Coincidences and Life

     Life and Coincidences - Part 2

   Much later in the 20th century, Dr. Paul Kammerer scientifically conducted his experiments for days and months by recording people’s talks and also noting down the details of their personality inclusive of their age, sex, dress or any other relevant characteristic thereof. Finally Dr. Paul Kammerer published his conclusions in the form of a book entitled, “The Law of Seriality”. In this book he had come to the conclusion that coincidences came in series and they were a kaleidoscopic exhibition of various unknown cosmic forces.

   After Dr. Paul Kammerer, two European minds combined their efforts. These two men were Wolfgang Pauli and the Swiss psychologist and philosopher Professor Carl Gustav Jung. Both of them deeply researched the controversial topic and concluded that coincidences were nothing but "the visible traces of the untraceable principles”. A single mysterious force at work in the universe tries to harmonize the disharmonized life. Thus it imposes its own discipline over the confusion and disorder of human life.


   More recently a science journalist, Arthur Koestler, also extensively researched the phenomena of coincidences and explained them as “puns of destiny”.

Arthur Koestler

   Arthur Koestler worked intensively and wrote extensively to search out a scientific basis for the occurrence of coincidences. The phrase “puns of destiny” was used by him to explain the philosophical implications of coincidences.

   Whether a coincidence is a “pun of destiny” or not cannot be scientifically proved. But the fact is that the entire exercise has an air of mystery about it. It is so very difficult to know what exactly coincidences are, especially when so many peculiar and important incidents do happen together. In fact all explanations touch merely a border of his problem. But we cannot reasonably dismiss sudden meaningful incidents as mere coincidences. They have a purpose to fulfill in the cosmic whole, which has to be deciphered. We give below examples of some meaningful incidents.

   The year was 1944. The world was locked into one of its cruelest wars.  Nazis were hated and feared. The entire world was planning to overthrow the Nazis and save the world from total destruction. Every operation was planned in a code word. The various code words were: “Overload”, “Neptune”, “Utah”, “Omaha” and “Mulberry”. The topple was to take place on June 6. Strangely enough, all these words appeared in a crossword puzzle of “Daily Telegraph”, exactly 33 days before this important date. The secret service men immediately rocked into action. They arrested the man who was conjoining these words. A thorough investigation was done. The secret service men considered him (the arrested person) to be a Nazi spy. But the man was innocent. He was only a school teacher and was compiling cross-word puzzles for the paper for the last 20 years. It was a striking case of psychic coincidence.

Edgar Allan Poe

   But perhaps nothing can beat an American experience. The American horror story writer Edgar Allan Poe in his “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pyn” told a story of four hungry survivors of a ship-destruction who finally decided to kill and eat a 12-year old boy, named “Richard Parker”. Some years later the fiction got transformed into reality. In 1884 a ship was caught in the violent storm and only four people survived. They were also hunger when they decided to killed by the senior members of the crew was none other than “Richard Parker”.







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