Giving does not necessarily imply one will receive in equal proportions to that which one extends to others via love, wisdom, kindness, insights, etc. The greater Source of grace, wisdom, transcendence, etc. will return gifts in various ways. I find synchronicity carries with it great meaning and revelation, which I attribute to the gifts of transcendence or metanoia. May I share a sequence of events that I experienced yesterday illustrates in my view the guidance of these greater forces. I use the term "guidance", but in no way imply a lack of free will on my part to decide my own journey through the mystery.
Let me list these in sequence, for recapping something as complicated and dynamic as synchronicity gets rather conveluted very quickly--and I believe this is why many people tire of these types of stories, especially if hey themselves do not consciously experience such phenomena.
October: I read a book by former President Jimmy Carter called "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis" copyrited 2005
December 2, 2007: Kahnsentrayshun posted a thread "Extroverts and Introverts" in the General Discussion Forum
December 2: I posted the link and started a discussion on another messageboard. Thought it was great topic for discussion.
December 3: A posted added a link to the Meyers-Briggs test, so I took it and posted my results. Started another thread to discuss INFPs. A few detractors have argued that I am not an INFP. Their perceptions of me did not correlate to my results. I took the test as honestly as I could because it was important to me to know myself better, not to support any belief I had of who I am.
December 9: 10:35 AM: I posted this is response to another poster:
"If I try to tweek it
I come up with INFJ(Jimmy Carter-like),
so I'm INFP-INFJ.
My personality is what has made me successful in the world,
but my true nature is best expressed when I write poetry.
December 9: 11:30 AM ish: Dressed up in nice jeans and Sweater to go downtown to use a Border's Bookstore gift card I received last Christmas. Just found it this week in a cabinet and thought I had better use it before I get another one this Christmas. 
Stopped by the local Coffee Emporium to read and have some tea. I read about a minute before a spiritual friend came in and sat near me. We talked about some very interesting spiritual issues and he was explaining how I was being groomed by the spirits and that much more would be revealed to me in the near future.
December 9: 12:30 PM ish: A young woman that works in the shop came over and washed off our tables and then went outside to wipe off the outer tables. As she came back in my friend asked her if she was thinking about History or Geography or something like that. She said "yes, I was silently listening to a song in her head. She repeated a line, "I don't know much about history...la-di-da". She asked why? He responded by telling her that he had been receiving something in his mind and was't sure if it was radio in the background or something he was reading from her. I and the young woman were taken aback because neither one of us had heard her sing anything outload--plus she was outside when he picked up the tune. We all laughed and smiled and enjoyed the numinosity of the situation. "That was really cool", she said as she went back behind the counter. My friend and I had much richer spiritual experiences than this one, but it sure made an impression on me. We soon parted and I went downtown.
December 9: 1:45 PM: I walked out of a small cafe and planned to go to the bookstore. As I reached the corner a thought came to me that I should check the marque at the local theater that shows independent films. It is right around the corner , so I went over to check to see what was playing. I thought there would surely be a movie starting by 3 or 3:30 and that would give me time to go select a book to purchase. The theater had 4 new movie to choose from; "Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains" stood out like a sore thumb. I turned to walk over to check the start time with the gut feeling that this movie was the next of the day--it was!! It started in 15 minutes, so I told the ticket seller about the synch ronicity so far and when in to see the movie. A wonderful movie about a great statesman and an INFJ--also a woodworker like myself. The movie was about him promoting peacemaking with a book and tour. His approach is to be provocative in creating a discussing of the peace process. He said facing your enemies and debating the issues is in the best interests of the peace process.
A line in the moie that was perssonally touching in when he stated his moral stance: "I care". He is a carefulcarpenter!!
December 9: 4:00PM: Purchased the book, "Palestine: Peace Not Appartheid"
December 9: 4:53 PM :I posted this comment on the other messageboard to an antagonists that threatened to back-out of further discussion with me, saying that he wanted to see how I would cope if he did.
