I understand. In this case, we could talk about this pattern recognition as deep rooted in the archetypal basis (this numinous structure in its relation with the images). Sometimes the synchronicity lies exactly in this random subjectivity as we are dealing with te signification of an image (primacy of the signifier). One can see Jesus in the shape of a tree trunk, and what matter isn't if the trunk is in fact Jesus, but what this could say to the people's psyche. Of course one can say "so there is no miracle, because it is just the person relating to her own mind!", but in this area of psychology we deal with the notion that our ego/consciense isn't the "house owner", but lives with several complexes and images that are autonomous in a certain way. I don't discard the ocurrence of supernatural events or physical manifestations, but I'm saying that it can be a matter of what the Image awaken in us or the "symbolic" underneath the world can tell us. This is what I was talking about in the second paragraph.
I think Freud thinked like you in this topic and I agree that we can "unmask" several supernatural cases with this thought in mind. For example, when people said they dreamed about an accident, it is very curious that they only remember the "dream" after the disastrous event. Freud talked about that when he investigated supernatural phenomena.
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Yes, that is what was in my mind when I was reading your comment, and I wanted to reply to you with that thought, but...
...but then I kept reading and came upon this fragment, and yes, this is very interesting. Thank you for this interesting reply, this got me thinking :)