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81.      The workings of coincidence. (74) Although we cannot control coincidence, we can become more aware of it and thus capitalize upon it. We become coincidental receivers.

82.      Consider this parable. A person is cold and, passing a coffee shop, reaches into a pocket for the necessary change for a hot cup of coffee. That person finds the pocket empty and remains cold, passing by the coffee shop. A second person, also cold, comes the same direction with the same feelings and intent. The second person is also lacking the appropriate funds. But, outside the coffee shop, the second picks up a quarter from the ground, goes in and has coffee. Coincidence? Yes. But the same coincidence was available for the first passerby who simply did not see the coin on the walk.

83.      There is a gestalt to coincidence. It multiplies itself over and over again. It would not be surprising to find that the first person above “never has anything good happen” and that the second becomes the “one millionth person through the door who wins a trip to Hawaii.”

84.      Coincidence occurs in the pattern of the existing networks of the coincidental entities. Thus the likelihood of coincidence is always 100%.

85.      Corollary to Wesley’s Theory of Relativity (17) (22): You can never go back.

86.      Much has been said concerning the possibilities and ethics of time travel. If it were possible, the ethics would resolve themselves. For example: the ethic of changing history vs. non-interference in the past. If one traveled through time into the past, it would not be possible to alter the events that led that person there/then. Whatever acts that person performed would already be historically set by the time they were enacted.

87.      Seeing visions of past or future events, however, may enable one to change the “now” and thereby alter the course of history. It is only in the now that history may be changed.

88.      While life is made of paradoxes (24) it is not made of contradictions. All networks form a greater network together. Thus, to change a past history is ultimately to contradict one’s own existence.

89.      We call the arbitrary terms of measurement set against the constant motion of the cosmos (23) “time” and “space.”

90.  There is a constant pressure toward mediocrity (62).