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SynchroFile: Amazing Personal Encounters With Synchronicity And Other Strange Phenomena

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Raymond E. Fowler is a respected and fairly well-known investigator of the UFO/alien abduction phenomenon. He was for many years a leading light in the Massachusetts division of MUFON and has several respected abduction-case investigation books to his credit, including the "Andreasson Affair" series focusing on the abduction experiences of Betty Andreasson and Bob Luca; his truly excellent investigation written up as "The Allagash Abductions" about the simultaneous abduction of four men from a waterway in Maine and the rather complex resulting events over the following ten years; and his critically-acclaimed "The Watchers." Fowler also claims to be a born-again Christian and has been active in his local church.

'Synchrofile' is a departure from his previous style in that it is a more personal record of strangeness in the author's own life. A criticism of the book I have is the huge number of essentially similar recorded diary events, which becomes repetitive after 50-or-so pages. Some are surely the kind of coincidences that happen to anyone in a normal life, some the result of clairvoyance or precognition. Others are genuinely weird and disturbing.

The book contains some thought-provoking hypotheses about the paranormal and the way it operates, and I would recommend it to the interested reader if they can handle the strangeness of it all. Ray Fowler himself has a hard time dealing with it, as most of his extended family are Christians of the more fundamentalist type whose beliefs do not sit easily with all these odd happenings. If you're an abductee sensitive to the inevitable synchronicities which accompany the phenomenon then it might make for interesting reading; if not, it may make almost no sense at all.

What a great Idea. He spent many years recording his on synchronism's that happened in his everyday life. Think of the many times we all have had that chill in our spine when you pick up the phone to call some one and they are already on the other end, or when you have a song stuck in your head and you flip on the radio and their it is. Your think about someone you have not seen our thought about in years, and then all of a sudden you run into them out of the blue. These synchronism's happen to us every day, yet we end up brushing them off as some kind of coincident. I have had the privilege of attending one of his UFO classes(The Watchers) at his home here in Kennebunk, Maine. All I can say is that Ray Fowler is an extraordinary individual that has extensive knowledge which goes a lot further than UFO Abductions. I believe he probably knows a lot more than he has revealed.
This book is bit different than his others because of the scientific structure to time lines and events, but I found it to be a very interesting read.

I found this book to be very tedious. The author links everyday occurances with syncronicity. Makes you wonder if he ever heard of the term COINCIDENCE. Anyway, some parts are truly interesting (about Jung), but others are really, really, boring to the point he completely lost me.

He listed coincidental "events" point-by-point, like how many times his computer, as an example, showed some "number" at the same time his wife was calling him for supper. One would think if you're going to author a book you would attempt to explain to your target audience these events beyond rehashing Jung's theories, make a point-by-point presentation, yakking about your "life" and the daily minutiae associated with it. Some strange events occurred with him and others could be explained, I think, through random chance/coincidence.

I wasn't impressed. I'm sure there are better books out there which can explain synchronicity. I bought it because I noticed that when I was buying a new car (older used - new for me), a Mercedes in fact (a particular model that is), which is quite rare. I noticed them here, there, whereever I was & worked. The gas station, supermarket, etc. They are NOT a common car. I'd walk over to get a coffee and there one was right in my face. I talked to the owner, he loved it, yada, yada, yada....my resolve was reinforced. Went to a gas station, one pulls up beside me, yada, yada, yada...more resolve. I ended up buying one. NOW, they are NOWHERE to be found and I'm ACTIVELY looking for them. Weird, no? Or what? Don't know and "Syncrofile" definitely didn't help so it looks like I'll be buying other books on the subject. My recommendation is skip this one.

BTW, I bought it on the recommendation of FATE magazine which I buy now and again. Needless to say the reviewer of this book was smoking crack or something or maybe it's one of those scenarios where every movie review you read on the back of some noname movie's cover tells you how "mesmerizing", "spellbinding" the said retard flick is whereas my dog could have done a better job of making it.