Perpetual Synchronicity - Chance Garton Interviewed on Health Energy Podcast Episode #42
"Ancestral River" author Carla Adams invited me to hang for a live stream on her Youtube channel, and I'm looking forward to what gems we might unearth in this mind-meld.
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In this episode
Core themes
Perpetual synchronicity is a practice, not a lucky streak
Chance Garton opens by tying synchronicity directly to gratitude, describing how a defeatist train of thought the day before dissolved once he actually listed what he was grateful for, and the things he named promptly showed up in front of him. He argues a show like InnerVerse engenders this for listeners, because uplifting concepts tend to reappear in a listener's life in uplifting ways. Carla echoes it with her own month long experiment of asking eight questions at bedtime and on waking, including how her guidance system will guide her and how she will feel the support of the universe.
From rock climbing injury to biofield tuning
Chance traces his path into energy work. He started podcasting eight years ago before he was ready, chasing the question of how creative people at transformational arts festivals turned soul purpose into a livelihood. Nobody could hand him the secret. In 2020 he heard Eileen McCusick on Crowe 777 and the Higher Side Chats within a short span, bought a Sonic Slider tuning fork, and cleared a long term shoulder injury that turned out to be a back left heart chakra pattern of absorbing other people's negativity. He read her books rather than taking classes and has been tuning about four years.
All the gods resolving into one story
The heart of the conversation is Chance's research into language, symbolism and etymology, shared on his members podcast Inner World with cohost Dylan Socoscio. He argues world mythologies and religions run on the same tenets and only look different because a symbol carries many meanings. He cites Reverend Robert Taylor, who wrote The Devil's Pulpit and went to jail for showing the astro theology behind world religion, and Taylor's line that Christianity and paganism are as different as six and half a dozen. His target is what he calls the Disney vacation of mythology and pop culture gnosticism.
The big bang is the cosmic egg retold
Chance makes the case that scientific materialism repeats an ancient cosmology rather than replacing it. The ancients held matter itself to be eternal, with a mind awakening out of chaotic matter to shape it into a world, symbolized by Osiris set adrift by Typhon, by Noah in the ark, whose name he links to nous or mind, and by figures like Mithras and Phanes hatching from a cosmic egg. A singularity holding all matter that then explodes, he says, is that egg cracking. He also defends the divinity of matter and quotes Carl Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead on the pleroma.
Worldview as self defense and symbolic literacy
The practical thread is that your life is a product of your worldview, so the twenty four hour news cycle of disease scares, shootings and political theater amounts to worldview warfare. Chance offers a blunt filter for whose ideas to accept, asking whether you would be bummed to trade lives with the person. He urges people back into mystery, imagining seeing the sun with no words for it, because explaining things explains them away. Symbolic literacy, he says, is a synchronicity enhancer and genuine psychic self defense, letting you read waking life the way you would interpret a dream.
Quotes
“I'm not some kind of perfect saint or anything. I had a dark kind of train of thought yesterday and, you know, a little bit of a defeatist mentality about something and then the reality of existence kicked in and I was like, but where's your gratitude, man?”
“along the way, I found my way to answer that question for myself. And it does involve the actually concept of perpetual synchronicity, because there is the leap of faith moment that you just got to jump and realize that you're supported by the source and singularity of all life.”
“I'm really into puzzles, like putting the pieces together, seeing how things fit together that tuning is like doing a puzzle with somebody, you know, the puzzle is their life and their belief system.”
“The churches are often set up so they're pulling people in a lot, but you're supposed to stay there. And because of course there's money involved or just friendships and everything, but you're supposed to believe what they're teaching or what you have there. And they don't like it when you move on or when you keep learning”
“know thyself and know that for sure certainty brings ruin. So don't get too sure about things. And also, you know, there is a bit of, uh, you know, almost like they say the mystic swims in the same waters that these, the madman drowns in or the schizophrenic person drowns in.”
“I have a personal filter on, on listening to people and their information, which says, would I be bummed if I had to trade lives with that person? Yes or no.”
“I have no idea what that is. Like, whoa, what is that? You know, like then you're back into the mystery, which is where all the power's at. Because when we explain things, we explain it away.”
“at bedtime, right before I fall asleep and first thing when I wake up in the morning, it's like I have this list of eight things maybe that I go over. It's like, well, what amazing things are going to happen to me today? How's my United Guidance System going to guide me?”
Chance Garton is the host and producer of the Innerverse Podcast, where for over a decade he has investigated consciousness, mythology, symbolism, terrain health, and the psychosomatic language of the human body and mind. A biofield tuning practitioner, he uses tuning forks to help clients resolve physical symptoms, break negative patterns, and return to energetic coherence.
Kyle and Serena Denton are community herbalists creating wild-crafted and organic plant medicines out of Milwaukee since 2015. I have used their teas and tinctures on an almost daily basis for years now. Kyle is a great friend of InnerVerse and has appeared on the channel more times than I can count. These products work, not in the allopathic "pharma-medicine" way, but in a terrain-support, consciousness bolstering plant-teacher sort of way.
