A Magritte Coincidence

Between pages 24 and 28 of his book The Coincidence File (Blandford, 1999), Ken Anderson spotlights the experiences and, as he puts it, 'unique conclusions and beliefs' of Ute Kaboolian concerning 'the presence of synchronistic events in her life.' Here's an excerpt from what Ken Anderson has included from her:

Art as a medium is a veritable treasure trove of coincidence. I have made a few personal associations with some of the paintings of surrealist Rene Magritte. On 23 February 1989, I wrote in my diary that my son's friend John Celidoniko had brought over the book Magritte by A.M.Hammacher a few days before. His painting The Pleasure Principle threw me for a loop. Magritte painted it in 1937 to depict Edward James, author of The Gardener who Saw God.

The book was written in 1937, the same year in which I had a rather strange experience, when I was six years old, that was synchronistic with the painting. While standing on my garden path [address: Berlin 37, of all places] my mind suddenly merged with that of the universal mind in an explosion of white light. I had no awareness of my physical or non-physical body, or of the world. In this timeless experience I was one with everyone and all there is. To me everything was suddenly all so simple, like turning on a light switch, a click in the mind. Questions were inconceivable. For the first and only time in my life everything made sense. I tried to hold onto this state for as long as i could. But before I knew it, the familiar sun was back. There must be two suns, the six-year-old thought, one white, one golden. I told no one, then I forgot about it. Had I set myself the task of painting the experience I could not have done justice to it the way Magritte did with his portrait of James, who is shown sitting at a table while his head has been absorbed by a ball of white light. On the table lies a stone remarkably similar to one I have in my possession and which I cherish for some unaccountable reason.......

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