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seekers. Hello

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Empaths. We hope your week is

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off to a great start. Today

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we're going to talk about coincidences

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and what they mean. You know

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Denise, I'm fascinated by the idea

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of coincidences and synchronicity because I

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think it's one of the ways

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that the universe speaks to us.

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Do you agree with that? I

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do agree and I think for

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many of us that are intuitives

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or empaths or sensitives, sometimes we

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might fall into that trap of

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believing, well, there's never a coincidence

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and it's always a sign or it's

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just a coincidence. So I think

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that this will be a fun show to

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kind of look at the difference between

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the two. Yeah, I agree. And I think

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when we shrug it off like that, oh,

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it's just a coincidence. We miss an opportunity

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to try to discover what is being

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shown to me right now? Right. What is the

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universe trying to tell me?

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Can a coincidence be attributed

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to quantum physics? Maybe it's

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just pure magic, or could it

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be a sign from the universe?

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Well, in 2015, a study was

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published in New Ideas in Psychology,

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and they said that

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coincidences are an inevitable

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consequence of the mind

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searching for causal structure

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in reality. That sounds really

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boring and unmagical. So after listening

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to today's show, you might start

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to believe that there's a lot

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more to coincidence than just our

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brain looking for recognizable patterns. Scientists

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have been studying coincidences since the

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beginning of the 20th century,

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when Australian biologist Paul Cameron

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wrote a book about meaningful

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coincidences in 1990. And he

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said that coincidences arise out

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of unknown forces or waves

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that he called seriality, which

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he defined as a lawful

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recurrence of the same or

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similar things or events in

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time and space. And then

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of course 25 years later,

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Carl Young coined the term

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synchronicity after he experienced

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his own strange coincidence.

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He was listening to a patient describe

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a dream she had had about

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a scarab beetle, when at that

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exact moment, a scarab beetle landed

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on the window outside his desk.

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which is really a really

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interesting coincidence because those types of

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Beatles aren't even in the area

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where he was living at the

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time. So Young believed meaningful coincidences

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were produced by the force of

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synchronicity and could be considered glimpses

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into what he called the Unus

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Mundus or One World, which is

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the theory that there is an

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underlying order and structure to reality,

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a network that connects everything and

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every one. And I think... If

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I really had to drill

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down to the heart of

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what fascinates me about coincidence,

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is exactly that line, the one

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world, I really do believe that

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we live in this one connected

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world. You know, have you ever

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seen, what is that movie with

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Dustin Hoffman, the... searching for huckabies

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and he holds up a blanket

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and he's trying to tell the

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other character like this is what

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the world is like you might

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be on this corner of the

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blanket and I might be over

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here but we're all the same

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blanket it was such a simple

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metaphor for how we're all one

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and yet you know we might only

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be aware of one corner of the

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blanket but we're all in this together.

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Right and it's... aligns with we've gone

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on this a lot about the collective

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consciousness how we can all tap into

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that we can find these resources and

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the interdependence of all the different species

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and I think that what you're

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talking about is a correlation of

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both of those. Yeah, I do

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too. Now there's a there's a

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doctor who wrote a book about

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coincidences more recently than 19. His

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name is Dr. Bernard Beitman and

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he had his own fascinating experience

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back in the 70s. He says

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that one afternoon in February of

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1973 he was just in his

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kitchen Suddenly had to rush to

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the sink because he started choking

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uncontrollably, and he was really confused

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because he wasn't eating or drinking,

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there was nothing to cough up,

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and yet for several minutes he

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couldn't catch his breath or swallow.

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And then the next day, his

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brother called to tell him that

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3,000 miles away, their father had

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died from choking at the same

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time as Dr. Beitman's mysterious episode.

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So he's a professor of psychiatry.

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And this thing happens, and now

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he's fascinated by coincidence, and so

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he started studying, what are these

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coincidences? What could it mean? He

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even began something called the Coincidence

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Project, where he encouraged people to

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share their own stories. He defines

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a coincidence as two events coming

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together with apparently no causal explanation.

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No causal explanation. The most commonly

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reported coincidences are associated with mass

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media. So think about a person,

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for example, thinks of an idea

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and then hears or sees it

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on TV, the radio, or the

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internet. I'm sure you guys have

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heard those stories of how like...

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five people will apply for a

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patent on the same day. Like

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remember when Alexander Graham Bell applied

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for a patent, he beat like

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two other people, including a woman

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I'd like to add, who was

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also trying to apply for a

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patent that same day for the

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telephone? Right. Or maybe you're thinking

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of someone and then that person

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calls unexpectedly. That happens to me

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all the time. All the time.

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I mean, just the other day,

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I called my friend and I

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put, I punch in the little...

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and there's no ringing or dial

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tone, and I hear her going,

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hello? And she was like, I

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was just calling you. Does that

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ever happen to you? Oh, yeah,

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especially with people that I'm close

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to. Yes. Yeah, very, very much

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so. And as you were speaking

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of this, I was thinking about

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the, when we have a chord

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with someone, when we're able to

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read their energy, when we're able

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to feel that. So is that

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also part of this coincidence. or

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probable synchronicity? I think so. I

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mean, that's why I wanted to

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do this show, because I think

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people who are empathic and connected

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to their intuition have more coincidences,

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and that's been proven. Right. I'll

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always say I don't believe in

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coincidences, because I agree with Young

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and this other person that this

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Dr. Beitman, that it is a

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causal impact, that there is a

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connection between it all. Yeah, I

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do, too. I do too. Another

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common coincidence people experience is being

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in the right place at the

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right time to advance like your

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work or career or education, which

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reminds me of my favorite scene

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from that lovely documentary about Gene

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Wilder that came out last year.

