Synchronicity – what next?  I was driving home from an exceptionally arduous work trip.  I was exhausted, caught in traffic, fighting with my boyfriend.  Tears were streaming, curse words were flying. I had just gotten a ticket for not having money to pay my toll fare. I was so angry, so lost and so scared.  I quickly exited the Brooklyn queens expressway hoping I could avoid traffic and calm myself down.  I felt like I was at the end — “WHY?”.  When suddenly I had the thought, “what if this is the universe’s way of steering me in the right direction.  what if in this very moment, I came across my future and everything I’ve ever wanted?” and I even thought of a specific person’s name.  This person is someone who I have had dreams about for the last year.  I have been drawn to him in various ways and we have crossed each other’s paths frequently.  We do not know each other but we know of each other.  At that very moment, I looked up and he was riding his bike right next to my
car.  I decided not to stop because, well frankly, what would I say? With tears and puffy eyes?  “I was just thinking about you!” That’s nuts!  I decided the universe was telling me to break up with my boyfriend and I did.  But could there be any significance in seeing “him”. I haven’t seen him since.  What next?

My question concerns evolution. In your book you made the statement of how a cell “knows” what it will become without any evidence of how it knows this. You state something to the effect that this is because God tells it what it will be (bad paraphrase but you get my meaning). I was wondering if this applies to evolution also. I always wondered how does a cheetah know to make its fur yellow and black? How does an organism know to make an eye to see the world? Survival of the fittest cannot explain this because the chance of something randomly making an eyeball to see the world would seem slim.

I had a spiritual awakening 12 years ago. In which I had a feeling of total calm and peace and everything around me had a “light” around it. In fact after this awakening I would spend hours just driving around looking at everything and seeing God in everything around me. This feeling left me months after it happened and now I can only get brief glimpses of this feeling and seeing this light around everything. My question is this- Is there a way to get this back? Or is that a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence? Does the new feeling wear off and you get used to seeing this light?

How does one move beyond inertia? Is it strength of will, finding the motivation, or is there more to it? For the past two years I have felt as though a huge unidentified barrier exists when I think I’m ready to move forward. For all the plans I’ve made and all the things I think I want to change, I cannot find the internal strength to risk anything! I don’t consciously say “no, I can’t go there, do that, or whatever the case may be. I physically begin to feel nauseated and anxious and immobilized.

It tears me apart to see an animal suffering. It really does. I don’t want to suffer that much. I want to help them without suffering so much. Also people keep asking me why I care more about animals than people. The only answer that comes to me is that people are responsible for their acts and the animals aren’t. Can you help me not to suffer so much?