Hi everyone,
I was just wondering if "meeting" or "even merely becoming aquainted" with a person is coincidental or if each and every person we come in contact with here in our earthy realms has a personal impact on oneself - a purpose, which may be greater than we expect, want to accept or even realise?

Hugs,
Nanner

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Bets, dont you think I will get there soon e n o u g h ?  
Looking back...I find that every person has left an impression, guided me or taught me something, which makes me wonder if its all really already planned out and merely waiting on the decision of my free will.

Hugs,
Nanner

  I've found for myself, and have come to believe we meet people according to three major considerations, definite pre-planning for a deeper spiritual purpose, meeting others based on like attracts and begets like, or more purely material oriented cause and effect.   

  So, in a sense, there isn't anything as a complete accident, but its not all necessarily pre planned or according to like attracts like, meaning its not all spiritually purposeful in the definite sense.  In the latter condition, of material cause and effect, sometimes someone is just there when you are.   

  I would say that probably most people we meet and especially interact with, fall under the first two category's, and sometimes those intertwine, but in any case, all contacts and meetings are opportunities for spiritual development or interaction/sharing if you look at it from the more ultimate and long term sense. 

  Some are our unconscious teachers.  Some are our conscious teachers.   Some are our conscious students, some are our unconscious students.    And all can play out at, or around the same relative time too with another individual and the interaction.   

I begin to believe there are no coincidental meetings. Each meeting contains a potential event of infinite importance.

So, in that respect, the meeting could mean something to us personally, or not...what Bets said.

Whether we notice the event is another matter.

For example, we can miss a moment in a movie and still know what's going on. If we miss too much we may do away with the script altogether, so as not to have to start the movie all over. 

There are times when the battery runs out on the remote for the movie player. And we never learned how to operate the machine on our own. No replaying available. So the portion we missed seems lost.  That's when we "make do" as they say -- we just wing it. It's a whole new show.

The thing is, we are in the movie and we are watching it at the same time. That's really cool.

love, blink

I have a great deal of trouble trying to figure out just what is meant by "coincidence" - aside from the definition of the term, "coming together", with the implication of a chance event, it seems difficult to separate the event from its causes.

How can anything that involves a collection of interactive minds be a matter of other than intention? My feeling is that the collective awareness of the group would be most likely to view everything, including meeting people, as intended, while the individual members of the group would sense it as a matter of chance.

Unfortunately, the only way we have to sense the collective awareness of a group is either to be totally distant, so we can study it like any other organism, or, from within the group, to sense what is happening and the patterns of behavior that are occurring - rather like discovering that we are sleepwalking and trying to figure our what we are up to.

There is a level of meditation that many people probably recall, called sarvastarka samadhi, which is the trance in which there are no more contradictions. In this state we are partipants in, and aware of, the "Cosmic Consciousness", which is the level of function of all groups. Sort of like all the "Higher Selves" are doing it together, and leaving it for our "lower selves" to work it out.

dave

betson wrote on Feb 4^th, 2008 at 5:47pm:

Bets darlin, I knew what you were referring to, I just wanted to laugh with you a min. You seem to me as someone whom likes to laugh and are a free spirit and I enjoy that breath of air.  So now you wann shove and tug. Oh honey ~ isnt it just much more simpler to "ask: Nannster, wanna go on a trip with me?". Chances are I just might say "Sure Betsy Boo, lets go".     

Hugs and love,
Nanner

In that case Marsu,
I am greatfully and deeply thankful to be meeting each and every one of you!
Hugs,
Nanner

No,
In my understanding "designed co-incidence" does not offer the factor "free will" . It allows
no intersection, for the maker of the co-incidence has a specific route which is needed inorder to enhance the probability of the desired outcome. A designed co-incidence is mainly inhabited by a one man player.

Whereas "pre-destination" does incporperate the the factor "free will". A genius at work. Once understood that its pre-destined, of course. A pre-destined life is like a GPS system, to me. Lots of roads can get you to the desired place. Once coming to the realisation of the intersections, one opens the eyes "wider" to pay attention to the "happenings" (Howmany cars going in which direction - where am I wanting to go...) and can then act accordingly with many players creating a momentum of occurances all leading to the destination.

- I know that you knew that, so don`t try to trick me, you booger!  

Hugs,
Nanner