In my childhood I dealt with much hate and prejudice being a minority in a city dominated by one particular demographic. At the time Australia had not been anywhere near as multi cultural as it is today and dark-skinned migrants were still a relative rarity to come by in the 80’s. I grew up in the one area of Australia which is the most heavily populated Anglo-Saxon area according to statistics and as a dark-skinned female with a great amount of sensitivity to the environment and a timid personality, which was mainly due to the constant fear of judgement, it definitely was not an easy place to grow up in. Although outright racism was not the everyday experience for me, but it did occur occasionally, there was always issues of misunderstanding and assumption. Being asked if I lived in a hut when I went on holiday to South Africa was a common occurrence as well as the proverbial racist comments not aimed at me particularly, but expressed in front of me as if I were no different to the ‘normal’ white Australian. … Continue Reading
Category: Journal
0 Synchronistic Spiritual Seeking
The past fortnight I’ve had a few interesting occurrences happen which were of a particularly mystical quality and involving uncanny coincidences… well I thought so anyway. These types of things haven’t happened to me for sometime and lately it has felt as though I’ve been getting into some sort of spiritual flow where I’m being thrown random messages left, right and center which really confirm for the fact that there is a subtle higher force guiding me and trying to remind me constantly of the things of greatest importance for me and my spiritual growth in the here and now.
SYNCHRONICITY
the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection
The terms coincidence and serendipity can also be used to describe such occurrences but the quality that separates synchronicity from these terms is that the individual experiencing them describes them as being MEANINGFUL in their nature. This term was coined by the well know psychologist Carl Jung in the early twentieth century.
… Continue Reading