probability

Have you ever experienced a strange coincidence and thought, “What are the odds of that?”

Coincidences are fascinating. They are also immensely useful in ways most people never considered.

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.

“We actually do—and can—make our own coincidences.” -Dr. Bernard Beitman

At precisely the moment of life or death for some prisoners during WWII, a strange coincidence directed their fate toward life.

“I didn’t see how a wound on one body could show up as a birthmark on another, even if you accepted the idea of past-life connections,” said reincarnation researcher Dr. Jim Tucker. Here’s a look at possible explanations.

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) at Princeton University is famous for experiments it conducted showing our minds may actually affect the operations of electronic devices.

The probability of you being born at the time you were born to your particular parents, with your particular genetic make-up shows you’re more amazing than one in a million. It also correlates startlingly well with a Buddhist story.