coincidences

[Woebot]

i dont know if allen ginsberg was talking specifically about coincidences when he coined the phrase "starry dynamo" but that's always how i refer to them.

my opinion of them is maybe odd, maybe not.

on the one hand the person experiencing them is going a bit nuts, but less banalely/prosaically they're moving closer to the plateau we call death through the miasma of insanity. travelling away from their body.

[the undisputed truth]

I could say something wank like, 'there are no coincidences everything is as it should be for if it wasn't it wouldn't happen?' but what's the point ?

My coincidences come mostly in the form of affirmation and synchronicity after the fact. I'll think something, say it or initiate a course of action instinctively and then maybe a couple of days later I'll recieve confirmation of that being the correct thought/action by a random email a newspaper article or a follow on reaction from someone else.

I'm not going to bite but do you believe it's possible, by any method, to force the hand of chance?

yes probably just by following your instinct and intuition as opposed to rationalising choices using logic and reason.

trust the force luk(a)

If a coincidence arises which offers a choice down an unknown path would you take it ?

[mms]

If a coincidence arises which offers a choice down an unknown path would you take it ?

course, depending on the seriousness and the circumstances i would need to change or loose to follow that, but these things are often rewarding.

[Martin Dust]

If a coincidence arises which offers a choice down an unknown path would you take it ?

Sometimes, depends on the vibe and how much time I spend thinking about it.

[DJ PIMP]

or in june 2001 writing about explosions and glass raining down in the sepetmber sun

luka, was it you that had (has?) the very distinctive observatory-style blog with the poetry and experiences? i used to really enjoy reading it; was always interesting and very intuitive.

would have PMed this but your inbox is full.

[luka]

http://heronbore.blogspot.com

http://smokedglass.blogspot.com

[DJ PIMP]

Lovely, thanks.

[luka]

heres a couple of recent ones. i was sitting by the lea writing some ode to the river god and about how hes mates with a kingfisher that sits on his shoulder and whispers in his ear or something (yeah, what, thats my idea of fun!) and i then saw three kingfishers that day, two in hackney on the lea and one in stratford on one of the bow backs rivers. anyone who walks around there will know thats a coincidence. theres kingfishers about but to see one is rare, 3 is mind blowing.

or heres another one.i was walking through hackney and i saw a cecilia rd. and i thought o, i know a cecilia. but i didnt think much of it until a few minutes later i see this chemist,
j. edmonds and i thought rah, thats her full name, so i crossed the road and went to an internet place and sure enough, there was the first email id had from her for months and months.

or in june 2001 writing about explosions and glass raining down in the sepetmber sun

i got too many of these to be honest, i could keep going for ever and they're all much better than oh, someone rang and i knew who it was. thats not a coincidence, thats common sense.

onemanupmanship.

[Leo]

i have an amazing one from just a few weeks ago but alas, telling it would reveal too much of my personal life (something only a couple of you know about), which i prefer to leave under the cover of "leo". it's a story that involved six separate but dependent incidences of coincidence, and if any one of them had not happened, there would be no story at all.

[Matthew]

the starry dynamo in the machinery of night innit.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synchronici...qid=1528016574