What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.

Twelve case files, one question. Each week takes a different way people notice, interpret, test, or learn to distrust a pattern — a dream retold at breakfast, a horoscope that feels oddly specific, an algorithm that seems to know you. The order matters: later weeks lean on the vocabulary the earlier ones build, and the last week turns the method on the site delivering it.

1. Week0126 July 2027

   The pattern-seeking animal

   Why a brain built to spot predators in leaves now sees faces in toast, streaks in coin flips, and messages in static.Why does a brain built to survive keep finding meaning in noise?
2. Week022 August 2027

   Probability feels wrong

   Why intuitions about chance are reliably, predictably bad — and what that means for anything you're tempted to call a coincidence.If two people in this room share a birthday, is that a coincidence worth investigating?
3. Week039 August 2027

   Omens

   What turns an ordinary event into a sign, across cultures and centuries — and what an omen is actually doing for the person who reads one.What turns an ordinary event — a broken mirror, a crow at the window — into an omen?
4. Week0416 August 2027

   Dreams

   Does a dream mean something on its own terms, or does the meaning get added afterward, by the waking mind that retells it?Does a dream mean something, or does the meaning get added afterward, awake?
5. Week0523 August 2027

   Jung and synchronicity

   Carl Jung's "meaningful coincidence" — an event linked to your inner state by meaning rather than cause — and whether that's a real category or a good name for a feeling.Is synchronicity a real category of event, or a name for a coincidence we refuse to let go of?
6. Week0630 August 2027

   Astrology

   Why a horoscope written for a twelfth of the planet can feel like it was written about you specifically — and what that says about reading, not about the stars.Why does a horoscope written for 1/12th of the planet feel like it was written about you?
7. Week0713 September 2027

   Tarot

   If a reading only ever tells you something you already suspected, is it still doing something useful — and what, exactly?If a tarot reading only ever tells you something you already suspected, is it still doing something useful?
8. Week0820 September 2027

   The I Ching

   A 3,000-year-old divination system built on genuinely random coin tosses — and the case that structured randomness can produce advice worth taking.Can a genuinely random process still produce advice worth taking?
9. Week0927 September 2027

   Numerology

   What a number is doing when it stops being an arithmetic fact and starts feeling like a message meant for you.What is a number doing when it starts to feel like a message?
10. Week104 October 2027

    Cognitive biases

    Confirmation bias and illusory correlation, named properly — the two mechanisms that have been running underneath every week so far.Which came first, the pattern or your reason for believing in it?
11. Week1111 October 2027

    Algorithms as modern oracles

    When a recommendation algorithm "gets you," is it reading you personally, or reading everyone who looks statistically like you?When a recommendation algorithm "gets you," is it reading you, or reading everyone like you?
12. Week1218 October 2027

    Synthesis

    Bringing the three-part method — seeing, meaning, trusting — back together, and turning it on the last thing in the course that hasn't been examined yet — the course website itself.Now that you can name the trick, does a good coincidence feel any different?