Sync Book Vol.2 on Red Ice Radio

Red Ice Radio with Alan Abbadessa-Green, Douglas Bolles and William Klaus
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Bonus Sync:

You know how, at the end of each Red Ice episode, they announce upcoming guests? Well, the first Red Ice show to announce me at the end was Steven Greer's "Sirius" episode. I thought that was pretty neat, considering my repeated Sirius syncs. Well, it got funnier, as the episode that aired directly before ours was about Syria (which readers of this blog will know is also connected to Sirius).

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Synchronic​ity 11 years after 911

Here we are, 11 years on. Today is already weird for me and I've only been awake about an hour. It's 4:30pm here in NYC, I've slept through most of the day after a bizarre night of sleep. It wasn't so much that I couldn't wake up, but that I thought I shouldn't -- like there was important work to do in the dreamworld. I remember telling my wife as she got out of bed that I had to go back to a dream about "apples and dragons" but now I don't remember any of the details. Though I've been awake for an hour and had some coffee, I still feel very much out of it --like a part of me is still there.

When I got online, I had a message from my friend Peter that confused me even more.

How could I forget? (Isn't this a day we're told to "never forget"?)

Yes, indeed, the Sync Book is one year old today. Happy Birthday baby Sync Book. ...And you've got a little brother or sister on the way. (Sync Book Vol 2 coming soon!)

I guess my mind is distracted because I have a lot on my plate right now. I'm working on my own book (Suicide Kings) as well as Sync Book Vol 2 and trying to keep my head above water financially and find time for my family (the most important of all) and just juggling a lot. There may soon come a point where I have to put all this aside to take care of more pressing matters, but, for the moment, it feels like the work we're doing is vital and significant and worth the temporary sacrifices. I guess in my waking life too I feel like there's "important work to do in the dreamworld."

I found some time this week to begin setting up the foundations of a database. The idea is an amalgam of one from Douglas Bolles, conversations with Jason Barrera, and a related idea of my own. Doug wanted to do a "Book of Stars" depicting actors that resonate a certain archetype in the Tarot. Living in New York, I see movie posters and advertisements everywhere, and it occurred to me that the movie posters themselves were Tarot cards. I wanted to set up a database of these posters-as-cards but as Jason and Doug and Justin Morgan have helped me flesh this thing out, the idea is very quickly becoming a combination of everyone's vision (as it should be). This is a work in progress, but it is already well worth your time to look at. Check out http://movietarot.blogspot.com/

There are many days where this works seems thanksless. And then, there are days like today--days where someone I've never met before sends me an email letting me know they are enjoying the work that's being done and that they are working on it too. It makes the weight feel less like a heavy load and more like an honor.

Hi Alan,

I enjoyed listening to your interview with Neil Kramer, and I know you are going to be puzzled about this one (or not).

This morning, in the centre of The Hague (the Netherlands) : there was a collision of two trams.

September 11 (9 11), tram number 9 and 11 collided at exactly 11 minutes to 10 -summertime-. But wintertime, which is in fact the real time, exactly 11 minutes to 9.

It's strange to read the reports, but yes, that's what happened. Tramnumber 9 and 11. No fatalities, but 36 people got injured, so it has made it to the Dutch newspapers. You were expecting something on this day right?

All the best with your work! 
-Thijs van Tongeren

Thank you all for another year of support and friendship and fellowship.
Much love,
Alan

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Everything Is a Remix

Thanks to Antoine Charvet for sharing these videos with me. For oldschool sync heads there probably isn't too much new here, but the production quality is strong and the case is well argued (I don't agree with all his points, but I do support many of them). I highly recommend watching all four parts.

Part 1:


Part 2:


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Part 4:




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42 Minutes: Neil Kramer & Stefan Jablonski

Will Morgan, one of the two regular hosts of 42 Minutes, asked me to fill in for him on a few shows over the last few weeks. I've really enjoyed this show every week and the direction Doug and Will have gone with it, so I was happy to help out. Aside from the pleasure of assisting in a project I care about, this opportunity also allowed me to speak with fellow Sync Book authors Neil Kramer and Stefan Jablonski.