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And he was like, kept getting

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rejected and was really, he was

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in New York for some auditions

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and kept getting rejected. And he

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walks out of the hotel just

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to kind of go for a

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walk and really think. Should I

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just give this all up and

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go home? And he takes a

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right out of the hotel and

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he bumps into Mel Brooks and

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the rest is history, you know,

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because they had the most amazing

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work partnership and he got a

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fantastic role because of just taking

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a right outside of his hotel.

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And he says for the rest

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of his life, he wondered, what

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would have happened to me if

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I walked out of that hotel

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and took a left? Now people

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who believe in the paranormal or

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who describe themselves as spiritual or

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religious have more meaningful coincidences than

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those who do not. So that

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always makes me wonder. Do Woo

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people like us have more coincidences

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because we believe in them because

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we recognize them rather than shrug

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them off when they occur? Or

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is our receptivity inviting more of

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these meaningful coincidences? I was thinking

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about this the other day, about

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being intuitive and someone had written

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something that said because of the

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trauma in their childhood that they

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were conditioned to become intuitive. And

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we've talked about that in different

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episodes and we've talked about it

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in conversation. So I was thinking

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about it is that are we

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Is that part of the plan

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that we come in with? I'm

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going to, I think it's an

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awareness is what I'm getting to.

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I think that heightened awareness does

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make us more receptive and conscious.

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We read the room. We're going

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to see the nuances of a

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potential coincidence or synchronicity in a

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way that someone else might just

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brush it off and not notice

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it. I think it's both. I

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really do. I think that that...

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It proves that we all have

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latent intuition. We all have this

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natural six cents, and it comes

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out when we really, really need

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it. So for those of us

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who were raised in a very

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interesting childhood and had to be

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finely tuned to the ever-changing emotions

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of one or both of our

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parents, we needed that six cents,

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so we cultivated it. But I

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don't think it means that we

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came into the world with... more

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intuition than the average person. Do

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you know what I mean? I

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think it shows that we all

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have that ability. It's just some

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of us had to cultivate it

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earlier than others. I agree with

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you 100% that it is there's

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a duality to this and that

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I do think we all come

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that way. I think that there

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is little people, little children, small

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children, and I spoke with someone

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recently. And she said that her

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nephew, highly, highly connected, dream, see

10:10

spirit, all of the things that

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little tiny people can do, and

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is just now starting school. And

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said to his mom, said to

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her, this woman's sister, I don't

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see them the way I used

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to. They're not coming around as

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much. So is it an age

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related because when you get into,

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you know, seven years, six, seven

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years old, your abstract thinking starts

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to kick in the influence of

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being in a socialized school setting?

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I mean, there's all those different

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variables. But I think that many

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of us, that's when we start

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becoming more aware of the coincidences

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in our lives. We're retapping into

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that font of knowledge and experience

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that we've already had. Yeah, you

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know, I think little children lose

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their connection to intuition around that

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age for all the reasons you

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just said, but also I really

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believe it's because when they come

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here to Earth, they have to

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acclimate to being in this dimension

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and this solid third dimension and

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the earthly stuff, but they're more

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used to heaven. And so they

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have more of a connection to

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the other side. And as they,

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you know, year after year after

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year, they identify home more with

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Earth rather than the other side.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Now

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studies also show that people are

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more likely to experience coincidences when

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they're in a heightened emotional state

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like stress or grieving, which I

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think also gives some credence to

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what I was saying about how

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our six cents is... part of

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our survival mechanism that it kicks

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in when we need it? Some

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research suggests that people who have

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more meaningful coincidences might also have

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higher life satisfaction and more creativity.

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Well, I think that's true because

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I think if you're naturally intuitive

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and spiritual and connected to the

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deeper meaning of life and you're

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focused on really seeing the interconnectedness

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that weaves us all together, I

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think you are going to have

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a higher life satisfaction overall and

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be more engaged with your creativity.

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Oh, and it's a hell of

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a lot more entertaining. I agree.

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Now the most popular explanation among

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survey respondents that he discovered in

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his coincidence project for mysterious coincidences

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are God or fate. And then

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the second explanation is randomness, those

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boring scientists again. The third is

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that our minds are connected to

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one another or to the universe

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as a whole. Dr. Beitman, he's

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been researching a term that he

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created called simiopathity. I have no

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idea if I'm saying that I'm

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saying that right. It's feeling a

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loved one's pain at a distance,

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as he believes he did with

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his father, and he believes that

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this can be attributed to the

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existence of the psychosphere, a kind

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of mental atmosphere through which information

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and energy can travel between two

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people who are emotionally close, though

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physically distant. He suspects that humans

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transmit some unobserved energetic information, which

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other people then process or organize

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into emotion and emotion and behavior.

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He says just as sharks have

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ampulli in their skin that detect

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small electromagnetic changes to help them

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locate their prey, it's plausible, maybe

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even probable, that humans have similar

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mechanisms that detect coincidences. So that's

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interesting, isn't it to think about

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a psychosphere? I think we do

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it all the time. I do

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too. And when you think about...

