpillar changing to a butterfly and said what is the outcome, the outcome on the logical level of the brain…. is that the butterfly will ultimately die.
But on the global level it took a journey of evolution and thus fulfilled a part in its universe – thats the issue..At the individual level it seems somewhat pointless but at the level of oneness and connectedness of everything it has tremendous meaning. Although I’ve never spoken to a butterfly I’m somewhat sure they are at peace with this process because they don;t have the ego to try to see themselves as somehow outside of it…
And they would surely not wonder at the coincidence of the leaves changing color just at the time they’re metamorphosing, they would just accept it as all part of the same universal machine going through her cycles affecting all things at all times..
I keep quoting this extract for which i apologize but its so poignant and pertinent to the question of “what is spirituality” that I beg your indulgence to use it again
“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” Morpheus – The Matrix, Warner Brothers 1999.
