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Suzanne Clores

Suzanne Clores is the author of Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider (Conari, 2000) a memoir/ethnography of alternate spiritual practices. Her work has appeared in Salon, Elle, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown, among other publications, and has aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) and the Radiotopia Podcast Strangers. She has been a resident at The Vermont Studio Center, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Omega Institute. Her BA is from Columbia University in New York, and her MFA in fiction is from the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 2004 she relocated to Evanston IL, where she lives with her family.

How I Started Down This Road

Coincidences find me, or more accurately, I recognize them. The technical term for someone who regularly sees coincidences in their daily lives is a High Frequency Responder. I have noticed and remembered and maybe even attracted synchronicities, hard-to-explain chance meetings at airports, telephone telepathy and the like. Not all the time, but enough. Sometimes these moments are small and forgettable. Other times they influence my behavior and decision making. The sheer number of them fuels my sense that they are an important but yet to be understood aspect to our human communication.