Into the Wider Dream

Michael Cocks is an Anglican clergyman from New Zealand, whose previous book was about communications received from St Stephen, which themselves were imbued with synchronicity. Michael covers some of the same ground as Chris Mackey above in his account of synchronicity and the extraordinary wealth of his own experience that be brings to bear on the topic. Some of his dreams contain patterns that later unfold in life itself. His most fundamental question is about the operation of spiritual forces in our lives, of which synchronicity can provide an example. An arresting case is when he picks up a young man in a storm who had been trying to commit suicide as he felt himself unworthy before God but who only two minutes earlier had prayed that a sympathetic person would pick him up. Among the thinkers discussed, apart from Jung, are Bohm, Pribram, LeShan and Peat. Maybe underpinning the phenomenon is the One Mind and the ways in which our outer life mirrors our inner – themes almost entirely ignored by academic psychology taught in universities. One sequence of synchronicities is connected to UFOs and another to the moon goddess. The author's technique of typing a question in and intuiting an answer – sometimes a poem with a page reference – is quite fascinating in terms of the results yielded for very different types of question. He concludes that synchronistic experiences act as a window into wider dimensions of meaning and consciousness, encouraging us to trust the unfolding of life – and patterns that connect.