A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: Reader contribution - The grim reaper gives Sujatha a nod

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, June 5, 2011

Reader contribution - The grim reaper gives Sujatha a nod

Background - Sujatha had just read my blog entry “The wonderful Mr. Drozd” and found herself thinking about funeral S.C.O.U.T.s and how truly strange they can be. She headed off to coffee with an old friend as she rolled these thoughts around in her head. At coffee, Sujatha’s friend brings up a man that they both know. He is a close friend of hers and a longtime acquaintance of Sujatha’s. They proceed to have a short conversation about this man and about a funny comment he made that had tickled her friend pink! It was a normal run of the mill conversation and Sujatha didn’t think much about it… until the next morning.

S.C.O.U.T. – The next morning Sujatha receives an unexpected text from her coffee companion. It was a stunned announcement that the man they had been so casually talking about only yesterday (the first time they had spoken of him in a great while) had passed away last night. Sujatha immediately connected her thoughts from the previous day about the strange nature of funeral S.C.O.U.T.s to the fact that she experienced one that very same day… a coincidence inside a coincidence so to speak! Sujatha and I have since decided that this was no coincidence, and in that case, the implications are staggering.

My goofy dog Scout grudgingly admits that funeral S.C.O.U.T.s are the strangest. He is also fully aware of the implications and says that someday he’ll let me in on the cosmic truth about death, but right now he needs to take his nap. Sigh.