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- About Synchronicity™…
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- Synchronicity is "Demoware" you can fully convert by phone.
- Visionary Software believes in the basic honesty and intelligence
- of Macintosh users, so we have designed the product to let you
- give it a free-trial. Then, when you decide you want to own a
- fully-operational copy, all it takes is one toll-free phone call to
- order, register, and unlock the program immediately.
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- We understand how busy you are. Once you make that call, you'll
- be able to start fully using Synchronicity immediately, and you will
- receive the manual and a receipt, as well as notification of Version
- 2.0 and upcoming Visionary Software products. One call does it
- all! See below for pricing and ordering details.
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- Contents:
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- I. What is Synchronicity?
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- II. Benefits
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- III. Running Synchronicity
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- IV. Unlocking Synchronicity
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- V. The Visionary Software Guarantee
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- I. What is Synchronicity?
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- Synchronicity is an intuitive decision-making tool for creative
- professionals. It is designed for anyone who is willing to take an
- occasional five minutes to create more personal clarity, better
- decisions (with less stress), and better timing. As everyone knows,
- the quality of decisions - on how and when to act or when to bide
- our time - is central to success. This is a tool that helps decision-
- making in a new, intuitive way.
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- Whether you always like its feedback or not, Synchronicity does at
- least three important things: 1) it produces greater clarity around
- your question, issue, or dilemma; 2) it creates some distance
- between you and the issue or concern, creating skillful
- detachment; and 3) it stimulates intuitive processes through a
- broad and dispassionate perspective based on natural laws. All
- three of these "features" help remove some of the stress from
- life's challenges. At its most basic, the Synchronicity ritual is a
- relaxing comfort. At its highest level, it helps you make more
- skillful choices. All along, professionally recorded background
- sounds of an Oregon stream (with "random access frogs") soothe
- ruffled nerves.
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- • The Law of Synchronicity
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- The particular reflection or "reading" you receive as a result of
- the "focussing ritual" is generated by what Carl Jung defined as
- an "acausal connecting principle." The pre-eminent
- psychoanalyst, and friend of Albert Einstein, coined the term
- "synchronicity" to describe that principle, which he related to the
- collective subconscious. For 30 years, Jung studied the operation
- of synchronicity in and through the 4000 year-old chinese classic,
- The Book of Changes, arguably the oldest and wisest book in the
- world. In his treatise, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting
- Principle, Jung wrote,
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- "This … involves a certain curious principle that I have termed
- synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view
- diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is merely
- statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis
- of how events evolve one out of another, whereas synchronicity
- takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning
- something more than mere chance, namely, a peculiar
- interdependence of objective events among themselves as well as
- with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers."
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- According to the Law of Synchronicity, there are no accidents.
- Everything is related in time. As demonstrated and
- mathematically proven by the great atomic physicist, Werner
- Heisenberg, and defined as the "Uncertainty Principle,"
- everything does have an influence on everything else, the
- perceiver affects the perceived. Nothing is really ever left to
- Chance. Or, another way of putting it, everything is up to Chance
- - but Chance is a relation after all! Oriental geniuses realized this
- over 4000 years ago and devised the Book of Changes to put the
- principle of synchronicity to use according to their seasoned
- observations of natural laws. Now, with Synchronicity and a
- Macintosh, you can too!
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- • The Keyboard Consulting Method
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- The Synchronicity keyboard process is a mathematically faithful
- rendition of the ancient "yarrow stalk" method of consulting the
- Book of Changes, which was used for thousands of years before
- the more convenient three-coins method became popular.
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- During the keyboard ritual, the Synchronicity program is keeping
- track of how long you choose to hold the key(s) down and how
- long you let them stay up before you press them. During the
- process, an imaginary slot machine is spinning hundreds of times
- per second. Where it lands is the result of your subconscious
- processes controlling your exact timing. After six events,
- Synchronicity looks up the resulting pattern and displays your
- reading, according to a formulation of the universal laws of
- nature conceived some 4000 years ago as the Chinese classic, The
- Book of Changes. There are well over 454 significantly different
- readings possible.
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- The mathematics of the yarrow stalk method are significantly
- different than the coins method of consulting widely used
- throughout the world today. The most important difference is
- that the odds of the yarrow stalk method incorporate the principle
- of entropy, whereas the coin method does not (see New
- Directions in the I Ching by Schoenholtz, University Books). That
- the ancient Chinese sages were able to create a precise binary
- system that incorporated entropy is almost beyond belief! Outside
- the laborious yarrow stalk method (which few people know or
- have time for), Synchronicity by Visionary Software is the only
- modern consulting method we know of that is true to the original
- mathematics.
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- • A couple of historical references
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- The Book of Changes was always a practical, not a religious, tool,
- and has never been connected with any religion. In fact, its
- invention predates religion, even in the highly civilized ancient
- chinese culture. Yet its binary system is so modern that von
- Neumann was inspired by it during his pioneering formulations of
- digital systems. In another 20th century example, Mao Tse Tung
- used the I Ching to plan the Long March and and execute a
- successful revolution against incredible odds.
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- • Is it a tool or is it a game?
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- It could be either, depending upon how you choose to use it.
- Ultimately, since Synchronicity reflects your own mental energy,
- it's up to you whether to use it for clarity and decision-making or
- entertainment. It doesn't care. If you use it seriously, it's a great
- tool for widening perspective, greater clarity, emotional
- detachment, and stimulating intuition. On the other hand, if you
- use it casually, it's an enjoyable experience. Either way, it's
- interesting and you benefit from its natural wisdom.
