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SYNCHRONICITY AND DREAMING:
Guidance for Our Lives
How observing our inner selves and synchronistic events can guide our biography and provide a philosophical foundation for our lives
Richard J King
Gumquest
Sydney
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GUMQUEST PTY LTD
PO Box R1906
Royal Exchange NSW 1225
Australia
First published by Gumquest Pty Ltd, Sydney 2016
Copyright © Richard King, 2016
ISBN 978-1-925416-70-1 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-925416-71-8 (paper)
Cover: Extract from painting by David Wansbrough entitled ‘Totemic Image’ Oil on Canvas, 1989.
Author portrait by Alan Clark, 2015
FOREWORD
It is said that the best way to kill creativity and self-esteem in a small child is to tell it to “be quiet” to “shut up”! Yet there are many instances, too many to describe here, that an apparent difficult start to life is the ‘driver’ to the child creating their own non- external ‘inner’ dialogue; an ‘out-of-body’ connection to that ‘other world’ of mystery and guidance. I believe that this true ‘gift of spirit’ is amply demonstrated in Richard’s case. He survived an abusive father and dysfunctional early family life; to come out on the other side as a noted and respected author and writer, a passionate patron and collector of the arts and one of life’s great story tellers – a forgotten art!
In my nine years I have known Richard, I have been privileged to listen ‘first hand’ to many of his homilies and ‘coincidences’ that have strongly influenced his life’s journey. I know therefore from personal experience his stories carry great authenticity, wisdom and a depth of knowing, as evidenced in this inspirational book. He writes with honesty and easy simplicity as one who has listened to and experienced the ‘cause and effect’; the ‘karma’ of life.
‘Synchronicity and Dreaming’ is the pathway that Richard lays and is open to us all, if we awaken to and follow our own guiding light of synchronicity and intuition, as a valuable companion in our own personal life’s journey.
Signed:
Alan George Clark
Business Broker and Intuitive Palmist
DEDICATION
In loving memory of Murray Stewart Smith (1946 - 1989)
Beyond the dark – I look for you
Dear, dead friend.
Will you greet me
Beyond the dark?
INTRODUCTION
This book came into being as a result of a talk I was invited to give to the Hobart Theosophical Society several years ago. It was entitled ‘How Synchronistic Events and Dreams Can Shape One’s Biography’. (Noting that I am not a theosophist). A few of the people present encouraged me to put [my speech notes] into writing. Others who later read the manuscript complained that I had only written about so little in my life and were craving much more detail.
This volume is not a conventional autobiography but just small glimpses of events that helped me lay a solid philosophical basis to my life and learn to ‘see’ clearly with compassion and understanding.
No matter how much one learns via intellect or experience, even thinking “oh I have gotten it all worked out”, life will come along with a new plan. The rug will appear to be pulled from under one, testing our resolve to keep going despite life’s vicissitudes. Truly a never-ending journey.
A friend told me when I was in my teens when I said to him I thought I would never achieve any sort of spiritual harmony in my life, “don’t fight so called bad thoughts or perceived negative urges. Just by reading the works of advanced spiritual beings, learn how they also struggled to transform their lives”. You will connect with their energy of life and they will enhance and guide you.
Don’t regard anything as tainted or even ‘dirty’ in the conventional sense. Everything manifested in this realm is life working out its karmic symphony.
It will appear to us a horrible or even sub-human but in the grand plan all life, choices and events are part of the grand harmony of the cosmos.
All one can do is forgive those who trespass and most of all forgive one’s self. The past cannot be changed. The future is created by the very ‘now’ of each and every minute of our days. This also seems to be the message of many illuminated souls.
So many times people who have experienced near death experiences say “I was enveloped with love; love beyond anything I can ever remember.”
So I feel it is up to us to create our own destiny, observing these messages of guidance, given to us so freely by the Universe. It is our own freewill that allows us to expand our world of harmony and amazing experiences and friendship or build our own jail. Running away from events and problems (thinking we can start anew and they will disappear) they don’t. They confront us in another form until we consciously face them with forgiveness and love.
Several friends over my lifetime have passed over by taking their own lives, thinking all will be resolved. In one sense it is, but until the wound has been cleaned and healed on this plane, these demons will confront us once more. To sum up; I have become (as a result of observing and listening to events) a contented and happy person. Every day I express gratitude for life, for the vicissitudes and obstacles I have experienced.
Every event has a message for us at some level. There is a lesson to be learned out of adversity that a charmed life could never achieve. The greatest music was born out of perseverance and suffering. Very little of lasting value ever emerged from a government grant or a committee. We chose to be who we are; no-one tells us to be an artist or a plumber, for example. All occupations which people toil with on this plane are their choice.
I believe one has to persevere; make mistakes and at the end of the day say to ourselves “is this what I wish to do with my life?” If it is then we will no doubt change not only our lives but also all who we come into contact with.
A wonderful journey indeed.
CHAPTER ONE
We are all born with a wonderful sense of joy and amazement at the world we have entered. Even children in totally dysfunctional homes have that before the sins of the fathers (also the mothers sometimes) are visited upon them.
