A June Miracle

It is now thoroughly impossible for me to not believe in miracles, synchronicities, fate, destiny, the Universe, "Source" or "God". There's some metaphysical fabric that weaves together timelines and fates.

It may not seem like much at first, but I randomly encountered someone in New York City I had just met online a week prior. Not at some event venue or mutual place of interest but on the street at 1:30am on the same block as my Airbnb.

Miracles, synchronicities, impossible coincidences - proof that some divine handiwork exists in this reality. I'm not trying to convince anyone. So much has been written by so many people on such things. I'm just sharing a story. I have hundreds of stories I can share from this year alone, but I'll share one of the most striking and understandable (yet hardly believable) coincidences.

First, the story in few words, then I'll elaborate. I didn't win the lottery or gain anything physical but a profound love and appreciation for this magical reality.

On a crazy trip to Texas for the crypto conference Consensus, I learned of a project I wanted to get involved with: Littercoin. The following week I joined their Slack and their weekly community call on Zoom in which there were only eight people from various countries. I was on camera, introduced myself, and just listened to the updates and plans. I didn't learn where anyone else was from as it was entirely irrelevant. The next week I spontaneously traveled to New York City for another crypto conference NFT NYC. On the third night, as I was walking back to my Airbnb in Upper West Side Manhattan (which I didn't even book - more on that below) from the local subway station, I decided to take a detour to find a place that sold water. It was after 1:00 am but I was successful. And then! - walking back to my Airbnb I pass by a young man who lives houseless with his bicycle equipped with all sorts of gear. He was awake but looked like he was preparing to sleep, and I walked past being tired myself and so close to my bed, but then something within me told me to turn around and say hello. Maybe he could use a friendly conversation, and I wanted to entertain my curiosity about his way of life: was it by choice, what sorts of things does he have to deal with, etc. I introduce myself and we begin talking but then he says "wait, I feel like I've seen you before." I don't remember him so I jokingly say "perhaps in a previous life!" Then it clicks to him, as astonished as I was: "you were the new guy on the Littercoin Zoom call last week!"

New York City is massive (the Earth is pretty massive relatively). How??? How did I randomly encounter this dude I just met online a week prior on the same block of my Airbnb (which I didn't even pick)?

The Universe is incredible. God is incredible. There's more magic to this story and I have a hundred more stories like this from the last five months. I've learned, just like the W.H. Murray quote in my Inspiration post, that when you definitely commit yourself and take risks (the whole NYC trip was a massive spontaneous risk) then the universe unfolds itself for you in supremely magical ways. The first several synchronicities I experienced this year made me feel absolutely insane but I have learned this is just how reality works when you align with it.

I experienced an astonishing amount of miracles/synchronicities in the month of June, notably during my two trips to Austin, Texas and NYC. The idea of synchronicities and miracles are often hard to understand for people who have not learned to see them and experienced them. Everyone has, of course, experienced them but not everyone recognizes them as such nor believe in their meaningfulness. I was that someone until last year coinciding with the time I took a step back from life and really dug into my psyche: seeking to understand and move past my life-long regrets, mistakes, what-ifs, self-destructive behaviors, addictions, etc. I had enough of life but I engaged what is often called "shadow work" through which I began to recognize and see coincidences everywhere, especially throughout my entire life history. Everything seems to happen for a reason and synchronicities seem to be indications that we're on the right path, whether that means aligning with our soul or following the will of God (we of course don't actually know anything, but these are common understandings/interpretations).

There are many quotes I could mention but here is one I recently tweeted, perhaps the most apropos:

"Synchronicities accompany the crucial faces of the process of individuation, but too often they pass unnoticed because the individual has not learned to watch for such coincidences and to make them meaningful in relation to the symbolism of his inner life. Be on the watch for events in your life that may seem random and see what meaning might come up for you if you let them live within you for some time. Synchronicity is a way of coming to realize what is in our deepest, undiscovered self." - from Eternalised' youtube video.

