Looking for meaning is a basic human tendency. Also, sometimes this is known as looking for guidance. Some say, that when reaching completeness, the human being will be truly self sufficient, without moral connotations. This could then mean the end of the most deep insecurity. The existential one. But until then, we will be facing the ever reappearing need for guidance. The need for signs. Let’s see if there are ways to do this right.

I admit that the subject of recognizing and deciphering sign is dear to me. In a previous post I was posing you the question “Can you recognize the signs?” Teodora made an interesting turn of the subject there, by asking who’s in control if you go for deliberate relying on signs - like throwing a dice or a coin. Also, she was strong on the idea that inner choices are more important. I gave lots of thoughts on this because this seems like complementary to my take, thus always worth considering.

So, who is in control? Is it good at all to rely on signs coming from the outside? Should you listen only to your deep feelings?

I would like to try and give a possible answer. My starting point for this would be what I previously proposed as the confirmative accompanying phenomenon, called synchronicity. I believe that understanding synchronicity could give the answer to this dilemma.

Where inner and outer meet

Let’s see the definition of synchronicity in our context: concurrently seeing both inner and outer. This directs us to discover a mysterious meeting point of the inner and the outer worlds. The essence of synchronicity is contained in that meeting point. If you succeed in comprising it in your consciousness, then it will reveal its hidden meaning to you.

It often seems like signs are only showing up on the outside. This is the obvious part, of course, as most of us are not always aware of ourselves. Our attention and consciousness is oriented outwards. So, recognizing signs on the outsides seems to be the easy way. But this is not enough to say that indeed, you recognized a sign. You will definitely need the inner confirmation. The inner complementary for it.

Synchronicity is the key that unifies both spaces in which a sign manifests itself.

In my previous post I proposed synchronicity as the confirmative accompanying phenomenon for signs. Now, I define it as the unifying principle of the outer manifestation and inner affirmation. Thus, the apparent contradiction between outer phenomena and inner choices is smoothed.

Questions still in need for an answer:

• How to be sure that you are not passing by any possible signs?
• How to discern between recognizing true signs and making them up?
• What if we recognize a sign, but actually weren’t looking for it?
• Can coincidence always be considered synchronicity?

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