Not synchronicity but ...

In June 2010, I read a really good book by Mikita Brottman ("The Solitary Vice"). Finding this book at all was a strange co-incidence - I just happened upon it browsing Amazon. Among other things, it mentioned serial killer books. She spoke highly of "From Hell", which I had never read, despite being a fan of Alan Moore (I had seen the film). I sent an email or two to Mikita Brottman, discussing how much I liked her book.

A little after this I got thinking about the 4th dimension and precognitive dreams. I remembered a couple of books I'd read on this: Rudy Rucker's "The Fourth Dimension" and J. W. Dunne's "An Experiment with Time". Re-reading the Dunne, I came across some interesting references to C. H. Hinton's "What is the Fourth Dimension?". I sent an email to Rudy Rucker around this time, thanking him for some useful material on writing he'd put online.

Moving into August I read "Fingerprints of the Gods" (1995) by Graham Hancock. Much of this centres around the fact that the Great Pyramid is made in such a way that it "encodes" pi and numbers related to the Precession of the Equinoxes. Hancock takes this to show that a technologically and mathematically advanced society existed around during the "Age of Leo" (ie about 10,500 BC). (for more info see here).

When I read "From Hell" (immediately after the Hancock). I was surprised to read that the Hinton's ideas figure heavily and that James Hinton (C. H.'s father) is an important character. Moore's notes mention Rudy Rucker's book. "From Hell" also talks a lot about Egyptian matters (esp. obelisks and Anubis).

Immediately after this I read Carl Sagan's "Contact". Precession of the Equinoxes is quite important here: there is discussion about which star would have been the Pole Star at times in the remote past (the first "Message" dealt with in the book comes from Vega). Here's a quotation:

"Vega was the Pole Star about twelve thousand years ago."

This coincides with the time that Hancock thought the Great Pyramid was planned and built (the Age of Leo - when the sun rose in the Constellation Leo at the Equinoxes).

Pi is very important in this book: in the novel, Ellie finds a mathematical message hidden in pi. If this were true it would be proof that the universe was "designed" by a mathematically-minded creator. She's told to look for this by the representative of the beings who sent the message from Vega. These beings make use of a network of wormholes which make faster-than-light travel possible, but they say they didn't make them - they are all that remains of some even more ancient culture. This book was first published in 1985. Its text is available here.

Immediately after this I started reading "Gaia". In this book, Lovelock mentions that when he was having difficulty publishing his early theories about the atmosphere and Gaia, Carl Sagan was the first to accept an article for publication (in the journal Icarus).

Maybe this is not synchronicity, just ordinary co-incidences. Interesting though. By the way, I have at least one definitely precognitive dream, but I will need to get my evidence together for a later blog post.