And per Dr David Hawkins' "Scale of Consciousness" the vibration of Love, Joy, Peace and Enlightenment yield "synchronicity and extraordinary outcomes". I'm not claiming to be enlightened, but I hold love & joy within my being for everyone and everything almost always. I've trained my eyes and ears to pay attention to virtually everything, which required me to train my mind through many months of intensive unraveling of life-long programming.

I've journaled and could share hundreds of coincidences/synchronicities I've experienced in my life, especially the last six months. I have many thoughts on what these mean, why I'm experiencing them, and how it appears more and more people are having similar awakenings at this moment globally (or perhaps it's simply the various social media algorithms connecting me with those few people).

Sharing them wouldn't be very effective, at least positively. They would certainly alienate me and beckon multitudes to call me crazy, delusional, insane, etc. So I shall share just a couple for now - one of the most striking and understandable (yet hardly believable) coincidences.

More details of the story:

On my trip to Austin, Texas to attend one of the biggest conferences in technology and crypto, Consensus (which I serendipitously received a free ticket valued at $1200 just a couple weeks prior - a story I could expound upon), aside from meeting many incredible individuals I was pitching my old idea to incentivize via unique and practical gamification the picking up of litter, titled CleanCity (partially detailed here), to various investors and project owners. A few of them mentioned to me the Littercoin project which I hadn't heard of and was coincidentally building on Cardano, the blockchain I've been most interested in.

The following week I joined their Slack and their weekly community call on Zoom in which there were only eight people from various countries. I was on camera, introduced myself, and just listened to the updates and plans. I didn't learn where anyone else was from as it was entirely irrelevant. 

The next week I traveled to New York City, which was an even crazier trip both the complete spontaneity of deciding to go and the incredible experiences & synchronicities that would fill a lengthy chapter in my autobiography. The trip was Monday to Friday morning and I booked a place to stay via Airbnb for only Monday & Tuesday nights as I was leaving the option open to stay elsewhere the rest of the week. When I arrived to the Airbnb, I called the host and was informed that the apartment building had randomly changed all the locks and they needed to get keys made which would be a hassle. So, he offered to either refund me or move me to another one of his apartments many blocks away. I went with the latter. It was right next to Central Park which was awesome because I could spend my mornings there exercising and meditating.

Fast forward to Wednesday, I decided I liked the place enough to stay so I asked the host for an extra night and he obliged. I was going to spend Thursday night awake as the flight left in the morning (which I could write an equally lengthy story of another incredible, unbelievable synchronicity). On Wednesday night after midnight, as I was walking back to my Airbnb in Upper West Side Manhattan (which I didn't even book - more on that below) from the local subway station, I decided to take a detour to find a place that sold water. It was after 1 AM but I was successful. And then! - walking back to my Airbnb I pass by a young man who lives houseless with his bicycle equipped with all sorts of gear. He was awake but looked like he was preparing to sleep, and I walked past being tired myself and so close to my bed, but then something within me told me to turn around and say hello. Maybe he could use a friendly conversation, and I wanted to entertain my curiosity about his way of life: was it by choice, what sorts of things does he have to deal with, etc. I introduce myself and we begin talking but then he says "wait, I feel like I've seen you before." I don't remember him so I jokingly say "perhaps in a previous life!" Then it clicks to him, as astonished as I was: "you were the new guy on the Littercoin Zoom call last week!"

How?

Then as a followup to this story, I was wandering in Central Park after a few events downtown, and suddenly remembered that the Littercoin call happens in 15 minutes. I decide to hit up that guy via Slack asking where he sets up for the call in hopes I might be able to meet up with him in time. He responds he's in Central Park and only a ten minute walk away. Wow. I meet up with him and think how crazy it'll be to the other people on the call how we met and are sitting right next to each other. The call starts, and his phone dies. Like, it glitches and he's unable to use it for an hour. If I wasn't there, he wouldn't have been able to join the call. Wow.

I left him with a few parting gifts and spent every day since thanking God for this and the dozens of other incredible memories.