[MD] Just coincidence?

[Joseph Bromley]

Hello Peter.

>
>Hi Joseph,
>
>I read, in Lyall Watson, years ago about chemical crystallisations that can
>be very difficult to achieve at first but then happen spontaneously  around
>the world and about one monkey suddenly learning to wash potatoes before
>eating and then those on neighbouring islands begin doing the same soon
>after. Also why does the I-ching uncannily supply a text in some way
>pertinent to your question?
>
Which if the type of events I described (such two people saying the same 
thing at the same time to the same event, if this is a "chemical 
crystallisation" then it would place the root of such events on the 
inorganic level. (I reason it as a habituation to others, you begin to 
resonate with them. You take on each others values be connecting on those 
values, as such it is not a mind that you are witnessing synchronicity with 
but one of value. What is mind if not a collection of values?) The Lyall 
Watson reasoning opens up an unexpected avenue of research, can you please 
give me the name of the book?

>Coincidences can be exhilarating  and I used to try to see them as omens.

Still guilty of this at times. . Examples that I do not take to be omens 
keep on popping up.

>
>Your examples of evolutionaty theory and discovery of TV and telephone 
>could
>be that science was sufficiently developed for the discovery to happen and
>there would be no shortage of people trying to come up with new ideas.

I do not dispute this interpretation, the intellectual value patterns where 
developed to such an extent that the TV and telephone inventions where 
inevitable.
>
>Our brains are incredibly complex and work in ways we don't yet understand
>but if you mean by 'collective mind' something like telepathy  then I don't
>agree.  Sometimes there are connections between observed events that we
>can't immediately discern and sometimes there are just coincidences. But I
>challenge you to look at your own life and come up with one truly
>supernatural event that you have experienced.

What do we really know about the brain? What to we really know about what 
makes us do the things that we do? A chicken will keep on moving after you 
cut its head off. Some plants move to follow the sun. I work best when I do 
not think. I smell the a psychological prejudice that the brain is mind in 
what you say. (That all there is to know about mind can be found by the 
study of the brain, is my understanding of the underpinning principle in 
science.)  Is that my misinterpretation?
I do not claim any telepathic ability. What do you deem as supernatural? 
Animals can sense earthquakes, is this supernatural? Are we saying that 
anything outside of the realm of sciences static knowledge is supernatural? 
You can tell which overy is producing an egg in a women by the heat it 
generates, which can be sensed by your hand. I concider this a normal human 
ability, one that many have lost the ability to do, or have never developed 
a "chi" sensitivity. (The logic is simple, one overy is more active than the 
other, a more energetic state, producing heat.) Is this example supernatural 
in your eyes? If so science has much to learn about the potential of the 
human condition.

I have faith in the collective mind, there are too many experiences that are 
only logical explained by not ruling out a collective mind as a possibility.

Reagards Joseph Bromley.

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