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Feeling Another’s Distress at a Distance: A Seemingly Psychic Connection
A mother was writing a letter to her daughter when her right hand began burning intensely and she dropped the pen. Less than an hour later she got a phone call telling her that her daughter’s right...
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Mike Myers, Deepak Chopra an Unlikely Duo: Discuss Philosophy, Coincidence...
You may not expect the mastermind behind “Wayne’s World” and “Austin Powers” to spend his free time contemplating enlightenment. But, Mike Myers has a deep interest in Eastern philosophy and he has...
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Quantum Physics Explains Coincidences?
When surprising coincidences occur, it seems we are connected to the world around us in a mysterious way. For example, you are thinking about a song you haven’t heard in years, and as you have this...
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Why Synchronicity Is Especially Important Today
Only in modern times would we even need the word “synchronicity.” Psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961) identified the concept of synchronicity and gave it this name, but “synchronicity” was such a...
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Biology, Psychology, and Mysticism Unite in Synchronicity Discussion
Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and famed psychiatrist Carl Jung have taken different—but complementary—approaches to synchronicity. Synchronicity refers to coincidences that appear between one’s mental...
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Synchronicity as a Divine Experience
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner (to the observer). To count as synchronicity, the events should be...
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Coincidences More Frequent for People Who’ve Had Near-Death Experiences: Study
The tendency to notice coincidences in one’s life, and to attribute meaning to those coincidences, is stronger in some people than in others. There are a number of neurophysiological and psychological...
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Why Study Coincidences?—Part 2
I study coincidences because they are fascinating. I study them because I’ve discovered they are useful in ways most people never considered. Once you become aware of them, you realize what a...
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The Several Meanings in a Meaningful Coincidence
What makes a coincidence meaningful? While the poet William Wordsworth suggested that sometimes “we murder to dissect”—that analysis can remove meaning from the experience—I believe that by taking...
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The Promise and Problems of Probability in Coincidence Studies
Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—”what are the odds of this happening?” Probability theory, which is a branch of...
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A Statistician’s Approach to Coincidences: What Are the Odds? (Part 1)
Unlikeliness characterizes coincidences. A common kind of coincidence, for example, is one in which you think of a friend and that friend calls you. Your first thought might be, “What are the chances?”...
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Skeptics May Deny Existence of Paranormal Experiences, but Psychological...
Do you believe that people can leave their bodies and float around as disincarnate consciousness? Do you believe that close to the moment of death people see spirits of dead loved ones who come to help...
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Coincidences Come in Many Beautiful Varieties: Dr. Beitman Discusses
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Dr. Bernard Beitman, developer of Coincidence Studies, uses a forest metaphor to explain the importance of categorizing the different kinds of coincidences. The world of...
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How to Explain Weird Coincidences: Dr. Beitman Discusses
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—For some people, God is clearly the force behind strange coincidences. He is the one arranging these seemingly improbable events. Others say, “The universe did it for me.” Some...
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Mind-Body Connection as It Relates to Coincidence Studies
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—A surprising coincidence often involves something in the outside world reflecting the thoughts in a person’s mind. You think of a song you haven’t heard in ages and it starts...
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How We Perceive Coincidences: Dr. Beitman Discusses
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Bernard Beitman, M.D., a founding father of Coincidence Studies, theorizes that strange coincidences may involve a sensory perception we don’t yet understand. When coincidences...
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Couvade: When Men Feel Pregnant
A Wisconsin woman had tried for five years to become pregnant. One day, her husband woke up feeling nauseous at the smell of breakfast. He rushed to the bathroom to vomit. He repeated the scene the...
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Woman Tracks Lost People in Her Dreams, Finds Lost Objects With Intuition
Grace Lark* is an environmental lawyer by trade, and a leading expert in that field. But she also upholds justice with strange abilities to intuitively find lost objects and return them to their...
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How a Former Yale Professor Turned to Spiritual Science
Gary Schwartz was raised without faith and steeped in science, but emerged a spiritual man. “I was raised to be an orthodox agnostic,” he said. He described what it means to be an “orthodox, or devout,...
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The Most Common Coincidences
To describe and classify is often the first step in developing a new science. Like the early botanists, I am developing a taxonomy for coincidences. Early botanists noticed similarities and differences...
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To Seize Benefits of Coincidence, Sometimes You Must Act Quickly
An opportunity suddenly appears within a narrow time window. Will you act? In a busy airport, a man saw a woman who immediately struck him as “the one.” A journalist found himself literally on the...
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Serendipity: A Store, a Movie, and a Coincidence
The word “serendipity” has many pop-culture references, but many people don’t know its original meaning or realize its usefulness. When customers walk into Serendipity, a women’s clothing store in...
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