The coincidences...

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I do not believe in coincidences. I believe that everything is connected, and I believe in what is called the “Law of Attraction”…that you will attract the energy levels that you produce.

That being said, I’ve experienced quite a few bizarre coincidences lately. The right resources have always been there when I needed them, and have all sought me out before I sought them. It’s happened at least 10 times.

My dad’s friend is a psychic, and I’ve talked with her a few times. Last year, I had an injury for six weeks: when I asked her about it, she told me what was wrong (it was something about my psychology), and the injury went away in two days. Unbelievable. She also knew information about me that she could not have known: she did not know me personally, and my dad didn’t know anything about it either, so he couldn’t have told her anything. Similar events have happened twice: some sort of longstanding problem, and an unusual but very quick and successful recovery.

This is a little relevant because she also suggested the idea of a “divine plan”, and that coincidences can bequeath some sort of message to keep you on this intended path. The Law of Attraction supposes the same idea: that coincidences happen all the time to help us, but we are usually unaware and don’t pick up on them. This is also part of the reason why I have a hard time doubting some sort of spiritual afterworld.

That being said, do you believe in a “divine plan”? There’s a rather significant problem that I’m dealing with right now, and after ten such coincidences that deal with the same problem, I’m really starting to wonder. I’m also curious as to how people here view coincidences.

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Your Destany is your own. Your purpose is also such and your reason for being. Your Devine plan is your conciousness realizing the purpose it has set for itself within it’s own destany.

Let no thing, man, or being tell you otherwise for then you are mearly a slave to the whelms and puposes of another. Rather than a Master of Yourself.

Devinity has nothing to do with life beyond death. Death is a step in your evolution into somthing more than you are, wether this be Physical, Emotional, Spiritual or otherwise. What you percieve in your existance will be the Actuality of such, Metaphysicla or Physical.

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The Watcher is correct as far as the idea of a divine plane. If there is a divine plan and we are all merley slaves to our pre decided fate, then what is the point of living a life where chopices to not matter? That negates freewill. Wit that gone there is no reason left to live.

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I’m curious what the initial injury was that was cured in two days. If you’d already had it for six weeks, might it have only taken two days longer to heal anyway?

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I’m not saying that there’s no illusion of free will (I do believe that it is an illusion)…nor do I hold myself as a “slave” to someone or something else (i.e. God or a divine plan). Create your own life, create your own meaning, don’t limit yourself, etc…I like all of that.

All I am saying is that I have not ruled out the possibility of a divine plan. This also leads to some sort of calmness and peace in my decisions. All it means to me is that there is no “wrong” choice, no “wrong” answer, and that I have some hope for my life and my actions…which is probably also self-evident in many other ways, though. I don’t believe that inherent meaning can be proved, nor do I believe that we should limit ourselves to any inherent meaning…it’s just a strange possibility.

The injury was near the back of my right calf when I was a track runner. When I visited the psychic, she told me that my problem was psychological: I was a decent runner, and the injury was a way to excuse myself…I could blame my losses or my lack of progress on my injury. It was a very constant pain for six weeks, no sign of letting up, and I could barely walk…forget about running. I thought I was through for the season. Two days after I started following her instructions, I was running again, and three days after that, I raced.

How could she have known the psychological underpinnings of the injury, when this was the first time she had even met me? As if to further the point, I was also the voted captain of the team for the following year…and she remarked about it in some way that I can’t quite remember. My dad didn’t even know about the captain position…and only the coach and a few other people knew about it. How she could have known is unexplainable.

I had another similar experience, when my dad asked her about my acne (I had a bad acne problem back then). She said the same thing: it was a psychological problem, although for different reasons. It might seem suspicious, but this isn’t how she treats everyone who comes to her…I’m just fucked up pschologically, I guess. She explained it all to me, and my acne eventually started disappearing (for good) after I followed her directions again. This is a much less convincing story, sure…there are more outs for this one…but it was also here that she told me about the idea of a “divine plan”…that my acne was there for a reason.

Now that I look back on it, for both me and my brother, the acne definitely instigated a life-changing idea. All I’m saying is, there’s a possibility that we’re following some predestined path, and that certain events in our lives keep us on it. I’m not a Christian, I’m not a mystic, and I’m not a blind believer…but the explanations for some things are beyond me. How do you explain the yogis in the India who breathe fire and perform miracles and shit? Beats the hell out of me…something makes is possible though.

That being said, though…I was more interested about the idea of coincidences, and what people think of them. Do you believe that coincidences are pure coincidence, or do you think that they hold some significance behind them? Like I said before…I do not believe in coincidences.