A funny thing happened on the way to ...

For those of you who have read some of James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy, you'll understand that things around us involve some field of sacred energy that we can sense. We seem to be capable of projecting our energy by focusing our attention in a desired direction so that, where our attention goes this engery flows, influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our lives.

A bit heavy, perhaps, but I experienced a personal example of this today. I attended a breakfast at the High Country Inn as part of the 'Partnering for Success' Economic Summit, and checked my coat, a Columbia ski jacket, with the ladies at the registration table. I then went through the breakfast buffet line and found a place at a table in the conference room with a few men I knew. One of them had worked for years in the Ecomic Development office just over ours in the Shopper's Plaza.

After the breakfast presentation was over I went back to the registration table to get my coat. The ladies were busy with something, so I just took my jacket off the coat rack, put it on and proceeded out of the hotel. In the hotel lobby I pulled the gloves out of my pocket, looked at them and thought, "Now that's strange, I'm sure I didn't bring this pair of gloves with me this morning."

Stranger still, when I pulled my set of keys out and found that, although there seemed to be the right number of keys, the key fob was different. Then, I noticed in my left pocket a package of gum the same brand as one I often carry in the same pocket, but a different flavour. It was only then it hit me, I had on someone else's coat. A coat that is the identical colour, the same pattern and brand, and the same size. Incredible!

I went back to the coat rack, explaining to the ladies that I had mistakenly taken someone else's jacket. And there, right beside where I had taken this one from, was mine. When I put it on and took out my gloves, I had been right. My Wind River gloves, identical to the ones in the other jacket, were still at home.

When I stepped into my truck across the street from the hotel I noticed a similar pickup truck parked just in front of mine. As I started up my truck a man wearing the jacket I had just returned approach the pickup truck in front of me. It was the man I had been sitting beside at breakfast! The one who had worked in the office over mine in the Shopper's Plaza.

I got out and said, "I like your jacket. In fact, I just had it on for a short time before I realized it wasn't mine."

We laughed about the coincidence of our identical jackets hanging together.

On the way home I thought it might be a good idea to re-read the Celestine Prophecy and try to figure out what's behind this whole thing about energy fields and the pace of coincidences.