The Coincidences that Can Change Our Lives

By Sofia Karin Axelsson
Coincidences Can Change Our Lives

There are coincidences that forever change our lives, and as a result we re-arrange how we live, who we work with, or where we live. Coincidences may seem orchestrated. Some say these coincidences are fated, a result of grander forces moving in our lives. Others say these coincidences are purely an act of chance, events happening in an indifferent, materialistic world with no other visible patterns than that of probability. But what if there is something in between? What if we orchestrate these coincidences on an unconscious level because we need them. Maybe we are programmed to help fate along the way. Could there be a way to bring more life-changing coincidences into our lives?

According to Dr. Bernard Beitman, founding father of the Coincidence Studies and visiting Professor at the University of Virginia, there are powers in play when meaningful connections are made, that are perfectly possible to observe, but that cannot be explained by either religious conjecture, or as being the result of probability. In his new book, Connecting with Coincidence: The New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life, Dr Beitman explores the role of coincidences in our lives, and how understanding them can help us find what we need to make life more fulfilling. Dr. Beitman demonstrates that it is perfectly possible to observe coincidences in a scientific manner. But to do this we have to move beyond the extremes of either seeing them as the result of chance or probability, or as the result of higher powers at work.

Coincidences can include a whole range from charming improbabilities to meaningful occurrences. In their most dramatic form they can even save lives. In Connecting with Coincidence, we get to read many testimonials of coincidences by participants in Dr. Beitman’s studies.

One story is dramatic; a time in a woman’s life when she saw no other way forward than to take her own life. She took her father’s gun, got in the car and drove to an isolated place by a lake. Highly distressed, with tears running down her face, she suddenly heard another car pull up beside hers. Out of the car stepped her brother, asking her to hand him the gun. She asked her brother how he had known where she was and what she was about to do. But her brother didn’t have any answers. He had simply known he had to get into the car and drive, but not why or even to where. Unconsciously he was pulled to the place where his sister was.