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The Place of Synchronicity in an extended Cosmology

I’ll start with an anecdote told to me by a friend, an example of the little synchronicities that happen in everyday life: ‘My cousin's father had died in Paris, so I booked Eurostar to go to the funeral which was on the coming Monday. I was given a seat in a set of four where three other women all strangers were sitting. One woman, traveling alone, told us that a relative had died in Paris and she was going to the funeral which was on Monday. The two other women, traveling together, said a relative of theirs had also died, and they were also going to the funeral in Paris on Monday. Four people, three funerals - all on the same day - and the train company had booked us in four seats together!’ Well what do we make of that? David Peat calls synchronicities ‘wake-up calls’ because they pull us up in our tracks. It’s as if we’ve noticed a little flaw in the fabric of space and time. There’s no cause and effect at work in this example; rather it’s a case of subject matter on the ment