#e-8

Throughout my life I have encountered events, people, and objects which all of which seem to be perfectly placed in my timeline. Carl Jung first labeled these meaningful coincidences as synchronicities. As a science minded person, I was at first reluctant to believe that anything in my life held significance. I had no real evidence and therefore no real reason to have belief. Until the end of 2017 I would have considered myself at most agnostic, but I was leaning more toward the beliefs of an atheist.

This all changed when I began taking care of myself and truly nurturing my body and mind. I had countless times recommended pseudo healthy diet and exercise regimens to my patients because that is what a text book told me to do. Of course, the text books I was reading seemed more concerned with prescribing medications than they did lifestyle changes. My time spent practicing was therefore mostly spent prescribing and refilling medications. As my personal experience with healthy lifestyle became more intimate I began to truly see the benefits that I had read about were a reality.

My mind wondered what are these synchronicities and what could they mean? In a universe that I once believed to be random and full pleasant accidents so to speak, I never gave coincidence much though. As my mind woke up from a depressed state of semi-slumber, I was able to more clearly identify patterns in my environment. The golden ratio became more meaningful to me and I began to research phi in nature. This lead me to emergence theory and researching reality as a culmination of energy in the form of Gosset Polytopes to construct the proposed E-8 lattice, an 8-dimensional space that theoretically represents our current state. Interestingly, when the Gosset Polytope is projected to 4-dimensional space it creates 2 identical shapes of different sizes. These two shapes differ in size by the golden ratio. That is dividing the larger shape by the smaller shape gives a solution of phi.

There is something about Phi which is deeply engrained into our reality. Our eyes, for instance, are quick to notice beauty when a face or a building is developed around phi. The further from the golden ratio a person’s facial symmetry strays the less attractive it inherently appears. Phi is our internal compass, always pointing to beauty. Nature constructs many biological components in the golden ratio. From snail shells to pinecones phi is ever present.

I began noticing the golden ratio around me and tuning into patterns in my environment after I became mentally clear. Remaining cognizant was reason enough to keep nurturing my body and mind. I had other reasons for eating vegan, but this was a huge benefit. I was able to not only pick up on the golden ratio in my environment, I could see other patterns clearly emerging. It was easy to pick up on things which were out of place. It was also easy to pick up on things that were too perfectly placed. I don’t have a great way to explain this, but I can give some examples.

First, I was home after a long day at work and decided to take a nap. It was at a point in my life when I was feeling very positive and finally over my depression. I was eating well and working out. I had been getting tattoos on my right arm to remind me to stay positive and was seeking something to fit in to the back of my upper arm but couldn’t decide on anything in particular. I came home from work tired and flopped into bed. My dream state has always fascinated me, and I take my dream world seriously as it is a part of my mind. During this particular nap my dream focused on an all-black surrounding. Just as I prepared for sleep paralysis a beautiful and wispy red peacock feather emerged crystal clear. I stared at it, entranced by its beauty and clarity. I could see every detail and was stunned with natures beauty. Then I woke up. I rolled over and was about to return to sleep but decided to look into this experience and to document it in my dream journal.

I grabbed my iphone and google searched red feather meaning. The first entry that came up stated: “a red feather represents vitality, the life force, physical energy and strength, passion, power and courage. If you encounter a red feather it may be a sign that you are becoming stronger or getting your strength back after a health issue.” This spoke to me as I was finally getting my life together. I immediately booked an appointment and had a red feather tattooed on my arm. It fit perfectly into the void that I was wanting to fill. This red feather to me was a sign that I was on the right path. I had no reason to dream of it.

I dreamt of that red feather coming off of the end of a case that broke my heart. I had lost a family member who was a patient of mine. I had a premonition that she was going to pass and that there was nothing I could do about it. This turned out to be true. I was beating myself up over that case. I felt like there must have surly been something I could have done to intervein. The red feather told me otherwise. It was a symbol that I was on the right path. That I was gaining strength and understanding. That there are some things out of my control regardless of how much I put into them. I had to be willing to accept that, and the red feather helped me. This may be a simple symbol in my life and not a synchronicity, but it forever changed me.

Synchronicities began to barrage me during my period of ascension. I met a woman who had so many experiences in common with me that I couldn’t look away. I fell madly in love with her and combed through her consciousness to find meaning in this reality. We shared interests, we finished each other’s sentences, and we seemingly experienced the same childhood with different charlatans playing the roles of friends and family. It was overwhelming to me. I dove in head first.

Is it simply a coincidence when you are thinking about someone you haven’t seen in years and your phone rings and you hear that very person’s voice? Is it a coincidence that a series of mundane events culminated to get us right here right now? It all plays out as happenstance yet the deliberate nature of some of this life is too eerie to ignore. Red feathers fall into our laps. People emerge from the background at just the right time in just the right place.