Kate Murphy

where something happens that seems like, for example, I was in Amsterdam recently, and I ran into somebody I hadn't seen in a very long time who is from Texas, but somehow we both ended up there at the same time on the same street in Amsterdam.

And Jung would say that that was because there was something meaningful about that, that we were thinking about each other.

And I think people have that experience where someone calls you that you were just thinking about.

And the thinking about—and, you know, again, this is not proven, but that because we sync with one another and we develop these resonances with one another and we carry those resonance with us after the encounter—

that that is why you may start to think like the other person.

And they've shown this in studies that people's neural patterns of close friends, of family, are more similar than those of strangers.

people literally do shape our thinking.

And so that would explain these synchronistic moments, these synchronicity type of moments that Jung described, that you do run into somebody you had just been thinking about or who was calling you because of that similarity and neural patterns that were developed by intense and connected interactions.

Oh, wow.

Well, I agree with you.

I think there are a lot of people who will say that it is just chance.

But because of these advances in technology where you're actually seeing that people's neural patterns, they carry them away with one another.

And the people that you spend your time with shape you neurophysiologically.

It does stand to reason that...

It's sort of like this idea of quantum entanglement.

I agree with you.

And I hesitate to even put this in the book, but physicists are studying this.

To me, I would not be doing a service to readers by not pointing all of this out, because I don't know, and I don't think other people do either.

But I'm certainly not willing to say it's not true in the same way I'm not willing to say it is true.

But the research is really pretty compelling that your neural patterns and your wife's neural patterns and probably this friend have become very similar because of your engagement with one another and you syncing in the moments that you're together and you carry that synchrony away with you.