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Super Synchronicity: Where Science and Spirit Meet
About Super Synchronicity Have you ever been thinking about a friend who then suddenly calls you? Have you ever dreamed of something only to see it happen soon after? Are you an experienced "synchronicity surfer" looking for greater understanding, or simply a curious beginner? In Super Synchronicity, Gary E. Schwartz, PhD takes you on an extraordinary journey through the inspiring landscape of synchronicity science. It is a bold and brilliant leap in scientific inquiry, and his many synchronicities-involving the number 11, ravens, ducks, and more-are provocative, evidential, and entertaining! Ascend into higher mind as you achieve more profound levels of understanding and benefit from synchronicities in your own life! Endorsements "Gary Schwartz is the Master of Serial Coincidences. No one else has experienced and reported so many coincidences made up of similar, repeated observable elements. At the start of this energetic book, he demolishes the statistician favorite explanation for the Law of Very Large Numbers. He then encourages all of us to become self-scientists to test for ourselves the validity of serial coincidences the most grand of which he calls “super synchronicities”. In a mind expanding ending, he urges us to see that synchronicities exist within a larger system increasingly open to our exploration. Dr. Schwartz has made a major contribution to the study of coincidences." - Bernard D Beitman, MD, author of Connecting with Coincidence "What is the meaning of those meaningful coincidences called synchronicities? Super Synchronicity explores this question in detail through a series of increasingly striking examples, and then proposes a thought provoking set of explanations. Written in Schwartz's clear and entertaining style, this book will make your head spin, in a good way." - Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of The Consciousness Universe, Supernormal and other books "In the exciting emergence of the more mature science that is eliminating the paltry fiction of pure scientific materialism, Dr Gary Schwartz has provided a pivotal work that strikes right at the heart of the old world view, by illuminating the reality of synchronicities in all of our lives. Written in a wonderfully personal style, Dr Schwartz's Super Synchronicity offers all of the tools one needs to perform their own investigations into how we are all part of the One Mind, offering great meaning and purpose to our existence." - Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, Author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven "There is a lot that we do not fully understand, including the beautiful concept of Synchronicity. Gary gives us great lessons in between the lines!" - Phil Hellmuth, NY Times Best Selling Author Play Poker Like the Pros and 14 time World Champion of Poker
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Published February 18, 2017
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About the author
Gary E. Schwartz
43 books51 followersGary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health and spiritual psychology, he is the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.
Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.
In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.
Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.
Publications and Honors
Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.
The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medial from the Nautilus Book Awards.
Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.
He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.
Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.
In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.
Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.
Publications and Honors
Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.
The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medial from the Nautilus Book Awards.
Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.
He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.
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March 7, 2017
RX for a richer blend of science, self-knowledge, and spirituality in life
My initial encounter with Dr. Gary Schwartz’s work came 15 years prior to the publication of Super Synchronicity. In 2002, The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by this accomplished scientist with a Ph. D. from Harvard, professorship at Yale, and then a directorship of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona, caught my interest. As a visionary fiction novelist who focused on the paranormal, it was rare to find a traditionally credentialed scientist/educator willing to put the words “scientific” and “life after death” in the same book much less in its title. I followed Dr. Schwartz through the years as he put out volume after volume that brilliantly and bravely brought science and spirituality closer together without wandering too far into either the wooly pasture of woo-woo or into the prickly desert of ultra-skepticism.
Living as I do in Tucson, home of the University of Arizona, I was fortunate to have been able to attend two recent back-to-back IONS (Institute of Noetic Science) lectures featuring Dr. Schwartz and his most recent works, so I was warmed up and forewarned when I went to read Super Synchronicity.
For someone coming cold upon the concept of synchronicity, this book might be a “You’ve got to be kidding.” Perhaps why Gary’s degrees and experience are necessary to make him a credible messenger.
