Choose Love

Everyone is being asked to choose lately. 

Are you...

Or...

?

What color is the dress?

Free yourself. Choose Love.

Stab Me in the Heart—A Valentine to Synchronicity

Just a short and sweet post in honor of Valentine's Day.  I tweeted earlier today that the Love of Synchronicity has stabbed me in the heart.

That reminded me of a short story I read back in high school called "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor. 

It's part of a collection which I was delighted to discover has the highly synchronistic title "Everything That Rises Must Converge".

It also bears this great Heart-Arrow sync wink of a cover image:

The story's main characters are two women named Mrs. May and Mrs. Greenleaf.

Mrs. May is a professed devout Christian but spends the entire story selfishly fighting to keep a bull off her private property. 

[Here in the Sync world we know that the Bull is prevalent throughout ancient mythology and culture as a symbol for the Christ/Savior archetype (see "Death of a Raging Bull").]

Mrs. Greenleaf's spiritual beliefs, on the other hand, are more esoteric.  At one point, Mrs. May is disgusted to find her writhing on the ground in the woods, overcome with frothed religious ecstasy

"Oh Jesus, stab me in the heart!" Mrs. Greenleaf shrieked.  "Jesus stab me in the heart!" and she fell back flat in the dirt, a huge human mound, her legs and arms spread out as if she were trying to wrap them around the Earth.

Here through O'Connor's vivid imagery we can see that in every way, Mrs. Greenleaf's spirituality and even her eroticism is inexorably bound to the Earth.  She is one with it, and in that oneness she is redeemed.

I think Mrs. Greenleaf is an apt metaphor for my love affair with Synchronicity.  What once started out as a mere curiosity has now become a symbiotic relationship.

Now, I find myself moving through life differently with a heightened awareness that my every ripple is a necessary part of creating this wave of existence we call Life.

And like Mrs. Greenleaf, this new found knowledge of belonging is profoundly ecstatic to me.  Truly, literally, it is as if I'm wrapping myself around the Earth and moving in tandem with every other being on it.

At the end of O'Connor's short story the stubborn Mrs. May is pinned against a car by the bull and his horn pierces her heart.  But this is not an act of violence.

Instead, like the people's recent revolt in Egypt, it is an act of grace that tears open the Heart so that Joy and peace can flow in.

Synchronicity...such an exquisite dance.

Happy Valentine's Day.

We All Live in a Yellow Submarine

I was watching the History Channel about a month ago when a documentary came on called The Beatles on Record (produced by Apple Corps Ltd). 

Towards the end there is a part about how Disney made a cartoon based on The Beatles song Yellow Submarine  (see at 2:11 in the Video below).

I really enjoy The Beatles music and the cartoon has lots of pretty, swirly psychadelic colors.

It's also full of Rainbow, Sun, and possibly Egyptian/Atlantean symbology. 

Other than that there's no particular point to this post—just a conglomeration of thoughts.  My brain has been too weighed down lately with earthly cares to do an in-depth sync analysis.

But here's a few Synchro-licious tidbits I did manage to catch:

#1:  According to the documentary, Disney specifically requested the song Yellow Submarine (out of all the other trippy Beatles songs they could have chosen).

The cover shows The Beatles standing on top of a mountain with the submarine underneath it.

Jake Kotze has sychromystically linked Mountains to Pyramids.  And The Beatles group name syncs to the scarab beetle worshipped by Ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the sun god Khepri.

#2:  The Yellow Submarine reminds me of those anachronistic machines pictured in the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids.

#3:  Could the Submarine be an underwater symbol linking ancient Egypt to the Lost Civilization of Atlantis which Plato claimed was submerged under the ocean?

So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine

—from the lyrics to the song "Yellow Submarine"

In the cartoon, John defeats the tyrannical "Blue Meanies" by singing the song "All You Need is Love". 

I think that's a particularly appropriate message right now as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Haiti fight for basic human rights. 

Eventually, The Beatles look through a telescope and see more, even meaner Blue Meanies coming.  They determine "there's only one way to go out: Singing!". 

The cartoon ends with The Beatles singing "All Together Now".

That sounds a lot like President Obama's 2011 State of the Union speech where he said, "We will move forward together, or not at all...".

My vote is for together.

"And in the end the Love you take is equal to the Love you make."

—The Beatles