The Source and Significance of Coincidences

In Sharon Hewitt Rawlette’s terrific book, The Source and Significance of Coincidences, she has a fascinating chapter called Yet to be Born.

She writes “While after-death communication is quite frequently considered as an explanation for coincidences, there is another similar explanation that is much more rarely explored -pre-birth communication. As the name suggests, this kind of communication comes from children before they are born, and often before they are even conceived.”

In our book, Secrets of Spirit Communication, we touched on this topic, but Sharon has explored it more deeply. She recounts how a friend of hers, Anna, now in her early twenties, still remembers being elsewhere before she was born and “ feeling the love and encouragement of a whole group of friendly beings gathered behind her. She also recalls a moment in which she felt she was ‘diverted to a different path,’ which she describes like moving on to the next step of some sort of natural progression.

“Anna connects this memory to something she said to her mother when she was a young child. Although Anna is Caucasian American, her mother confirmed to me that, when Anna was still a toddler, Anna told her something along the lines of, ‘You’re lucky to have me, because God was going to send me to China.’ While Anna doesn’t now have any pre- birth memories specifically related to China, she does remember that, at the moment when she felt her pre-birth shift to a new path, she was in a place that was very orange and sky-like, perhaps with some clouds, and that she was alone with one particular being. She imagines this is the being that, as a child, she described as ‘God.’

“When the shift to the new path happened, Anna felt her attention shift to the right, and the orange color of her surroundings became much whiter and more vivid. She also remembers a feeling that she was going to be trying something new, and she could feel the excitement of many other beings regarding this new adventure, as well as their willingness to support her and not judge her if she made mistakes.”

Sharon points out that while some people may find these kinds of stories somewhat far-fetched, there’s a growing body of evidence in the spontaneous reports of young children. Parents often dismiss these reports as fantasy, but researchers have discovered there’s a consistency to these stories and some of them provide verifiable pre-birth details. In Memories of Heaven: Children’s Astounding Recollection of the Time Before They Came to Earth, Wayne Dyer and Dee Garnes wrote about such cases. A sampling:

Janis Monachina’s daughter remembered her grandmother’s deceased twin. She said, “Yes, I was swinging with her in the clouds before I came. We were picking out my family and wearing pretty white dresses.
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When Michele Mira and her husband were showing their three-year-old 
son photos of his deceased grandfathers, he said about his father’s father, “I know him—he’s Poppy Henry. I saw him on my way to you.”

Rawlett’s book is one of the most comprehensive sources of information I’ve found on the many aspects of synchronicity.