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Synchronicity is the message from the universe that you are not alone, that there are forces waiting to help you if you are focused enough, full of concentration and will power, engaged in a task that will benefit the whole. Synchronicity, as defined by Jung, is a meaningful coincidence: “‘the simultaneous occurrence of two meaningfully but not causally connected events’; or alternatively as ‘a coincidence in time of two or more causally unrelated events.’” Combs and Holland call such events

. . . the uncanny intrusion of the unexpected into the flow of commonplace happenstance, an intrusion that hints at an undisclosed realm of meaning, a disparate landscape of reality that momentarily intersects with our own.²⁰⁴

They add that, according to Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, when you follow your bliss, “there is often a sense of ‘hidden hands,’ of unexpected opportunities and unanticipated resources.”²⁰⁵ Sometimes they seem to be arranged by a trickster with a sense of humor,²⁰⁶ such as the episode narrated by Shirley MacLaine in Out on a Limb when she entered a book store and the book she needed fell on her head. When we are cooperating with a greater energy, there exists “an attitude of synergy by which a state of cooperation exists between the individual and the world.”²⁰⁷ Look for such opportunities, and make use of them.