Shuffle Synchronicities 🔀✨ Returns

What began as a memoir is now a teaching

Shuffle Synchronicities 🔀✨Returns

I’m thrilled to announce that Shuffle Synchronicities—the NPR-celebrated and formerly Top 25 in Music Substack—is back!

What began as a memoir is now a teaching.

Learn how something greater communicates with us through the music we love.

What Is It?

You may have stumbled upon the phenomenon yourself, with me here, or perhaps seen it trending recently on TikTok as Shufflemancy…

The practice is simple: You ask a question, hit shuffle on your music player, and interpret the first song that plays.

This often taps into the power of Synchronicity, which has many definitions, but here’s one:

SYNCHRONICITY

When an external event coincides meaningfully with our inner experience

How Is It Helpful?

When our inner experiences meaningfully coincide with external events.

We become aware of a correspondence between ourselves and something greater.

We can then work with this communication to help us guide our half of life.

A process I call Co-Curation.

SHUFFLE SYNCHRONICITIES

How Meaningful Music Coincidences Can Help Us Co-Curate Our Life

Here’s An Example

For instance, when I asked, How can I inspire others to embrace this practice?

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“Come Wander With Me” by Jeff Alexander from the album Late Night Tales by Air began to play.

The title and opening lyrics are like a direct invitation to explore this practice together.

He said come wander with me, love
Come wander with me

The album and the musicians also carry coincidental meaning because it’s an example of curated music.

The song, originally by Jeff Alexander in 1964, was curated by the French duo Air in 2005 for their contribution to Late Night Tales, a series of curated compilation albums.

Notably, Air used less than half of the original song in their curation.

Why Is Co-Curation Valuable?

Away from this sad world
Come wander with me

Many lament living in the ‘sad world’ of digital algorithms feeling like constant victims of statistical functions we can’t comprehend.

He came from the sunset
He came from the sea

Shuffling a music player might seem to remove the natural human functions of curation—the conscious selections of songs—ceding it instead to the algorithm.

But, just as Air only curated less than half the song, there’s more to this equation.

(Bold = other uncurated parts of the song)

He sang of a sweet love
Of dreams that would be

This practice—when intentional and meaningful—can empower our unconscious to co-curate our experience with something greater than deterministic mathematics.

This is because there is a Psychological-Physics behind Synchronicity, equal to or greater than Causality, which I’m researching and will share more on soon :)

But I was sworn to another
And could never be free

Suffice it to say, for now, it does seem to require us not to be sworn to disbelief…

Passing The Practice On To Others

Practices like this are nascent and growing in the increasingly digital yet re-spiritualizing life of 21st-century humanity.

Though under-studied and under-systemized, they have profound potential.

Oh where is the wanderer
Who wandered this way

Just as Air curated Jeff Alexander’s song and passed it on anew, and Psychologist Carl Jung and Physicist Wolfgang Pauli reintroduced the ancient I Ching as a tool for producing Synchronicity, I hope to pass on this new contemporary form.

He's passed on his wandering
And will never go away

Because it’s helpful.

And I don’t think it’s going away any time soon ;)

So…

Come wander with me, love

Come Shuffle 🔀✨ with me, y’all.

Start Now?

If you want to try, here’s something you can start with:

1. Ask a question about something meaningful going on in your life.

2. Enthusiastically believe a message will come—the more belief, the better. (You’ll see why in the next posts!)

3. Shuffle a playlist, intentionally holding that question and your belief.

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5. Write down your interpretation of the song’s guidance.

And, if you like, share your experience in the comments below.

My Comment

When I Shuffled yesterday to see if this post was ready to send, I got:

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“Future Club” by Perturbator

Which guided me to remember…

That I forgot…

To add the Paid Subscriber Benefits!

Imagine if I didn’t have some Co-Curation help from something greater?

• A Paid Subscription grants access to the Monthly Shuffle Club (meets every 11th)

• Founding Member Subscriptions can book Individual Shuffle Sessions (1 a month)

• Both tiers can read The Archive (weekly teachings archive after 4 weeks)

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It’s a lot more than this ;)