Synchronicity Collapses Time

In the Mailbox this Saturn's Day morning: remembering Ivan Illich.

https://www.noemamag.com/a-forgotten-prophet-whose-time-has-come/

“... the predicament we face is that the beginning of this (our) awakening often comes long before we are really ready to let go of all the ways in which we cling.” – Ram Das. We can, and do, cling to our methods of “letting go,” of our techniques of finding the present with no past nor future to cloud our vision, which usually turns out to be more projection. Even our language is rooted in the past – where do you think we learned it?

In the mailbox yesterday, Friday the 13th. No black cats in my neighborhood, but a note in the Mailbox called attention to our habitual human preoccupation with habits. A very human one: we’re always looking for something beyond what is right in front of us. Habit can become tradition, and that's not always bad. For instance, we “story tellers” are always looking for one. The bad habit is when we keep looking for that story “out there,” or “back there,” when, found, it is always at our feet, in our mailbox.

Clearly, we do not create in the past, nor in a future that is yet to be. The “story” we have to tell is of this mystical moment-by-moment flowing as does the ink from our pen, as does The Watercourse on its Way.