From the Synchronicity Journal

A couple years ago I began recording synchronistic events in a journal in order to see if any patterns would emergefrom these supposedly random meaningful coincidences. Inevitably there were connections, and obvious connections at that, which appeared to manifest themselves more as the year progressed. I then took a year off and did not record any more in order to see if any of the same events or subjects presented themselves, which they did, though on a smaller scale. This is will be an ongoing series about my explorations into synchronicities and the like. One of my first significant series of connections involved David Lynch, the maverick director. I had recently watched his film “Mulholland Drive” again and “Inland Empire” and found that several things began to happen: the appearance of rabbits(which played a strange role in “Inland Empire”), quotes concerning dreams and labyrinths, and the Vedic Upanishads. At one of myfriend’s house, his wife had been reading a non-fiction book by Lynch called “Catching the Big Fish”, and due to his connection to Transcedental meditation he included a quote from the Upanishads…a book that I had recently been reading with interest.I had also been reading Kafka’s diaries at the time, an author that most people see as possessing a dream-like quality in his novels, and to my surprise I found out that Lynch was a great admirer of Kafka around this same time. What does this all mean exactly? More later…