Hello Birdy! I've missed talking with you. Hope you are well. Your post is, as usual, far above the riff raft and causes me to sharpen my pen and focus. Usually, just a few snide remarks and generalizations is all that is required. hehe
So let's see here....
Or to what do you attribute the stability of waking reality?
The waking world is karma. It is the accumulation of all of your entire karma. This forms the waking reality to the ego. The dream world is a more fluid state of wishes, wonderings, fears, desires, questions, self analysis. It is a state which reflects upon the ego and its karmic situation. Thus, it is fleeting and unwieldy.
Meaning, that some people, say a very neurotic one, is superimposing upon and interacting with their waking reality in such a way that much of it is imaginary. The only real thing about their experience, is the physical matter. But a more aware person doesn't do that.
Everyone is experiencing their karma. Most karma is very similar, as most people are similar. They are 'average.' And so the world is basically seen and experienced in the same way. Karma can also be a nightmare. Or, an experience of one great blessing after another.
A perfectly sane person could be visited by aliens or ghosts at night. Some people talk to themselves walking down the sidewalk - trapped in their own hell world. It is the same as a disease. Siddhis, magicians, gurus or enlightened people experience various levels of control over the material world. Again, karma. In the presence of a master, the world can begin to look rather fluid and unreal - even to a bystander. I once knew a guru who approached an apple tree and said, "I'm hungry" and the entire tree dropped all of its fruit. Some people think such stories are crazy; the world is very flexible. The world seems more flexible to me than it might to most people.
I don't see why synchronicity should lack a cause. Some speculate that it has to do with vibrational compatibility in the realms of subtle energy. As for prophecy, there seems to be a way outside of linear time. How do you view it?
Actually, snychronicity DOES have a cause. It is simply a psychological one. Like I say, the world proceeds from inside the ego to the outside 'reality.' This also explains prophecy and other paranormal states...
Since 'reality' is being projected based on psychological states, it is not even odd that things can be pre-seen or that synchronicity occurs, or that entities, gods, demons or objects appear or disappear. You see, if it all comes from the mind, then what is impossible? What is it limited to or restricted by? What can't you dream up?
Light is not the fastest way to travel. There is an etheric field that fills the universe. Check out Ervin Lazslo. If you do not think there are scientific explanations for such things, then to what do you attribute them?
Since 'nature' is a reflection of the psyche, it has different levels and features. The course, gross feature is everyday reality. Billiard ball and going to work stuff which is a reflection of the logical, empirical brain. This is where most of us live all the time. It is also the area this site is dedicated to as a shrine.
The paranormal and quantum worlds are are very similar. At least the quantum world is predictable. But they are subtle and changing states, hard to describe in logical, empirical terms. They are reflections of the subconscious with its symbolism, uncontrollable drives, vast powers, contradictions....just think of the family man preacher who is driven by a hidden craving for young boys. He is contradicted (as the psyche always is to some extent). The human psyche is full of contradiction. This is seen in the outer world as paradox, absurdity and mystery.
I like your etheric field idea. As the psyche approaches the Cosmic Self, there is the appearance of total connectiveness in all things. This is simply a reflection of the most basic of all facts: There is only one Self. Everything must be the same object - a reflection of the one being.
We don't know enough about how the quantum world operates yet to make definitive statements about it.
I have news for you. Come back in a billion years and there will still be LOTS of questions about the micro AND macro worlds. Just think on the macro scale what is happening there....dark matter, dark energy - the entire universe expanding rapidly into WHAT???? Who knows? Why? It makes no sense.
So, it will ALWAYS be too early to make definitive statements about the natural world as we really try to comprehend it's totality. Why? Because god cannot comprehend himself. Even the Buddha falls deeper and deeper into the Void. Never able to comprehend his own infinity. In the deep comprehension/being of the Cosmic Self there is not even a peep. Not even a word or concept to express. The entire world is god's endless attempt to comprehend and interact with himself.