10: Synchronicities And A Course In Miracles

In this episode, you’ll learn about some incredible synchroncities I experienced while I was at camp, and upon returning home, how I lost touch with that feeling of being “in the flow.” Yet the universe sent many signs to call me back and to “choose again.” These same signs and synchronicities are happening to you all the time. You just have to slow down to pay attention.

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This is From Anxiety to Love Radio,

The show about undoing anxiety through A Course in Miracles and other pathways of love.

Gain insights and tools to deepen your awareness of the peace that is already in you.

I'm your host Corinne Zumko.

Welcome to this episode of From Anxiety to Love Radio.

This is a solo episode where I'm going to talk a little bit about synchronicities.

Now I'm sure you know what these are,

But we'll come back to what they are in just a moment.

I spent a week this past summer teaching a program,

My signature program called Mindfulness for Miracle Workers at a summer camp and it was Edgar Cayce's ARE Family Camp.

ARE stands for Association for Research and Enlightenment and I worked closely with the adults for a couple of hours each day.

The whole experience was beyond wonderful.

First of all,

Camp is amazing.

It's located in a town called Rural Retreat,

Virginia.

Yes,

That's an actual town and it's in a secluded valley surrounded by wilderness.

It is a spiritual camp that follows the teachings of the acclaimed psychic Edgar Cayce.

So they have sessions for families,

For adults,

Even guided week-long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.

The people involved in camp,

Both staff and attendees,

Are some of the kindest people I've ever met and I will be going back again,

So keep your eyes out for an announcement about that.

You can learn more at their website at edgarcayce.

Org.

So this was a pretty transformative experience for me and I felt moved to focus this episode on synchronicities,

Which I experienced a lot while I was away.

You could say that synchronicities are those quote unquote chance encounters that you know in your gut could not have happened by chance.

A Course in Miracles teaches nothing happens here in this world by chance.

There are no accidents and I wanted to share a course quote with you that I love.

The course says,

The simplest level of teaching appears to be quite superficial.

It consists of what seem to be very casual encounters,

A quote unquote chance meeting of two apparent strangers in an elevator,

A child who is not looking where he is going running into an adult by chance,

Two students happening to walk home together.

These are not chance encounters.

Each of them has the potential for becoming a teaching learning situation.

Perhaps the seeming strangers in the elevator will smile to one another.

Perhaps the adult will not scold the child for bumping into him.

Perhaps the students will become friends.

Even at the level of the most casual encounter,

It is possible for two people to lose sight of separate interests if only for a moment.

That moment will be enough,

Salvation has come.

Isn't that beautiful?

So accidents or chance encounters are impossible.

The people driving beside you during your commute to work are not there by accident.

Nor is the person in front of you in the grocery line who gets under your skin because they're paying by check.

So there are no accidents.

Everything that happens is giving us a divine opportunity to remember our sameness rather than our separation.

So things are orchestrated.

Let's turn to the Course again and I just want to briefly talk about the script.

So A Course in Miracles talks about how the ego wrote the script of separation the moment we thought that we could be separate from love.

And I'm talking love with a capital L,

Aka God.

This script was over the instant it happened because we are still safe at home in love right now.

We've just chosen to keep that out of our awareness.

So this world is simply us mentally reviewing what has already passed in our tiny mad idea.

We can follow the ego script in which the goal is always to convince us of our separateness.

Or we can follow the Holy Spirit script,

So to speak,

Which will lead us to remembering our truth,

Which is eternal love.

This is what we can choose.

So by following the Holy Spirit's lead,

Which simply requires willingness to turn to Spirit,

We repurpose our journey from the ego's purpose of separation to the Holy Spirit's purpose of awakening.

Here's another course quote.

It says,

The script is written when experience will come to end your doubting has been set.

So if the script is written,

How cool is it when we can see that script in action?

Enter synchronicities.

Synchronicities to me are those moments when it is just so obvious that what just happened did not happen by chance.

When I am tuned into Spirit instead of ego,

I notice these synchronicities much more frequently.

So I want to turn back now to my experience at AREcamp.

This was my first opportunity to work with the same group of people over an entire week.

Now I've seen my growth as a speaker in many ways.

And it was also apparent to me that this was another opportunity for me to get out of my own way and allow every word to come through me rather than plan out ahead of time every word that I was going to say,

Which is how I used to speak in the past.