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Intuitives, I'm going to use an

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example of a medical intuitive that

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can physically feel what's happening in

13:48

someone else's body, there's no real

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logical reason for that except the

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transference of energy. Exactly. Yeah, you

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know, years ago, maybe four years

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ago, I did a really, really

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deep dive into all the undisclosed

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documents from the CIA's remote viewing

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projects. Right. And they were able

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to very, very scientifically show that

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we are all interconnected and that

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all known data is out there.

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And I found most of those

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documents on a website called the

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Black Vault. And Denise, I tried

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to go back in there and

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find that there's this one document

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that I really, really enjoyed about

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how they were able to show

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through these very, very talented remote

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viewers that we are all connected.

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I can't find that website. I

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don't know if he shut it

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down or what, but it was

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started by this kid who's like,

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you know, in his 50s now,

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but he started it in high

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school where he just started filing

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FOIA request, freedom of information request.

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And when he would get these

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documents, he would publish them on

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the Black Vault. Or he had

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his own podcast. I don't know

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what happened to the website. So

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if anyone knows, shoot me an

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email. Because that was a great

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resource for stuff like that. But

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I digress. But on a smaller

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version of that, I worked with

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a group of people doing a

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group meditation last fall. And we

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went in with an intention. Everyone

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went in. There was no script

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of this is exactly what's going

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to happen. But I would say

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a third to about a third

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of the people had the same

15:33

exact experience with what they perceived,

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what they sensed, what they saw.

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So that's another example of how

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interconnected our energies can be because

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these were people on a zoom

15:45

meeting that were from all over

15:47

North America. Fascinating. Time and distance

15:49

do not separate us. No, no,

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they really don't. So in his

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book Meaningful Coincidences he shares this

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really fascinating story of a young

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man. who intended to end his

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life by the shore of an

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isolated lake. So while he sat crying

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in his car, another car pulls up

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and his brother gets out. When he

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asked his brother for an explanation, you

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know, like, how did you know I

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was here? What are you doing here?

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The brother said he didn't know why

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he got in the car, where he was going,

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or what he would do when he got

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there. He just knew he needed to get

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in that car and drive. And he

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saved his brother's life. So

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I'm sure there are a lot of

16:32

people listening that would say that was

16:34

divine intervention, that guides and angels

16:36

stepped in, that they had a

16:39

sole contract. I mean, we've gone

16:41

out this from so many different

16:43

ways. And for many people, though,

16:45

that might not be as avid a

16:47

listener to the way we, the things

16:49

we talk about, it would just be,

16:51

well, that was just luck or what

16:53

a coincidence that that happened. There's too

16:55

much to just say it was a

16:58

random. Yeah, I agree. Way too much. Okay,

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so we collected some famous

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coincidences that have occurred in

17:04

history. Do you want to

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share those now? Yeah, I think that's

17:08

a good plan. Just because this

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is not new. This isn't anything

17:13

that all of a sudden because

17:15

more people are conscious of

17:17

the interconnectedness or their own

17:19

ability to be intuitive, this

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has been going on a long time.

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A long time. Yeah, and some of

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these you guys might know, but some

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of them might be new to you.

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

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died hours apart on the

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same day. What was that

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day? July 4th, 1826th, the

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50th anniversary of our independence.

17:41

Five years later, President James

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Madison also died on July

17:45

4th, which means that three

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of our first five presidents

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died on Independence Day. That's

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pretty crazy when you think about

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it. It really is. It really is.

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Plus, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were

17:59

best best friends. And then, you

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know, they ran against each other

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for President John Adams won. They

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said some not so nice things

18:07

about each other on the campaign.

18:10

So they never spoke again until

18:12

the end of their lives. And

18:14

they made up. And they were

18:16

both, I mean, letters survived. They

18:19

were both so happy that their

18:21

friendship ended. And I think it

18:23

was John Adams, his last words

18:25

were, he still lives, meaning Thomas

18:28

Jefferson. But actually, no, they had

18:30

died on the same day. Yes,

18:32

it's an interesting coincidence that the

18:34

two men who bought so hard

18:37

for our independence would die on

18:39

Independence Day, but I think it

18:41

also gives some credence to what

18:43

we were saying about the emotional

18:46

energetic connection between two people. Well,

18:48

and between family units, how many

18:50

people do you know of that

18:52

their grandmother has the same birthday

18:55

as the granddaughter or the... people,

18:57

you know, oh my child was

18:59

born on my first wedding, there's

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specific dates and families that seem

19:04

very interconnected. Yes, yes, I find

19:06

that really interesting too. So another

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one is less than a year

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before John Wilkes, Booth killed Abraham

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Lincoln, Booth's brother Edwin, saved the

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life of Lincoln's eldest son Robert.

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Edwin was a devoted supporter of

19:19

the union during the Civil War,

19:22

but he also had a more

19:24

personal connection to the martyr president

19:26

of Abraham Lincoln. So in late

19:28

1864 Lincoln's son Robert Todd was

19:31

traveling via train from New York

19:33

to Washington and during his stop

19:35

in Jersey City, New Jersey, he

19:37

stepped back on the crowded platform

19:40

to let some other people go

19:42

by pressing his back against a

19:44

stop train. And then the train

19:46

started to move. Lincoln fell on

19:49

the tracks and would have been

19:51

gravely injured or worse if a

19:53

stranger hadn't caught him by the

19:55

collar and hauled him back up

19:58

under the platform and as he

20:00

later wrote Lincoln recognized him that

20:02

it was the stage actor Edwin

20:04

Booth and thanked him. So I

20:07

mean that okay. Well it's in

20:09

that category if you can't make

20:11

that shit up. I know and

20:13

you know I've read a lot

20:16

about this Edwin Booth was considered

20:18

the Brad Pitt of his day.

