A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: July 6, 2010

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

July 6, 2010 - Jeopardy is a wiz(ard)

Background - Yesterday I found myself wondering how old Harry Potter was when the series of books that is based on him begins. I just couldn’t remember (even having read every single book) and for some strange reason this little tid-bit of random, useless information had become a burning question that was driving me crazy! I was too busy to sit down and look it up, so I eventually just let it go while telling myself that it really wasn’t that big of a deal and that I could pull my copy of “The Sorcerer’s Stone” out at some point and figure it out.

S.C.O.U.T. - Tonight on Jeopardy (kids week), one of the answers for the contestants was…

“This character was 11 years old when he received

his acceptance letter to wizarding school”

Uncanny! So now I know; how random, and seemingly meaningless. Although, if you record how often this phenomenon happens (as I do) then there is no way to call it a mere coincidence; suddenly the implications become staggering and makes me wonder if the mere fact that this happens is indeed the meaning.

My goofy dog Scout says “who cares”. When is the universe going to answer something important like “how do we achieve world peace? “Or “is it possible to conquer world hunger for good? “Or “what are Fridays winning lottery numbers? “; patience my furry friend.