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Incredible Coincidence
The Baffling World of Synchronicity
By Alan Vaughan
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230 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
Cover Size: 4 x 7 inches
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Related listings: Synchronicity
Date: 1979
ISBN: 0-345-35972-0
Added to Catalog: 4/15/98
WIRT: 44303334
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes, Bibliography
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Synchronicity is the study of seemingly impossible coincidences.
Everyone has experienced them: You are thinking of someone you
haven't seen in years, and just then the phone rings and it is
them. We usually dismiss such experiences as random chance,
combined with selective attention and
our human tendency to see patterns in random events.
These coincidences are sometimes so astounding, though, that they make
us pause and we can't help but wonder if there is some
hidden force at work.
The problem, then, is that we don't know what to do with
our strange experience, and we forget it a few days later.
¶In this book, the author doesn't try to explain
synchronicity; instead, he has collected a set of 150
real examples, which you can analyse any way you want.
Some cases, like the phone call from the long lost friend,
can be explained as a psychic exchange of information:
The friend sends out "vibes" that he is about to call,
and you somehow pick up on them. Other events involving
the random movement of physical objects seem
to require no human agent. Synchonicity is a broad term
that may cover many different kinds of paranormal,
psychological and
purely statistical phenomena. This
collection of cases doesn't offer any unified theory, but
it does provide a lot of intriguing clues and
source references for many of the claims. It reads like
Ripley's Believe It or Not but is better documented.
-- Glenn Campbell
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CHANCES OF A LIFETIME
The man who found King Tut's tomb dies, and the lights go out
in Cairo.
A housewife finds a ring she lost forty years ago -- inside a
potato.
A bullet finds its mark twenty years after it was fired -- by accident.
A prophetic dream. An answered prayer. A lucky break. A chance encounter that leads to a long-term relationship or an unexpected career opportunity. We have all experienced or heard of incredible coincidences. But what are they really and what do they mean? Is there a way to prepare for them? Can we prepare for them? Can we use them to our advantage?
Synchronicity—meaningful coincidences that have no appar ent cause—is one of the most thought-provoking concerns in the field of psychic phenomena. Alan Vaughan has compiled more than 150 actual case histories to prove that there is more to incredible coincidence than meets the eye:
- A woman in Berkeley, California, is locked out of her house the postman walks up, holding a letter from her brother... inside is a spare key.
- A hurricane in Galveston, Texas, sweeps Charles Coghlan's coffin out to sea; eight years and two thousand miles later, the coffin is found just offshore from the town where Coghlan was raised.
- A Londoner takes the wrong bus, not realizing his mistake until he passes the house of a friend he hasn't seen in years; smelling gas at the door, he prevents a suicide.
A fascinating exploration into the strangest things that
can happen every day.
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