Anatomy of A Sync: O.M.A.C., A.R.G.U.S., and All-Seeing Eyes

According to blogger/video-maker Jake Kotze, synchromysticism can be defined as:

"The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

Recognizing and recording various "syncs," as they are known, can be a fascinating hobby with some potential for personal growth and a better understanding of the world around us. It also carries with it the danger of entering what Robert Anton Wilson refers to as "Chapel Perilous" -- you might become so caught up in noticing and sussing out the meaning of these various synchronicities that you become utterly obsessed. Because you'll find that the more you pay attention to them, the more they occur.

He has just entered Chapel Perilous, and needs to put the computer away

Also, if you try explaining even one synchromystic happening to an everyday individual, or maybe a family member, you'll often find yourself greeted with an expression halfway between blank and sighting some sort of large blue furry caterpillar on your nose. An expression you might be making right now as you decide this blog is rubbish and quickly click it away.

But if you're still here, let me give you an example of a fascinating series of syncs I had yesterday, all within period of an hour or so.

It all started with an Intention -- I was going to use the bit of free time I had to do some comic reading and take notes for this blog. I was sitting next to my husband, who was playing video games. As I picked up a copy of "Justice League International Annual" #1 to read, my husband switched off the games and flipped to an episode of the old 1980s "Incredible Hulk" animated series. He said there was an episode there that he remembered vividly from when he was a child, "Project Cyclops," and wanted to re-watch it.

Intrigued, I put down my comic and decided to watch the Hulk episode with him. It was about a super-computer situated deep in a mountain called "Cyclops". The computer itself was an eyeball in a pyramid-shaped glass container:

Now this has really caught my attention, because that's the classic "eye-in-the-triangle" symbol -- also known as "The Eye of Providence" -- the one we see on the dollar bill and various other places:

To conspiracy theorists, that "all-seeing eye" symbol automatically = tyranny, "New World Order," various shadowy secret societies, "Big Brother," etc. Strangely, this cartoon seems to mirror some of those concepts, as the "supercomputer" goes crazy and takes over all the appliances and monitors in the United States:

I could do a deeper analysis of the cartoon some other time, but suffice it to say that  the episode is a paranoid's wet dream, with scenes of TV sets and the like featuring that big human-looking eyeball staring at people and watching their activities. In general: a pretty entertaining and intelligent cartoon from that time-period.

Now that the cartoon is done, I go back to my reading, and the copy of "Justice International Annual" #1. And guess what? It is also heavily "ocular-centric," the biggest factor being of course O.M.A.C (who likes to use the word "eye" instead of "I"):

And guess what? A power-hungry, malevolent computer that uses the symbol of the eye also goes crazy. And we also get a scene of the "eye" on all the computer monitors, just like the Hulk cartoon:

Not only do we have O.M.A.C.'s "Brother Eye" in this comic, but liberal mention of the organization "A.R.G.U.S." -- Argus Panoptes being, of course, the Greek giant with a thousand eyes -- panoptes = "all seeing":

Now, what is the symbol for A.R.G.U.S. in the DC Universe?

That's right: an eye in a triangle.

Having quite enough of this High Weirdness and wishing to avoid the Chapel Perilous, I decide to toss my "studies" to the side and just pick up a random old issue of "MAD Magazine" to read. When I open it up, I find this:

At which time, I needed to go to the gym and do a few laps on the treadmill.

The point of this post is not to "suss out" any shadowy meanings attached to any of these coincidences (which, as I mentioned before, took place one-after-the-other in the span of about an hour), but to simply document that they happened at all. 

Syncs: it all might simply be a matter of focus

What happened here? Was it simply all chance? Was there any meaning to the syncs? Was there no meaning, but my intention/attention merely "attracted" similar things? Did my focus on one thing lead to similar things "popping" out for me, things I would have ignored otherwise?

Whatever the case, I think a sense of playfulness about the whole enterprise is key.