The Greek Class

Sequels normally refer to works of fiction. This is a true sequel to my earlier Ravens in Full Bloom. Though non-fictional, the books have a strongly narrative aspect, the one having arisen from, indeed following the other. Ravens told how, looking for a support group for my studies of synchronicity, a class on Greek Mythology (we called it 'The Greek Class', for short) unexpectedly stepped in to fill this role, and did so through a synchronicity. This second book tells how most members of the Greek Class opted to participate in a synchronicity experiment. When seeking their consent, in December 2015, I did not myself know what form the experiment would take. I should have known that synchronicity would itself come up with the answer. In February 2016 (perfect timing) I was directed to a new book on Synchronicity by a Dr Kirby Surprise. I read it at speed, found it both entertaining and refreshing. More importantly, it provided a real opportunity to conduct a worthwhile, and potentially valid, experiment on this perplexing subject. Due to my inexperience of scientific method, the project as I devised it turned out to be "as full of holes as a colander"; but it was to have quite unexpected results, making a real contribution to our understanding of the phenomenon. While it did give an answer (insofar as that was possible) to the rather limited starting question, further synchronistic events pointed to what I came to term 'entanglement', a metaphor from submolecular physics: the phenomenon that Einstein dubbed 'spooky action at a distance' though it is no longer controversial among physicists, having been amply proved by experiment. Clod-hopping though this project may appear to some (it will be entertaining to more) its spin-off conclusions are worthy of serious attention; although they would clearly need to be replicated in the hundreds of instances that our sceptical Cartesian/Baconian science has come to require. I am personally more than prepared to accept what they tell me - that these phenomena are real, that they are a lot more than Dr Surprise thinks them, mere self-reflecting parlour-games. They are, or can be, actual messages from spirit, from some other world. I can understand too, how some can interpret them as coming from the universe, or even God. Whether they are so or no, they are certainly not going away. As I suggest in my last chapter, it may well be that anyone may experience them, have they a mind to. I am not alone, and I am not mad, or even merely deluded. These signs from another plane can help us in life's choices, though not necessarily too obviously . They need interpretation, as all symbols do. But in their interconnections, if properly noticed and recorded - because, like dreams, they are easily forgotten the next day, or even the next hour - they can truly assist us.