Preface    xi
Introduction   1

1. A Moment Becomes Momentum   7
    What Is Synchronicity?   7
    The Many Ways It Can Happen   10
    Stories That Reveal Synchronicity   14
    Learning to Practice Openness to Synchronicity   18
    Interpreting Synchronicities   22

2. How Synchronicity Touches Us and Our Relationships   25
    The Experiences and Events That Brought Us Here   29
    A Dark Side   32
    Practicing Beginner's Mind   34
    Synchronicity and Mirroring Love   35
    Stories That Reveal Us and Our Relationships   39

3. Our Time and Place   67
    Practicing Letting Go of Ego   50
    Losing / Saving Face   52
    Ego / Self at a Glance   56
    Making Ego-Free Choices   56
    Just Coincidence: The Trickster Ego   59
    Practicing an Etiquette for Trickster Visits   63

4. Our Time and Place   67
    Only One World   67
    The Time It Takes   72
    The Knack of Knowing Our Timing   77
    The Embrace of Effort and Grace   80
    When the Time Is All Wrong   85
    Practicing In Time   87

5. Fate or Destiny?   91
    Our Destiny Fulfilled   91
    How to Know What We Want   96
    A Fateful Tale   100
    No Room for Chance   101
    Ways of Foretelling   104

6. Conditions and Crises   109
    The Givens of Human Life   109
    How What Happens Helps   115
    Using the Tools   118
    Crisis: A Given and a Spur   123
    Diving In   127
    A Mindful Practice   129
    Guides Who Come to Wave Us On   134
    Noticing Assisting Forces   139

7. Synchronicity in Our Dreams   141
    Remembering Dreams and Learning from Them   145
    Recurrent Dreams   150
    Achetypal Dreams   151
    Dreamwork and Active Imagination   154
    The Care and Tending of Dreams   155

8. Synchronicity and Our Spirituality   157
    Making Love Concrete   163
    How to Stay and See   166
    Working in Space   170
    Ready for Birth   174
    Declaring and Dedicating   176

Epilogue   181
About the Author   185