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Jan. 28 Event in the DC Area: The Transforming Power of Synchronicity

I’m excited to announce that, on Jan. 28, I’ll be giving a talk sponsored by the Unitarian Universalists of Leisure World in Silver Spring, Maryland. The event is free and open to the public, and any of you who are in the area are welcome to join! The Transforming Power of Synchronicity Tuesday, Jan. 28…
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Watch for My Memoir The Supreme Victory of the Heart in May 2020

Many of you have been patiently waiting for publication info on the memoir I’ve been working on for the last nine years, about the harrowing months following my French fiancé’s announcement that an old flame was back in his life–and the coincidences that led me to see a higher purpose behind it all. I am…
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Seeing the Same Word Over and Over?

Do certain words seem to follow you no matter where you look? Psychologist William Braud actually conducted experiments to figure out whether the word coincidences he was experiencing were actually due to more than chance or selective attention. I describe his method–and his results–in today’s Psychology Today post.
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Synchronicity and Personal Transformation: My Interview With Mike Clelland

My interview with Mike Clelland on his podcast The Unknown is now available. Mike is himself the author of books about coincidence and synchronicity, especially as this phenomenon relates to owls and UFOs, and this makes for a deep, engrossing conversation. While I’m coming at things from quite a different starting point, what’s amazing is how…
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Living in Flow: A Quantum Physicist’s Take on Synchronicity

I’ve recently started writing book reviews for the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and the first of them recently became available online. It’s a review of Sky Nelson-Isaacs’ 2019 book Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World. Nelson-Isaacs, who has a Master’s degree in physics, brings together concepts from…
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Are Your Number Coincidences Significant?

Do you feel like you keep seeing the same number over and over in lots of different contexts? Do you wonder whether it’s really showing up more often than it used to, or whether maybe you’re just paying more attention to it? In today’s Psychology Today post, I describe a simple experiment you can do…
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How Skeptics Misapply the Law of Truly Large Numbers

The fact that there are 7 billion people in this world means that some pretty mind-boggling coincidences are likely to happen to a lot of people just by chance. But does that mean that chance is necessarily the best explanation for ALL the coincidences and synchronicities we experience? It doesn’t. I explain why in a…
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My Interview on Connecting With Coincidence With Dr. Bernie Beitman

I had a great conversation this morning with Dr. Bernie Beitman on his Connecting with Coincidence radio show. Beitman is one of the few other academics out there who actively research coincidence and synchronicity, and it was delightful talking to him about my book The Source and Significance of Coincidences and exchanging ideas about what…
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Live Radio Interview July 3, 2019: B-NOW

On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, at 10am EDT (9am CDT), I’ll be live on B-NOW radio with Jeanie Brosius King, talking about The Source and Significance of Coincidences. The call-in number, if you’d like to ask questions during the show, is (323) 642-1137. And you can always listen after the fact by following the same…
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My Interview on The Past Lives Podcast

I recently had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Simon Bown on The Past Lives Podcast, which explores all manner of topics related to evidence for life after death. Drawing on my new book, The Source and Significance of Coincidences, Simon and I discussed a wide range of fascinating phenomena that connect coincidences to…