A reminder of the standard disclaimer: these articles are not intended to "draw you to conclusions." Use this discussion as a means to find your own truth.
This article has been in the wings for a few weeks now. I had a version that I had to re-write, because it lead to me remembering some old discoveries that had gotten lost to time. Significant enough that I believe this marks the beginning of the Third Era.
As consciousness becomes more coherent, it begins to understand that it and its environment are connected. As this connection is explored, it realizes -- more and more -- that its environment arises from itself and at the absolute upper end, it realizes that it is indistinguishable from this environment. When this knowledge first arrives, it brings with it glitches and oddities that begin to occur, such as frequent coincidences, the same sequence of numbers of a clock over & over, and lucid dreams.
If one hears the call and starts upon the path, the oddities become more bizarre. You will sometimes feel as if you can read minds or that people can seem to "echo" events or thoughts you've had recently. I call these echoes or traces. You'll see news articles, or meet people in perfect timing, or you'll see what seemed like a mistake was in fact a requirement for exactly what you wanted.
Coincidences no longer seem like coincidences, but either divine intervention or some kind of script. You may experience unlikely events like the arrival of fortune out of nowhere, an old friend appears to save you out of a bad situation. You may even have "near death" experiences where it seems like you should have died but somehow dodged a bullet.

As you progress more, you may experience remembering a different world altogether -- similar to the one you are in, but with certain memories of differences. Folks in your reality may deride you for being delusional and accuse you of misremembering or having cognitive bias. But even if these disagreements come from