Please read the following story as an example of meaningful coincidence.

"Kelly is a 28 year old female member of Alcoholics Anonymous. She was struggling with a great deal of anger and resentment focused on her father, an active alcoholic with whom she has been with from the age of 10. She described their relationship as one of emotional turmoil and “dysfunctional.”

One day, as she was reading the text, Alcoholics Anonymous, she came across a passage that described alcoholics as sick people and how we would not treat a cancer patient or someone suffering from another serious medical illness with disdain and resentment. She suddenly had this “revelation” about her father and felt the anger and resentment melt into empathy and concern. She realized how he was suffering and ill from his alcoholism just as she had been suffering from the same illness: “I felt like all those feelings that I carried around my dad were gone. I guess I see this now as God removing my resentments.” She suddenly “felt a sense of peace.” As she pondered these new feelings and perceptions her cell phone rang; it was her father calling. The two had been so alienated that she didn’t even think he knew her phone number. Surprisingly, he confessed to her how important she had been in his life, how sorry he was, how he cared about her and would do anything to help her. He wept as he spoke openly about their troubled relationship

Kelly later told the interviewer that the coincidence of her father calling just at the moment when her heart was opening up struck her as “amazing.”

Please rate the frequency that you have experienced the following conditions by selecting the appropriate answer.

	Never	Seldom	Occasionally	Often	Very Frequently
When I am in a hurry, I find a parking spot right where I need it.
I am late to get somewhere and find the way surprisingly open so that I arrive just in time.
I think of calling someone, only to have that person unexpectedly call me.
When my phone rings, I know who is calling (without checking the cell phone screen or using personalized ring tones).
I think about a song and then hear it on the radio.
I think of a question only to have it answered by external media (i.e., radio, TV, people) before I can ask it.
I think of an idea and hear or see it on radio, TV, or Internet.
I think about someone and then that person unexpectedly drops by my house or office or passes me in the hall or street.
I run into a friend in an out-of-the-way place.
I need something and the need is met without my having to do anything.
In a desperate search for information it amazingly shows up.
The right amount of money shows up from an unexpected source just when I need it.
A lost object comes back to me in an unexpected way.
I experience a series of numerically-related coincidences (for example, buying something for $1.44 before taking flight #144 at 1:44 pm).
The same name or word has appeared several times in close proximity in different contexts.
I advance in my work/career/education through being at the “right place-right time.”
I am introduced to people who unexpectedly further my work/career/education.
A certain number regularly appears in my life.
Meaningful coincidence helps determine my educational path.
I discover that I felt pains and/or anguish as someone I loved was dying in another place.
I experience strong emotions or physical sensations that were simultaneously experienced at a distance by someone I love.
After a loved one died, I have received some indication that this person was communicating with me.
I have dreams and later find out that events in my dreams actually happened around the same time that I had dreamt them.
I have dreams that predict future events.
I have dreams that supply me with specific information about my personal life, career, or education.
I have dreams about unknown persons whom I then subsequently met.
A series of coincidences point me toward taking a particular action in my personal life, career, or education.
In attempting to reach a goal, obstacle after obstacle prevented me from continuing on a path which I later discovered was better for me.
Meaningful coincidence validates my course of action.
Meaningful coincidences change my life.
I am in the right place at the right time to rescue somebody.
A meaningful coincidence results in my avoiding an injury or an accident.
Meaningful coincidences occur to me around the birth of a child.
Meaningful coincidences occur to me around the death of a loved one.
Meaningful coincidences occur to me around a personal crisis.
After experiencing meaningful coincidence, I analyze the meaning of my experience.

	1–Strongly Disagree	2	3	4	5-Strongly Agree
I feel that meaningful coincidences point to a connection between my internal and external worlds.
I believe that human minds are interconnected.
I believe fate works through meaningful coincidences.
I believe God speaks to us through meaningful coincidences
Meaningful coincidences help me grow spiritually.
I believe coincidences can be explained by the laws of probability or chance.