Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning? Or winning the lottery? Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you? BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of: Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten. Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed. A British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb.

Is our universe some kind of cosmic accident, or is it the result of careful and skillful design? What do scientists mean by "The Anthropic Principle"? When compiling the many physical and mathematical subtleties which make up our universe, scientist have discovered that a slight variation in any of them militates against the existence of life. Even at the atomic and sub-atomic level, the slightest variation in any of the primary constants of physics - some as sensitive as one part in over 1,000,000 - cause life to be impossible. Even secular science refers to these appearances of apparent design as the "anthropic principle," since they yield the impression that the universe was designed specifically for man.

Are there more than four dimensions to physical reality?Is it possible to traverse time as well as space?Is there a reality beyond our traditional concepts of time and space? The startling discovery of modern science is that our physical universe is actually finite. Scientists now acknowledge that the universe had a beginning. They call the singularity from which it all began the "Big Bang." While the detail among the many variants of these theories remain quite controversial, the fact that there was a definite beginning has gained widespread agreement. This is, of course, what the Bible has maintained throughout its 66 books.

I am very ill. I sense my deceased grandfather's presence. He is trying to tell me something. Am I about to die? Has he come for me? I shout into the dark, 'I cannot hear you!" He tells me I must write something for my father. Thirty-six hours later, I learn my father just passed away. I am to write his eulogy. That visitation opened wide swaths of understanding for author, Sheryl Glick. She ultimately learned we all have the ability to communicate with our guides.spirits of loved ones, guardian angels, saints, or just 'coincidences" that show us the way. Life Is No Coincidence relates that journey - you will find it similar to your own. 'Sheryl Glick's book will inspire you to go beyond coincidences of your daily life and see the bigger picture of why we all are here." --Dr. Carmen Harra 'A generous and healing Spirit herself, Sheryl now shares her journey with all who read this book." --Rev. Robert Brown "Sheryl Glick opens her heart and soul to an extraordinary dimension and enlightens us how every encounter guides us from the start of this life to passing to the next." --Dr. Bea Carson

All of us are familiar with coincidence. We routinely define a coincidence as "the seeming connection of unrelated events." Coincidences are quite common in fact, but at what point do the odds of a supposed coincidence become so utterly unlikely as to be determined impossible? So impossible in fact that any reasonable person must admit that something more than coincidence is at work. Some plan, some mind, someone. Someone indeed! Follow along and explore the lives of two prominent figures from the pages of the Bible. The lives of these two, separated by many centuries in historical time, parallel so closely in dozens of ways, that the likelihood it could have been by accident, by chance is, well, BEYOND COINCIDENCE! The implications of the undeniable truth of this "coincidence" cannot be overstated and most certainly will draw you closer to Jesus in a way that likely you have not encounter before.

An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.