{"id":304,"date":"2010-05-10T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-05-12T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:36:40","slug":"68-synchronicity-to-synchrodestiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"#68: Synchronicity to Synchrodestiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(The Angel of Death Descends\u2026 a page from the Falnama )<\/p><\/div>\n

Before we begin\u2026do you believe in synchronicity?<\/p>\n

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I ask because the synchronicity surrounding the fiction piece I\u2019m writing\u00a0is OUT OF CONTROL right now! The book \u201cThe Adventures of Isabelle<\/strong>\u201d (working title) is an epic fairy tale about a half mortal half g*ddess princess and, of course, her wild adventures. I really had no intentions of writing fiction, it just happened (which is a part of the synchronicity I\u2019m talking about) and I\u2019m having so much fun with it. Even though the work is fiction it involves research. I\u2019m drawing from myths from all over the world so the research mainly centers on this as well as a bit of pirate lore (more on that later). I realized yesterday that I\u2019m engaging in a sort of organic research process that relies on synchronicity. It\u2019s almost like magic.\u00a0 When I need a bit of information it seems to\u00a0drop out of the sky.\u00a0 If I try to force it, it does not work but when I follow my instincts the things that make a strong impression on me seem to belong in the story.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/strong> Yesterday I went on a mission to see\u00a0Falnama: The Book of Omens<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>at the Sackler Gallery (near the Smithsonian Castle). I had seen the poster in the metro underground and knew I needed to learn about it. After visiting some clients across the street at the Dept of Energy I had time to go. I was looking around wondering what I was supposed to see. I expected some huge revelation, some character info or a plot point, but nothing was jumping out at me and frankly I was not really feeling the exhibit.\u00a0 I was a bit irritated, then I realized that I was forcing it.\u00a0 I had an expectation about how it was supposed to go and that was wrong.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I realized that my research was more organic than that and that only if something struck me was I to use it. And a few things did stand out so perhaps that was all I was supposed to get from that exhibit. I discovered something else really powerful on the way to the museum shop (a statue of one of 64 Yoginis<\/a><\/strong>) and once in the shop (a poem by Rumi<\/strong> <\/a>that exactly echoed something I had read the night before about dying in Deepak Chopra\u2019s<\/strong> <\/a>Book of Secrets). So I realized that even though I went there with a certain expectation, what was to be revealed to me was different than what I expected. That\u2019s when it struck me that I was engaged in synchronistic research and how cool, easy and fun it is\u2026so much more fun than forcing it.<\/p>\n

Then the wildest thing\u00a0happened that night when I was back at home writing.\u00a0I needed some information on a G*ddess so I went to my 240 pg coffee table book called, what else Goddess <\/strong><\/a>and was flipping through it. On the third page that I opened\u00a0(p. 142) I saw a black speck between the pages.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a piece of lint but on closer inspection saw that it was a tiny baby spider crawling on the pages.\u00a0 I wondered what he could be doing there since he would have had to survive between the pages of this heavy book.\u00a0I just blew him off then re-focused on the page that I had opened to. That\u2019s when I saw the title\u2026Athena and Arachne<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What does all of this mean?\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to describe, but for me it means that I can let go and follow my instincts and that what comes to me is what is supposed to come to me.<\/p>\n

Do you have experiences like these and if so what do you make of them? Drop me a line and let me know.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(first posted 1.20.10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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