20:20

Oh he was incredibly good looking

20:22

incredibly famous and his wonky awful

20:25

brother John Wilksbuth just never could

20:27

achieve the same fame or accolades

20:29

as his brother or their father

20:31

who was also pretty famous and

20:34

they think that's one of the

20:36

reasons that he fell into this

20:38

you know this gang of misfits

20:40

who decided to take down the

20:43

president but it's like it's like

20:45

having Brad Pitt save your life

20:47

and then years later you know

20:49

his his little brother kills your

20:52

dad like that's just wild. Now

20:54

Robert Lincoln was on the scene

20:56

for not one, not two, but

20:58

three presidential assassinations. So think about

21:01

all these weird coincidences he was

21:03

at the heart of. Less than

21:05

a month after sitting at his

21:07

father's deathbed in April 1865, Robert

21:10

Todd Lincoln resigned his U.S. Army

21:12

Commission and moved to Chicago to

21:14

be with his distraught mother. He

21:16

later married, had children, and established

21:19

a successful law practice. He also

21:21

remained active in politics, accepting the

21:23

post of Secretary of War for

21:25

President Garfield in 1881. That July,

21:28

Lincoln was at the railroad station.

21:30

Here he goes again with these

21:32

railroad stations. In Washington, ready to

21:34

travel with Garfield, before their train

21:37

left the station, a deranged disgruntled

21:39

office seeking... Shot Garf, office

21:41

seeker, shot Garfield in the back.

21:43

The president died of complications from

21:46

the wound two months later. And

21:48

then in 1901, President William McKinley

21:50

invited Lincoln to Buffalo to attend

21:52

the Pan American exposition. Lincoln was

21:54

heading to meet the president when

21:56

an anarchist. shot McKinley in the

21:58

chest and abdomen in front of

22:00

a crowd of well-wishers. Lincoln, who

22:03

was in the latter part of

22:05

his career, served as president of

22:07

the Pullman Company, who was said

22:09

to have Riley remarked that there

22:11

was a certain fatality about the

22:13

presidential function when I am present.

22:15

I want to invite him to

22:17

the dinner. I know, scratch him

22:20

off the guestless. Sorry, Robert. And

22:22

of course there would be people

22:24

that would look at that well,

22:26

he was politically involved, he was

22:28

close to, but there's, but he

22:30

wasn't, I mean he was on

22:32

the fringe of it I guess,

22:34

and how different the times were.

22:37

So I think another part of

22:39

this that we're looking at is

22:41

people will try to force it

22:43

just into being, there not being

22:45

a pattern to it or there

22:47

not being anything more than just

22:49

stuff happens. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's

22:51

definitely. definitely some type of connection

22:53

there. So we also collected just

22:56

some stories from average ordinary people

22:58

like you and me who experienced

23:00

some amazing coincidences and we wanted

23:02

to share some of those with

23:04

you guys. Do you want to

23:06

start us off? Sure. This was

23:08

on the BBC, it was posted

23:10

on the BBC from a viewer

23:13

named Furgis Smith who said he

23:15

was sitting on the balcony of

23:17

a hotel in San Jose, Costa

23:19

Rica, writing a postcard to a

23:21

friend back in Scotland. A couple

23:23

at the next table were speaking.

23:25

Sauvine? Slo? I don't know. Slavine?

23:27

Slavine. So I got them, I

23:30

got talking to them in Slavine.

23:32

They asked where I was from.

23:34

I said Scotland and added, I

23:36

bet I'm the first Scott you

23:38

ever met who speaks Slavine. No,

23:40

we had a teacher at uni

23:42

from Scotland. He spoke Slavine. I

23:44

said, really? Was his name Paul

23:47

by any chance? He said, yes.

23:49

He said, yes. Why do you

23:51

want to sign a postcardi. Small

23:53

world stuff. And I think all

23:55

of us have had that happen.

23:57

where we'll meet someone in a

23:59

different part of the country or

24:01

different part of the world or

24:04

in a situation where there should

24:06

be no connection. I love that

24:08

stuff. I do too. This next

24:10

one comes from Marilyn McHute who

24:12

says, I am a Canadian adopty,

24:14

I met my husband in Prague,

24:16

his family lives in Seattle, so

24:18

I go to meet his mother.

24:21

Then my adoption search turns up

24:23

the name of my birth father

24:25

in rural Canada. I tell the

24:27

details to my mother-in-law. She tells

24:29

her close friend, the paternal family

24:31

name, turns out my mother-in-law's close

24:33

friend has been vacationing with my

24:35

biological father's family for decades. Three

24:38

countries, millions of people, and the

24:40

man I marry connected me by

24:42

three degrees to my birth father.

24:44

Wow. That reminds me, have you

24:46

ever seen those? They come up

24:48

a lot on social media from

24:50

time to time. you'll see a

24:52

picture of two, like a family

24:54

at Disney World, and they'll be

24:57

like a nine-year-old girl, and in

24:59

the background, they'll be like a

25:01

little nine-year-old boy with his family,

25:03

and 20 years later, they end

25:05

up meeting and getting married. Mm-hmm.

