Synchromysticism

" Synchromysticism:
The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

- Jake Kotze

May 19, 2025

The Grateful Dead and Synchronicity? πŸ’€πŸŽΈπŸ—²

My Grateful Dead keyring (centre)
When it comes to the Grateful Dead, I guess that I'm just a 'touch head' instead of a 'dead head', because I've never done acid or been to a GD live concert (I've never been outside of Australia until this year, barring New Zealand in 1977).
Touchhead?
I just like their music, but don't love it, like I do Bruce Springsteen's, John Lennon's or Peter Gabriel's.
Turtles, Australia Zoo and The Grateful Dead?
The Grateful Dead sticker on my windscreen
I have had a Grateful Dead sticker on the last 3 cars I have owned and when some people see it they ask me if I'm a dead head and I used to say that I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a dead head, but now I know that dead heads would say that I'm a touch head instead.
Fair enough, I guess.
I have to admit that it was more their artwork, than their music that drew me to them as musicians.
I do own a lot of Grateful Dead CDs, but only play them very occasionally.
Season 1: Episode 8
I wrote recently about listening to this podcast episode above in this post -
Jung and the Post-Human Age? πŸ€–πŸ“±
Introducing Dead and Gone
While Season 1: Episode 8 is a good episode to listen to about the subject of synchronicity, the overall two seasons of 'Dead and Gone' finishes in a dead end with a few lines from a Grateful Dead song called 'New Speedway Boogie' - "Things went down we don't understand But I think in time we will ... One way or another This darkness got to give".
In that Season 1: Episode 8 there are some really interesting "strange things happen"/synchronicity stories surrounding the Grateful Dead and especially band member Robert Hunter (who passed away on mine and Bruce Springsteen's birthday in 2019).  
Jake Brennan is a good storyteller, whether or not his stories, or the ones written for him to tell, are true or not.
DisGraceland is another of Jake Brennan's podcasts that I recently found with some interesting stories about the music industry and its personalities.
DisGraceland:
Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
The latest two episodes of DisGraceland are about the Grateful Dead I see:-)
Grateful Dead Pt. 1:
Freedom's Just Another Word for…
Kinda funny how Jake starts off that part 1 episode above with a Charles Manson quote and that Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995 (the anniversary of the Manson Murders)
Coincidence/synchronicity?
Keep on Truckin' Jake.
Life's a journey, not a destination:-)

May 18, 2025

How to Celebrate Stepmother’s Day?🍎🏰πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰

I hadn't heard of Stepmother's Day before, but then again, I've never had a stepmother to worry about ... thank God ... mother;-)
When I think of stepmothers it's always the evil ones that come to mind to me for some reason.
I wouldn't celebrate the day by asking your stepmother along to the cinema to see the new 'Snow White' movie, unless you really don't like your stepmother;-)

Creative Codex, $ynchronicity & The $pirit of Creative Geniu$?πŸƒπŸ€”πŸ’­

I put in an Apple Podcast search for podcast episodes about "synchronicity" and up came the most recent podcast episode of the Creative Codex podcast about the tarot titled 'The Tarot • Part II: Synchronicity & The Spirit of Creative Genius', which was a follow up to a previous episode called 'The Tarot • Part 1: Tarot's Origins & The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious', so I listened to them in reverse order:-)
I see that MJDorian has gone down the same sponsorship rabbit hole as Kelly Chase by promoting 'Magic Mind' as a wonder pick-me-up, when I see it as no better than a placebo effect, if any, but maybe these podcast hosts just want to believe in what they are saying about this expen$ive green $hit stuff -
Creative Geniuses Are Always Outliers?
Creative Codex Podcast
I wish MJDorian well in his future podca$ting endevour$, and while I found the two episodes about the tarot thought provoking, I'm not one for paying for podcasts and $igning up to people's Patreon $ites.
When it comes to podcasts that start out free and then start asking for handout$ from li$teners to stay afloat, I say sink or swim.
But I don't mind having to put up with ad$ (because I can usually skip over them), just get some creditable $ponsor$ if you are going to go down that rabbit hole, I say:-)  
My Wedny's Dr. Pepper drink in Las Vegas
I wonder if Dr. Placebo Pepper or Wendy's will throw me $ome money if I tell my readers what it does for my mind?-)
Leaving Sin City (Las Vegas) ... For Good?πŸŽ°πŸŽ²πŸ‘Ό
My one and only Wendy's meal (so far) I ate in Las Vegas