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The Alchemist: A Modern Classic Fable of Spiritual Healing, Self-Discovery, and the Power of Dreams [Coelho, Paulo] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Alchemist: A Modern Classic Fable of Spiritual Healing, Self-Discovery, and the Power of Dreams

Then the patterns, synchronicities begin to unfold, in which we recognize, wow, signs are there to point us where to go. This beautiful book, The Alchemist, outlines the steps. We are given signs to guide us, and then eventually prophecies to hold us. When the higher mind gets into this other alternate state, we realize that we're not just living in a belief structure, and we just have possibilities to appreciate. We have probability fields in which things could most likely happen if we're there in those fields. And then authentically, if we are in integrity with our own will, the realization that something is manifesting because I am here. The furthest most entities will go is leaving signs. So the symbolic world, and the person with the synchronistic world, are signs of other intelligences weaving destiny patterns for us. They cannot really affect consciousness directly. They don't do that. Consciousness is a self-creation, is a self-motive space. So we have three first steps that belong to us, time, space, and pattern. We live within that.

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And then, boom, came to me, download Illuminate. Illuminate is the name, and it's a film festival, and we're going to do this in nine months. And so I had magically met nine people who all had what I saw to be really valuable skills. Only one of those nine people had ever attended a film festival. But I trained those nine people to do the nine jobs necessary to launch a film festival in nine months. We didn't put 500 people in seats. We put 2,700 people. We didn't just attract five people from across state lines. We attracted an audience with our $1,000 marketing budget from like 27 states and 11 countries. And we didn't just hope for a world premiere in year three. We had four world premieres in year one, including a film called Death Makes Life Possible, which was executive produced by Dr. Marilyn Schlitz and Deepak Chopra. And there was, you could hear a pin drop in that room because it was resonating with so many people, and that's when I knew, that's when I knew I had really truly found my purpose and that I was an instrument.

My experience is that the more synchronicity and serendipity happens, the more you're probably on track. So if things suddenly come up and you say, how's that possible, that's usually a good sign. There might be people, I know there are people, who think I'm crazy or who can't see the red thread. They see that I do a lot of different things, but for me they're all one. Because I'm following the energy. I'm seeing where I can cocreate toward something that is about a world that works for all, about where love is at the center, where we are really following our hearts. All of us can do that. If I stay on track, connected to my purpose, and truly appreciating the now, it doesn't mean I don't think forward. I am really a strategic connector, always looking far ahead as well, but from here, and as soon as I let that go, the next step reveals itself.

I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color. It was a painting and design teacher. Her students had made the signs that had attracted my attention. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book. It was Autobiography of a Yogi. Now, if somebody had given that to me two weeks before, I'd have looked at it and I'd just tossed it.

I am now on a five month journey because after 18 months of hibernation and listening, I felt I needed new energy. I needed to get out there, so I committed to doing a five month journey of synchronicity, just seeing where I went and who I would follow, without enough money to get back, and just being like, okay, the right jobs are going to come in, I will meet the right people, and I just need to listen, follow the signs, and see where I am. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. On the Lion's Gate portal in 2024, I felt ready. I could feel it was close. I just needed a sign. I wondered, what is the next thing, what am I meant to do? I blew out my candle and went back to sleep in my van. The next day, I got a call from my boss. He said, I'm really sorry, Sophia, but I have to let you go.

I am now on a five month journey because after 18 months of hibernation and listening, I felt I needed new energy. I needed to get out there, so I committed to doing a five month journey of synchronicity, just seeing where I went and who I would follow, without enough money to get back, and just being like, okay, the right jobs are going to come in, I will meet the right people, and I just need to listen, follow the signs, and see where I am. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. On the Lion's Gate portal in 2024, I felt ready. I could feel it was close. I just needed a sign. I wondered, what is the next thing, what am I meant to do? I blew out my candle and went back to sleep in my van. The next day, I got a call from my boss. He said, I'm really sorry, Sophia, but I have to let you go.

But once I knew that I had to come to America, which was a huge thing, it meant leaving my children, my family, my mother, everything. It was scary as hell, but I knew I had to do this. So I just said to the universe, 'Okay, well, I'm not going anywhere cold.' So after that moment, once I said yes, everything, and I mean everything, fell into place for me. Everything happened by sheer synchronicity. I went to Canada. I was staying with my sister. Before I went to Canada, there had been two job opportunities that arose, and I knew I had to get a work permit to get into America. I didn't have a degree, but after a period of showing the authorities what I had done throughout my career, they gave me the go-ahead because I had the equivalent experience that they were looking for. I was interviewed recently by somebody who has written a book about synchronicity and is studying it. And I think you cannot divide synchronicity from intention. I think intention is part of the magnetic attraction to draw things to you. Thoughts are electric, emotions are magnetic, and I think that synchronicity happens when you believe that it can happen. When you believe you can have what you want and that things are just going to show up for you.

Carl Jung says that you can literally track your journey toward your individuation path, which is what he referred to as enlightenment. The way you track it is by the number of synchronicities you are experiencing every day. I would say that when I am in alignment, I tend to get more synchronicities. Those synchronicities may be in the form of chills up my back, or a number that shows up, or someone tells me something and it feels right. I then look at my iPhone to see what time it is and it is exactly 137, or 432, or 1111, and then I think, okay. I do not take it as fact at that moment. I take it as another input variable that comes in, and I do not ignore it. I was talking on the phone with someone, one of the guys that works on my social media team, and we were talking about the rudra granti, which is the energetic knot before the crown chakra awakening. It is also Rama Ra granti, which is spelled like my last name, G R A N T, but it has an I on the end of it, but it is pronounced granti. I realized that the universe itself is called the cosmic grant. So I was like, this is just too funny. Then I look up and I am driving on Highway 17 on the way here from Phoenix, and the road exit right where I am was Grant Street. There are no coincidences in this universe. Everything is there to give us affirmations of things.

