DOPS

A 3-year-old seemed to know in detail about a confrontation his father’s acquaintance once had with a snake—but how he knew these details remains a mystery.

The tendency to notice coincidences in one’s life, and to attribute meaning to those coincidences, is stronger in some people than in others.

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.

Do you believe that people can leave their bodies and float around as disincarnate consciousness? Do you believe that close to the moment of death people see spirits of dead loved ones who come to help them cross over? Do you believe that weird coincidences are profound and meaningful?

When you encounter a strange coincidence, your first thought might be, “What are the chances?”

Details remembered from a “past life” sometimes startlingly match with the verified information about people who have died.

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.

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.

While quick and simple “tests” are often highly publicized, the more technical data that could support the existence of psychic abilities is easily buried in academic papers.