25:07

I think those are so romantic

25:09

and talk about fate and destiny

25:11

and beautiful ways. Is it, we've,

25:14

oh my goodness, coincidence or predestined?

25:16

Is it contracted? Is it already,

25:18

we're just showing up and playing

25:20

our role in at all. Yeah.

25:22

But I think the coincidence is

25:24

that, or lack thereof, or whatever

25:26

we want to call them, are

25:28

little benchmarks. You're in the right

25:31

place. You are on the right

25:33

track. We're going to let you

25:35

know. Have you heard that about

25:37

Deja vu? the deja vu are

25:39

a reminder that you're on the

25:41

right place in your life path.

25:43

And things like this make me

25:45

believe that I really do believe

25:48

that when we're creating our sole

25:50

plan with our team of guides

25:52

and angels, I think we put

25:54

the little mysterious markers in there

25:56

that include synchronicity coincidence, Dejah Voo,

25:58

right place, right time, just so

26:00

we can remind our soul, you

26:02

got this, you're on the right

26:05

path. Yes, yes, so and again

26:07

the reminder that we're not doing

26:09

this alone. Yeah. Another one was

26:11

a strange coincidence that happened with

26:13

Anthony Hopkins, the well-known actor. and

26:15

he first heard he'd been cast

26:17

in a part for the film

26:19

The Girl from Petrovka. Hopkins tried

26:22

to find a copy of the

26:24

book on which it was based,

26:26

a novel by George Fyfer. He

26:28

combed the booksters of London, couldn't

26:30

find one. The new shock and

26:32

delight, he spotted a copy lying

26:34

on a bench at Leicester Square

26:36

Station. He recounted the story to

26:39

Fyfer when they met on location

26:41

when the two discovered... that the

26:43

book Hopkins had stumbled upon was

26:45

the very one that the author

26:47

had mislaid in another part of

26:49

London, an advanced copy full of

26:51

full red ink amendments and marginal

26:53

notes he'd made in preparation for

26:55

US edition. So, I mean, come

26:58

on people. I know, I know.

27:00

But when it happens to you,

27:02

when it is so clear, it's

27:04

fun. It's stepping through the looking

27:06

glass. It's being in the vortex.

27:08

It's realizing there's so much more.

27:10

I know. It's so cool. This

27:12

one from Kathy Cape was submitted

27:15

on Facebook and will make you

27:17

pause. She says we had to

27:19

move from our lovely old farmhouse

27:21

and Suffolk due to work. One

27:23

evening in our new home in

27:25

London, we got back after an

27:27

evening out to find a missed

27:29

call on the phone. We rang

27:32

the number and discovered it was

27:34

from our old house. They had

27:36

a new number. But the new

27:38

owner said they'd been out and

27:40

hadn't rung us. Was it our

27:42

old house trying to get in

27:44

touch? Oh. That would really made

27:46

me think. because I believe strongly

27:49

that homes have some type of

27:51

consciousness or some type of collective

27:53

energy residue from everyone who's lived

27:55

there. Oh, I agree with that,

27:57

yes. And you can feel it,

27:59

and I think sometimes there is,

28:01

especially with old family houses or

28:03

old family land, they keep an

28:06

eye on it. So this has

28:08

nothing to do with what we're

28:10

talking about, except old houses calling

28:12

you. Do you keep... the numbers

28:14

of deceased people in your phone?

28:16

I guess so. I mean I

28:18

still have my mom and dad's

28:20

numbers. Okay, okay. Well I was

28:23

going through my phone the other

28:25

day and then I thought, damn,

28:27

there's a lot of dead people

28:29

in here. Well they might want

28:31

to ring me up. I better

28:33

leave them in there. I will

28:35

tell you that I found when

28:37

I was cleaning out a desk

28:39

drawer, I found an address book.

28:42

And it was kind of sad

28:44

because I was like, oh, they're

28:46

gone, they're gone, they're gone. Yeah.

28:48

I don't know if anyone keeps,

28:50

like, I don't really keep an

28:52

address book anymore, it's all in

28:54

my phone. So that kind of

28:56

made me a little sad. I

28:59

think that a lot of the

29:01

stuff we're talking about, especially in

29:03

this next one about love, we

29:05

have to be open to there

29:07

being something more. Yeah. Yeah. You

29:09

know this one is about a

29:11

romantic coincidence or maybe destiny as

29:13

old mates and the person writes

29:16

that their boss and her husband

29:18

have a pretty cool story. They

29:20

both went to the same college

29:22

for all four years in New

29:24

England and shared a ton of

29:26

mutual friends but they never crossed

29:28

pass. Aside from one day when

29:30

he started walking across campus and

29:33

told his friend I'm going to

29:35

marry her. Almost 10 years later

29:37

in 2020, when they were both

29:39

living in completely different states on

29:41

opposite sides of the country, they

29:43

both joined a Zoom call for

29:45

a mutual friend's birthday party. He

29:47

saw... like, oh my God, that's

29:50

the girl. He asked for info

29:52

right away and they dated long

29:54

distance for about a year until

29:56

one weekend. She flew up to

29:58

see him and he proposed on

30:00

the spot. Oh, and proposed to

30:02

him on the spot. They've now

30:04

been married for two years, have

30:07

three kids and just bought a

30:09

new house. That's so cool. Remember

30:11

the day I met Michael. He

30:13

was doing the polar plunge on

30:15

New Year's Day, and I went

30:17

to support my sister not to

30:19

jump in the ocean on January

30:21

1st. And I was standing there

30:24

like taking pictures of her coming

30:26

out of the ocean, and his

30:28

friend took a picture of him

30:30

coming out of the ocean, and

30:32

you can see me in the

30:34

background. Oh. Yeah, and we hadn't

30:36

met or no, isn't that wild?