"Surely not! Confronting enemies is very productive in the long run in the effort for lasting peace; for a strong-minded challenger brings out the best(hopefully) of truth. I mostly have difficulty with those who are silent and appear supportive, for they can give one the illusion of thinking. You, my friend, are always appreciated. "
"One's truth must be considered relative to the challenges faced and the determined effort required to resolve differences"
~~carefulcarpenter
December 10: 10:28 AM: A post from a local Coffee Emporium regular(ex-military) who has come onto the internet in a covert manner to stalk and intimidate me. Unfortunately for him a synchronistic/psychic event immediately identified and verified who it was. I caught him on the computer there with a post of mine on the screen, but did not let him in on my discovery. He believed I had not seen the screen. He tried to blind-side me for weeks and then added so-called others to back him up, all of which is hard to descern because they attack from behind a screen of anonymity. I have allways been upfront with who and what I am. This is a post he posted today. My login name on this other board is "Sophia_"(gaining wisdom).
Originally Posted by Sophia_
Surely not! Confronting enemies is very productive in the long run in the effort for lasting peace; for a strong-minded challenger brings out the best(hopefully) of truth. I mostly have difficulty with those who are silent and appear supportive, for they can give one the illusion of thinking. You, my friend, are always appreciated.
"One's truth must be considered relative to the challenges faced and the determined effort required to resolve differences"
~~carefulcarpenter
Post by Rancheria:
I feel that your statement above telling us you "mostly have difficulty with those who are silent and appear supportive, for they can give one the illusion of thinking" stops short of mine and most cafe regulars' interpretations of your many difficulties with us that I've seen you react to and respond to for years, to others, strangers and good friends, with myself as a long term witness (first hand and second hand from you and our friends) at the Coffee Emporium. I think I am a good fair representative example to give you this testimonial; I could list quite a few other regulars I know well who have gone through the very same interactions with you. I recognised very early on that it was useless and pointless to try to debate with you, disagree with you, even to try to prop up your own points of view, or have much of a spirited conversation with you about anything that didn't directly support, personally or generally, what you had just told me or another member of your audience. In the interest of simply keeping some kind of a back and forth actual conversation going I often would think of something from my own experience that might be illuminating or contributing to the groundwork of your point you were laying out. But, unfortunately, I either couldn't get it out in any timely fashion before you moved on to the next point of your gospel, or I would slip my little example or question in to your program and you would get a classic 'alpha wave' state on your face. "A person who takes a walk in the garden on a break from a conference is usually in an alpha wave brain state." Sophia_ was walking in the garden of his inner world when I was trying to respond to him with something that wasn't precisely supportive of his eager sermon. So after quite a few experiences of this, I gave up. And the odd thing is I don't think you can think of any one time when this happened, because you were so caught up you didn't notice this with me or others. You only notice if you get much more directly halted in your program. It's the same thing on KR, but at least you do respond and don't just wait for me to get over my short break in your program, so you can get right back on to what you have ready to say as
though what I said was like a commercial break on TV. The lack of ability to synchronistically interact, in any form of synthesis in a conversation, to work on developing a team built, cooperative idea that would be more than just listening silently to your already known position always amazed me and my friends. It's way beyond arrogant or extroverted, or conceit, or self-absorption, or not giving a damn about others, IT APPEARS TO BE A LIFE HANDICAP. Another example of this is why you can't answer a fair, simple question on KR, even when strongly prompted by others. You just won't do it, and that's why you can not be effective as a healer or helper or communicator.
You may as well just publish your poetry, and become more of an autistic introvert in your cabin. It seems to me and I've heard it from others that you prefer to have your audience remain silent and appear supportive in their silence, supposedly thinking about what you are broadcasting. As soon as they ask you to back up what you're espousing or give you another view that challenges what you've just imparted to them as the truth, and if they do it well and effectively, you act in person just like you respond on KR. You try to discredit the challenger, often personally. Many times it gets under your collar so much that you continue to discredit the challenger personally instead of going after his or her message long after they have left the coffee shop. We have heard hours of this, whether it's about how your
upper class employers, or corporate people, or Ph"D's,
or government workers, or Coffee Emporium regulars, or people who don't appreciate art (especially your art), or the staff at the cafe, etc., etc. all don't treat you fairly because they don't have your wisdom and benevolent attitude toward life. If someone remains silent and listens to your whole program without interrupting you, they can remain personally free (and without challenging you of course)
of your whining and persecution/victim complex and free from being personally insulted and attacked to another cafe regular they may know, and probably are friends with. Then, that regular doesn't have to feel obligated to go and inform his/her friend about how Big Head Todd is badmouthing them at the Coffee Emporium. You've lost a lot of your audience because of this. Have you noticed recently how few customers will sit and listen to you? Have you noticed how empty the cafe is when you come in, even on weekends? Is the Coffee Emporium finally all starting to put you on public 'IGNORE". It looks like it recently.