But as a writer who already knew, as Gary points out in the book, that reality is often stranger than fiction, I was familiar with the concept and experience of synchronicity, even supersynchronicity (six or more events “in close proximity that do not seem to have any causal connection but are still related meaningfully for certain people”). But I had little idea how many others also had such experiences and in what quantities, what causal agents might be assigned to such events, or that the experience could leaven to the point of synchronicity overload. All this and more I learned from Dr. Schwartz’s clear exposition of the complexities of a subject presented with a chatty tone that made me feel like a personal relationship was developing with the author as I read. He was even kind enough to forewarn me of upcoming technical or mathematical swamps, suggesting I skip over areas that seemed too deep.
Nor did this become an adventure in psychic voyeurism as some paranormal books can be. At least since Carl Jung’s Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle published in 1960, synchronicity has been studied as a psychic complement or alternative to classical scientific causality. At one point, Dr. Schwartz gently but logically proposes what he calls the Quantum Synchronicity Theory (QST), deftly using the wave-particle concept of quantum physics to explain how without contradiction synchronicity can be simultaneously singular and plural, subjective and objective. At another, he soars to mystical heights and posits that supersynchronicities are always and everywhere, dramatic manifestations of the One Mind that is all that there is. Heady propositions, to be sure, put forward authoritatively but humbly by an accomplished scientist who has walked many times the many miles of the exotic journey of which he writes so eloquently.
Highly recommended to everyone who wants to make their life a richer blend of science, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
My initial encounter with Dr. Gary Schwartz’s work came 15 years prior to the publication of Super Synchronicity. In 2002, The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by this accomplished scientist with a Ph. D. from Harvard, professorship at Yale, and then a directorship of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona, caught my interest. As a visionary fiction novelist who focused on the paranormal, it was rare to find a traditionally credentialed scientist/educator willing to put the words “scientific” and “life after death” in the same book much less in its title. I followed Dr. Schwartz through the years as he put out volume after volume that brilliantly and bravely brought science and spirituality closer together without wandering too far into either the wooly pasture of woo-woo or into the prickly desert of ultra-skepticism.
Living as I do in Tucson, home of the University of Arizona, I was fortunate to have been able to attend two recent back-to-back IONS (Institute of Noetic Science) lectures featuring Dr. Schwartz and his most recent works, so I was warmed up and forewarned when I went to read Super Synchronicity.
For someone coming cold upon the concept of synchronicity, this book might be a “You’ve got to be kidding.” Perhaps why Gary’s degrees and experience are necessary to make him a credible messenger.
But as a writer who already knew, as Gary points out in the book, that reality is often stranger than fiction, I was familiar with the concept and experience of synchronicity, even supersynchronicity (six or more events “in close proximity that do not seem to have any causal connection but are still related meaningfully for certain people”). But I had little idea how many others also had such experiences and in what quantities, what causal agents might be assigned to such events, or that the experience could leaven to the point of synchronicity overload. All this and more I learned from Dr. Schwartz’s clear exposition of the complexities of a subject presented with a chatty tone that made me feel like a personal relationship was developing with the author as I read. He was even kind enough to forewarn me of upcoming technical or mathematical swamps, suggesting I skip over areas that seemed too deep.
Nor did this become an adventure in psychic voyeurism as some paranormal books can be. At least since Carl Jung’s Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle published in 1960, synchronicity has been studied as a psychic complement or alternative to classical scientific causality. At one point, Dr. Schwartz gently but logically proposes what he calls the Quantum Synchronicity Theory (QST), deftly using the wave-particle concept of quantum physics to explain how without contradiction synchronicity can be simultaneously singular and plural, subjective and objective. At another, he soars to mystical heights and posits that supersynchronicities are always and everywhere, dramatic manifestations of the One Mind that is all that there is. Heady propositions, to be sure, put forward authoritatively but humbly by an accomplished scientist who has walked many times the many miles of the exotic journey of which he writes so eloquently.
Highly recommended to everyone who wants to make their life a richer blend of science, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
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