Here's a rundown of my brief stint as guest host:

Episode #10.1 -the green room with Stefan Jablonski

Episode #12 -Alan & Doug

Episode #13 -Neil Kramer

Episode #13.3 -the green room with Neil Kramer

Click here for the 42 Minutes main page.

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Notes:

In the episode with Neil Kramer we talk about the Titanic sailing again and question whether it will make it this time. This was of course meant as a metafore ... however, the news of the Costa Concordia (concordance?) broke within a few days and is being compared to the sinking of the Titanic. Make of that what you will.

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Adding to the sense of community that this show has been fostering, there is even the unspoken evolution of the logo. A bunch of us have been playing with the visual, tweeking it and altering it, without ever really talking about it.

Here's a look at the chronology so far:

Doug's Sync/Labyrinth version:

Justin Morgan's Jupiter-based version:

I combined the two (in inverse):

Neil Kramer adds a lens flare:

42 Minutes

Two fellow Sync Book authors, Will and Doug, have been doing a weekly radio show called 42 Minutes. These are great morning chats on synchronicity and the nature of reality and so much more. The show is short (42 minutes, as the name implies) and, because of that, sort of goes rapid-fire.

In their last few episodes they have been breaking down chapters from the Sync Book and discussing the topics those chapters address. I'm so glad they are doing this because, if we've done our job well, the Sync Book should be a launching point for these types of conversations on a larger scale.

This week I joined them as they picked up where they left off from the week prior, talking about schizophrenia and entheogens and holographic reality and on and on.

Enjoy.

+If player does not work or you want to listen on the go,

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Ghost in the Mirror

About two weeks ago, I had dinner with a few friends from work. They were aware that I had just finished working on The Sync Book and they knew that it had something to do with magic. So, they asked for my opinion on a bunch of topics not really covered in the book (which takes magic as an esoteric study), but more along the lines of the "Supernatural" and experiences with ghosts and such. They talked about their supernatural experiences and I talked about mine (which include quite a few encounters with what might be considered poltergeists - most of these involve a particular house I lived in when I was younger). While these could be a topic for future blog posts, that's not really why I asked you here today.

At this dinner, while sharing "ghost stories," one of these guys pulls up a YouTube video of a Japanese girl looking into 3 mirrors. At some point, she turns around and one of her reflections "stays." Watch it here:

Yesterday, my wife and I went to the library and ended up grabbing two DVDs. One was Disney's Atlantis, only to come home and find a post on Mask of God about the same movie. The other was this strange Japanese movie, called House, that called out to me for some strange reason. I knew nothing about it and there was very little info on the DVD case (I actually thought it was going to be an animated movie), but it just seemed like I should pick it up. I turns out to be a crazy trippy horror-ish movie that was one mind fu3k after another. Anyway, about an hour into the movie, we see the main girl walk into a room with a similar 3 mirror set up as that YouTube clip.

I turn to my wife and say "I want to see her sit in front of those mirrors and brush her hair and then turn around and have one reflection stay, like in that YouTube clip we saw two weeks ago."

The movie cuts away to another scene for about 5 minutes, then cuts back to the room where the girl is brushing her hair and this happens:

Now, I am left with a question. To me, this wasn't exactly a normal "sync wink," but perhaps it was. Perhaps I somehow "knew" this sync was waiting for me and grabbed the movie because of it. Or, perhaps I manifested a desired reality...sort of creating an "intentional sync." That would be what we call "real magic."

The question, what role does an observer of media have in its actual creation, can be compared to the double slit experiment. Please take an additional 5 minutes of your day and watch this:

The Sync Book: Now Available!!

You may have noticed that I have been quiet and mostly absent from the scene for a few months. Well, here is the fruit that has been gestating. Go get yourself a copy!

