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Jott: when things disappear... and come back or relocate - and why it really happens
Rifts in the Fabric of Causality
Jott is derived from Just One of Those Things, meaning things that fall on the floor and are never seen again, or were placed on a table for ready access but were next seen a few weeks later in a box of corks inside a drawer in a trunk, or which are not where you left them but unaccountably re-appear, on top of something you have just placed there... Jott takes a variety of forms, but is generally dismissed as your faulty memory, your faulty perception, your inability to report facts correctly, or just as a nuisance best forgotten. But sometimes the anomaly really is a blip in our causal reality. The author presents some cases that resist conventional explanations and goes on to examine the far-reaching implications of these seemingly trivial incidents.
Jott is derived from Just One of Those Things, meaning things that fall on the floor and are never seen again, or were placed on a table for ready access but were next seen a few weeks later in a box of corks inside a drawer in a trunk, or which are not where you left them but unaccountably re-appear, on top of something you have just placed there... Jott takes a variety of forms, but is generally dismissed as your faulty memory, your faulty perception, your inability to report facts correctly, or just as a nuisance best forgotten. But sometimes the anomaly really is a blip in our causal reality. The author presents some cases that resist conventional explanations and goes on to examine the far-reaching implications of these seemingly trivial incidents.
- GenresParanormalNonfiction
196 pages, Paperback
First published September 21, 2018
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Mary Rose Barrington
4 books1 followerMary Rose Barrington (born January 1926) was a parapsychologist and a barrister and charity administrator.
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October 16, 2022I found out about this book from Reddit and thought it sounded fascinating. Indeed the first half was full of stories of JOTT and quite interesting. But I can't say anything about the second half because I fall asleep every time I try to read it.
July 6, 2020
A primer on basic reality shifts and personal Mandela Effects by a world-class researcher
JOTT stands for "Just One of Those Things," and it involves the mysterious matter of seemingly everyday objects appearing, disappearing, reappearing, and sometimes being transformed. Author Mary Rose Barrington affectionately calls such incidences "jotts" or "jottles," as she sorts them into various typologies. "Flyaways" are objects that vanish; "Turn-Ups" are objects that appear; "Windfalls" are objects that show up that had never previously been around; "Comebacks" are objects that had disappeared and then reappeared; "Walkabouts" are objects that seem to move to some new location that is not where you know you left them; and "Trade-Ins" are items that seem quite different than what they used to be.
One of my favorite things about JOTT is that it was written by a researcher born in the 1920s who was keenly aware that instances of objects disappearing, reappearing, teleporting, and appearing-out-of-nowhere were matters of common knowledge over a century ago. JOTT references several articles on "Jottles" written by Barrington, going back to the early 1990s; Barrington was clearly fascinated with this topic. Some of the detailed reports included in JOTT occurred as early as the 1950s, and Barrington pointed out that this phenomenon has a history going much farther back even than that. Barrington writes, "In our time, we seldom hear reports of sensational macro-phenomena said to have taken place during the 100 years starting mid-nineteenth century, when many people believed that such things were possible and that they could be evoked by the human endeavor, usually with input from the supposed spirit world." [1]Many of JOTT's first-hand reports came from submissions following an article from the magazine, "The Unexplained," that described what we now recognize as personal Mandela Effects or reality shifts, asking readers to please write in with any of their experiences.
While the first half of JOTT involves descriptions, examples, and the categorical typography of jotts, or jottles, the second half of the book provides the reader with a view of how this phenomena fits within the broader range of various types of psychic/intuitive and metaphysical phenomena. Barrington attributes the JOTT phenomenon to being related to Cosmic Mind, and recognizes that these experiences are relatively widespread, and have been around for quite a long time. I am extremely grateful to have found this delightfully informative and engaging book, after having dedicated more than twenty years to studying this exact same phenomena, and never having heard of Barrington, her work, the terms "jott" and "jottles," or this book. Truly we are living in interesting times, when the research about the same topic is being conducted in different niches, with Barrington apparently unaware of reality shifts as documented by authors such as myself and PMH Atwater, and the ever-expanding awareness of the general public of personal Mandela Effects.
Highly recommended!
JOTT stands for "Just One of Those Things," and it involves the mysterious matter of seemingly everyday objects appearing, disappearing, reappearing, and sometimes being transformed. Author Mary Rose Barrington affectionately calls such incidences "jotts" or "jottles," as she sorts them into various typologies. "Flyaways" are objects that vanish; "Turn-Ups" are objects that appear; "Windfalls" are objects that show up that had never previously been around; "Comebacks" are objects that had disappeared and then reappeared; "Walkabouts" are objects that seem to move to some new location that is not where you know you left them; and "Trade-Ins" are items that seem quite different than what they used to be.
One of my favorite things about JOTT is that it was written by a researcher born in the 1920s who was keenly aware that instances of objects disappearing, reappearing, teleporting, and appearing-out-of-nowhere were matters of common knowledge over a century ago. JOTT references several articles on "Jottles" written by Barrington, going back to the early 1990s; Barrington was clearly fascinated with this topic. Some of the detailed reports included in JOTT occurred as early as the 1950s, and Barrington pointed out that this phenomenon has a history going much farther back even than that. Barrington writes, "In our time, we seldom hear reports of sensational macro-phenomena said to have taken place during the 100 years starting mid-nineteenth century, when many people believed that such things were possible and that they could be evoked by the human endeavor, usually with input from the supposed spirit world." [1]Many of JOTT's first-hand reports came from submissions following an article from the magazine, "The Unexplained," that described what we now recognize as personal Mandela Effects or reality shifts, asking readers to please write in with any of their experiences.
While the first half of JOTT involves descriptions, examples, and the categorical typography of jotts, or jottles, the second half of the book provides the reader with a view of how this phenomena fits within the broader range of various types of psychic/intuitive and metaphysical phenomena. Barrington attributes the JOTT phenomenon to being related to Cosmic Mind, and recognizes that these experiences are relatively widespread, and have been around for quite a long time. I am extremely grateful to have found this delightfully informative and engaging book, after having dedicated more than twenty years to studying this exact same phenomena, and never having heard of Barrington, her work, the terms "jott" and "jottles," or this book. Truly we are living in interesting times, when the research about the same topic is being conducted in different niches, with Barrington apparently unaware of reality shifts as documented by authors such as myself and PMH Atwater, and the ever-expanding awareness of the general public of personal Mandela Effects.
Highly recommended!
January 26, 2024
Book was a gift so I gave it a go. First half was stories about people's mysterious lost & found items. If a tale about a random stranger in the English countryside finding an unopened letter addressed to someone else sounds interesting, then this book may be for you. I skimmed ahead to why/how things seemingly relocate themselves and the answer is... you guessed it... unknown. But then it started going into spirit and faith and how we are "The Maker's creatures" and leave it to say this book may "mysteriously" find its way back to the giver.
January 2, 2022
This really is two books. The first an expiration of the JOTT where things appear as disappear, exploring a number of cases. The second is a heavy going essay into consciousness and the paranormal. Brilliant if you give it time and energy.
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May 2, 2019
I heard about this book on Jeffrey Mishlove's New Thinking Allowed, so I hope he will get the author on his show one of these days. I've had weird experiences where things seemed to just disappear and then show up again mysteriously. It's great that a book like this has been written to explore such strange phenomenon.
December 24, 2020
Like watching paint dry!
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