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

by Susan M. Watkins

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930491077
• ISBN13: 9781930491076
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Moment Point Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Affirmation from your own psyche that you exist in other realms...

My first reaction to this book was, WOW, someone thinks like me! I haven't been documenting the subject of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence) for as long as the author but I have kept up a journal and index file on my personal clusters for some 16 years now. Before this I thought that no one else seemed to have personally experienced as much as I did, but now I see that at least one person may have experienced even more than I. I mean, most writers on this subject trot out a mere handful of synchronistic events in their books (and then pad it with regurgitated theory and other peoples' experiences- usually the same old famous cases.) Here we have chapters filled with new examples. Even the speculations on how they work and what they mean have a freshness and originality to them. Nor is the author completely credulous. She is repeatedly wondering if she isn't dealing with selective attention or self-fulfilling prophecy (Texas Sharpshooting- drawing a bullseye around a shot that you've already fired.) She rightfully comes to the conclusion that she is dealing with a real phenomenon that seems to transcend time and space. Not only that, but she doesn't narrowly pigeonhole what is happening but realises that coincidence, precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, and dreams are all interconnected. I do not know if this book will convince anyone else. It has been my experience that most people simply cannot grasp the existence or importance of such occurences unless it has happened to them. However, once you have experienced such things, and have let them soak in, then your life will be changed forever. As the author says, once you've asked those questions, you can never quite go back to thinking of your position in the world as meaningless or mechanical.

What a Coincidence it was just what I wanted!

Loved the book. Gave lots of examples and made you think of the synchronicity in my day to day life. Would highly recommend it.

I was just thinking of...

I can highly recommend Susan's book on the theme of coincidence. I was just thinking of how it provides a really excellent introduction into the field of trance, hypnosis and NLP as they especially deal with the communicative energy/behavioural patterns that roam our subconscious and structure our waking life without our acknowledgement. There is really no such thing as a coincidence in the sense of a pure accident. Rather, each event coincides because all events convene at a certain point of greatest opportunity. The NOW moment. Becoming aware of and using the additional capacity in your own mind, and that it takes in everything around you, even though your waking consciousness is busy focusing on small details, is the point of co-incidents. That comes clearly across in this book. Considering also there is no time in the accepted sense, simply stores of patterns which we combine or divide in the now and that we are each human electromagnetic transmitters/receptors who ceaselessly communicate with others on the same bandwidth, it should not be astounding that we can pick up on events which we project into (what we describe as) a future with strong intention. Thus the intent of A to call B can be felt by B before or at the same as the action is being carried out, as the thought is instantaneously transmitted. Maybe in future we can do without the phone and simply learn just to transmit by thought - we are doing it already. Dogs and cats often wait for their owner from the moment they pick up the thought of the master 'coming home' (several experiments to verify this phenomenon have been successfully carried out). Coincidence is really based on a transmission of intent to a tuned-in receptor accepting or rejecting the information (combining or dividing). There are so many other examples of attraction and repulsion of information, which, based on our basic behavioural value patterns intice us to co-create the moment or event we then call a coincidence or accident. In that sense we do not react to events, but we co-create in advance, and mould, the events we then reflect on as our reaction. To that extent none of us can ever claim to really be a victim. We simply ould not be involved in any action, had we not on some level consented to be there and then. Synchronicity is the one place we all live in. Susan's book wonderfully expands on these themes and gives the reader assistance in exploring the vast realm of the mind and its workings. I can also heartily recommend this book as an inspiration to students of clinical hypnosis and to NLP practitioners for pattern awareness and timeline work because it enhances one's own peripheral views of effect and affect in action.

If you read it, you will like it

For someone who reads murder mysteries almost exclusively, I loved this book. One of the things which drew me in was Sue Watkins' intimate, cozy style of writing. I'm new to the subject, but that was not a problem at all. A fascinating and enjoyable book, full of life's little mysteries.

WOW!

Please delete my earlier review and instead publish the following final version: For A lover of coincidences like me this book is a feast: a veritable smorgasbord of coincidences, dreams, precognition and psychological insight served up in the most delicious conundrums of often funny and utterly honest everyday occurrences. Written in down to earth language with the most innovative word coining phrases What a Coincidence is at the same time simple and vastly complex, and a definite page turner. My personal little coincidence with this book must not be overlooked here either. It fits right in. On September 23, 2005 my daughter and a friend went to see George Clooney's new movie Good Night, Good Luck at the New York Film Festival. I had started reading What a Coincidence the day before and on the 23rd found myself on page 111 when the phone rang. The last sentence I had read was: "I'll just have to settle for ogling George Clooney until I can reeducate myself on the pertinent allegorical derivations, that's all." Ever since George's aunt Rosemary had sung William Saroyan's Come On-a My House Armenians have a soft spot for the Clooneys. It doesn't hurt that George is a hunk. As in all true coincidences (are there any others?) the time element is so important. For it was at this moment, this precise point in time (the book is published by Moment Point Press, after all), not the sentence before or the one after, that the phone rang and my daughter informed me that after the movie none other than George Clooney had shaken her friend's hand. A great big WOW for Sue Watkins and What a Coincidence!