Reality is full of magic.
People say that the signs of the universe are just bullshit.
I’m afraid I have to disagree.
Let me explain my disturbing theory 🙂
1. For me, the universe is mental
The universe is the collective mind that we are all part of and shapes reality. — Without the mind, we could not understand reality or know that we exist.
All the external universe is only experienced in our interior, in our mind.
Ergo, the universe is all that the mind, or rather the set of all minds (collective unconscious), can conceive because what we do not perceive with the mind does not exist in our reality.
In the words of Miguel de Unamuno, “What is the real world, but the dream that we all dream, the common dream?”
2. All cultures have had and will have signs of the universe.
The first thing is to understand that superstitions have always existed. No matter the time, no matter the country, all cultures have had their superstitions: signs of good or bad omens.
- Good omens: horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, shooting stars.
- Bad omens: open scissors, crossing a black cat, wearing yellow.
And I don’t want to focus on particularizing these signs but rather on the tendency to identify something with a good or bad omen that remains in time and space.
Therefore, it is part of the reality and history of the world.
3. Many say that it is magical thinking.
But… ¡thinking really is magic!
To believe is to create. (This is evident because otherwise, the placebo effect and the nocebo effect would not exist and do exist).
To create anything, it is necessary to use the imagination. Imagination uses symbols.
It is well known that many inventions came in the form of symbolic dreams. For example, Niels Bohr dreamed of the structure of the atom in a dream.
Therefore, symbols are one of the languages the subconscious uses in our dream world to activate our imagination.
4. Symbols and rituals
Symbols have power. If it were not so, private companies would not spend fortunes on marketing and logos.
Symbols also establish hierarchical orders, submission, loyalty, or dependence.
Rituals fuel the power of symbols through their public display and use in propaganda.
Symbols and rituals (this includes protocols) are not only used by private companies but also by political parties, religious groups, sports teams, monarchies, and even by your favorite singer’s fan club.
These symbols are intended to make you familiar with their meaning and to make you act in an x or g way in their presence through rituals (e.g., crossing yourself when passing by a church).
5. Symbols are signs.
- Symbol: A sign that establishes a relationship of identity with reality, generally abstract, which it evokes or represents.
- Sign: Object, phenomenon, fact, or symbol that, by a natural or conventional relationship, represents or evokes another thing.
Therefore, we can deduce that “Symbol = Sign.”
And as we have seen before, symbols (signs) are part of the language of the imagination.
And therefore, it is part of how our unconscious communicates with our conscious self in dreams and life.
6. Symbols that the universe uses with me
For me, seeing moving lights is an unmistakable sign that the universe is about to bless me. Although seeing lights in the sky moving strangely might well seem like the beginning of the apocalypse 🙂
Jung tells us about those lights in his essay, UFOs (A Modern Myth about Things Seen in the Sky).
Long story short: for Jung, those lights we see in the sky can be two things
- Projections of the collective unconscious
- Projections of our fragmented psyche.
In both cases, it is something that we must re-integrate in.
7. Conscious (level 1) vs. Subconscious (levels 2 and 3)
for Jung, the human being has three levels of consciousness
- Level 1: the conscious part.
- Level 2: the personal unconscious part.
- Level 3: the collective unconscious, to which we are all connected.
The personal consciousness is the part you know about yourself.
The personal subconscious is what you don’t remember but may dictate the way you behave, such as old childhood traumas that you have forgotten, as well as the shadow, which would be the dark and repressed side that you hide in your subconscious.
The point is that not only what you repress in your subconscious can be projected in your life (in your conscious). That which is in the collective unconscious can also manifest itself.
Both the good and the bad, both the light and the shadow.
That is why the good and bad omens (symbols/signs) are how the universe (collective unconscious) has to warn us that something good or bad will happen. Or that we are on the right or wrong path.
These signs are born from that collective unconscious since they are common among us: that would explain why hundreds of thousands of people see 11:11 when their lives will suffer a significant change.
8. Personal example
To me, good omens appear, as I have already said, in the form of lights in the sky that move fast and appear and disappear.
The few times this has happened in my life, I’ve had a lucky break: I’ve met someone special or achieved something I thought was out of my reach.
But seeing those kinds of lights could be projections of the collective unconscious (messages from the universe) telling me that good things are waiting for me around the corner and that I’m on the right track.
Seeing strange lights in the sky is part of my mythology.
9. Personal mythology
Personal mythology is essential because, in the same way that ancient mythology explained many complexities of the human soul, your mythology is a kind of psychology of intuition that you can rely on to understand yourself and find the right path.
What is the right path? The one that keeps you in sync with the universe.
For me, synchronicity is a match between what you are doing and what you are destined to achieve if you choose with your free will the right direction.
That is when you and the universe (collective unconscious) are aligned, rowing in the same direction.
When there is concordance and correspondence between you and the universe (collective unconscious), there is coherent communication. And your intuition tells you which symbols (signs) resonate positively and negatively.
10. Conclusion: Listen to your intuition
If I perceive the external world through the information introduced by my senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) in my mind, and through that mind, I decode it, why is it so difficult to think that the subconscious is doing its thing, putting symbols or signs in the middle of everything I perceive to warn me, in its way, of something I need to integrate or pay attention to?
Seeing signs can be a warning from the collective unconscious or the individual subconscious that you must integrate something in your life that you have disordered or fragmented.
So when you start to see signs like the famous 11:11 or lights that look like UFOs, in my case, maybe you have to exercise personal introspection to see if you are complete or, on the contrary, you have disordered affections in some sections of your life.
That is why trivializing or devaluing personal mythology and the signs that each person feels are good or bad omens is a wrong attitude.
The universe/collective unconscious uses those signs to communicate with us.
Intuition is more than recognizing something we do not know; it is more like remembering than discovering. — Because at a subconscious level, it is probably something we already know, something that our subconscious or the collective unconscious already knows and wants us to process at a conscious level.
A virtual hug.
AG
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