30:38

Well, and I think you had

30:40

shared before that you... both had

30:43

been in New York at the

30:45

same time in certain places. Yeah.

30:47

It would have been really easy

30:49

to have bumped into each other

30:51

or to have seen each other

30:53

or I love that. I know

30:55

we were in New York at

30:57

the same time. We were in

31:00

Arizona at the same time. We

31:02

have strong connections to Connecticut. It's

31:04

wild. My cousins. live in the

31:06

town he lived in before he

31:08

moved to North Carolina. Oh my

31:10

goodness. So every time we go

31:12

up to New York to see

31:14

his friends, I get to see

31:17

my cousins. It's a while. Okay,

31:19

this one was posted by Shank

31:21

Mulligan and will make you think

31:23

about seeing random numbers. He says,

31:25

I worked at a seafood store

31:27

in high school about 30 years

31:29

ago. I once waited on three

31:31

consecutive customers. who bought different things

31:34

that all rang out to the

31:36

same exact amount, $8.84. I was

31:38

so amazed that I told the

31:40

last customer to go two shops

31:42

down to the store that sold

31:44

lottery tickets and play that number.

31:46

I actually meant... to do that

31:48

myself, but it was a busy

31:51

night and I forgot all about

31:53

it. A couple of weeks later,

31:55

I was waiting on a customer

31:57

who bought something small under $10.

31:59

After giving her her a chain,

32:01

she handed me $5 and said,

32:03

this is for you. I looked

32:05

at her blankly, confused, and silent.

32:08

We occasionally got tips, but not

32:10

for such a small bill. She

32:12

said, you might not remember, but

32:14

the last time you waited on

32:16

me, you told me to play

32:18

a lottery number. I did, and

32:20

it hit. I was happy for

32:22

her, but distraught, I forgot to

32:25

play myself. She said her husband

32:27

was there when she watched the

32:29

drawing and told him she won.

32:31

He said, what? You never play

32:33

the lottery. Her reply was, you're

32:35

not going to believe it, what

32:37

I tell you. Okay, first of

32:39

all, I wish she'd given him

32:41

more than $5. That's exactly what

32:44

I was thinking. Okay. Second of

32:46

all, I completely understand how he

32:48

forgot. Years ago, I think. my

32:50

youngest Chloe was like in the

32:52

fourth grade and you know you

32:54

have like a little assigned desks

32:56

and she opens up her desk

32:58

to get out her little notebook

33:01

and there was a piece of

33:03

paper with six numbers written on

33:05

it and she had no idea

33:07

who wrote those numbers or who

33:09

put it in her desk and

33:11

she came home and she said

33:13

mom I think you should play

33:15

these numbers. And I was like,

33:18

okay, now Denise, I don't play

33:20

the lottery. I don't even, I

33:22

remember going to like the gas

33:24

station and I don't, you gotta

33:26

like get a form and you

33:28

gotta fill it. I didn't know

33:30

how to do it and I

33:32

was running late and I was

33:35

like, oh, whatever. She still brings

33:37

that up. She'll be like, if

33:39

you play those numbers, I'll that's

33:41

funny. This one is about a.

33:43

Meaningful coincidence. The man who wrote

33:45

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, El

33:47

Frank Bum, didn't live to see

33:49

his novel turned into the iconic

33:52

film, yet he had a remarkable

33:54

connection with the movie. The actor

33:56

Frank Morgan played five roles in

33:58

the 1939 movie, including... The Wizard,

34:00

he makes his first appearance as

34:02

Professor Marvel, a traveling fortune teller,

34:05

and movie lore says that when it

34:07

came to screen testing, the coat he

34:09

was wearing was considered too pristine

34:11

for an itinerant magician. So the

34:13

wardrobe department was sent to the

34:15

thrift shore mission to find something

34:17

more suitable and returned with a

34:19

whole closet full of possibilities. The

34:21

one they settled on, a Prince Albert

34:24

frock coat with a worn velvet collar,

34:26

was a perfect fit for the actor.

34:28

Only later was it apparently discovered

34:30

that Sown into the jacket

34:32

was a label bearing the

34:34

inscription made by Herman Brothers,

34:36

especially for L. Frankbaum. It

34:39

died 20 years before the

34:41

film was released, but the

34:43

coat's providence was allegedly authenticated

34:45

by his widow Maud, who accepted it

34:47

as a gift when the film was completed.

34:50

So, okay, the woo-w part of me was

34:52

like, he still was part of the movie,

34:54

he was going to say, oh, here I am,

34:56

I am not missing this. Totally agree

34:58

that's not a coincidence that spirit

35:01

saying I'm here I love this movie I

35:03

see what's happening and here's my little

35:05

wink wink nod nod nod yeah and

35:07

I think a lot of coincidences are a

35:09

wink wink nod nod nod I do too

35:11

I do too I don't I think our

35:13

guides and angels and loved ones have fun

35:15

with that stuff yeah and it is about

35:18

being paying attention and being more

35:20

aware Yeah, exactly. I had something funny

35:22

like that over the holidays. You know,

35:24

I told my dad before he died

35:26

to show me bluebirds is his sign

35:28

and I hadn't seen a blue bird

35:30

in a little while over the holidays

35:32

and I was like, Ted, I get

35:35

it, like there's not really bluebirds in

35:37

this cold weather, but I'd like to

35:39

see a bluebird. And the next day I'm

35:41

on Facebook and you know how it pops

35:43

up like you have a Facebook memory.