I was wholly committed to listening to Holy Spirit,

Not to ego.

I was wholly willing to see the sameness in everyone I encountered.

And I was wholly willing to trust that my eight hour drive by myself was going to be fun and easy,

Which it was.

So I really found myself walking around in a state of trust.

And as a result,

I became aware of more synchronicities than I can possibly list.

Now these might sound ordinary to you,

But I can assure you that they were not ordinary to me at all.

They came with a charge of you are taken care of.

So I just want to share some of these synchronicities.

The first one.

Number one,

By chance,

The camp counselor,

The lead camp counselor felt inspired out of the blue to tell me that this group of adults was spiritually advanced.

So as a result,

I changed my entire program to dive deep into the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles and mindfulness also.

And I got fabulous feedback.

Number two,

The staff each got a secret Santa,

So to speak.

They call them tillies.

So your tilly is someone who you're given the name of and you do nice things for them throughout the week without them knowing who you are.

I felt prompted one afternoon to walk back to my cabin a different way,

Leading me right past the massage therapy tent.

Yes,

There is a tent for massage therapy at this camp.

The massage therapist happened to be outside at that moment and said to me that she had an opening,

Even though she was done for the day.

And of course I jumped on it.

And later when I was in the tent,

She told me that the massage was already paid for by the person who drew my name as their tilly.

So this was perfect because what an amazing gift,

Number one.

But I was looking for ideas for my tilly,

For the person that I was supposed to give surprises to.

So I was so grateful and paid it forward by gifting a massage to my tilly.

And this answer was given when I was in need.

So that was big for me.

Number three.

One of my activities in my program involved people saying affirming and positive and loving things about their partner.

They would say things to each other like,

You are light,

You are whole,

You are love.

These are just a few positive things that were shared between partners.

After we finished,

One of the participants said,

Corinne,

I have a note for you from your tilly and I think you need to read it right now.

It turns out that,

So I hadn't participated in the exercise since I was facilitating it.

Yet here was a note from my tilly saying many of those exact positive messages to me that my participants had just been sharing with each other.

Number four.

Another night I was in the dining hall speaking with a new friend and we got to chatting about the new CE edition of A Course in Miracles by Circle of Atonement.

I ran back to my room to grab it and we sat down looking through it.

I felt prompted to show her a very specific page in the course and what did I do?

But of course I opened the book exactly to that page and if you've seen the CE,

It's really big.

Number five.

As our conversation went on in the dining hall,

A gathering began around us and it turned out it was an open mic night for adults.

I hadn't known about this gathering,

But I found myself there with my ACIM book and I honestly probably would have left because I had planning to do for my course the next morning,

But it just sort of happened.

It gathered around us and people started sharing short readings and songs and of course I got the message from the universe that I was supposed to be there because I was there with my course book and that I was supposed to share a reading.

So that felt right and sure enough that's exactly what I did.

So my list of synchronicities can go on.

I'll leave it there.

From the outside,

These just might look like events during my day,

But because I was so tuned into the present,

So outside of fear and in such trust,

Each synchronicity to me became an affirmation that I can place my faith in love.

It reinforced my awareness that we are not alone.

Synchronicities are like seeing the script in action.

Spirit is always there in any moment,

Ready to help us awaken if we allow it.

Yet there will be those times when we're completely absorbed in the chaos of the world.

And here's an example,

So shortly after this amazing blissful experience at camp,

I get home and my summer had been pretty crazy.

I completed some really big edits to my book.

My husband had surgery,

Another family member had surgery.

My husband and I both found out that our old cars needed big repairs.

The bottom of one was completely rusting out and we unexpectedly had to get a new one.

We lost two of my beloved chickens to illness and nearly lost a third.

And one day after returning from camp,

I was in the vet's office for nearly the entire day.

And I was just completely overwhelmed.

So I know you get this because I'm sure you've had days and times like this too.

I was not seeing the synchronicities anymore,

But they're still there trying to get my attention.

Listen to these three different examples.

Now this happens within this time that I'm so stressed out.

Number one,

In the time I was feeling overwhelmed,

Someone responded to one of my Instagram posts about how timing was divine.

They needed to see what I posted the moment the Instagram algorithm showed it in their feed.

