I'm not sure I believe in it, but sometimes the evidence is compelling. It's a term coined by Carl Jung to describe "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events". In other words, coincidences that are not coincidences.

Yesterday I purchased two used MP3 players. One of the players contained lots of inspirational podcasts about spirituality and manifestation.

I uploaded the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack onto it for my wife. The only song I really listened to was "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash.

This afternoon, I fired up iTunes (for the first time in months, it is important to add), and the third song to show up randomly is "I Can See Clearly Now". I have 8,410 and ten files in my iTunes library. The odds of this occurring are... well... I guess 3 in 8,410. Not astronomical, but worth a beard scratch.

It is also important to add that I am sitting in my kitchen staring out at the first rainfall in the San Francisco Bay Area in months -- a torrential downpour complete with severe storm advisories throughout the area. The rain, clearly, has not yet gone.

So what to make of it? It is not coincidence, but it might as well be for all the obscurity behind whatever the message is. I will reflect on it. Let me know if you have any ideas.