What A Coincidence! : The Wow! Factor in Synchronicity and What It Means in Everyday Life

What if all those seemingly insignificant little what a coincidence! moments you've experienced were actually hinting at something very personal and important about yourself, and about the workings of human consciousness as a whole? Would you listen? Sue Watkins does. For more than thirty-five years, Susan M. Watkins, a former small-town newspaper reporter and the author of five books, has logged coincidences as they've occurred in her life. What she's discovered is that single, seemingly inconsequential coincidences—an old friend calling at the exact moment she pops into your head, for example—are often pieces of larger, more complex and meaningful coincidence clusters that together create rich and revealing stories. In __What a Coincidence!__ Watkins presents coincidence clusters that are truly astounding and, along the way, explores those two important questions: What do our personal coincidence clusters reveal to us about ourselves and our lives? And what do... What if all those seemingly insignificant little what a coincidence! moments you{u2019}ve experienced were actually hinting at something very personal and important about yourself, and about the workings of human consciousness as a whole? Would you listen? Sue Watkins does. For more than thirty-five years, Susan M. Watkins, a former small-town newspaper reporter and the author of five books, has logged coincidences as they{u2019}ve occurred in her life. What she{u2019}s discovered is that single, seemingly inconsequential coincidences{u2014}an old friend calling at the exact moment she pops into your head, for example{u2014}are often pieces of larger, more complex and meaningful coincidence clusters that together create rich and revealing stories. In What a Coincidence! Watkins presents coincidence clusters that are truly astounding and, along the way, explores those two important questions: What do our personal coincidence clusters reveal to us about ourselves and our lives? And what do they reveal about human consciousness at large? The conclusions she draws are utterly life altering. You will never brush off those what a coincidence! moments again What would we find if, over a period of time, we paid careful attention to the coincidences in our lives? What would clusters of coincidental events reveal? Susan M. Watkins examines, from the inside out, coincidences in her own life and asks, What's going on here? She discovers powerful insights into the workings of the conscious mind, into the concepts of time and space, past and future. Her examples vividly illustrate how the process of examining personal coincidences enriches our experiences and opens up a vast psychological landscape that otherwise tends to go unnoticed and certainly under utilized. What a Coincidence! is a rich, often humorous, mindexpanding journey that will change livesreaders will never again dismiss those "coincidental" moments. Yikes! what was that? Conjuring the eleemosynary Lonesome kangaroo mama blues It's a small-world surprise Random thoughts, media feedback Hugh and me and Jimmie Smits makes three Of marbles, mulch, and imagining The continuing tale of the cat on a leash Didn't do X, which leads to Y Lies I apparently didn't tell How much do we know and how do we know it? An odyssey of letters My brain goes to the moon The San Francisco quake of '89 Some final thoughts.