While living in India some time ago, I was working with a famous Guru on an eco-community project. We needed to have a series of meetings, but we lived in different states so he had asked me to meet him at a spiritual center where he was leading a weekend retrea

Research on meaningful coincidences suggests that synchronicity and serendipity are quite common. The valid and reliable Weird Coincidence Survey [take WC Survey now] demonstrates their commonality in general populations

Many people initially wonder whether they are going mad when they first experience a huge increase in amazing coincidences. This is certainly one of the main themes in messages of people who have contacted me as a psychologist who has written about synchronicity. Some also described how their friends or family believed they were psychotic at such times, despite them feeling quite sane. 

When I was 8 or 9 my dog got lost. I went to look for him and got lost. Then we found each other. When I was 31 I was choking uncontrollably at the kitchen sink in my San Francisco house.