Available right now in print from CreateSpace ...expect to see it on Amazon in both print and eBook format within a week or so.

Dead Rise from Watery Underworld, Angels and Stars Fall from Heaven

I'm crazy busy right now working on a bunch of longer pieces, but I wanted to toss this out real quick...

SoapFan tipped us off to the discovery of Blackbeard's giant Anchor, since the anchor has been a reoccurring symbol in our current sync-web.

I actually have a bunch I want to add to this, since the timing is very interesting. What are the odds that the anchor from the Queen Anne's Revenge would be found at the same time that a major movie comes out featuring that same ship? (Blackbeard and his Queen Anne's Revenge is big in the plot of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie). There's a whole tangent I want to go on here about Frogs and Kings, but it'll have to wait.

Recall that that new Pirates movie came out the day before "The Rapture" - the day where we looked at the Simpsons episode "Thank God It's Doomsday"

In that post, we saw how the anchor coincided with "the stars falling from heaven"

What I didn't point out was that the Anchor-wearing GreenMan and his celebrity "stars" fall from a blimp that is hit by The Blue Angels.

6 days later....

Funny, since that happened while I was away, down in Virginia, on the very same day I was talking to a guy from Lynchburg, and we had a 20 minute conversation where he tried to explain to me where Lynchburg was in relation to other cities I might be familiar with.

Thanks to LibyanSibyl for the heads-up on the story.

And here is today's syncy story about the Angels emergency landing that she also mentions.

Now this is way too subtle and personal to be conspiratorial in nature, which perhaps answers the question I raised in our Apocalypse Now post, where the same patterns were observed.

Directly after Sibyl's twitter, I stumble upon this post at the SynchromysticLunatic, and the fascinating graphic that goes with it:

Calling out "the stars falling to Earth" as the next step in a sequence that includes yesterday's eclipse.

...So the secrets of the Dead are rising from the watery Underworld, while the Angels and Stars are Falling from Heaven. World's are colliding. The time has come for us to look into the mirror and introduce our shadow and light selves to each other.

I think we have to teach them to get along.

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UPDATE:

June 12th (Pentecost) Blimp crash:

The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.” - Revelation 22:6

(Zoom In)

See also: Lighting Up The Tree of Life

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June 16th UPDATE:

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Second Issue of "Squares That Touch"

The second issue is now finished and ready for you to enjoy. Amazingly, this issue seems to be jammed with synchronistic parallels. Most notably, the issue revolves around Japan and water-as-death metaphor. Of course, after the tsunami hit Japan a few weeks back, I was left with new questions and answers as to the age-old "art imitating life or life imitating art" quandary.

Next, we have the parallels to the Masonic tracing boards as discussed here, but that opens a whole new can of worms because the boards are meant to depict beings from the star-system of Sirius which carries with it symbolism of mer-people or the Dogon. Without giving too much of the story away, let me say that will become very important as Squares That Touch continues.

So, as the creator or conduit for this story, I'm left with many things to mull over. You, as the reader, are hopefully left with a good comic.

To download, Click Here (the file is a 10MB Pdf).

We hope you'll enjoy it and please, if you do, spread it around.

Deconstructing December's Dismemberment PT3

Last month, Michael from Gosporn sent me this photo in an email with the message "coffee + circumpunct = smiley face"

He was inspired by the coffee cup next to the "tear in the fabric of space" we looked at in the K2 SyncStrom Goes POP! post.

I ended PT1 of this series with the note that I've been caught in a pattern where smiley faces keep coming up as connected to stargates or wormholes.

In Part2 of this series, we looked at some of Terry Gilliam's films as they connect to stargates and revisited the idea of Heath Ledger as the Hanged Man.

Recall that, in Gilliam's Dr. Parnassus, Ledger is found with a rope around his neck and a Hanged Man Tarot card in his pocket:

Ledger is found by Parnassus' crew, which includes Verne Troyer, the ever-present microcosm or MiniMe.

