The First Insight

The Celestine Prophecy Experiential Guide

by James Redfield and Carol Adrienne

 

 

Chapter 1

pg 6-9

 

In jung's thinking, at the moment of coincidental events there appears to be a change in the balance of psychic energy present in the unconscious and the conscious areas. Like balancing on a seesaw, the coincidence lowers for an instant the attention of the conscious psychic energy, pushing the unconcscious material up from the primal depths. This psychic movement is perhaps similar to a galvanizing shock, making two people fee as if something exciting had happened. They suddenly feel more alive.

 

Of course, the beauty of synchronicity is that it is a gift of the universal flow of energy. We don't need a rational explanation in order to be moved by it. However, once we have felt the connection, we might want to play with it a little further to see what it is trying to promote. For example, three people might get together with the conscious intent of discovering why the energy suddenly coalesced in this triangle. Do they have further work to do together? Is there a connection as yet undiscovered?

Alan Vaughan, author of Incredible Coincidence, a delightful collection of real-life coincidences, comments:

 

The syncrhonistic events of everyday life are no different in form from the startling, dramatic occurrences that excite our wonder and make us say, “What an incredible coincidence!” The main difference lies in their subtlety, the ways in which minor events of life are shaped and patterned. We often shrug them off as chance, but a moment's reflection makes us realize that the role of chance in our lives extends even to small, personal, and meaningful events.....everyday coincidences show the artfulness of our unconscious minds in creating our lives. The least we can do is admire it. The most we can do is to give that creative expression our full support.

 

 

Coincidences as Answers to Prayers

 

Synchronicities seem to occur when we need them most. It might well be that a state of flux, uncertainty, confusion, frustration, and chaos expands the opportunity for chance to play a starring role. As the First Insight says, our inner restlessness is a sign that something is afoot, and if we could but see behind the scenes, we might be surprised by the amount of “furniture rearranging” that is going on. How many times have you experienced the old adage that “It's always darkest before dawn”? What stories do you have to tell about the all but forgotten loan that is repaid on the day the rent is due with no money in the bank account- or some similar account of answered prayer?

 

Coincidences come into being most readily when we are in a highly expectant state. Most esoteric literature advises that a combination of emotional charge and vivid imagining stimulates the ability to attract into our lives that which we desire- in some form or other. Even the scientific parapsychological experiments conducted at Duke University in the 1950's demonstrated, without doubt, that the most important factors for success in the ESP tests were “enthusiasm,” “high interest in producing accurate guesses, especially at the beginning of the day,” and a general sense of “hopeful expectancy”

 

Coincidence, then, is beyond reckoning or will, is elegant, enigmatic, and sometimes funny. Coincidence is the mechanism of growth, the how of evolution. It can mysteriously open up new opportunities through which we transcend outdated self-limiting ideas, and experience the direct evidence that life is much more than materialistic survival or mere intellectual reliance on faith. Life is spiritually dynamic.

 

 

 

I would like to go through each part of (Using the First Insight & Increasing It's Benefit) the section just below, over the next few weeks. Let's share from our own experiences within the past few weeks how we were reminded that life has a purpose and how certain events made you reflect on how they happen for a reason.

 

All feedback is welcomed and encouraged. Let's continue bringing the insights into our lives together.

Using the First Insight & Increasing It's Benefit

 

Be aware that your life has a purpose, and events happen for a reason.

 

Begin the process of finding meaning behind each life event.

 

Acknowledge restless energy as a sign of needed change and deeper awareness. Listen to your body.

 

Realize that what you pay attention to will expand.

 

Notice when you feel a signal to talk with someone who might be able to help with your current questions. Where does your attention go? What did you notice today?

 

Trust your process. Live by letting yourself be guided, not by a forced set of goals. Know that you are fulfilling your life's destiny.

Start a personal journal for recording synchronistic events. Writing in a journal is a good way to clarify your thoughts.

 

 

Summary of the First Insight

 

The first insight is the insight of awakening. We look out on our lives and realize that more is occurring than we thought. Beyond our everyday routines and challenges we can detect the mysterious influence of the divine: “meaningful coincidences” that seem to be sending us messages and leading us in a particular direction. At first we only glimpse these coincidences as we race by, hardly paying attention. But eventually we begin to slow down and to look more closely at these events. Open and alert, we are more able to detect the next synchronistic event. Coincidences seem to ebb and flow, sometimes russhing forward in quick succession, other times leaving us becalmed. Yet we know that we have discovered the soul process that guides our lives forward. The reamining insights clarify how to increase the frequency of this mysterious synchronicity and discover the ultimate destiny toward which we are being led.