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I had been smoking again and pottering about the house when I thought to myself, “That’s right, I have to return that scanner to my friend”. A second later I heard my phone beep with an sms. It was my friend asking when I was going to return the scanner.

I can also remember a time when I had a laundry outside in a backyard and it was dark one night when I went out there. For some reason I thought to myself, “What if there was a spider on the light switch?” I got myself so worked up about it that I took my lighter out of my pocket and sparked it on to check. Sure enough, there was a large huntsman spider right on top of it!

The reason I am talking about these things is I am beginning to read a book by Rupert Sheldrake about ‘The Sense of Being Stared At’ where he mentions that kind of phenomena and theorises about what he calls, “the extended mind”. I am fascinated about that which is hidden in our world or inaccessible via the present means we have with which to sense things. Sheldrake argues that there is a mind that goes beyond the brain and connects all life. Interesting stuff. Will write more about it when I have finished reading the book.

Tags: coincidence, extended mind, synchronicity