Morgan James - Promise McNeal 01 - Quiet the Dead by Morgan James

Author:Morgan James [James, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery: Thriller - Psychologist - Atlanta
ISBN: 1453738819
Publisher: Morgan James
Published: 2011-01-18T06:00:00+00:00

“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the

right direction…” ……The Doorknob, Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

10.

Graduate school taught me that the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung coined the word “synchronicity” to explain events we might view as ordinary coincidence, except the occurring events seem to have extraordinary personal meaning. Jung taught that these events could connect with unresolved emotion and bring that emotion closer to the surface, and perhaps even engender resolution. For instance, after my divorce my sales job sent me to Savannah for a meeting. I hated my job and loathed sales meetings. To delay the unpleasant I took a train from Atlanta to Savannah, meeting a pleasant woman from Iowa. We shared experiences of being single moms as we passed the miles of flat middle Georgia landscape. I learned she was an emergency room nurse who hated to fly, also headed to Savannah for a meeting. I confided I wanted to go back to school to become a counselor, but couldn’t manage the tuition, not with a son to raise and an ex-husband who considered his child support less important than his sailboat payments. As it turned out, her meeting was for a foundation that awarded scholarships to single moms. With her sponsorship I received a scholarship, and coupled with student loans, found myself sitting in a classroom learning about Carl Jung.

Coincidence was both of us being single moms traveling to Savannah for a meeting. Synchronicity was meeting her at a critical time in my life. I believe what we call good luck, or even bad luck, or intuition, as well as psychic knowledge, and my sometimes-disturbing dreams, are all rooted in the universe’s rules of synchronicity. How these rules operate is a mystery to me, I just know the rules are at work, continuously. During my early years as a counselor, I found accompanying a client on a journey to recognize those patterns of synchronicity immensely gratifying. I came to believe when we pay close attention to the significance of what that synchronicity could mean to our own inner journey, and then participate in the event with purpose, we ride the miraculous oneness of our universe.

Lofty thinking for so early in the morning, I told myself, as I aimed my Subaru south to Atlanta for the second time this week. Did I still believe in synchronicity and our oneness with the universe? That was an easy question. Yes, I did. So what happened to me? When did walking the journey with a client to find the synchronicities stop being gratifying? That was a harder question. Somewhere along the way I began to doubt I had a gift for helping anyone, and was profoundly frustrated with so many long journeys and not enough destinations. Still, I was the one who kept a sign on my desk that read, “I am here for the journey, not the destination.” My nagging Should-Girl Committee member reminded me it was my own fault if I couldn’t focus on the journey—only the journey.

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