Synchronistic Friendship

Last night, I saw a marvelous, new play at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre here in Las Vegas. I went with a very magical person, Lynne Morris, whose picture is shown above. Lynne has become my closest friend here in Las Vegas -- and we met through a unique synchronicity (that I only learned about some time after our friendship had formed).

I actually met Lynne in Cairo, Egypt. She attended a tour co-sponsored by the Intuition Network and the Philosophical Research Society back in about 1998. Leading the tour group with me was trance channel Kevin Ryerson. There were about 30 people on the tour, and Lynne and I did not really speak with each other until the last evening, when we happened to sit next to each other on the bus taking us to our final dinner on a Nile River barge. As we began talking, I had the uncanny feeling that this was a person whom I had known for lifetimes -- and we have been good friends ever since.

I only learned some months later about the unusual synchronicity that prompted Lynne to attend this tour in the first place. Some weeks before the tour, she had been browsing in a metaphysical bookstore in Ojai, California, when my book, The Roots of Consciousness, fell off of a shelf and landed on her head! That got her attention. So when she saw the flyer, shortly thereafter, that I was leading a tour to Egypt -- she decided to come along.

The more I get to know Lynne, the more remarkable I find her to be. By profession, she has been a dancer, choreographer and theatrical director. Her career in these endeavors has taken her virtually everywhere. At one time, she was a "Golddigger" dancer on the Dean Martin variety show for television. During her career as a showgirl, she even dated Frank Sinatra. In Las Vegas, she worked with Ann Margaret. As a child, growing up in Los Angeles, May West was a family friend. Later Lynne founded a dance school and worked with Tony Tenille.

At the time I met Lynne, she had just retired from an eighteen year career as the Creative Director of a non-profit organization known as Up With People. During that time, she was responsible for directing six simultaneous touring groups, each with an international cast of 150 teenagers, traveling around the world -- performing for kings, presidents and popes. On several occasions, she directed Superbowl halftime shows. At the same time she held this job, she was also directing shows on Broadway.

There are many more stories to tell about Lynne in this life. But, one of the most interesting actually concerns a past life. Kevin Ryerson has a "spirit guide" called Athun Re (with a fantastic sense of humor) who says that he was a member of the priesthood during the reign of the revolutionary, monotheistic pharoah Akhenaton. On one occasion, during a session Lynne had with Kevin, in trance, Athun Re, claimed that he remembered Lynne from a past-life in ancient Egypt in which she had been a captured slave who eventually became a temple dancer. This story resonated with Lynne in a deep archetypal way, as she has always had a deep interest in metaphysics.

Lynne's great great grandfather, incidentally, was John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, a famous early American experiment in communal life. He was a metaphysical thinker whose ideas about sexuality were not in tune with the standards of his time. He ended up fathering many children within the community.

I understand that Lynne has had a few hypnotic regression sessions with our mutual friend, Chuck Tramont, MD, in which she has explored some past-life connections that involve me. To the credit of both Lynne and Chuck, neither has said anything to me about these sessions. I think Chuck is waiting to see if he can find some independent confirmation in a future session with me.

However, as I indicated in a previous blog, I discontinued hypnotic regression with Chuck Tramont because, while exploring a possible William James past lifetime, I experienced consistent physical discomfort associated with the feeling of being in his body. Perhaps, in the future, I'll feel ready to continue this exploration. (Even so, I am much more inclined to an interpretation of "archetypal synchronistic resonance" rather than reincarnation.)

Several years ago, Lynne Morris moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. And, I have served -- believe it or not -- as her realtor. This is something I only do, on occasion, for friends -- as I became licensed primarily for purposes of my own real-estate investing.

Now, Lynne serves with me on the board of directors of the Intuition Network.