What are synchronicities and why do they happen?

The internal subject and the external environment are not separate substances. The observer and the observed are manifestations of a seamless, indivisible awareness. Synchronicities can occur when the boundary between the internal localized will and the external world becomes highly permeable. The mind’s boundary naturally fluctuates between resistance and openness, allowing this permeability to emerge from distinct cognitive states. In one form, this permeability characterizes expanded states of awareness, where the localized mind rests in open alignment with the wider field of perception.

Conversely, synchronicities also arise through the sudden release of a highly charged, contracted psychological state. When the concentrated energy of a resisted impulse or intense fixation gives way to receptive, suspended attention, the temporary collapse of the boundary allows the activity of awareness to resonate through the physical surroundings. Because the environment and the internal state arise within the exact same awareness, the external world directly mirrors the thematic content of the released fixation back to the observer.

What appears as a coincidental alignment of events is a glimpse of the underlying unity of reality, where the activity of awareness and the external flow of events arise as a single, undivided process. Separation is experientially real but ultimately unreal. Whether through the natural openness of an expanded state or the sudden release of a contracted one, the underlying interconnectedness of the absolute becomes visible in the immediate environment. ●