Recalling TheSyncWhole's Severed Fist post, Gilliam had two films produced by George Harrison's film company, HAND Made Films, which even has a dismembered Hand as its logo.

One of these films was Life of Brian, which we looked at in Pt2.

The other is Time Bandits - and it stars a bunch of MiniWe's, including Kenny Baker, who played R2D2. Aside from the obvious hand-severing StarWars sync, there's a personal connection here for me. Years ago I did a comic with the uber-talented Jeff Plotkin where Kenny Baker is a bad-guy that teleports me, Alan, into a farflung future. In the story, Kenny Baker was the source of my time-travel (getting me lost in the time stream, actually). In the end, he is defeated by my ex-girlfriend, Rosa (herself an awesome artist - go check out her out). Weirder still, her birthday is the same day as the Winter Solstice and Lunar Eclipse.

Here's two pages from the comic just for kicks. I had to dig them out so I hope you enjoy em.

Anyway, I decided to rewatch Time Bandits last week and I had my mind sufficiently blown.

If you've never seen it, Imdb gives us this summary:

Kevin, an imaginative child, goes on a time-travelling adventure with a bunch of treasure-hunting dwarves, who have "borrowed" a map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being.

About 5-10 minutes in, this scene gives us a shot of the television with a nice double-sync, where a Hanged Man has one of his limbs highlighted by a cast on his leg. So we know something important is about to happen.

Kevin turns away from the TV show his parents are watching and goes up into his room to await more high weirdness. What do I spy on the wall next to his bed? A smiley face! There is even something red dangling in front of the smiley face, giving us the bloodstained smile that was so iconic from the Watchmen comics. That'll be important later so keep that in mind.

Of course, confirming the smile=stargate pattern, right after we see the smiley face, a "tear in the fabric of space" opens up and brings all the MiniWe's into Kevin's room. He gets pushed up against the wall and we see a picture of a knight, just like the one that appeared in his room the evening prior. The knight is what first suggested that there was a "time hole" in his room . This syncs with Michael's look at the time-traveling Mark Twain book, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court.

That last shot is (perhaps intentionally) in direct resonance with the Scott Pilgrim stargate that Eleleth examined on his blog.

But okay, maybe there's only so many ways to draw a stargate. But, if you want weird, as soon as the Time Bandits pass through the StarGate, the very next thing we see is a freaking goose and duck!

...See TheSyncWhole's Goose is Loose and my New York Duck posts as well as Eleleth's Donald Duck obsession - and I use that word affectionately :)

To make it sync-in, the falling Time Bandits actually land directly on our feathered friends.

So now they start explaining about how the map they have shows the locations of all the stargates or time holes or tears in the fabric of space or whatever term fits you best.

Something about all the map talk reminded me of a film I hadn't seen since it first came out, The Blair Witch Project. One of the few things I remember about that movie was when one of the guys intentionally throws their map into a river. Though it kills them in the end, the tossing away of the map actually allows the Blair Witch filmmakers to find the object of their original search. I forget all about Time Bandits, which is still playing on my TV, and get lost in a metaphysical question.

Something I keep thinking that all our synchronicity studies may be doing is mapping out the fractal nature of time and space. It's as if we are drawing up a map, perhaps even the one the Time Bandits hold. Yet, we have also come to understand that there is a natural flow to the universe. So, I start wondering if we should be following our fractal-maps or if we should just let the river carry us to our destination.

BAM! One of the Time Bandits says:

We all have those friends who "want to meet somebody" and wonder why they never find love. Isn't it true that one only finds love when they're not looking for it? Maybe that applies to everything. Maybe us grail searchers, if I may use that term poetically, can learn a lesson from that. I don't know what that means to any of you or how we can apply that in a practical fashion, I'm just cluing you in to the answer the universe gave me when I asked it something.

