An interesting book, but seemingly largely derivative of Wilson's other thoughts on these same matters. The “world” does not simply present itself through the windowpanes of the eyes and channels of the other senses. A young woman is recounting a dream in which she was given a golden scarab, when Jung hears a gentle tapping at the window behind him and turns to see a flying insect knocking against the windowpane. Though there are some similarities, it is interesting that some different categories grew out of the two different approaches. Stumbling upon that 1938 plate at the moment I was missing my dad — and the fact that the plate led me to someone who was also missing his dad — isn’t a coincidence.

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After you’ve read it, you may agree with author and psychiatrist Bernard Beitman that some synchronicities are far more than dumb luck. Had the seller shared my dad’s birthday, I would have likely felt that, too, was an uncanny coincidence.

Here’s one interpretation: Rose died, and her disembodied spirit felt the need to tell me and found its way into my dream. Besides the amazing evidence for human connection via the One Mind and related explanations just emerging from the modern study of human experience, this book provides powerful tools to enable each of us to greatly enrich our minds through expanded awareness of the role of synchronicity and serendipity in our lives.

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The 1969 Western film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, based upon real individuals whose lives and exploits already had a place among American legends of the West, opens with the disclaimer "Most of what follows is true.Another variable in coincidences is similarity: the two or more events making up a coincidence must be similar. Schizotypy is a dimension of personality characterised by experiences that in some ways echo, in muted form, the symptoms of psychosis, including magical ideation and paranormal belief. S. history' - how Norma Jeane Mortenson evolved herself through force of will into the 'Goddess' of design she envisioned (and how this façade concealed the real Normal, nonetheless suffering). Coincidence, in the simple sense of co-occurrence, informs pattern-detection, especially in terms of identifying causal relationships, and so enhances predictability.