Category: Synchronicities and premonitions
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2003. —- Unusual Occurrences One day, for no apparent reason, I found myself wondering,…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay, a sequel to "Unusual Occurrences," was originally posted in 2003. The essay, like the first one, mentions some premonitions or…
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Years ago I posted a couple of essays on my author site called "Unusual Occurrences" and "More Unusual Occurrences." They were collections of mostly trivial and anecdotal synchronicities, coincidences, and premonitions from my personal life I still keep a record of such things in a journal. Yes, I'm aware that they can be "explained" by the ever-helpful…
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I just read Linda Ronstadt's charmingly unpretentious memoir Simple Dreams, which I enjoyed very much. Many celebrity memoirs are tell-all, score-settling brag-o-grams, but none of this is true of Ronstadt's effort, which she appears to have written without the aid of a ghostwriter. She is unstinting in her praise of her colleagues and rivals, barely…
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Here's an incredibly trivial and meaningless coincidence that I mention only because things like this happen to me a lot, and disproportionately involve TV shows. Last night I crumpled up a piece of paper and prepared to toss it into a wastebasket. Before throwing it, I said to myself, "If I miss this shot, I…