Deja vu Always a good idea to shave with Ockham's Razor. — Bitter Crank
I didn’t know there are other kinds of vu’s that’s funny, thanks.
So yeah I’m on the verge of falling into complete absurdity. You’ll often find this type of stuff online. People who make a big deal out of seeing 3s on their call list, on the clock (every 10 mins too!!) and make it into being spiritually significant. Any numbers of likely coincidences or self induced feelings become deeply significant. That’s the realm of self absorbed spiritual immaturity or worse delusion and maybe even schizophrenia.
So clearly not every instance of deja vu is telling us something. Another seemed to think it was significant though. Perhaps there’s a reason.
Take an example. St Augustine was famously sitting in a room and was having a spiritual crisis of faith. He heard a child outside singing a common song at the time “Tolle Legge” or take and read. He felt moved to pick up the Bible and was transformed by the experience. Ockham’s Razor would say this wasn’t God but a child being bored waiting on their parents.
That’s a very theistic example. What about pangs of conscious or just a “sense” of something you should do? Maybe a Christian God doesn’t exist but Augustine was sensing/tapping into a world consciousness, a zietgiest, or collective conciousness that called towards a life of theology rather than unchaste living. Maybe there was nothing outside of him was there at all, but his own human spirit (in a non-literal sense) came to a point that he realized devoting his life to seeking Truth (as he conceived of it) was better than seeking to get laid.
Assuming we aren’t total nihilists, we think there is meaning or we can create meaning. Most of the time we don’t perceive or make this meaning thru sitting still and thinking really hard deductively about it. That’s why we can’t prove or disprove God, it’s not a deductive thing. We discover this meaning thru intution possibly even sparked by a singing child or by deja vu. Why not?
The trick is discernment. But I’d rather be free to follow my own intuitions (and risk being delusional) than relying on someone else like a priest or a rabbi tell me about their intuitions or what some guy thousands of years ago had a intution about.