| When we experience a coincidence we can't help but | | | | delivery. Auspiciously, it was raining. |
| feel some spiritual force is at work, specially | | | | My umbrella caused me some trouble after I entered |
| organizing events in such a way as to grab our | | | | the subway station. I had to jiggle its spring |
| attention. Coincidences are clever. Their improbable | | | | mechanism a bit to get it to close. Once securely |
| nature seems designed to pique our curiosity. Yet it's | | | | fastened, I thought for a moment of what a great |
| our curiosity that must, in part, help weave | | | | and valuable invention the spring is. How wonderful it |
| coincidences together. | | | | is that to open an umbrella, you simply push a button |
| Over the last few years, coincidences played out for | | | | and poof! It's open! |
| me all the time. For most of the last few months | | | | I have this childlike amazement of simple things like |
| though, none came to me. Or I didn't notice any. | | | | this. A sense of wonder and naiveté is |
| About three weeks ago, I wondered where the | | | | essential to developing your psychic ability. If you |
| coincidences had gone. It was this wondering that | | | | want to attract coincidences, renew your sense of |
| called them back to my awareness: I was paying | | | | appreciation for life's simple miracles. My mind went |
| attention again. | | | | to various applications for the brilliant little spring. |
| If it's been a while since you noticed a coincidence, | | | | Watches, pogo sticks, mattresses. When I'm on the |
| you can attract one one to you simply by wondering | | | | subway train my mind goes off into the silliest places! |
| if one will make an appearance. Ask yourself for a | | | | As the train was coming to a stop, I dug my fingers |
| symbol that could play out in your future reality. Any | | | | into the bottom of my backpack in search of lip balm. |
| symbol will do. Simply close your eyes, and accept | | | | I touched something small and smooth that I couldn't |
| the very first thing that pops to mind. Accepting the | | | | identify, so I pulled it out. It was a little spring, part |
| very first thing that comes to mind is difficult to do | | | | of a pen that had broken and come apart in my bag. |
| for a lot of people. Often, we dismiss the first thing | | | | At that very moment, I looked out the window. We |
| that pops to mind, as weird or irrelevant. But psychic | | | | were stopped at Spring Street! |
| insights are quick! | | | | Coincidences reveal an otherwise invisible connection |
| Recently, for me, it was frogs that popped to my | | | | that ties all things together. Our psychic minds are |
| mind. Leaping, croaking frogs. It sounds silly to think | | | | tied in to this invisible thread. The evidence is in little |
| frogs would have any real significance in my world, | | | | moments like these. The psychic mind is active within |
| that they might indicate some direction, suggest an | | | | us, even if we are not conscious of it. |
| idea, lead me someplace. Then again, why second | | | | A few days after this train ride, my friend Ken and I |
| guess a harmless psychic vision? | | | | decided to go see Sam Shepard's True West in the |
| I performed an automatic writing exercise, imagining | | | | East Village. At the theatre, I was given a program. |
| frogs doing different things in my mind. I believe the | | | | The name of the production company was Curious |
| Intelligence that arranges coincidences loves to play. | | | | Frog! |
| So I wrote a page about frogs in my psychic journal. | | | | A day or two later, I was in acting class, when my |
| Psychic experiences can arise out of this exercise. I | | | | teacher brought up the subject of stage props. He |
| recommend you write about whatever psychic | | | | suggested we bring in any we thought we might use |
| symbol comes to mind. Write quickly. A paragraph will | | | | in scenes. A couple of students digressed for a |
| do. | | | | moment about some of the strange props the studio |
| I wrote, "Leaping Frog! Peeping up in the water, | | | | has had over the years. "What ever happened to |
| plucking at the banjo, burping in the bog, singing me | | | | those frogs?" one of them said. "Remember those |
| to sleep all night, through the summer. Tad poles | | | | two ceramic frogs? For a while, they were in every |
| swimming in a bowl. I watched you change, change, | | | | scene!" |
| change. Aquarium, terrarium. Boy, I wonder. When I | | | | I visited my parents in Rhode Island for a few days. |
| was a boy I took you back to the swamp behind | | | | Just after my arrival, my mother pointed into the |
| our yard. You were home, where you belong." | | | | back yard, and said, "What do you think of our new |
| Insights into the meaning behind coincidences can be | | | | garden ornament?" She was referring to two ceramic |
| found in the symbolism of their elements. Writing | | | | frogs! They were squatting on a log. |
| about the frog, which I thought of as my psychic | | | | That evening, we went to see the movie UP. A |
| symbol, helped me see how it might perform in | | | | preview played for a feature animation called "The |
| action. I'd be looking for any frogs that appear in my | | | | Princess and the Frog.The film UP featured a frog, |
| future reality to, by coincidence, match these visions. | | | | which was humorously portrayed as an alarm clock. |
| True, my depictions were typical- frogs as they | | | | Later, as I laid in bed, real frogs began plucking away |
| might ordinarily be seen-- leaping, singing, in a swamp, | | | | in the little swamp behind our house. |
| etc. But this helps to remind me of the energy behind | | | | A lot of frogs ended up appearing in my reality after |
| the archetype. If my totem frog was communicating | | | | that first "psychic vision." Coincidences happen in the |
| a psychic message to me, that message could be | | | | places where we dream. For me, it's the theatre, film, |
| about transformation, singing, making a leap, going | | | | the home where I grew up. The "visions" I had in my |
| home or living in two locations. Perhaps I am | | | | psychic journal really did describe the frogs that came |
| undergoing my own metamorphosis! | | | | to me! |
| Like the frog, I live in two worlds- one imaginary, one | | | | Coincidences leave us feeling touched by something |
| real. When I perform as an actor, on stage, I live in | | | | special. We ask what they mean as if there was only |
| an imaginary world. The same is true for another role | | | | one meaning. But coincidences mean many things. |
| I play in life, the role of a psychic. When psychics see | | | | They mean whatever you want them to mean, and |
| visions for people, those visions appear in their | | | | more. When they appear, take it as a sign that your |
| imaginations! To develop your psychic ability, you | | | | psychic mind is awakening, even calling you. Notice |
| have to believe in your imagination. | | | | where your symbols appear and spend time at these |
| Frog's first appearance came to me at The Museum | | | | places. You may feel some of the meanings behind |
| of Natural History, just down the street from my | | | | coincidences are hidden, but a path is being laid out |
| apartment. A huge new banner announced the | | | | for you. Coincidences are enigmas, but they are fun |
| museum's new exhibit: 200 live frogs. In ancient | | | | to cultivate and follow! |
| cultures, frogs were thought to be totems of rain | | | | |