Category Archives: synchronicity
The Often Eerie Synchronicity of Names
For the last 15 years, we have lived next to a Haitian family on our right and, for the last decade, next door to Annette and her family on our left. For awhile, Annette’s twin sister and her husband and … Continue reading
When the Unlikely and the Unbelievable Collide
Whitley Streiber recently asked us to write something for his website, Unknowncountry.com. It’s a big site with lots of departments and we thought we were writing a column for Insight. But, to our surprise, the article showed up in headline … Continue reading
Into the Zone
We’re working on a book about creativity and synchronicity and one of the chapters is called Into the Zone. Here’s what we’d written (in part) in the proposal about this chapter. Stephen King calls it “dreaming awake.” We call it … Continue reading
Storyboard
My storyboard. A storyboard is supposed to be a visual representation of a script, play, novel, comic book…Whatever the venue, the storyboard is the writer’s visual guide to plot, characters, scenes, the entire banquet. Some years ago, I remember Rob … Continue reading
Big Sur- Cabin by the Sea
Big Sur One of the first posts we did in February 2009 when we started our blog was called Big Sur- Cabin by the Sea. It happened to Dr. L. Daryll Amstrong and illustrates, I think, what can happen when … Continue reading
Ghostly Road
It’s not unusual for someone to report seeing a ghost in an old house or building or a graveyard. I’ve also heard of hitchhiking ghosts, the most famous are the stories of a young Elvis in his uniform hitchhiking to … Continue reading
Chances Are…
Bernard Beitman, a visiting psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, has been studying meaningfuly coincidence for decades and has recently completed a book on it. We’ve written several posts about his work. Recently, he posted the following piece on his … Continue reading
Intentions, Desire, Manifestation
In the early years of our blog, Natalie, a psychic medium from Down Under, used to comment frequently. But she’s the mother to five kids from two marriages, and eventually had to give up blogging. We’ve kept in touch over … Continue reading
St. Patty’s Day
The other day when Rob and I were at the dog park, we noticed clusters of clovers were cropping up and he said, “Hey, let’s look for four-leaf clovers.” So we moved around, hunched over like Diogenes looking for … Continue reading
A Dangerous Method
We’ve probably all thought at one time or another how great it would’ve been to be a fly on the wall when something momentous, outrageous or historical happened. In the world of psychotherapy, one such incident was a dispute between … Continue reading






