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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Coincidences !!


At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced synchronicities – coincidences in which highly improbable events occur. You’re thinking about an old friend that you haven’t seen in years then receive a phone call from them a few seconds later. You have a sudden, unexplainable urge to visit a place you have never been to then end up meeting someone you never expected. Are such coincidences merely chance or is there something more at work?
Coincidences, the events we can’t explain, yet they happen in our lives, almost daily. Do I believe? Yes, I do. I believe in them. But the brain, who relies on logical reasoning, doesn’t believe, it reasons. As a great scientist once said, you can only enjoy the essence of a flower if you don’t know its deeper biology. The time you know what are the constituents of that essence and how it affects you, the beauty and emotions is gone. And as we are human, we should enjoy emotions and feelings, even the minutest one.
Getting back to ‘coincidences’, I wonder, how it happens. Is there someone who plots it or is it our own actions, what exactly is it? But I enjoy coincidences.
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances which have no apparent causal connection with each other.
A theoretical mathematical can tell you the probability of a particular outcome of an event (it has to be simple ones). Let’s say, for dice, for cards, purely mathematical and ideal. He can predict the outcomes for different conditions with the logic of cause and effect. But when it comes to our world, the measurements have to be considered with errors and randomness. 
To explain such remarkable events, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity”, which he defined as:
"The coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer."
Synchronistic events seem to defy all logic and have no rational explanation by the natural laws of cause and effect. However, due to the fact that they have significance and meaning to the observer – and are often profoundly life changing – synchronicity has long fascinated humankind.
The term “synchronicity” is often used rather loosely as a synonym for coincidence. As in the type of occurrences which trigger the exclamation “What a coincidence!” or “What are the chances?!”

Something more?
When synchronicities occur, there is almost always a deeper sense of awareness that is activated. It’s as if something sparks within us. Fleeting though it may be, something stirs. And even if for just a brief moment, something awakens.
It’s difficult to deny the sensations and emotions that one feels when experiencing such events first hand. Even the hardened sceptic feels something (even though it is usually difficult to put into words).
Although most people don’t dwell on the feelings of awe that accompany such remarkable experiences, there is something that is triggered deep in the psyche.
Perhaps it is because our sense of reality is momentarily knocked off balance. The seeming absurdity of such random, improbable events… Random, yet not…
We can’t help but wonder if there is some kind of meaning behind it all.

An underlying interconnectedness?
In physics, we are taught that every single particle in the universe has a gravitational effect upon every other particle, no matter how far the particles are separated. This unified effect supports the theories that all events are related, in some way, to each other. Thus it can be said that synchronicity is merely a very personal and subjective observation of this inter-connected universe of which we are but a small part. – Stephen J. Davis
A coincidence may be synchronicity, that being the experience of events which are causally unrelated, and yet their occurrence together has meaning for the person who observes them.
Human modeling, I must say an interesting topic, was not so successful, because of the randomness in the human behavior. Things and circumstances deviates the actions of the humans from the planned path. So, due to which, the mathematical equation of a human model deviates and an error accumulates which further results in coincidences, accidents, good luck, bad.
Science and quantum physics point to the notion that everything in the universe is connected. Providing particular support is Bell’s Theorem. Proclaimed as “the most profound discovery in science” by physicist Henry Stapp in a 1975 federal report, Bell’s theorem postulates that everything in the universe is connected as an indivisible whole. Experiments based on Bell’s Theorem have shown this to be true and that reality is non-local. Einstein referred to this as “spooky action at a distance”. :-)
Could this universal interconnectedness and “spooky action” be an explanation for synchronicity?

A secret language
Some people believe that synchronicity is a secret language. The language of the stars, of the Universe. It is something that guides us and provides us with valuable information. Information that can shape our lives for the better and help us to accomplish our dreams.


There is universal appeal and fascination with synchronicity.

What does it all mean?
While many may be skeptical about unseen forces or unexplainable phenomenon, they will almost certainly experience synchronicities at some point in their lives. Highly personal encounters with some mysterious, hidden world. There is an air of magic, amazement, and excitement that such unexpected and unexplainable experiences bring. They tickle us with a jolt of energy that, even if for just a brief moment, imparts a sense of wonder… a sense of something more.
Is it the guiding hand of the Divine? A reflection of our own minds and thoughts? Or simply a byproduct of an interconnected universe with a purely scientific explanation? A combination of all three? And what does it mean? Are synchronicities signs? Messages? Clues? Do they tell us something about ourselves? Do they hold valuable keys to our lives? Can they impact our future? Give us direction?

Getting a bit logical!
Let’s dig a little deeper. Life is a course, like river, which is effected by our choices and actions (which includes randomness). Our smallest thought and actions sometimes change the whole course or path. Imagine, a man driving a car, who started from his office to go back to his home. Due to events in his office and his mood, he decides to take a certain path, drives at a certain speed and shows a certain level of impatience. If he met an accident on that path, although everybody will call it an accident, but if you look as a mathematician, it was pre-decided by his past actions and mood.
We blame god for these coincidences, accidents, luck. But it’s because, he is beyond time, so he can see what is the outcome of the actions and how will it affect a human. He knows it all, as they believe.
But still I have some doubts. There is so much randomness in us, that is just impossible to predict (although astrologer’s claim that they can predict someone’s future).  
If on my way to home, a random thought came to my mind, and I changed my way to let’s say a mall, and if something happens there. Was that thought induced in me by some supernatural power, to get that outcome, as if it was pre decided or it was all random? I doubted it because sometimes, such an out of world thoughts come to our mind, that it can’t be random thoughts of our mind, there has to be an invisible power behind it all. Are all the actions in life random or there is some predetermined course to be followed through these coincidences? As many people suggest that below all this outer random and chaotic things, there lies a inner order, which drives a person. As they say, if you are determined for something, nature will help you in getting it. The coincidences happen that will help you to get it. So, what does that imply? Our random actions got ordered or some external force drives our actions.
So summing it up, even if this article concentrates on the doubt whether the powerful illusion of luck is some acquired supernatural essence or it is course of random events. Some things that can be cogently explained by rules of probability, the writer himself believes in its supernatural essence.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
Richard Bach

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