Zen 666

In an earlier post, The Luck Factor, I mentioned the influence of endorphins contributing to synchronicities. Endorphins are released during extreme exercise, a crisis situation, sex, child-birth, meditation, and challenging creative endeavors. But also Intense conversation is another trigger, as in the following story.

One afternoon many years ago, I was involved in a deep conversation about spiritual belief systems and cosmic questions while driving a couple of friends to the Miami airport. One of them, George, was a minister of a New Age/Latter Day Hippie church in Negril, Jamaica. The other, Hanna, was his Norwegian girlfriend, who I'd known in my travels before she'd became involved in the ministry. I was enmeshed in a major life transition at the time - a separation from my first wife - and that contributed to the intensity of the conversation.

I felt somewhat lightheaded, as if I were in an altered state, when I jabbed a finger at the license plate on a passing car. It read: ZEN 665. George blurted, “It would be really remarkable if we saw ZEN 666.”

A few minutes later, while still on the interstate, a yellow sports car passed us with that very license plate. ZEN 666! It was as if the trickster was in the car with us, laughing at our astonishment. We hadn’t been talking about 666—other than George's off-handed suggestion, but the appearance of that license plate was sensationally significant to the three of us. We asked for it and it had appeared. It was a revelation, as in the source of the infamous number – Revelations.

For months, I told the story of Zen 666 repeatedly. I couldn’t seem to get over it, and wanted others to consider the odds of such an incident happening. Finally, a couple of years later, while driving on a street near home, a red sedan passed me bearing the same combination of letters and numbers. It was a different car, more than fifty miles from where I'd seen it, but the same Zen 666. Another revelation.

Rob
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