Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary

On October 19th 2023 at 19:38 I was proof-reading and, to some extent, expanding my book  Bread and the Circus .  Bread and the Circus eBook : Plaskett, James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store    It is about my own involvements with the TV show  Who Wants to be a Millionaire?   I also had this playing in the background on Youtube -  Surgeon Struck by Lightning : Discovers the God Energy (Near-Death Experience) - YouTube Surgeon Struck by Lightning : Discovers the God Energy (Near-Death Exper...    Although I had a Yamaha keyboard, I rarely used it. But I had been experiencing the most compelling desire to make music, and found myself thinking very seriously about mastering piano to a high level. And, even perhaps the very next day, buying and installing a proper piano. Pedals and all! My wife had, thirty years before, taught me how to trace out a few Beatles tunes. But only with the right hand. Well, I had the thing on Youtube playing because it wa...

On August 9th 2023 I was attempting meditation on our terrace. My wife came home and, unbeknownst to me, posted about it on Facebook - Fiona Pitt-kethley Got back to find Beast meditating on the roof. There is a fine line between that and doing nothing. Well, maybe there is no line at all. Plus you do not catch any fish. I then walked in and she asked me upon what specifically I had been meditating. That generated a coincidence which I was then moved to add to the nascent thread she already had stemming from her Facebook post  - H. James Plaskett I came in a few minutes ago, unaware of my wife´s post, and she asked what I had been meditating upon. I said I felt it almost encumbent upon me to now meditate for thereby I might perhaps precipitate some form of higher consciousness.  In my life I had known about fifty  brief experiences of a sensitivity and compassion (each when asleep) which I can only describe as ´Divine´. The last of these had occurred only some ten weeks a...