No, I don't agree with that. I don't get calls from people who are furthest
from my mind. And I strongly think of people often and would like them to call
and they don't, and I get frustrated enough to let it go, only to find out a
month or two later that they were thinking of me and had written notes to call
me but didn't. There is something there that I can't explain, and if science
can't explain it then science just hasn't gotten there yet. But I know the
energies that I experience with others. (01)
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Antoinette Arsic (02)
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From: Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
>
> On Dec 9, 2007, at 11:03 AM, aarsic@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > So this is what this thread is about (how Kathy just explained it).
> > I once read in a book (on love trying to explain love, soul mates,
> > etc) and it said that when two people meet or cross paths they are
> > connected by their energies forever. If it's a strong energy, such
> > as love, then that is why one can pick up on another's thoughts of
> > that person or feelings. This was explained as part of quantum
> > theory and I've always wondered about that. Is it part of quantum
> > theory when I think of a close friend the phone rings and that is
> > them on the phone?
>
> Almost certainly not. At the least, there are no rational grounds for
> believing so. IIRC, Stephen J. Gould reminds us in a nice essay
> somewhere that when you are tempted to seek mystical or unverifiable
> quantum theoretic explanations or the like for these instances of
> apparent telepathy, think of all the times someone calls you and he or
> she was the farthest thing from your mind! And likewise the many
> times you think of them and they don't call! The best explanation for
> the "telepathic" cases, then? Simple probability. People call. We
> think of people. Of the thousands of occurrences of both types of
> events over time, a small few of the someone-calls/someone-is-thought-
> of pairs involve the same person and -- entirely coincidentally --
> occur at roughly the same time. No deeper explanation needed.
>
> (This actually happened to me just yesterday when my son called me.
> As it happens, I think of him a lot, esp on Saturday afternoons, when
> he tends to call -- not that he calls as much as he should! :-)
>
> -chris
>
>
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