The Law of Causality

Another hidden law that governs our lives, the Law of Causality states that “everything has a cause.”

Put another way, “There is no such thing as an accident or coincidence.”

At first glance, it is difficult to accept this law from a purely logical standpoint because all of us must have experienced or witnessed coincidences before.

Things do happen sometimes for no apparent reason, or without any known cause. That is why we call them coincidences or accidents.

Let me cite several examples of extraordinary coincidences that have been documented:

1. A bouncing baby. “Joseph Figlock was walking down a street in Detroit in the 1930s when a baby fell on him from a high window. A year later the same baby fell on him again from the same window. Figlock and the baby both survived.” (This was related by Ms Arthur Figlock of Michigan).

2. Double jeopardy. “Jabez Spicer, of Leyden, Massachusetts, was killed by two bullets in the attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield on Jan. 25, 1787, during Shay’s Rebellion. At that time, he was wearing the same coat his brother Daniel had been wearing when he, too, was killed by two bullets on March 5, 1784.

“The bullets that killed Jabez Spicer passed through the holes made by the bullets that had killed his brother Daniel three years earlier.”

3. The bullet that found its mark. “In 1883 Henry Ziegland, of Honey Grove, Texas, jilted his sweetheart, who then killed herself. Her brother tried to avenge her by shooting Ziegland, but the bullet only grazed his face and buried itself in a tree. The brother, believing that he had killed Ziegland, then took his own life.

“In 1913 Ziegland was cutting down the tree with the bullet in it. It was a difficult job, so he used dynamite. The explosion sent the old bullet through Ziegland’s head and killed him.”

“Coincidences are baffling,” according to the Reader’s Digest book on mysteries, “because they seem to represent order arising by chance. They resemble the results of an orderly causal process, but they do not have a causal connection that fits our experience. They violate our notions of cause and effect.”

The great Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung had long been fascinated by the occurrence of coincidences and even invented a term for it: synchronicity.

As defined by Jung, it is the “simultaneous occurrence of two unrelated but meaningful events.”

In his treatise “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle,” Jung related an extraordinary coincidence that enabled him to break the psychological resistance of a difficult patient.

“A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned around and saw a flying insect knocking against the window pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.”

Why do coincidences happen if we say that everything has a cause?

It is possible that coincidences are simply two points of a long series of causal connections that we do not see. We see only the beginning and the end, but not the psychic or unconscious connections between them.

There must be some mind at work that put those seemingly noncausal events together. In other words, there must be a cause behind these so-called coincidental events. That is what the Law of Causality says.

If we understand these four hidden or secret laws of nature, we will understand why certain things happen the way they do.

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