Background:
Barbara is friends with Robert Perry, a researcher who looks deeply into synchronicities (definition below) and what he believes to be the larger, more complex counterparts of synchronicities which he calls, CMPE or Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events. Below is a recent article (click the link to view the complete article) that attempts to connect the power behind CMPEs with the power behind Near-death Experiences, as reported by Barbara, who is a well-known Near-death experiencer.
"After listening to my interview on Skeptiko, my friend Barbara Whitfield wrote me about it. I had referred to her in the interview as the woman who got almost a third of the CMPEs we recorded in the pilot study. Quite remarkably, out of 16 CMPEs recorded by 17 participants, 5 of those were Barbara’s.
One of the things that came up in the interview was my claim that CMPEs are best explained as coming in some sense from God. Barbara said that whatever is talking to us in CMPEs has the same quality as what spoke to her in her near-death experience—which she identifies as God."
Definitions:
Merriam-Webster defines Synchronicity as: The coincidental occurrence of events and especially
psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a
mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related
but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used
especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung
Robert Perry defines CMPE as a Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events. It is a very specific and extreme form of synchronicity. It consists of the following elements:
First, you need two strikingly similar events that come together in time (within hours of each other), seemingly by chance.
Second,
their similarity needs to take the form of not just one parallel
between them, but a long list of parallels, on average about 8 or 9.
This extreme parallelism is part of what sets CMPEs apart from other
synchronicities.
Third, these parallels, rather than being a list of unrelated items, need to come together to tell a coherent story.
Fourth, this story then points to some situation in your life and comments on it, by framing it in a certain way.
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