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- II. Benefits
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- Synchronicity provides at least five important benefits:
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- 1) Synchronicity supports relaxation. The naturally recorded
- background sounds are soothing and make excellent
- accompaniment to any thinking, conversation, coffee or tea break.
- Just boot up Synchronicity and listen to the sounds, if you like.
- Moreover, focussing your attention on a particular question or
- issue, and defining it, is a constructive stress-reducing exercise.
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- 2) Detachment for objectivity. Synchronicity helps you distance
- yourself from personal, emotional, or strategic concerns.
- Detachment always gives you a powerful advantage.
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- 3) Mental Clarity. If approached in a straightforward manner,
- Synchronicity's responses are remarkably to the point, easy to
- interpret and understand. And they're always stimulating.
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- 4) Make better decisions. You can't help but make wiser decisions
- using Synchronicity, if only because you will have calmed yourself
- and become more detached. In addition, Synchronicity gives tried
- and true advice based on the ways of nature, and it produces wise
- and dispassionate feedback for you when you need it most - right
- now!
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- 5) Reduce stress. Decision-making in general becomes less
- stressful when you have a tool to help you better accomodate
- difficult situations or relationships, whenever you need it. And
- the whole Synchronicity process can take as little time as a few
- minutes.
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- III. Running with Synchronicity
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- • Hardware you need
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- In order to use Synchronicity, you need a Mac 512E, Mac Plus,
- Mac SE, or Mac II computer with a hard disk or two floppy disk
- drives. To get best results (i.e. to support sounds), you need
- System 6.0.2 or later as currently supplied by every Macintosh
- dealer, or downloadable many online networks. Synchronicity
- may not work with some large screens (but we are working on
- this and will soon release V. 1.1 to accomodate them).
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- • Go ahead and make copies for friends
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- We encourage you to take advantage of Synchronicity's smart
- fresh-copy routine to make unnamed "free-trial" copies of itself
- for you to share with other Mac users. This is the right thing to
- do. We request that you make copies – as word of mouth and user
- sharing is our primary channel of distribution – which keeps the
- price down for everybody. And the more copies you make, the
- larger the discount you can get when you call toll-free to register
- your own copy of Synchronicity!
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- • Free-trial mode
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- Because we only want satisfied customers, our marketing method
- for Synchronicity is simple and cost-effective - give the user a
- chance to try it first at no charge! If he or she likes it, they'll make
- a reasonable investment. We believe that $49.95 is more than
- reasonable for a tool like this. We believe that Synchronicity is
- worth $100 or more.
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- Because it is a good value, we are willing to send a "free-trial"
- copy to anyone who requests it. And we encourage you to copy it
- for other Mac users you know. You don't have to take our word
- for it - try it for yourself! The exercise costs you nothing. Even in
- demo mode, Synchronicity will reflect your energy, as well as your
- thoughts, back to you for four sessions.
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- After four free-trial sessions, Synchronicity goes into "advertising
- mode." You may have already experienced this. If so, it is time to
- make a decision whether or not to make an easy and small
- investment. Even in advertising mode, the program can be
- registered and unlocked by phone, and you can start making fresh
- copies again.
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- IV. Unlocking Synchronicity
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- Invest in Visionary Software by calling toll-free. Not only will we
- give you your personal code for unlocking the program, we will
- send you the informative Synchronicity manual, a receipt for your
- tax records, and put you down as a registered user for notices of
- updates, etc. It's pretty difficult to master the subtleties of
- Synchronicity without the manual. Please call 800-877-1832 Ext. 5
- or 503-246-6200 (Oregon and all non-sales calls, please) now and
- have your own copy Synchronicity fully unlocked - over the
- phone. Then you'll also be immediately able to access not only
- current readings (without commercial interruption), but a map of
- your immediate future according to the pattern of energy moving
- in the present (i.e. "Changes"), and have printouts of readings,
- which you can keep with you as long as they're relevant and
- helpful.
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- Ordering and pricing information.
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- When you decide (using Synchronicity perhaps) that you'd like to
- own a fully-operational copy, it's only $49.95 for the first copy,
- plus $20 for additional copies for friends, if the additional copies
- are ordered at the same time. Call our toll-free number, 1-800-
- 877-1832 and receive immediate service. If you have already
- ordered Synchronicity from us, and would like to order more
- copies (or multi-user copies), we will give you at least a 40%
- discount on all additional copies you order. We can fully unlock
- and personalize Synchronicity over the phone and will send you
- the informative Synchronicity manual and a receipt. We can
- accept Visa, Mastercard, and UPS COD orders.
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- The Visionary Software guarantee!
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- It's always a good idea to make a backup copy of applications,
- including Synchronicity. But if ever your copies of Synchronicity
- are lost or destroyed and you are a registered user, we will send
- you a fully operational replacement for a total of only $5.00 ($10 if
- you want it sent COD) - including all shipping and handling costs!
- Just call 503-246-6200. This is our customer support guarantee.
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- Synchronicity is not "shareware" and it's more than a typical
- demo version of a software product. This is a quality product
- (over two man and woman years invested) that is purposely
- designed for your convenience and economy.
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- Our Advice: Try Synchronicity for yourself at no cost and see if it
- doesn't support your peace of mind around difficult decisions! If
- you want a clear reflection, approach the simple keyboard ritual
- with sincerity and a relaxed focus of attention. Thank you.
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- *Apple, Macintosh, Mac SE, Mac Plus, and Mac II are registered trademarks of Apple
- Computer, Inc.
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