Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readNov 25, 2023

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In my https://medium.com/queen-s-children/answers-you-seek-often-found-both-within-and-without-you-and-with-a-little-help-from-your-friends-70c669fdda37, which was my participation in a divination experiment, I wrote: "Blockages. I saw a boulder on a path. One can go over it, around it, or use leverage and a tool to move it enough to slip by it."

In other words, be like water. :-)

As an aside, I don't define coincidence as happenstance, as the usage "just a coincidence" implies. I like this definition found in the Webster Universal Dictionary (1968): “Noteworthy event, circumstance, or series of such, which occurs in conjunction, or synchronously, with others, and is of such a character as to suggest a connection of cause and effect, although apparently no connection of the kind exists.” Thus to me, when only chance is involved, it's happenstance, not coincidence or synchronicity.

Others do distinguish between the terms and say a coincidence is a synchronicity only when it has meaning to the observer--others may say it has to be objectively meaningful and not the result of probabilities. Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity and defined it as a meaningful coincidence.

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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