CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Bernard Beitman, M.D., a founding father of Coincidence Studies, theorizes that strange coincidences may involve a sensory perception we don’t yet understand.
When coincidences occur, it seems our minds are connected to our surroundings and to other people’s minds. As discussed in part 4 of this video series, Beitman theorizes that a kind of energy information may form those connections.
We may have receptors to pick up on that information. For example, when a mother gets a sudden feeling that something is wrong and it turns out her daughter is actually in serious trouble, it could be that the mother’s receptors picked up on energy information transmitted by the daughter.
This sixth sense may seem a little mystical, but even the five senses commonly recognized are a little more mysterious than most people realize, Beitman noted.
Scientists have different theories about how we smell things. The most common theory is that we have individual receptors for every different kind of scent molecule. Some scientists think, however, that we don’t possibly have specific receptors for all the multitudinous types of odorant molecules.
Some have suggested instead a controversial quantum theory that involves our nose sensing the energy vibrations from odorant molecules.
