SERENDIPITY or SYNCRONICITY THE BOOKS OF HENRY Z. JONES

I enjoyed reading these books years ago and some of the stories were simply astounding while others had me coming up with explanations.  

No doubt I've experienced some research quests that involved serendipity or synchronicity.  Let me explain that as a person becomes more experienced with genealogy they know their resources and what might be perceived as block is simply not knowing resources. Generally there is a linear thought process about what to do next and why works.  However, while doing everything "right" you sometimes run into the difficulty of knowing what it is you need but not finding it where it should be. (Missing documents along the path; too many "fires" and "floods.") Even then you can sometimes find your way around.  Never the less, I think being in the right place at the right time to talk to someone else who is researching can result in acquiring the knowledge that you seek. 

One explanation, popular in LDS circles, is that the ancestors are helping you do your genealogy. What else do you make of someone who is new to the process of research showing up at a library and choosing the seat next to another researcher who happens to be related to them and discovering that within hours?

Jones has other books on the Palatine families - generally Germans (one of several groups of people who became Germans as we think of German's today) who left Germany to Ireland and the United States.

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GARY ZUKAV from THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

"Impulses, hunches, sudden insights and subtle insights have assisted us on our evolutionary path since the origin of our species. That we have not recognized guidance that has come to us in this way is a consequence of seeing reality through only five senses. From the five-sensory point of view, there is no other place from which insights and hunches can come.

"From the multi sensory point of view, insights, intuitions, hunches, and inspirations are messages from the soul, or from advanced intelligences that assist the soul on its evolutionary journey. The multi sensory personality, therefore, honors intuition in a way that the five-sensory personality does not. To the five-sensory personality, intuitions are curiosities. To the multi sensory personality, they are promptings from, and links to, a perspective of greater comprehension and compassion that its own."

page 147, as in More Psychic Roots, by Henry Z. Jones, Jr.