The Extended Mind - A Corollary

In line with The Extended Mind (and consciousness) concept of a recent post, a few intriguing, and seemingly random occurrences, kind of fall nicely into place.

Think back; have you had the experience of knowing what someone else is going to say, about two or three seconds before they said it?..... or the other person knowing what you are going to say before you say it? ( a typical reaction is to laugh and say, 'gosh, how did that happen? well, I guess I know you better than you think') but actually we had no clue how that really happened. And it's even more surprising when it happens with people who you don't know too well, like coworkers or acquaintances. And it does happen.

Or knowing who is calling even as you hear the phone ring? Or thinking of someone and getting a call from the very same person? or calling someone, and them saying, 'what a surprise, I was just thinking of you'?

Or times when the phone is on silent, but you feel a call or message is coming in, and it turns out true?

Times when you know you are being stared at.... from behind?

Or when you have a tricky problem going on in your mind, and out of the blue you have the answer?

I'm sure each of us has our own repertoire of such moments, maybe some more and some less, but it's really fairly commonplace. Diksha and I have this going a lot of times, to the extent that she'll now say, 'aah.....creepy times again :)'

These are almost unearthly occurrences. Sure we use the word 'co-incidence' and it is too, but we tend to trivialize it into 'just a co-incidence', and that doesn't really cover all that it is.

It's actually like tapping into another layer of intelligence or consciousness beyond what we already know. It's about tuning in and becoming aware.........and once you open yourself up to it, it opens out a whole new world, metaphorically and literally too......a world full of mystery and possibilities...all kinds of possibilities. Isn't that super exciting?!!