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.
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