h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As a change from most of the rather facetious comments on this subject, I would like to mention the work of the scientist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in this area. He considered that the human unconscious was collective - that is it shared the same forces and influences with all other life forms. using his own experiences in this matter, and researching globally the belief patterns of all the world cultures he reckoned (to put it in a nut shell) that we were, at the deepest spiritual level, all in touch with each other. As a follow on from this he considered that many so-called coincidences were actually 'meant' - or 'meaningful'. This could be anything from taking down a book in the library which changes your life, to suddenly changing your mind and not travelling on an aircraft that later crashes. If we withdraw from the trivia, and pay a little serious attention to this possibility, we will find things happening to us which make a great deal of sense. He called this phenomenon 'Synchronicity'. Try it !!