Incredible Coincidence :Incredible Coincidence :
The Baffling World of Synchronicity
by Alan Vaughan
Paperback (December 1989)
Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0345359720
Synopsis:
The occurrence of meaningful coincidences that have no apparent cause is a phenomenon called synchronicity. Now readers can enter and explore this mysterious world via 150 actual case histories which prove that there is more to incredible coincidence than meets the eye.
Reviews:
A reader from USA , December 20, 1998
It gives a glimpse of how we interface with another world.
At the end of the book Mr. Vaughn lists 10 facts about how he understands
the field from which synchronicities arise, I believe he is correct. We,
the two legged uprights on this Earth, are the field He give quite a number
of examples of some kinds of synchronicity, that I suspect most people don't
regard as 'coincidence' so much as luck. However almost everyone has enough
of that kind happen, to be able to relate to what he's writing about. What
impressed me first and foremost in the book, was a seemingly simple idea
that a person is generally the star in his/her own life, but that at times
that changes, and the person becomes a star in someone else's life. This
is a loaded idea, related to some very esoteric ideas about how the future
happens, through the individual and the collective interface with what is
at work shaping the future. When the individual begins to fit within the
implotment of higher levels than the ordinary life contexts, it seems likely
one becomes a bit player in the smaller individual life, at least for a
time anyway. He brings in the ideas of David Bohm, and this brings in ideas
about quantum level physics. There's been a great advance in knowledge,
since Mr. Vaugh wrote the book, and I'd personally like to see him expand
synchronicity , in the context of Paul Davies work, particularly. The Cosmic
Blueprint. If the individual is 'informed' by some 'interactive force' ,
and Jung did identify meaningful coincidences as arising from a function
of mind that works towards individuation, then the potential of synchronicity
as a communication process and as a highly complex, context generatinglanguage
is certainly inferred. And if the ideas of F. David Peat and Jung are correct,
the interactive force is a function of what we experience as Time, and the
means by which man and woman are informed about the individuals work at
the highest and best level of which the individual may be informed. It seems
obvious that synchronicity is nothing new, and its never been understood,
although its almost certainly existed for centuries and thousands of years,
under different names, within different contexts in eras in history. If
we think of history as an incomplete record, since it focusses mostly on
'crime', there's a lot of territory to explore. I thought "You have
been waiting 65,000,000 years for this." really meant something other
than an advertisment for Jurassic Park, it meant we have achieved the point
at which we were aimed, exploring space. The International Space Station
was pre-drawn in Carl Sagan's Contact. How nicely everything converges when
the time is right! The idea that contact with extra terrestrials will come
through radio waves or the kinds of signals we recognize easily may have
to be tossed aside, if synchronicity is as F. David Peat described it, an
'interactive force'. Who and what is at the point of interface? Carl Jung
had an answer, although Mr. Vaughn's book doesn't dwell on the idea, that
the psyche of man is the point of interface. Mr. Vaughn, where are you?
Lets hear some more from you!
A reader Reno NV , November 25, 1998
dry but educational
I might have wanted to be more entertained by this book than I was. The
examples sited to elucidate the concept of synchronicity are few and far
between, while the background and information utilized to elaborate the
elucidations were drawn out in a very scholastic manner.(UH, there were
too many words, it made my brain hurt) It could have used a tad more tabloid
splash, and a tad less Professor Brainiac. For those with more than the
attention span of a GenXer like myself, who are looking for scientific study,
and cited examples with all the "t"s crossed and the "i"s
dotted, this is an ideal publication. For those you want cheese, read "
the choking doberman" by Jon Harold Brunvand, who understands the method
by which this book should have been approached. ( Brunvand learns ya stuff,
he just dont let ya know that you are learnin' it)
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