From: dakadldo2@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 6:11:46 PM UTC-8, Dim Witte wrote:   
   > I've had recent experiences that suggest we navigate with more than brain in   
   some mystical way. Call it "serendipity."    
   >    
   > Like last winter I was able to find a $215 lost food shipment by Fred   
   Meyer/Kroger using Instacart by accident. Happened to look out a 3rd story   
   window and saw the shipment next day lying in snow at the steps of a side   
   entrance. Kroger, when notified,    
   refunded my $215, plus allowed me to keep the shipment, which I then gave   
   away.    
   >    
   > Coincidentally, I just recovered a lost hearing aid by spotting it lying on   
   the same unused concrete steps two weeks after I notified all the Lost and   
   Found offices at places I visited between the VA and my apartment TWO WEEKS   
   before.    
   >    
   > Coincidentally, on contacting the VA Audiology Department, in case it was   
   returned there, they gave me an appointment to have my ears cleaned and fitted   
   for NEW hearing aids not liable to entangle with glasses or masks.    
   >    
   > Science and students of rational philosophy may ignore such coincidences,   
   but oriental philosophies have a way of accounting for serendipity, as part of   
   the Way of self navigation, it seems. Parallel understandings occur in terms   
   of arrangement of    
   furniture of various kinds, as in Feng Shui, maybe also in the way art is   
   expressed?   
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   See also the similar concept of "synchronicity":   
      
   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   
   This article is about the Jungian concept. For other uses, see Synchronicity   
   (disambiguation).  Part of a series on  Psychology.   
      
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   Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept first introduced by   
   analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear   
   meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection."[1] In contemporary   
   research, synchronicity    
   experiences refer to one's subjective experience that coincidences between   
   events in one's mind and the outside world may be causally unrelated to each   
   other yet have some other unknown connection.[2] Jung held that this was a   
   healthy, even necessary,    
   function of the human mind that can become harmful within psychosis.[3][4]   
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