35:45

And it was from a friend

35:47

of mine. I don't remember her

35:49

ever. doing this, it was from

35:51

like 2008, but she sent me

35:53

a picture from her backyard of

35:55

three bluebirds on her. And it

35:57

said, Samantha, look, three bluebirds on

35:59

my... That's a good sign, right?

36:01

Oh. Yeah, I thought, oh, thanks

36:04

dad. Oh, I love that. Now

36:06

this next one is pretty amazing

36:08

too and was posted on Buzzfeed.

36:10

The person writes, I was driving

36:12

from the west side of Manhattan

36:14

to the east side on 86th

36:16

Street. My young daughter was in

36:18

the car and I had been

36:20

explaining the concept of six degrees

36:22

of separation. As we approached the

36:25

86th and Central Park West, I

36:27

told her about the Hollywood variation

36:29

called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

36:31

Have you ever played that game?

36:33

No, but Kevin Bacon is a

36:35

sign for me when I'm doing

36:37

readings. You know how they have

36:39

the big giant pictures of someone's

36:41

head on a stick? Yeah. So

36:43

I'll see that in my mind's

36:46

eye and I know that there's

36:48

a Six Degrees of Separation. Oh

36:50

wow! Anyway, all right, so he's

36:52

explaining to his daughter like how

36:54

to play the game six degrees

36:56

at Kevin Bacon. We stop at

36:58

the traffic light and who crosses

37:00

the street in front of our

37:02

car? Yep, Kevin Bacon. Well, that's

37:04

very fun. That's pretty cool. Wow,

37:07

this was another one on Buzzfeed.

37:09

This person and her husband went...

37:11

for their first day of work,

37:13

the new boss was out of

37:15

town, so it fell to the

37:17

future husband to give the office

37:19

tour. He'd never given one before

37:21

and he hasn't given one since.

37:23

After we started talking, we realized

37:25

that we were supposed to meet

37:28

several times before my first day.

37:30

He was supposed to do my

37:32

interview twice. The first time he

37:34

was on vacation and the second

37:36

time, he was on his way

37:38

to it when he got pulled

37:40

into an emergency meeting and sent

37:42

someone else instead. Our relationship would

37:44

have been a conflict of interest

37:46

if he had. Eight years later,

37:49

we discovered that we had, in

37:51

fact, met each other before my

37:53

first day four months earlier on

37:55

New Year's Eve at a bar

37:57

in Phoenix. We chatted at the

37:59

bar about our same drink orders

38:01

and his incredibly tall Mohawk. Totally

38:03

wild... meet again in the city

38:05

so large and full of people.

38:07

So I think I shared this

38:10

before that I worked on summer

38:12

at a camp in upstate New

38:14

York and they sent kids from

38:16

all the boroughs of New York

38:18

up to, well it's where Omega

38:20

is now, it's in that part

38:22

of New York, upstate New York.

38:24

And I met this kid, very

38:26

clean-cut, he was in a program

38:28

at the camp. and I was

38:30

visiting my friend in the city

38:33

and I was in the village

38:35

and I came around a corner

38:37

and there's this kid that had

38:39

gone to the camp. I mean

38:41

New York's a big city. But

38:43

remember back in the 80s when

38:45

people had the really tall Mohawks

38:47

and they wore the leather and

38:49

the chains and all of that

38:51

stuff. So this really clean cut

38:54

kid was standing and he very

38:56

very very sarcastic sensor humor. He

38:58

was funny as hell and he

39:00

said Denise, what are you doing

39:02

in the city? And I turned

39:04

and I looked and I thought,

39:06

and I used the kid's name,

39:08

and I thought, what in the

39:10

hell are the chances of being

39:12

in the middle of Greenwich Village

39:15

walking down in millions of people

39:17

and seeing this kid that you

39:19

had met two or three years

39:21

before in upstate New York? Because

39:23

I rarely went to the city.

39:25

Wow. So it's fun. It is

39:27

so fun. And that story just

39:29

makes me think. Maybe there is

39:31

a Cupid out there, you know?

39:33

And poor Cupid is trying to

39:36

get these two people to meet

39:38

and is so frustrated. You know,

39:40

he arranges for them to do

39:42

the interview so they can meet

39:44

there. That doesn't work out. He

39:46

arranges that they had met on

39:48

New Year's Eve at a bar.

39:50

You know, can you imagine like

39:52

our guides who are trying to

39:54

get us together and we're so

39:57

like oblivious? True. It's got to

39:59

be frustrating. Now this next one

40:01

is not romantic or fun, it's

40:03

kind of creepy. And it will

40:05

make you think about the words

40:07

that we use that create our

40:09

reality. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a

40:11

novel called The Narrative of Arthur

40:13

Gordon Pim of Nantucket, in which

40:15

a ship's crew ends up in

40:18

a desperate situation with their boat

40:20

badly damaged. Eventually, the crew had

40:22

to draw straws to decide who

40:24

among them will be the next

40:26

life-sustaining meal. Unlucky character in the

40:28

story who is stabbed at death

40:30

and eaten is named Richard Parker.

