Coincidence. Coincide. Occurring at the same time.
I have had too many experiences with this to not consider it factual, rather than magical.
The universe ether is available to all, simultaneously. Whatever is out there, is out there.
I have always felt like a human form of a radio receiver. I don’t get visions, or hear voices, necessarily. ( Well, OK, sometimes the voices…) I do get inspiration, or ideas out of the seeming ‘ether’. As a creative person, I have even honed the ability to perceive, to “see”, as it were. I pull a thought “out of thin air”, and make it into a drawing.
I don’t think I’m anything unique. I think that everybody has the same ability, more or less. Most folks are too busy with things or duties to allow that they have this ability. And if the ability does scream on through to them, they deny it as something strange, or frightful , or not real. Or coincidence.
Look again at that word. All it really means is that something is happening simultaneously. Whether you are picking up on it at the time, or not.
When I lived in remote Texas, I pretty much didn’t let other artists influence me with what they were doing. I wanted to maintain a degree of ‘originality’ with my work, and didn’t want to be accused of copying someone else’s idea. Despite my efforts at remaining apart from other creative people, the ether provided me with an unconscious look into what was happening out there. I would get what I thought were totally unique ideas that I would then draw. Shortly thereafter, I would see a trade magazine containing the frighteningly similar thing executed in the frighteningly same manner. This happened not just once, but again and again. It is impossible not to sound dotty trying to explain that you didn’t copy, you swear. Artists don’t like you to copy their stuff, you know.
Anyway, that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it.
See my post about the Smoking Gun. Another great example. I didn’t make it up. I swear.
Leslie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_receiver