In Alaska, through what felt like the powers of the universe and manifestation energy, I had not encountered anyone in the space field. I had never met a rocket scientist or an engineer. I had no connection to the space industry. Within a week of feeling this new dream, I received an invitation from the United Nations to attend the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. I still do not know how my name ended up on that list, but I was invited to meet astronauts and the space community at the United Nations a week later. That became my one way trip from Alaska to New York. I met everyone there, and that was when I began connecting with incredible space leaders. One day I woke up and realized I just have to go. I just need to do this. I am going to pay for it myself. Let's go. Within days, someone heard about it and wrote me a check to fully sponsor the entire dinner. That was a good example of synchronicities. One dream that felt impossible manifested because I decided, because of a choice, that I just needed to take action, just one action.

Am I having synchronicities in a negative way or a positive way? You have to learn to read the signposts, which means you have to awaken your awareness. Very important. Be the observer of your thoughts and emotions. The road to great passion and purpose is not linear. It has a lot of dips. Those dips are where you really learn something about yourself because we're in the earth school. It's all about lessons. Look at the cosmic picture. What am I learning at this point? What do I need to adjust? It's not just finding your passion. It's finding your direction. You find your direction hopefully by creating your direction and not letting the outside world slam you in the face.

Then came phone numbers, just a phone number, and with that phone number I would call and someone would answer, we're waiting for you, we have something we want you to caretake. That has been my journey. Of course, the premier dream, I was in a library, a line of people, and at the front is a podium with this man with white hair looking down. I come and I go, yes, and the man says, we now would like you to study Paracelsus, whatever name. Then I would go out and seek all the information on what I was given. A lot of people ask, do you live in the library, do you just stay in there and read, and I have to say no, I don't. But what does happen is, when I'm ready, the books jump out at me, and then there's a purpose and a timing for me to gather the information.

"It was my junior year that I literally ran into a door that had a flyer for a puppet-making course. I didn't know what puppet-making was. That was my introduction to stop motion animation specifically, and that was when I 100% knew that was the direction I wanted to go. I gave up for a second, and then I ran into that teacher in the grocery store parking lot right before summer started. She told me to try one studio I hadn't tried yet. Sure enough, they said yes. They hired me on my birthday. That was another sign."

"Once I was inspired to get back into creating and photographing people, everything just opened up. It's like when you're aligned, and people always talk about synchronicity, it just lines up for you, and it did. I went online to discover the beginning of COVID. No one was going out, no one was going to balls, no one was going to proms, and a lot of these beautiful dresses had been left behind. I was picking up $1,200 dresses, brand new, with tax, for 25 bucks, and that's when I got addicted. I managed to pull together an amazing Hollywood wardrobe."

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"I believe in synchronicity, so this is a story of synchronicity. I was living in England, in Wimbledon, and I was just starting my psychotherapeutic journey. I was late taking the tube up to Regent College. I showed up in my class, and everybody else had chosen the books to present. There were about 30 of us, and I got a book nobody else wanted to touch, which was Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness, and that changed my life. I loved this book. I loved Ken Wilber's thinking. I did my dissertation on him. I wound up really feeling like transpersonal psychology was real, and what was possible just went, my mind just really expanded. I got to tell him this story in person once, and it was just so fun that this found me. It was something that found me versus me finding it."

"Other things came from the universe and pulled me in a direction, and I went in that direction fortunately. If you go on your hunch, take your hunch, and if it's a pure feeling, try to move forward toward that hunch. Just experiment with that dynamic idea that came to you. Why not, right? I have a piece of art over there called, Why Not Jump Off the Cliff and Try It. I don't take credit for it myself, it came through me, and so this happened and I just kept going."

This evolutionary miracle shifts our own personal perceptual paradigm. It offers something that is quite remarkable, a synchronization. Now we're synchronized with the light field, and in the synchronization we're synchronizing with others. We're meeting the people that we're meant to meet. We're meeting the information that's meant to be received. We're receiving in real time. That journey, the great challenge of coming into purpose, the challenges are far outweighed by the receptivity of what the universe offers in terms of the manifestation of the life that your soul is meant to live. It's virtually instantaneous when you're really synchronizing and you're really in the presence of that.

What happened after that was that within a couple of weeks I was offered a job to leave the practice of law and enter a government agency to head up their interfacing with the court system, and I knew this was not by chance. She got me a speaking engagement at Harvard University. I hung up my cell phone and looked at Rocky, and I said, I just quit the practice of law. She said, Mark, look around, where are you. I said, Harvard. She said, do not you think you are exactly where you are supposed to be."

Magic happens when you're in purpose. Everything has meaning. My mother, who was a bit of a mystic, used to always say that to me. Everything happens for a reason. And I'm beginning to realize that the totality of my life has come to this point right here, talking to you. It all has some kind of meaning and purpose. A few years ago, I got a call from someone who was convening a roundtable at the United Nations to address the issue of rising sea levels. And some crazy person came up with the idea, what about floating cities? They actually enlisted a team and they invited me to the United Nations as this crazy screenwriter to comment on it. And, you know, it's wild what a journey this has been.

"The synchronicities happened, the miracles came, the resources showed up. When we do that, it is not a magic carpet ride. There are challenges. But you will go to your destiny. The resources will show up, the people, the financial resources, and other things that make life good for your family. There are miracles. For example, the home my family has lived in for sixteen years in Boulder showed up at a price we could afford. There have been many miracles like that."