40:32

Two of the characters survived to

40:34

be rescued, thanks in part to

40:36

that cannibalism. They also eat a

40:39

tortoise. Now a few decades later

40:41

a real-life yacht named the minut

40:43

sank in a storm in the

40:45

Indian Ocean. The foremen crew escaped

40:47

to a dingy but didn't have

40:49

time to stock many provisions. Like

40:51

the men in post-story at one

40:53

point they had to eat a

40:55

tortoise and like the men in

40:57

post-story they resorted to eating one

41:00

of their own in a horrifying

41:02

but potentially necessary case of cannibalism.

41:04

The unlucky young man's name? Richard?

41:06

Parker. Oh, what are the odds?

41:08

Um, I was watching this really

41:10

twisted show the other night, and

41:12

that was what this this man

41:14

was saying. He said, we just

41:16

keep replaying the same scenarios over

41:18

and over and over again on

41:20

this time loop that people think

41:23

is linear. And it was a

41:25

real kind of a mine F

41:27

kind of conversation. So that's

41:29

what just flashed in my mind

41:31

about this, what are the chances

41:34

of that? And was that, was

41:36

it that same soul-like reincarnating into

41:38

that same situation to try to

41:41

have it turn out differently? Yeah,

41:43

or do our words create our

41:45

future reality for good and not

41:48

so good? You know, like there's,

41:50

I think we did a show

41:52

on this years ago, because there's

41:54

so many stories about writers, the

41:57

man who wrote the book about

41:59

the Titan. That sank. you know,

42:01

Titanic. Charles Dickens was sued because

42:04

he wrote a ghost story about

42:06

a woman who died and was

42:08

haunting a painting and that actually

42:11

happened years later. Like there's a

42:13

lot of stories about writers stories

42:15

later coming true. And words are

42:17

powerful. They are powerful and I

42:20

think all of these examples and

42:22

the references we made at the

42:24

beginning it's up to you whether

42:27

I'm thinking of my son who

42:29

really he got loved that boy

42:31

he has no woo he does

42:34

but he just doesn't like to

42:36

call it that he's very practical

42:38

grounded and he'll say well I

42:40

had a weird coincidence happened the

42:43

other day or I think this

42:45

odd coincidence and in my head

42:47

I'm thinking oh hell no that's

42:50

not a coincidence that was synchranicity

42:52

and that was so aligned so

42:54

I think Part of this is

42:57

fun to look at how we

42:59

may perceive it. And what it

43:01

says about us and our beliefs.

43:04

Right. And not to just drink

43:06

the cool aid and make everything

43:08

fit, because it doesn't always fit.

43:10

No. But these examples and these

43:13

stories are, they're really fun to

43:15

think about. Our last one is.

43:17

about coincidences surrounding twins. And I

43:20

think the research into twins and

43:22

their mind-to-mind and energetic connection is

43:24

absolutely riveting to look into. This

43:27

one is called The Case of

43:29

the Two Gyms. In 1979, a

43:31

set of twins was reunited at

43:33

age 39. They had been separated

43:36

at four weeks old, and for

43:38

37 years didn't even know of

43:40

each other's existence. So when they

43:43

met, there were a few surprises.

43:45

There were a few surprises. Both

43:47

boys had been named Jim by

43:50

their adoptive parents. Both loved math

43:52

and carpentry, and both pursued careers

43:54

in security. Both were volunteer firefighters.

43:56

Even Erier, they each married woman

43:59

named Linda. divorced the

44:01

Lindos and remarried woman

44:04

named Betty. As for

44:06

their kids' names, James Allen

44:08

and James Allen with one

44:10

L. It was a fascinating

44:13

reunion to say the least.

44:15

Which ties back to

44:17

tapping into that collective

44:19

consciousness. So did they

44:21

have a court as twins?

44:24

Because I mean, I think that

44:26

would be... a court that

44:28

would never break if

44:30

you're sharing the same

44:32

womb with someone. Holy shit.

44:35

I know. My nephews

44:37

are twins and they

44:39

call each other wombmates.

44:42

Isn't that cute? It's

44:44

cute. Well, I hope that

44:46

this has given everyone something to

44:48

think about and to really ponder

44:50

about the ties that link us

44:53

all together, you know, because we

44:55

really are in this thing called

44:57

life together. We're all connected and

44:59

we can pull on those chords

45:01

anytime we need some help from

45:03

other people, a little bit of

45:05

guidance, or just a little taste

45:07

of magic to inspire us and

45:09

be a little bit of wind

45:11

beneath our wings as we fly

45:13

through 2025. Oh. That's a good way

45:15

to think about it. Well, that's how

45:17

it feels to me. All these stories,

45:20

they just feel magical to me.

45:22

I don't want to explain them.

45:24

I don't want science to rationalize

45:26

them. I just want to marinate

45:28

in them and think about what

45:30

a magical, beautiful world we live

45:33

in. And if you're not feeling

45:35

like you have a lot of

45:37

coincidence in your life, you can

45:39

ask, say, you know what, help me see

45:41

what's around me so they'll be more

45:43

aware of. That's a good request to

45:45

put out there. Thanks so much for

45:48

listening. We'll be back with you

45:50

next week. In the meantime, remember

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to show up, do great work,

45:54

and share your light. Take care.