Saturday, April 26, 2003

Synchronicity! "Alien" encounters! Paranormal activity!

I was enjoying a cinnamon latte and reading Colin Wilson's "Alien Dawn," which contains some fascinating material on bizarre "coincidences." Then I walked home, turned on the computer, and the first message in my email box was a recounting of a minorly weird coincidence from Steve Melling. Another layer to the the Jungian onion, or too much dopamine?

Maybe the universe is contructed like a hypertext filing system (i.e., a cosmic computer like the one Peter Gersten talks about). Events with no apparent causal connection may be intersecting points in a multidimensional database or archive.

So where does consciousness come in?

"Somewhere on planet Earth, existing in some undiscovered domain, another intelligence shares this world with humanity. Its intent, presently, is to remain on the fringes of human perception."

--Peter A. Gersten





"Welcome to the desert of the real."

(from "The Matrix")

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