Just to quickly log the sync, the characters follow the river and it takes them to where they meet Napoleon. He's watching a puppet show (which ties in nicely with the hand-puppet as severed-hand connection made at TheSyncWhole). He also makes a point of telling them how tall he is, which is 5 feet 1 inch - giving us the 51 (3x17) we find associated with Osiris, Egypt's green-skinned dismembered god.

They next travel to where they meet another Green Man, Robin Hood - and the sync is cemented as they give Robin Hood the treasure they stole from the 5'1" Napoleon.

Robin Hood's thieves catch the Time Bandits in a snare trap (It's A Trap!) and all the MiniWe's are hanging upside down, bringing us back to the Hanged Man.

The Time Bandits try to convince the thieves that they are ruthless, and so are asked a few questions to prove their ruthlessness. Question number one: Would you...

Question number two: "Pick teeth from blind old ladies?"

You may recall that teeth were mentioned in the other post where I posted some of Jeff Plotkin's artwork.

Teeth are also brought up in connection with Smiley Faces in Steve Wilner's Cracks In The Wall #7. I highly recommend this podcast.

Question number three:

Ah, here we go. Dwarves hanging upside down being asked about children's toys. Not only did I do a post about "Toys" directly after getting that photo from Michael, but the SyncWhole team connected these two movie posters to the Decemberment theme:

And yes, that's Leslie Nielsen as Santa, who we already connected to George Harrison and their strange Stargate attraction. Remember, Harrison produced Time Bandits and recording music for it.

33 and 1/3: Reflection over face? Check. Baby bump? Check. Hey! You sunk my monolith.

But, let's back up a second. Gnomeo and Juliet?

In TheSyncWhole's most recent post, a connection is made between Shakespeare and crashing through windows. Specifically, they make reference to a Woody Allen film where Charlize Theron distracts the driver of a car (by making sexual passes at him while he's driving) and causes him to crash.

I remembered that the same thing happens in The Man Who Wasn't There, when Scarlett Johansson distracts Billy Bob Thorton. (Let's also note that they connect Theron to the Norse god Thor and Billy Bob's name actually is THORton.)

But, as to the Shakespeare-Broken Window thing, in Man Who Wasn't There, Thorton sits in front of a window talking to the man who he will later kill by spearing him through the neck! The character's name is Big Dave (Dave Bowman?) and he offers Thorton a cigar. He calls the cigars "Romeo and Juliet."

Now, let's examine that shot, cause there's a lot in there.

The first thing I noticed is that the light fixtures on the ceiling look a lot like the BatMan: Dark Knight logo. Remember, they are sitting in front of a glass window.

He's saying "Romeo and Juliet," echoing our hanged man...

...And of course we already know who he is.

Then I notice that the "N" in the circle, here it is again:

Is reminiscent of the perfume bottle showcased in Watchmen.

It's explained that the Thorton's wife, who Big Dave is sleeping with, works at this highlighted "N" department store so that she can get a discount on the perfume she likes.

Many of us have been toying with the Mars/Arms wordplay. Well, in Watchmen, that perfume bottle heralds a teleportation to Mars by a man with a circumpunct on his forehead, Dr Manhattan.

"coffee + circumpunct = smiley face"

Now, once Big Dave and Thorton get into a fight, Thorton is pressed up against that window they were smoking in front of earlier. The glass cracks (echoing the Charlize Theron broken window).

This also echoes the opening scene to Watchmen, where a man wearing a smiley face button gets thrown through a window...

...getting that red mark over the smile which became Watchmen's trademark.

Although, it seems someone beat Alan Moore to the punch. That red mark over the smiley face was hiding in the corner of Kevin's room in Time Bandits. And it appeared just before he was taken through a "tear in the fabric of space."

The question is, are we witnessing a window being opened right now? What kind of future can we see on the other side? I, for one, see a bright tomorrow. I'm just hoping it doesn't take a crash to carry us across.