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Synchronicity: Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence
Synchronicities or ""meaningful coincidences"" represent Carl Jung's most exciting and controversial concept. They indicate that events in our inner world of dreams and fantasies can connect to physical events in the outer world and herald a fundamental turning point in oue lives. The book brings together key articles by leaders in the field, as well as new chapters specially written for this volume. It will be an invaluable reference to all those interested in Jungian ideas, parapsychology and the limits to consciousness. The book explores synchronicities from the perspectives of science, religion, archetypes, causality, meaning, extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It argues that we have overlooked our inter-connectedness to the cosmos at the expense of our hunt for limited, reductionist explanations. Synchronicity speaks to the unification of humanity and the world.
316 pages, Paperback
First published November 25, 2008
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September 27, 2011
Highlighting various scientists' views on Jung's principle of Synchronicity, this book is a wonderful addition to the smattering of volumes available on the subject. Most interesting to me are the essays that bring in the views of Wolfgang Pauli and others that explain various facets of Jung's psychology.
Along the way, we find that Synchronicity is meaningful coincidence that on the surface at least is not bound up in Nature...the laws of Cause and Effect. Again, Synchronicity is an event wherein an external occurrence lines up with an internal experience, almost always to an uncanny effect. In addition, these nodes of subjective meaning are shown to tap into Archetypal images...which are dynamic (both good and bad) as opposed to Platonic Ideas...which are static and Good alone.
Throughout the essays in this book, episodes set both clinically and naturally of Synchronicity are presented, where with the wide variety of experiencers, it is shown to most probably be a universal phenomenon.
The mind, in all it's complexity, seems to operate by it's own laws, where Nature and the external world seem to work within their separate realm, so the two seem never to meet. Our bias to Cause and Effect, or what lies outside, denies the rules the Mind seems to follow, which allows it to move forward and backward with ease...fluidly.
Synchronicity links mind and matter through subjective meaning, and seems to show there is at least an occasional rhyme and reason to the interplay of the two.
Interesting indeed.
Along the way, we find that Synchronicity is meaningful coincidence that on the surface at least is not bound up in Nature...the laws of Cause and Effect. Again, Synchronicity is an event wherein an external occurrence lines up with an internal experience, almost always to an uncanny effect. In addition, these nodes of subjective meaning are shown to tap into Archetypal images...which are dynamic (both good and bad) as opposed to Platonic Ideas...which are static and Good alone.
Throughout the essays in this book, episodes set both clinically and naturally of Synchronicity are presented, where with the wide variety of experiencers, it is shown to most probably be a universal phenomenon.
The mind, in all it's complexity, seems to operate by it's own laws, where Nature and the external world seem to work within their separate realm, so the two seem never to meet. Our bias to Cause and Effect, or what lies outside, denies the rules the Mind seems to follow, which allows it to move forward and backward with ease...fluidly.
Synchronicity links mind and matter through subjective meaning, and seems to show there is at least an occasional rhyme and reason to the interplay of the two.
Interesting indeed.
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