coincidence

Two outstanding experiences created cracks in his armor of atheistic certainty and disrupted what he calls his “web of belief” based on modern science.

Concordance refers to the likelihood that two people with many similarities may think the same thoughts.

In making Coincidence Studies into a science, it’s necessary to create a taxonomy like botanists have done for plants.

Coincidences emerge in the minds of the beholders.

Gary Schwartz was raised without faith and steeped in science, but emerged a spiritual man.

For some people, coincidences are “just coincidences”; everything is random. For other people, nothing is “just coincidence”; everything is preordained.

Grace Lark has strange abilities to intuitively find lost objects and return them to their owners, and to find lost people by tracking them in her dreams.

“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.

When people experience coincidences, they often think, “Wow, the chances of this occurring are so small!” Some statisticians say, however, that people aren’t good at intuitively calculating the chances.