Jung

Synchronicity

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Meaningful Coincidences and Acausal Connection Synchronicity is Jung’s term for meaningful coincidences where inner psychic state corresponds to outer physical events in ways that cannot be explained by causality. These are not random coincidences but acausal connections revealing a deeper order underlying both psyche and matter. You think intensely about someone you have not seen in years and they call. You need specific information and a book falls open to the exact page containing it. You struggle with a psychological problem and external events conspire to force confrontation. These experiences feel magical or uncanny because they violate our assumption that...

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