Synchronicity Studio

About Synchronicity

Here are some thoughts about the experience of synchronicity:

Webster's (G. & C. Merriam Company, 1976) New Collegiate Dictionary defines the adjective synchronous as: "happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time; recurring or operating at exactly the same periods."

In his book Where God Lives (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000), Melvin Morse, M.D. (with Paul Perry) offers the persective of synchronicity as a type of universal intercommunication:

"The interconnectedness of life is real.  This was one of Niels Bohr's first major concepts.  The founding father of quantum physics discovered that an interconnecedness exists between apparently unrelated subatomic events.  Physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychologist Carl Jung developed the concept of synchronicity before Bohr proved it existed.  The theory is that hidden patterns of life can be expressed by seemingly coincidental events, and that these patterns represent communication with a conscious, universal mind."

For me, being in nature is an experience of the synchronous patterns.  This experience is so powerful sometimes that all I can do is to attempt to record it in a painting.  The act of painting is one of recalling the physical, emotional, and spiritual memories, being grateful for them, and tackling the challenge of passing the beauty and the synchronicity onto others.  What is communicated is different for everyone, whether in nature or on the canvas.  As the saying goes, "There's more to it than meets the eye."

This Ray Repp song speaks to the experience of being in synch with and painting the landscape: 

Benedicamus

Part 1 - The Song of the Earth

     Benedicamus Domino (Let Us Bless The Lord)

Sing out the song of the earth for its glory lives forever.

Listen to the sound of the echo of the song of the earth.

     Benedicamus Domino.

Let ev'ry one who hears listen to each other's song and then

together we can all sing out the song of the earth; for its glory lives forever.

Listen to the sound of the echo of the song of the earth. Benedicamus Domino.

Part 2 - The Dance of the Season

     In the midst of the season's dance, is the summer who is singing her song; and

her glory will never die.

   Movin' together, the dance never ends, and the seasons will sing on and on: 

   Benedicamus Domino.

     Then the fall and the winter sing in the echo of the voice of the dawn; and their

glory will never die.  No, their glory will never die.

     And then suddenly the spring appears and she beckons us to sing along; for our

glory will never die.  No, our glory will never die.

1978, Otter Creek Music. Published by OCP Publicatins. All rights reserved.