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Here’s a fascinating synchro story from Bernard Beitman’s new book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen. We are interviewing Bernard about his book this week on The Mystical Underground podcast. Nathan Stein had wanted to be a doctor but the Great Depression forced him to give up his dream. He pinned his hopes on his grand- son Kevin who decided at a very early age to go to medical school. But Nathan died when Kevin was nine. As a senior at Penn State University, Kevin was confronted with enormous tuition costs. His parents, both real estate agents, stepped up their efforts to bring in more business. One day his father, Sherman, noticed an ad by people planning to sell their house on their own. Although he rarely contacted private sellers, he felt an uncontrollable urge to make an appointment with them. After two appointment changes, Sherman met with the seller. With the address in hand, he had a strange feeling. As he walked up to the front door, he realized that this was his father-in-law’s old house! As Sherman was telling the sellers about this coincidence, the door- bell rang. It was the mailman with a registered letter for Nathan Stein who had died fourteen years earlier. Sherman signed for it. The letter was from a bank about Nathan Stein’s dormant account. The account contained the exact amount Kevin needed to go to medical school. In this story, the mind included the intentions of four people—the pre- med student, his parents, and his deceased grandfather. |
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That’s an amazing story about Nathan Stein and Kevin! I look forward to your podcast with Bernie Beitman coming up soon too. Thanks for connecting me again with Darren in this thread. We might not be communicating with each other for a while after our Australian Rules football teams do battle in the preliminary final!
GO THE LIONS!!!
GO THE SWANS!!!
Here’s some more ironic synchs, as I just realized that February 24, 2018 post featuring Bernie’s email reply was my late older brother’s birthday.
He passed away in 2020 and was cremated at the same place my father was, but it was a Covid distanced funeral where by Australian law we had to sit 2 metres apart from one another and only 20 people were allowed into the crematorium that day.
On the day of his funeral a black Bluefest t-shirt with a skull and bones on the front I had ordered through the internet weeks ago arrived in the mail that day, which I wrote about here –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2020/06/bluesfest-2020-festival-that-never-took.html
I’m looking forward to that talk.
I’m the guy from Australia who told Bernie about Chris Mackey and there is a copy of the email reply back from Bernie in this old 2018 post of mine –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2018/02/connecting-with-coincidence-podcast-51.html
Funny thing is Chris’ footy club the Geelong Cats are playing my footy team the Brisbane Lions Friday night to see which team goes through to the AFL Grand Final and which team’s season is over for 2022.
Lots of synchros there, Daz. Chris is a terrific man. We’re having Bernie on Tuesday – he couldn’t make it on sunday. Off to look at your link!
It should be an interesting footy MATCH between our two footy teams, but only one team will go through, and with Chris’ love for the number 6 and this year being 2022 (2+0+2+2=6) and the match being played on Friday the SIXteenth, he may have the omens on his side? 🙂
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2020/06/chris-mackey-matchboxes-and-matching.html
It will actually be the 6th year anniversary of my dad’s funeral on Friday, so that’s probably not a good omen for me either 🙁
That’s a sad anniversary to remember.
Some dates are burnt into my memory, which is ironic considering he was cremated and died of complications of pneumonia and dementia.
Cremation and your choice of verbs: is it irony or synchronicity?
Ironic synchronicity maybe, as I always refer to memorable dates and events being burnt into my memory:-)
Ah, ok. You going to be cremated, Daz? 🙂 Both of my parents were. Bizarre and uncomfortable to think about. Then again, so is burial, especially if you ever read Dostoevsky’s Dream of a Ridiculous Man.
Yes.
When I was a very young child, I would have nightmares about being buried alive and scratching at the coffin lid to get out.
Maybe a past life memory?
OMG, whatever it was, it sounds terrifying.
I just send Chris a link to your blog and to this post. Looks like synchronicity is the glue in all this.
I don’t know whether Chris realized that the day he talks and writes about often (June 6th) is the day Carl Jung passed away on.
I’ve never heard him mention Jung passing away on June 6th (6/6) yet.
Wow. That’s right. The Chilean man who visited Jung in those last days wrote about it in his book. & right now, I can’t recall his name or the name of the book!
Miguel Serrano – the book, C.G. Jung and Hesse. I love google.
I’ve not heard of the book or author before (I see his birthday is September 10th), but it’s funny as I have just read Hesse’s book ‘Siddhartha’ and written a few posts about it on my blog recently.
‘Siddhartha’ was published 100 years ago this year –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2022/08/one-hundred-years-of-siddharta.html
Hesse’s books are all good and different. My favorite, I think, was Demian.
Onto my list it goes now.
Cheers.
Night!
Hi Darren, That was certainly a very spooky coincidence, how Jung died on the afternoon of 6th June. I included a reference to that at the end of a chapter called The Synchronistic Matchmaker after learning about it late in the piece from a book called Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman. Apparently there was a huge storm around the time Jung died when lightning split a tree he often used to rest against. From memory, a similar huge storm hit when a documentary team went to Bollingen to do a documentary on the anniversary of Jung’s death a couple of years later.
Gary would make a good guest for Trish and Rob’s podcast.
The ex-Blondie guitarist is always up for a chat about Jung and synchronicity … and other subjects woo-woo.
I’ll look him up.
I look forward to your interview with Bernie, Trish and Rob! Between him and yourselves you’ll have so many synchronicity stories it will be hard to know where to start and when to stop!
Hi Darren, That was very funny how you got in touch with Bernie Beitman about our Talking Synchronicity radio show in Geelong. He had a chuckle about it too. In the meantime, I very much look forward to the preliminary final on Friday, which I was fortunate to get tickets for today. I hope your comments about the omens favouring Geelong prove to be true, but we’ve seen how close the matches have been so far. Probably another cliffhanger! Hope it keeps us both entertained until the end.
I actually have a Geelong footy scarf I bought as a souvenir from the 2020 GF held in Brisbane, as my son and I didn’t want to see the Tigers go back to back and head for a three-peat.
You can see the view we had on the night in this old post of mine –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2020/11/gabba-lockdown-special-never-say-never.html