Absolutely. Serendipitous moments happen all of the time.

The secret it to be open minded enough to see them.

Serendipitous, what an evoking word! But do you have any concrete personal example?

Tough to get exact questions

Hi, Fred. What I occasionally tell people is, in clinical research, we're all walking through the same woods, and we all trip over the same logs in the woods. The innovators are the ones who look back and say, "hey, that was a log I tripped over!" Everyone else just gets up and keeps walking. The moment with me that comes to mind immediately was diagnosing suppression in vision after whiplash. I think I'm still the only one who has documented the genesis of (intermittent central) suppression where none had been previously diagnosed. I test everyone the same. I had seen a 50+ y.o. man for a routine eye exam and prescribed glasses. He was back 18 months later after a car accident mainly because his glasses got broken. I did the same testing and during the checks in binocularity I routinely do when I had the polarized acuity letters in front of him, he surprised me by saying "hey, this didn't happen before." Then he described his suppression very precisely. I hadn't even asked about suppression, and had no frame of reference to expect a suppression to develop, but since I test everyone the same including those checks of binocular vision, and since he had been in recently enough to remember the last testing, I was able see a suppression where none had existed before - the genesis of a suppression as a function of whiplash. Any time I think I may know something, I remind myself that I learned a bunch from a truck driver who spoke up. But then I got to figure out how that worked. There's the fun!

My dear friend,

My new book has published. It is about design

as you are in this field i hope you will like it

Please read it and share it with everyone. It is talking about prosumer also for the first time in this book we talk about magic and its power in product design. It is talking also about future of consumers .I request you put the link of book on your page and your school website for your students.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319502419_Everyone_Is_Designer

Name: Everyone Is a Designer

Author: Mohsen Jaafarnia

Publisher: MJ

Ghochan, 2017

In Persian, Chinese and English

Topic: Industrial Design

Jaafarnia, Mohsen (2017). Everyone Is Designer. Ghochan, Iran : MJ Publication. ISBN: 978-600-04-7870-4

Prior to responding directly to your question about "magic," coincidence, science, and religion, I am taking a moment to share an extremely brief overview of this complex, multifaceted global religious system that has been demonized, misrepresented, criminalized, and/or ignored by Western religio-cultural hegemony, including a dominating politico-economic structure designed and implemented during the enslavement period and continued into the latter part of the 29th century. One commonly promoted bigoted opinion shamelessly affirmed that Africans were too primitive to have religion, philosophy, ethics, or morality.

The demoralizing and violent prohibitions against the practice of indigenous African religions persisted but failed and indigenous African religions, most notably Ifá/Òrìṣà, survived and proliferated underground throughout the African Diaspora. Despite the fact that since 1907, Federal legislation has protected both Jewish (shechita) and Muslim (dhabihah) ritual animal slaughter, Ifá ritual animal slaughter continued to be prohibited and therefore continued to be hidden by devotees. Ifá practitioners, devotees, and priests had no protection against religious state-imposed tyranny until they/we won the appeal to the US Supreme Court in the 1993 case, Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, which held that "the states cannot restrict [Ifá] religiously-mandated ritual slaughter of animals, regardless of the purpose of the slaughter." Finally, Ifá devotees in the United States were deemed to be protected, legally, based on the Constitution's First Amendment prohibition against the State's intrusion into the right of religious freedom. Because Ifá practices proliferated in the context of being banned during the enslavement period and because it continued to be denigrated and punished during the Jim Crow era, few opportunities existed to disabuse ordinary people of the distortions, false assumptions, and misrepresentations about this religion. Moreover, Ifá is a NON-proselytizing religion; it does not attempt to compete with Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any other religion for converts/ new members nor is it related to the Abrahamic religions. The extremely oppressive actions of slavers included forcing the separation and shuffling of enslaved Africans who spoke similar languages, were from similar cultural groups; worshiped similar divinities; or attempted to practice openly; the slavers have been known to cut off the hands of devotees who were ritual drummers. This kind of subjugation forced devotees to hide or feign conversion to Christianity, then bury their own religion or to syncretize the elements of the Indigenous religion with the permissible religion i.e., Christianity. Residual prejudice and misunderstanding remain in mainstream society today, even among religious scholars because the history of enslavement and ongoing racism. However, Ifá is complex and has much to offer the world that could, if accepted, help to heal the planet's many ills and help humans avoid their own self destruction.

In the Ifá religion, an indigenous West African originated, now worldwide, religion born of the Yoruba, there is a profound interplay of philosophy, ethics, science, religion, culture, ecology, technology, and so-called folk-medicine. Ifá has at least seven (7) distinct meanings. Most relevant to this presentation is that it is the overall name of the religion; it is the name of one of the divinities; and it is a system of divination. The divinities of Ifá are called Òrìṣà; there are 400 plus 1! Particular priests (and priestesses) are devoted to particular Òrìṣà.

At the core of this religion is a divination system that is based on fractals: self-replicating, infinitely complex patterns, recursively scaled; abstract fractals are found in mathematics (as in the Mandelbrot Set); in linguistics; and in computing (in fact, computers, per se, are based on a similar fractal i.e., 0/1. Nature is replete with fractal patterns some are geometrical; some chaotic. The Ifá divination system is also very lawful in that its structure relies on precedent to find solutions to the challenges of life for which the system is consulted. Traditionally, from an early age, children who have self-selected, become especially trained priests by elder priests who help them to memorize Ifá's Holy Scripture, which is comprised of 256 "books" called Odu Ifá - each of which consists of a varied number of poetic "chapters" of varying lengths. Each Odu has a particular pattern; each Odu holds a particular location based on its spiritual age.

One of the divinities of this global religious