Life is a chain of coincidences.
At some time or another, it has happened to all of us. It pops up wherever you go.
Hotel rooms, airlines terminals, it is haunting presence cannot be escaped.
Imagine you are in your car, absently humming a song. You turn on the radio, a sudden chill prickles your spine, – and the same song is now pouring from the speaker. Another time you walk into a book stare not knowing what to buy, and the book you need falls from a shelf and practically hits you over the head.
Coincidence, you tell yourself or is it?
Some people feel that coincidence is the guiding force in their lives. It is a force, which influences decisions and plans and has much impact on their lives as others who may believe in astrology.
For most scientists, experiences like that, however strange and recurrent, are nothing but natural expressions of chance. It is far from mystery. Ignorance of the law of logic, they argue, causes superstitions thinking, inventing supernatural theories when none of them really exists.
Such assurances of rationalists do not necessarily satisfy everyone. Indeed many see coincidence as a higher, transcendental force, mysterious “glue”, which binds random events together in a meaningful pattern.
The question has always been – could such a harmonizing principle actually exist?
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psychologist Carl Jung was the first scientist to attempt to explain this amazing phenomenon. Jung observed that
coincidences were connected in such a way that their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. The psychologist believed that the phenomenon of synchronicity is due to psychic conditions. It evolved through the influence of the archetypes inherent in the human psyche and shared by all of humankind.
Life is a chain of coincidences. From my perspective, most of them do not happen accidentally. Very often, we unconsciously help them to happen.