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John C. Lilley in The Centre of the Cyclone [p.119]
describes varying ways of looking at meaningful coincidence or synchronicity.
(An example: we pray for a healing in the case of a seemingly hopeless illness)
 One way, he suggests, is to say  that we don't have to understand how things work.
 There is a Them who run the universe and me, and they do the job assigned to Them by Those
above Them.  I can listen to them, and ask them, and they will hear me, and
 help me.  This way of looking is the way of those who believe in guardian
 angels, advanced spirits of higher realms.  Even from the physicist's holistic
 point of view there may or may not be such entities.   But we may note
that in this view, there is some kind of split between Them and me.

Lilley describes a fourth way of regarding this apparent guidance, where
we say "Thou art me, they are me, they, thou and I are one.  They love
thee, love me, love the one.  The one loves them, loves us. The one is Love."
[His second and third ways are intermediate between the first and fourth..]
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