Keith A ~~ Yes, Sheldrake has indeed some interesting theories; I have corresponded with him about an apparent "psychic" I used to know well. But his "morphic resonance" theories seem to me more germane to such psychic phenomena as mind-reading &c than to the sort of random coincidence I have related in the OP ~~ I don't think even Sheldrake would suggest that I was in any way in any sort of 'morphic' contact with both the compiler of the Guardian crossword and the writer of the Times article, or they with one another, such as to give rise to any sort of "morphic" FX.

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~M~