Carl Jung was a famous Swiss Psychiatrist who worked in both psychotherapy and analytical psychology. He was a student of Freud’s who played a huge influence in a number of fields, including psychology, literature, archaeology and religious studies.
Probably most famous for his theory of the “Collective Unconscious.” Jung believed that all religions were linked together, and that all spiritual experiences people had came from the same source, and that this could be traced across all cultures of people through their common religious beliefs and myths about the world- many of which who had no connection to eachother.
Another theory of Jung’s was the theory of Synchronicity. Jung worked on this theory with the famous theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli- who was a pioneer in the field of quantum physics, and was nominated for the Nobel prize by Albert Einstein.
The theory of Synchronicity has to do with events that appear to be of coincidence, but are tied together by meaning. Two or more events may happen and may have no causal connection with one another, but are none the less related.
Jung posited that Synchronicity was acausal by nature, or came before causality. He believed that forces in a persons unconscious (in the form of archetypes) could bring forth events enfolding in the real world; these events happened in a meaningful manner which defied causal explanation, but often gave way to extreme, life changing epiphanies in peoples lives.
The following story is an excerpt out of C.G. Jung’s “Synchronicity: An Acausal connecting principle.”
“My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both sides, proved to be psychologically inaccessible. The difficulty lay in the fact that she always knew better about everything. Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably “geometrical” idea of reality. After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that would burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. Well, I was sitting opposite of her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric. She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab-a costly piece of jewellery. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window-pane from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabeid beetle common of rose-chafer, whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words, “Here is your scarab.” This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance. The treatment could now begin with satisfactory results.
This story is meant only as a paradigm of the innumerable cases of meaningful coincidence that have been observed not only by me but by many others, and recorded in large collections. they include everything that goes by the name of clairvoyance, telepathy, etc., from Swedenborg’s well-attested vision of the great fire in Stockholm to the recent report by Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard about the dream of an unknown officer, which predicted the subsequent accident to Goddard’s plane.
All phenomena I have mentioned can be grouped under three categories
- The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous, objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or content (e.g., the scarab), where there is no evidence of causal connection between the psychic state and the external event, and where, considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a connection is not even conceivable.
- The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding (more or less simultaneous) external event taking place outside the observer’s field of perception, i.e., at a distance, and only verifiable afterward (e.g., the Stockholm fire).
- The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet existent future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be verified afterward.
According to Jung’s theory, there may be no coincidences, or at least many of the coincidences people experience are not coincidences at all. What many might see as a coincidence is actually a manifestation of a deeper psychic or spiritual level of reality that people are connected to. A reality that is a result of some type of karmic progress that shows in peoples lives.
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