Faustian said:

It really is just becoming a constant thing I've had multiple trips on mushrooms and LSD, I started smoking cannabis at 14, ate shrooms at 15, took acid at 19.
It seems I'm highly sensitive because when I describe my experiences to other psychedelics users it doesn't come close to the level of intensity or religious symbolism. In my opinion this distinction is a matter of intellect or intent in use of entheogens.
Most of us here are well aware there is much more beyond what our limited perception can process.
I personally have quite a fear of becoming schizophrenic given my experimentation and family history of bipolar disorder.
Regardless, here we are, I've had auditory hallucinations only a number of times. Typically its symphonic orchestral music that eventually falls into dissonance and then becomes unbearable. This hasn't popped up since last year it seems to be triggered by smoking cannabis a few weeks after ingesting LSD.

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MarkostheGnostic said:

I do not want to discourage you but all coincidences, including the ones you related, are not necessarily synchronistic."

They are striking nevertheless. For example, according to Rupert Sheldrake, "telephone telepathy" is possibly the most common form of telepathy but it is often just called 'a coincidence' by those unfamiliar with the dynamics of telepathy (where one needs to have some social bond with the caller whereas precognition and clairvoyance do not require such a bond). I have experienced telephone telepathy on a few memorable occasions. The point is simply that there are different species of coincidences and each has its unique characteristics.

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Fiery said:

Yeah this is a great conversation so thank for sharing. I believe Synchronicity is a complex, but very real subject.

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You're welcome but no need to thank me, I also appreciate a good analysis of people's experiences. Unfortunately, as my wife pointed out today, we have nobody in real time who enjoys deep conversations and so she indulges in podcasts and I indulge in these Shroomery forums.

With regard to Synchronicity I have the benefit of having been in Jungian analysis for 8+ years with 3 different Zurich-trained analysts as well as having had 100 classroom hours of Jungian seminars from many different analysts. Plus, I've been recording my own Synchronistic events for decades now. I've witnessed this principle for long enough to simply accept it as an aspect of reality yet it never gets old.