Communal bereavement and other aspects of connectivity, synchronicity, spiritualism, mysticism (a misnomer in my opinion), genetics, physics (nanotechnology, string theory) and related topics are vastly interesting.A study recently released (article linked above) says during 9/11 male infant mortality (death) rate rose for those not directly involved as victims of the 9/11 attack. I will have to study the study because the male birthrate goes up during times of war according to a cursory tracking of published studies. What were the main differences in the case of 9/11 or the study compared to prior ones? Some of the differences can be easily estimated but I don't know that they would explain a reverse trend, if that is what it is.
(Simplified) examples or theories of connectivity
An ape on one island learns how to wash her treefruit in the tidewater to remove grit and the same time another ape living on a geographically unconnected island makes the same discovery, and this is duplicated about the same time in other noncontiguous islands, thereby changing culinary habits of apes and impacting in significant ways the chain of events of history. Preprogramming (genetic clock), predestination or something else (theory)?
And there is the old butterfly-hurricane deal too. The butterfly effect is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
And there is the blood leader among women that has to do with women and their periods. True.
And pheromones.
And parallel universes.
And all sorts of goodies.
So, in summary, karma alert, in theory you may think your plan to bully and banish good people, or different people, so that you are free to carry out your small-minded, private schemes is a great idea, but it just might not be, in theory. Did you consider what you might have triggered with your vulpine behavior and prejudices? It might bite you in the end. backlash to righteous backlash alert
Speaking of karma, do you remember when The Beatles went to India (first together and then some separately) and got all spiritual and sitar familiar? Do you remember Hayley Mills from the Disney movie, The Parent Trap? Okay, so if those elements plus Deep Purple and The Kinks collided and one of them had a baby, which Mills did (named Crispian, with her then husband), this is what it might be like:
(Please turn volume up for this video)
KULA SHAKER performing GOVINDA "LIVE", Crispian (now named also by a Hare Krishna name, is the blond lead singer)
(not the best of live videos but one of my favourite groups.)
So some intersections are fortuitous even if you think they are weird or different, it doesn't mean everyone agrees with your dismissive attitude.
And sometimes I find myself thanking God for unanswered prayers, as GB would say.
