"Each week, I receive emails expressing appreciation for REALITIES, and amazement that the reader found the weekly blog post uncannily personal, relevant, or well-timed.
This isn’t an unusual experience for Field training students who are practicing resting in “alignment”—that inner state of self-agreement that is, as the Course states, the aim of practice.
While we undertake practice then, for the sake of alignment rather than to change outer conditions, we’re aware that the inner state reaches into the world nonlocally, and can have a profound, far-reaching, and often startling effect.
Commensurate with a person’s receptivity, the posts in this blog can show up in keeping with what Jung called synchronicity.
Defying linear cause and effect, synchronicity orchestrates events into a meaningful coherence that imparts some special instruction, guidance, or opportunity.
Synchronous events fall together, usually suddenly, in some conspicuous demonstration of a higher order or organizing principle that it would be irrational to attribute to coincidence.
Those who consult the I Ching (the ancient Chinese Book of Changes) and other oracles are opening themselves to the forces of synchronicity.
Through this availability to nonlocal influences, they enter a different causal stream than the one that governs our daily immersion in the world. In the case of an I Ching reading, the throwing of the coins or yarrow sticks, the subsequent formation of hexagrams, and thus the reading itself all take place under the jurisdiction of the nonlocal.
Of course, consulting the I Ching, Tarot cards, or other oracular device in no way presupposes such willingness.
One might do these things willfully, in a state of contradiction, from a stance of exporting one’s creative authority, superstitiously, and so on—and there’s nothing in Field practice that either requires or endorses such practices. But the do illustrate something important.
In our view, the whole world is an oracle, commensurate with our receptivity.
The true student finds the teacher everywhere, and as our willingness deepens, we become alert to nonlocal “tips” that are being extended to further our good both inwardly and outwardly.
Such tips come naturally, of themselves, and have the undeniable presence and self-evident authority of a synchronicity.
They do not involve “figuring out” or “reading into” things. When they happen, there’s no doubt about it, and their meaning and value are obvious.
Usually, they come when we aren’t looking for them.
We’re simply resting in alignment, open, defenseless, willing—and suddenly, the teacher is at hand.
You can begin to play with this principle of nonlocal instruction—and play is the best approach—by noticing certain events and situations of your waking life in what may be a different way for you—that is, as dream events.
Especially when something happens during the day that seems unusual, dreamlike, coincidental, surreal, or magical, you can regard the event as though it were primarily metaphoric or symbolic, and listen for what it has to tell you.
The Course calls this practice “dreamwalking,” and notes that it is a powerful way to meet our experience that can confer surprising benefits.
Dreamwalking tips from the Field often point to the next step, clarifying our direction or shining the light on a contradiction that we’re ready to release.
One doesn’t need coins or yarrow sticks or a deck of cards or tea leaves or anything else. The whole of creation is a map of consciousness for the willing."
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...excerpted from The Field Project
