[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Phenomenon of synchronism: mere coincidence or God's will
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Phenomenon of synchronism: mere coincidence or God's will?
01/20/2006 13:31
Some events that are often referred to as 'coincidental' have another
definition - the 'phenomenon of synchronism'
Strange things happen to everyone. Science can not interpret them in a
logic or reasonable way, and therefore they are regarded as mere coincidences.
For example, an old friend calls you up a minute after a distant recollection
flashes through your head. Or somebody pays you back when you desperately need
money. There are other coincidences that are a lot complex and even more
astounding, they make you think about the inexplicable and the divine
intervention. Who do they happened contrary to all laws of nature and science?
A ship sunk near the shores of Wales on December 5, 1664. Another ship
went down on the same location on December 5, 1785. A third ship sunk to the
bottom of the sea on the same location on December 5, 1866. Each of the
shipwrecks had only one survivor. In all the three cases, a survivor's name was
Hugh Williams.
There is another story of amazing coincidence relating to the fate of
U.S. President John Kennedy and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The simplest
coincidence has to do with the surnames of the two presidents. Both surnames
are made up of seven letters. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theater,
his assassin tried to hide in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle
from the position in a warehouse, he tried to hide in a theater. President
Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy; President Kennedy had a secretary
called Lincoln.
On a hot July night of 1930, a policeman called Allan Folby from Texas
got in a car crash and damaged a femoral artery in his leg. He would have bled
to death had not a passerby intervened and saved his live. The passerby's name
was Alfred Smith. He applied a tourniquet and Folby stopped bleeding. The
policeman recovered and went back to his beat. Five years later, he got a call
to proceed to a car crash site. He saw a man lying on the ground. The man was
bleeding, his femoral artery was apparently damaged. The man's name was Alfred
Smith: he was the very man who saved Folby's live in the past under the same
circumstances.
Why do such coincidences take place? Many people believe such events are
in fact made on purpose to make a person take a more careful look at his or her
life and interpret its events in a more serious manner. Just like somebody
sends us a message that reads: trust your intuition. Maybe the cosmos (God)
gives an impulse or a clue: believe in coincidence.
The latter assumption may seem unscientific. However, let us not forget
that some events we call "coincidental" other people have been calling the
"phenomenon of synchronism" for a long time. Two outstanding scientists came up
with the term regardless of each of other. Nobel Prize winners in physics
Wolfgang Pauili and Carl Gustaf Jung, a famous psychologist and psychoanalyst,
arrived at the conclusion that simultaneous occurrence of causally unrelated
events has meaning beyond mere coincidence. Those events may occur without any
reason or respect to existing laws of nature. The laws of nature are not
absolute, said the scientists while explaining their positions. Both Jung and
Pauli maintained that relations between the events can be of fundamental
meaning to man even though the belief is in contradiction to the fixed concepts
of the universe and its principal laws.
Discuss this article on Pravda.Ru English Forum
Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Guerman Grachev)
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