So, to me it is more truthful if you would say, "I MOSTLY HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH THOSE WHO DON'T REMAIN SILENT AND DON'T THINK LIKE ME WHEN THEY ASK ME A QUESTION THAT CHALLENGES MY DOGMA. THAT'S WHY I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. I WOULD RATHER MAKE SOMETHING INSULTING UP LIKE: YOU THROW HOMOPHOBIC TURDS OR YOU ARE FULL OF RAGE.
Anything but respond like most any other KR intelligent member or even tempered open debater in person. If it gets too difficult for you, the only thing you can think of doing is accusing Ophiel of willfully trying
to wrest the forum power or ownership away from you, or lament the persecution of you, I am the Art Sophia_ , because you aren't allowed to tape your CC poetry on to the bathroom walls, so the Cafe is hypocritically against all
poets and artists at the Coffee Emporium. I can't think of anyone so naturally adept, as you show us to be, at bringing on your own unnecessary difficulties of interracting with your world. You, who so needs thesupport of people--in the flesh--and in cyberspace. Sadly, once again these words will fall on deaf, socially autistic ears. Especially because you want to think of me as an inferior ex-military guy who is full of supressed rage, throwing a long shadow, unfairly through all his giant envy of the one and only, the Great Robin Hood of Wounded Women and Gay Men, Sophiadin_ and his third person natural I N F P/J poet: the CarefulCarpenter. Let's now quote him again, as Sophiadin_ too quotes the great Oracle of divine inner space:
"Ones truth must be considered relative to the challenges faced and the determined effort required to resolve differences."
[~~carefulcarpenter]
"To bring out the best (hopefully) of truth in Sophia_ and his third person spokesman, CC, one may eitherslap the pseudo-Jesus out of him year after year after year, or just put him on 'Ignore' and realize some falso profetos live in the sort of world that is best to ignore since it lives only in their schizoid mind: Soph/CC dual dysfunctional world--neither extro nor intro--Verted, but more Sub-Verted as to what appears to be true, and what Soph/CC believe to be true.
Soph_ ,
I wish we could get about 10 of the longest term group who have been your targets, and have tried to be patient and listening and intelligent responders to your programs, and do an intervention on you. This is a difficult thing to pull off--an intervention by fellow regular acquaintances and friends in a public coffee shop, even more so than it would be to intervene in your package of behavioural denials at your home with family and closest friends. It would take someone like Mrs. G or Mrs. Gagne, to lead it to fruition. And that's not going to be possible. But one can dream of a better day. The supressed 'rage' in me is so well supressed that mostly I wonder why I bother to continue to supress it if there is so much of it, or how I could continue to supress all of my 'rage'. I thought of asking Sophia_ to please find an example of my rage against him in one of my 50 long postings or PM's stored in the data of KR. But even if he would answer my request, I know he could not give me one real quote that would show my 'rage'. So why ask him, so that he would only ignore the question. He has us all on IGNORE, unfortunately !!! And I'm positive he can't see the tongue-in-cheek nature of my mentioning my supressed rage in my postings. Oh well, I guess I will have to go the 'Ignore' route as well, as slapping the pseudo-jesus out of him on KR. Thanks for listening.
I'm beginning to feel like a Palestinian! Cornered in my own homeland by a larger and well-connected opposition.
Most of all I see a common form of thinking towards those who dream of peace and are willing to speak out provocatively on behalf of efforts to generate a dialog.
I hope you enjoyed the synchronicity and would love to hear your comments.
Fun fact: Great Tits are common in Europe
To know love is to know trust; to know oneself is to know truth
~~carefulcarpenter
1+1=1
