The Roman philosopher Seneca once wrote about how a candle or an oil lamp is an omen for an incoming storm because the flame will flicker as the weather changes.

And that's on point for me at the moment actually because here in the capital of Paraguay, we are sitting at the edge of yet another minor cyclone.

But Seneca contrasted the candle flame as a kind of omen with that of a comet being a herald

of disaster, because the comet operates at a higher order logic that the humans can really only guess at or have a partial view of.

What? And you know, during a tarot course that I taught years ago, I coined the term omen logic,

which then escaped my clutches into the wild in a very pleasing way.

And when you can combine what Seneca is getting at about the interconnectedness of all things,

those signs and portents that are easy for the human mind to understand because it is the

physical world communicating with each other, and those higher order ones that occasionally and without partial understanding

move through our reality.

When you can combine what Seneca is talking about there with the alien logic

and the high strangeness that attends synchronicity, then you get close to what I'm talking about

with Omen Lodgink. And in the previous video in the hospicing modernity's magic series,

we looked at synchronicity, so we looked at the core term that was developed into synchromesticism.

And the thing about modernity, if you recall, is because it didn't allow magic to exist,

it had to develop like a pseudo version of magic, which nevertheless sometimes worked

according to magical principles because what a shock, magic is real. And so in this video, we're going to have a little bit of a side quest into perhaps my favorite application of synchronicity or a magic of modernity into a more magic-friendly context.

So we're going to look at synchromisticism. And in particular,

we're going to look at how getting better at synchromisticism allows you to get better at magic.

Now, why might that be so? Well, first of all, there's a sense of belonging. Okay. I was going to say,

you finally realize how you're not crazy.

You might still be crazy, but you're in pretty good company. When you come to understand that,

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