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Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind [Paperback]

Kirby Surprise , Allan Combs
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February 22, 2012
"Synchronicity is teeming with delightful and often compelling surprises about the nature of meaningful coincidences in contemporary life. The author's prose is playful, provocative, and profound. Though you may not agree with all of Professor Surprise's conclusions, this book should be required reading for anyone wanting to understand the magnificence and mystery of synchronicity."
--Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, professor of psychology and medicine, The University of Arizona, and author of The Sacred Promise

"An interesting mix of mythology, neuroscience, and common sense, this book takes a serious, but light-hearted look at the way synchronicity works and the degree to which it can be controlled. Going well beyond the ideas of Jung, synchronicity's discoverer, psychotherapist Surprise draws on anthropology, String Theory, and Walt Disney to make the case that our internal states do effect external events...."
--Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer

The experience of meaningful coincidences is universal. They are reported by people of every culture, every belief system, and every time period. Synchronicity examines the evidence for the human influence on the meaningfulness of events, and the way the modern computational model of the mind predicts how we create meaning.

It demonstrates that these events, based on the activity of the mind, are caused by the person who perceives them.

In this fascinating work, you will:
  • Learn to use your amazing ability to create synchronistic events
  • Discover how your mind creates the reality you experience
  • Unlock your brain's vast resources of connectivity and creativity
  • Change from living as a separate being to living as a part of the unified whole

    Synchronicity will show you how you already create events around you, and make you a conscious co-creator of your reality. Dr. Surprise describes the miracles of your brain's processes, merging the worlds of modern physics and ancient mysticism to reveal abilities you have always possessed, but which were not fully understood--until now.

    Learn to make reality dance to the rhythms of your thoughts.

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    About the Author

    Dr. Kirby Surprise received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the Institute for Integral Studies. He works in an advanced outpatient program for the State of California where he assesses, diagnoses, and treats clients with psychotic and delusional disorders. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Dr. Allan Combs is author of more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain. He is co-editor of the Journal of Conscious Evolution, and associate editor of Dynamical Psychology. Combs's most recent book is Consciousness Explained Better.

    Product Details

    • Paperback: 288 pages
    • Publisher: New Page Books; 1 edition (February 22, 2012)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 9781601631831
    • ISBN-13: 978-1601631831
    • ASIN: 1601631839
    • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
    • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
    • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
    • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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    31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Explore Your Mind with Dr. Surprise February 1, 2012
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    You're not feeling well and something is telling you not to go to class today, yet you go anyway because there's a big test scheduled next week. The bus is late, there's a traffic jam 12 miles long, yet you still go on ignoring the inconvenient events and your sniffling nose. You reach the class room door just to discover ... the class is cancelled. Your intuition and the signs around you were right all along; you should've stayed home.

    The above scenario is an all too common Synchronistic Event (SEs), often tossed away as coincidence, dumb luck, intuition, or simply a gut feeling during a specific moment in your life. Ever wondered if there was something more to them then just that? Well there is and you can find out more in Dr. Kirby Surprise's Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind.

    One part science text book, one part metaphysical treatise, and two parts (non-fiction) story telling, Synchronicity is a book that will change the way you understand your own mind and the reality in which you live in. Through it, you will gain the ability to recognize your own SEs, create them, and recognize the SEs of other's around you.

    This book is written in such a way that anyone could easily grasp the concepts presented by the author. As an individual with an English degree (something as far away from the scientific field as Neptune is from the sun), I can vouched for this book's accessibility. Moreover, it has changed my mind for better, and it can change yours too!

    I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in psychology, Jung, synchronicity, and, of course, to anyone who is interested in themselves.
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    23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Content But Needs Clearer Focus May 14, 2012
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    Kirby Surprise has written a book about a longtime interest he has in how we create synchronicities in our lives. He thinks that we ourselves are responsible for them, because we are multidimensional beings who create the synchronous events we experience in this dimension in the higher-dimensional reality our greater selves inhabit. His examples of synchronicities in his own life, often in sidebars to the text, are intriguing, as are his accounts of how psychotics misinterpret the synchronicities they experience as having a meaning which they don't in fact possess. He also teaches, in the last half of the book, a method to create synchronous events, and even thought-form beings, in your own life.

    However, his book is not very well-written, nor are his claims either clear or well-supported. He seems to have tied his view of the nature of SEs (his abbreviation of "synchronous events") to a theory in physics--a version of string theory--that may or may not turn out to be true in the long run. This seems to be a weak point that a very sceptical, science-oriented person, which he repeatedly says he is, would notice and discuss. But he doesn't. He believes that SE's cannot be other than our own creations, and that this view is somehow scientific. But he gives no argument for his opinion, which seems to me to need defending. He also believes that SE's are amusing, but have no greater significance--again a view that needs arguing for, especially given the testimony of so many over so long years that SE's can be highly meaningful. But there is no argument given. In the light of his views, teaching you to produce SE's is on the level of teaching parlor tricks, and that is the tone of his presentation. But if that's so, what's the point? My impression is that he believes there is one, but is not able to articulate it clearly.

    Added to these problems are poor writing at every level from the sentence and paragraph level to the organization of the whole, and no clear overall point to the book. It's a pity, because there are some very interesting ideas here, by someone who seems to know SE's very well.
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    9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!!! January 23, 2012
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    Dr. Surprise has written a book that is both engaging and inspiring! From beginning to end, I found that I couldn't help but be awed by the possible power of my own mind, and crack the occasional smirk at the author's wry wit. I would recommend this to anyone who's interested in learning more on synchronicity.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb enlightening book
    I'd recommend this book to anyone who would like to take their life experiences to the next level.
    Much research and information is presented which allows the reader to become... Read more
    Published 1 month ago by M. A. L. Mulliner
    3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't quite meet the mark
    I have read the other 3 star reviews and I have to say I agree 100%! I love reading about metaphysical and 'new age' topics, and thought this book looked intriguing. Read more
    Published 5 months ago by Alexis
    2.0 out of 5 stars He says Jung was wrong
    Surprise is confident enough and has a big enough ego to, say Jung, who invented the term, "sychronicity", was wrong about it. Read more
    Published 5 months ago by M
    1.0 out of 5 stars not what I thought
    The book was not what I thought it would be. I was hoping for more simple examples of coincidences; instead it was way too wordy, not getting to the point.
    Published 6 months ago by A. Schulz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read & good for newbies
    Got through the book pretty quickly and was excited to learn more about the subject. Would recommend to anyone who would like a non-spiritually-focused view on synchronicty and... Read more
    Published 6 months ago by New2Tarot
    5.0 out of 5 stars Empowering
    Having read many books on synchronicity, this is by far the most empowering. It takes the focus away from mythological interpretations. Read more
    Published 6 months ago by Hermes
    5.0 out of 5 stars A required read for all practitioners of the book: "Science of Mind."
    Being a student of Ernest Holmes book, "Science of Mind," as well as the "Unity Church," whose books deal with using the mind to attain health, wealth and success, I found... Read more
    Published 7 months ago by Richard Lewis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love It,or Hate It,You Should Read It Right Through.
    I think this is a very important,although divisive book on the subject of Synchronicity.
    The book is about Dr. Read more
    Published 7 months ago by Brizdaz
    1.0 out of 5 stars I Gave Up
    I only was able to make it to Chapter 4, so I admit that maybe my review may be a bit premature and not totally fair. Read more
    Published 10 months ago by nope
    5.0 out of 5 stars the science of synchroncity?
    Dr. Surprise gives a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of synchronicity, defined as meaningful coincidence of two or more events that are causally unrelated. Read more
    Published 10 months ago by Jane
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