In the Prologue of this book it deals with the twilight zone of ufology and the conditioning of the reader to its reality. Or is it? Some would argue that the chance of something related is just coincidence. Is it? How about the many things that is interrelated to it? Ian Fleming, the father of James Bond novels once said, "Once is happenstance, twice is circumstance and three times is enemy action." Is that true, or is there another layer that keeps popping up to show us another enigma, which is reality a more constant and probable phenomena of UFO abductions and the continued reporting of for thousands of years?
Old news just recreated. Once they were at the lunatic fringe, but no more. Now they are reported in serious publications, like: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post magazine, and major coverage on History and The Discovery Channels, which are just as compelling as today's news. Even in the Bible they are written down, which reads like today's newspapers.
In Ray Fowler's book, 'SynchroFile: Amazing Personal Encounters With Synchronicity And Other Strange Phenomena' he uses personal encounters to understand his worldly experiences, which are many. They also occur in many of our own lives, which may be common for most people? This is something that both Ray Fowler and I believe!
Ray applies his meticulous research to explain that even in the enigmatic experiences of the paranormal events and unrelated circumstances things do seem to be intertwined.
On the preface page Ray gives this example:
- September 11 is written 9-11, the phone number for emergencies.
- The sum of the digits in 9+1+1 equals 11.
- Sept 11 is the 254 day of the year. The sum of 2+5+4 equals 11
- After Sept 11 there are 111 days left in the year
- The twin towers of the World Trade Center looked like the number 11.
- New York was the 11th state added to the Union.
- New York City has 11 letters.
- The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11
- Flight 11 had 92 passengers on board. 9+2 is 11
Is this a coincidence? On the same day the New York lottery was 587, On that day, Flight 587 crashed into Queens section of NY. So Raymond Fowler asks, "Is this a coincidental happening?" Does supernatural guidance to decision making, by some outside force, interfere with our own reality? Are there some mystical hints of an interconnection of reality? One wonders.
Still others would believe that such events occur all the time, but our busy lives usually fail to recognize them. Or is this just chance? Ray Fowler asks, "What if a person's life is full of such a large amount of these happenings?"
This is what the book is all about! The synchronicity of his life, some of the cases of alien abductions that he has studied, all seem to be full of this mysterious, but provable area of some abductee's lives. Is it random, or is it an enigmatic, but yet very measurable and provable area of some abductees and/or a phenomenon of most people?
I find this true with me also. I lose a job because I get sick and when I get well they let me go, someone tells me about another job opportunity and I get the new job! Is this luck or synchronicity?
In this book there are 13 chapters describing different synchronisms. They range from; coincidence categories to family coincidences and/or clock coincidences, supernatural synchronisms, UFO abduction dreams and synchronicity, flying saucers and metaphysical musings.
When I first met Raymond Fowler in the 1960s he was a nuts and bolts kind of guy. Nothing less would do. If you could not measure it, prove it, or leave any doubt about what it was that was flying in our atmosphere. He was meticulous and a nuts and bolts type of investigator that left nothing to chance. No metaphysical back then. In my mind, he was, and is, one of the best ufologists of this century. He was my mentor, friend, a great teacher and role model of what a UFO investigator should be. He left no stone unturned to prove or disprove the case on hand. Without any proof of for MIBs, hauntings or little aliens, then it would not be his way of investigating.
He spent personal time, money and sacrificed some of his family life to pursue the enigmatic UFOs and their occupants. But, then again, he was always a professional and a perfectionist at his job and his investigative techniques. However, he was always helpful and (in my opinion) the best ufologist in from the 60s and to right up until today, which his books and investigations have proved.
Ray was also an amateur astronomer. He built his own in his back yard a planetarium and gave school children astronomy lessons and for free.
When I went in his house in Wenham, Mass and did UFO investigations with Ray, and one with Walter Webb, I was in awe of his knowledge and the meticulous way of researching. He was by far and away the most fact finding investigator of that era.
At that point in time abductions were far from his thinking, but through the years with extensive research and book writing, he became an abductee himself. Interesting!
The 10 books he wrote were, and are classics, which among them are:
After all these years he still does TV shows now and again. What does the man think? Well from what I can deduce is this. His research lends to the incredulous conclusion, like others before him, that time is an illusion and that reports of Synchronicity, Ghosts, out of body experiences, near-death experience, UFOs, precognition, telepathy, and ESP are all individual expressions of one intelligent-like meta-phenomenon.
Buy all 10 of his books, open your mind, and let in the enigmatic world that lies not only in, but part of the human condition called the universal consciousness. It is in and a part of us all, we just need to tap into it. Ray Fowler has, will you?
