Part 1 — Apophenia: The Reason You Believe Everything Happens For a Reason.

Let’s say you just lost your job. Even as you are walking out of the office (or logging off your company computer at your home office) you are already asking yourself — why?

Immediately you begin to search for the reason this has happened to you. It feels like an injustice ( and in many cases from a legality stand-point it may very well be) but it feels more like an injustice against your existence.

Why has this happened to me?

Now let’s say after a night of wine and sadness, you wake-up to fix yourself a hearty breakfast to cure that hangover. Eggs, bacon, a couple of pieces of toast. As you toss the bread onto your plate you have to do a double take — could that? Is that? Could it be?!

JESUS’ FACE ON MY TOAST?!

You fall to your knees. You post it on instagram. You make a Tik-Tok.

Is this a sign from God? From the universe that everything will be ok? I mean, you just lost your job and then Christ shows up crisped onto your sourdough?

It’s a miracle!

…except that (most likely) it’s not.

You’ve just experience Apophenia (Ap-oh-Phe-nia)