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“If people learn to become more sensitive to coincidences in movies, then they can learn to become more coincidence-sensitive in the movies of their own lives,” said Dr. Bernard Beitman.
For some people, coincidences are like sign posts in life. They think coincidences show they’re “on the right path,” or “it’s meant to be.”
Strange coincidences may involve a sensory perception we don’t yet understand.
You think of a friend you haven’t heard from in years and she all of a sudden calls. Is your mind mysteriously connected to the outside world?
For some people, God is clearly the force behind strange coincidences. Others say it’s “the universe,” and some say, “It’s all explainable by probability.”
A strange coincidence helped Oprah Winfrey increase her fame. Coincidences can help us all if we are attuned to their possibilities.
Dr. Bernard Beitman is developing Coincidence Studies, and he uses a metaphor to explain the importance of categorizing the different kinds of coincidences.
Epoch Times visited the University of Virginia to see reincarnation researcher Dr. Jim Tucker, who has 2,000 cases of children reporting past-life memories.
As Dr. Bernard Beitman establishes a science of coincidences, he looks to Jung’s scarab synchronicity to see how coincidence may be used in psychotherapy.
Could all these eye witnesses have been simply delusional? Dr. Micheal Grosso doesn’t think so.
In a state-of-the-art lab at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), psychokinesis isn’t a sensationalized magic-show talent. Its subtle forms are studied and scientifically measured in various ways.
At the University of Virginia, a space is given to the scientific investigation of strange phenomena that challenge currently accepted scientific assumptions. Such phenomena include extrasensory perception (such as telepathy), apparitions and deathbed visions, poltergeists, experiences of persons who come close to death and survive (usually called near-death experiences), out-of-body experiences, and claimed memories of previous lives.