That was a call to me back to love.

Number two,

I saw a different post on Facebook about someone going through medical testing and how A Course in Miracles helped her to remain anxiety free.

This was an immediate reminder to me about how we don't have to play the ego's games anymore and the worry I was experiencing about my family members and my beloved pet chickens.

I could see all that differently.

So this brought me back to choosing a miracle instead of fear.

And number three,

I was getting lunch the day of my marathon veterinary appointment.

And I happened to mention my sick chicken and the whopping vet bill to one of the workers.

And a man overheard our conversation and he said he'd pray for me as we both left the cafe and it just warmed my heart.

So these things were calling me back to my capital S self.

They were loving witnesses there to remind me that I can choose again.

When we stray,

Love is trying to call us back to a miracle mindset always.

But know that the world is always going to be the world in every second under the ego.

Its purpose is to prove that you are a body.

However,

Under the Holy Spirit's purpose,

The world becomes an opportunity to wake up.

And I can't help but think of the course quote,

If you knew who walks beside you on the way that you have chosen,

Fear would be impossible.

So of course I have some takeaways for you.

Number one,

Know that things are always working in your favor despite appearances.

When circumstances get intense,

Remember it's simply your belief in separation,

The ego trying to convince you that you're separate.

Number two,

Remember your willingness.

Your true self has not abandoned you and wants you to wake up to it.

To get the ball rolling on your awakening,

All you need is willingness.

Remember that willingness is everything.

Number three,

Start paying attention.

When you're tuned into your phone or lost in thought or just totally not present,

You might not notice or appreciate the synchronicities when they happen because they do happen to you all the time.

So make it an ongoing practice to be here now in this present moment.

And number four,

Slow down.

How can you simplify your life?

What can you let go of?

Where might you need to say no?

By slowing down,

You're setting yourself up for noticing synchronicities.

I love hearing about your synchronicities.

I've seen so many posted on social media lately,

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Post a comment on the show notes page of this podcast or tag me on social media because as you experience these synchronicities,

It helps all of us remember to choose again.

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Reviews

Thank you for sharing. Nice reminder that you have to be in the proper head space to enjoy and encounter miracles.

Thank you for this wonderful reminder. ❤

I am so happy I found you on here, I absolutely love all your talks. They are perfect for me right now in my journey and I appreciate them and you. Namaste, thank you! 💜🙏🦋✨

Thank you so very. I really enjoyed practicing my mindfulness meditation while listening to this talk. After posting this I will be looking to find & subscribe to your podcast.

Oct 1, 2019 marked 18 years of ACIM practice as my primary path. I look forward to our being each others teacher & student. Continue Teacher of God to teach only love for that is what you / we are.

Lastly I will share with you a repeated frequent synchronicity I've experienced. Perhaps its an oxymoron to juxtapose frequent, repeated & synchronicity but nevertheless here goes. For the last 8 months or more I have been living on 4 acres of ancestral farm land adjacent to a tropical rain forest in Rincon Puerto Rico. I am retired and restoring an old house as well as clearing land of invasive vegetation, vines, weeds dead trees and more fruit bareing trees, herbs and vegetables. Its real sweaty work but while engaged in it I have made doing the labor part of mindfulness and gratitude work to have the gift of living in a sacred space, in silence, solitude, peace and harmony with nature.

The synchronicity is that the wild menacing looking but actually harmless, vegetarian 2 and 3 foot long iguanas no longer high tail it to the nearest tree when they see me. Now whenever I am working in the woods they will actually with great stealth sneak up on my
me and seem to enjoy see me startled reaction. I will be engrossed in what I am doing and look up or out the corner of my eye see one ambling towards me within 2 feet or less. Very often there will be or three more perched within 2 or 3 more feet sunning themselves and chilling as we look at each other. This happens almost daily now and it is not that these creatures are used to humans. No one has lived on this farm for over 25 yrs or so.

At first it did give me the creeps but now it makes me feel helpful and harmless that these creatures perceive no threat or fear from or in me. Namaste.

Very enlightening talk on synchronizities and how they become signposts on our journey! I love the comments about how Ego wants us to believe that we are separate from the Divine, but how synchronizities can bring us back if we are present! Thank you for this talk, Corinne, I will listen again!