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I would find it very interesting to hear about synchronicities that people have been experiencing since working with the course.

I've had several but most of them seem to be meaningless yet highly improbable.

As an example: I recently wanted to replace my digital cordless home phone that my 2 year old son had thrown in a bucket of water ;-). The one I replaced it with didn't work very well; there was interference etc. I sent it back and got a different model, still it wasn't as good as the original - they don't make the original anymore.

I was discussing this 'problem' with my wife and we joked that perhaps we should purchase a very expensive model (not mentioning any brands) that we saw 2 years ago in an expensive shop in London. I could visualize the phone very clearly as it is very distinctive.

The very next day we received an advert from a local hi-fi dealer advertising various reduced price hi-fi items, and also this specific phone that is made by a hi-fi specialist.

I realize that this story isn't 'Earth Shattering' but the point is this phone is very distinctive and I haven't seen it anywhere since seeing it 2 years ago in London. It is highly improbable that an advert for it would turn up from nowhere just one day after we discussed/visualized it.

It seems to be that you do attract to yourself whatever you think about, and the extent to which you attract it is proportional to the attention you give it.

I think the abundance for life course gives you the tools to clear your mind and focus on what you want.

I look forward to hearing your experiences!

Mark.

I was on a raw food forum, for instance, and did a search in the archives for exercise (i wanted to see what people were doing physically obviously), and ended up reading, somehow, posts about intuition. And this is what I had been focusing on a lot. And then I would go to scienceofgettingrich.net and find someone posting a quote by Oprah about how she would follow her feelings and not her head, and the importance of intuition. Good stuff like that, ya know.

I understand this completly. This sort of thing happens to me a lot. Skeptics would say that your brain is just noticing more of what you're looking for, but I have several examples that indicate coincidences that involve external factors that I don't have control over.

I first came accross synchronicity through Deepak Chopra's work. He and Paul Scheele really understand this stuff.

The Abundance for Life course makes perfect sense to me. I notice people having difficulties with certain aspects of the course. My advice is to study further a field. Often another person's point of view can help crystalize a concept. Paul's work has done this for me.

Mark.

I had similar thought about these co-incidents happening to me
from time to time
but there could be another way to see it.

It could be that all this information are still around us but
due focussing on something
specific our mind seems to filter these information differently
alerting us to useful
information. (which we previously ignored)

I used to be belief that through our thinking we attract those
things to us because
you can read it in nearly every self-help book.
I the past was using many of these visualization/imprinting
techs and then waited.
Of course not much happened.

I now belief that has more to do with our filtering that so
information become visible
to us. Even this might only be happening when we internally have
made a firm commitment
to act and achieve our goal.

I the past I often was fearful to act. I feared rejection. Now I
realize that any sort of fear
let's the brain filter differently and actually prevent us from
achieving what we want.

I, like other replies, experience synchronicities. I'm on day 4 with course. Already, I experienced this person before didn't have time for me, now, just finished a deep conversation. Love this work.

The filtering explanation does make sense and is the 'Logical' explanation. However, Paul Scheele and others do have a more esoteric view of this. Do they know somthing they we don't or are they just trying be sensational and sell courses and books. As I mentioned above I've had synchronicities that can't easily be put down to filtering.

I wonder if Paul would comment?

Mark.

As for filtering, the eyes see in the relms of 10,000,000 bits of information per second yet we are only aware of 40 bits.

There is a similar deal for all our senses. It's true that what we focus on comes we notice.

An interesting book I read, The Author did an experiement. Arranged an interview withtwo people. One who thought he was lucky and another who thought she wasn't.

In the test they set up identical situations, planted an obvious 5 Pound note where they would find it on entering the coffee shop. Inside the coffee shop it was arranged so that there were only 4 tables with a 'stooge' at each table one of them was a successful business man.

The Lucky one came to the coffee shop immediately found the found the Money picked it up. Went in ordered coffee and sat down next to the successful business man. Introduced himself offered to buy the man coffee which he accepted ant they were talking after that.

After he left the scene was set for the une who considered herself unlucky. She walked right over the money, ordered coffee sat next to successful business man and said not a word to any of them in the coffee shop..

After wards they were both interviewed. The one who considered himself lucky talked excitedly about finding the money and the one who considered herself unlucky considered it an uneventful morning.

[The Luck Factor change your luck - and change your life by Dr Richard Wiseman p50-61]

[The Power of Letting Go - A practical approach to Releasing the Pressures in Your Life by Patricia Carrington Ph.D ]
Chapter 7 "Opening your Monitor" She explains that strong emotions tend to shut down what we allow ourselves to see. That often we will miss opporutnities due to narrowed thinking. Having a one track mind that only one thing can solve our problem we miss other opportunities.

I had posted on the forum my tather quick manifestation of a TV and DVD player at a price that I could afford (about 50% less than normal market price.)

I know for a fact that when I started thinking about obtaining a TV I started paying more attention to the price of them. But I also did something that I don't normally do. Look at the junk mail that landed in my letter box. Most of the time I curse having to carry it to the recycling bin and often thin I should just place the bin next to the letter box. On rare occasions I do look at the flyers. That is how I found that the ideal TV will come on sale in 3 days time. I would have missed it as those sales are usually sold out first thing in the morning. The fleeting thought that I would like a DVD player also came to mind and again I looked at the flyers and found that a DVD player was coming onto the market on Thursday in another store. So I obtained both for less than the regular price of a 51cm TV.

I also know from that by turning around and doing the Feeling Exercise in a time of crisis that I opened up to see more solutions than narrow focus on the emotional bombshell that hit me.

I could go on. For me there is much more research out there that shows that we limit our experiences to what our emotions and beliefs will allow us to experience and see.

Alex

Thanks for suggesting the books, I'll make a point of getting them.

Your explanation seems to concur with the view point that the Abundance for Life course simply teaches us to open up to existing information. This is a sensible logical explanation.

What I want to get to the bottom of is this: is it the case that all synchronicities are due to nothing more than opening up our natural filters, or is there more to it, i.e. by practicing the techniques on the Abundance for Life Course can we attract things to ourselves above and beyond opening up our filters - perhaps via some metaphysical means. On the course Paul suggests that this is in fact the case.

Sorry to labour this point but I feel that this is a key concept of the course and I want to try and understand it better.

Mark.

Abundance for Life is about opening up and removing those trances.

What is the Metaphysical really other than our beliefs that we can or cannot manifest something according to our beliefs, which are often just limited trances.

The Abundance for Life course doesn't make us Metaphysical Magicans. It just opens us to seeing beyond the trances what is already there and real. In other words we don't really create anything we only accept the gifts of what was already created. By getting out of the way of thinking that we have to create something we can own it. The only way we can accepth the gifts that our physicial reality has to offer us is to accept all the gifts without labels. As such Metaphysics doesn't exisit, it's just a label for something that we perceive as existing beyond the physical realm and yet if we can have an idea of it then it must in fact already exist. The moment of thought is the creation.

To a true metaphysian Synchronicities and co-incidences don't exist. You simple get what you expect.

Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited August 03, 2004).]

Thanks,

Mark.