Carl Jung’s Synchronicity

This book is a semi-difficult book to read for someone who doesn’t read “scientific journals” too often. In this book, Jung attempts to approach a subject that is beyond his scientific time – a natural law operating outside the quantifiable view of reality.

Most of our reality can be placed within the line of space and time. For each event there was a cause, and for each action influences a number of possible consequences. For the events that happen outside of this equation, our scientific mind intuitively grasps that as a chance in probability.

Here he understands the difficulty of differentiating between what can be known as another form of connection, or one that is related to probability. He delineates between the different kinds of meaningful coincidences in his own experiences and has even brought up other scientists’ theories on each kind.

Coincidences, chance, luck, miracle… these ideas warrant no cause and are left to the math of probability. Jung tries to describe a new theory in two ways – a falling together of events in time (fate?) and where another view of reality stems from the unconscious realm, subjective as one deriving meaning in life.

There is another way to decipher the difference between predetermination and synchronicty. Predetermination relies on the premise of “prima causa”, a will that manifests itself in time. Synchronicity is more based on the collective unconscious in an interplay and the interpretation of that in our waking life.

He also loops a few astrological aspects in his theory without renouncing his scientific mind. Jung acknowledges that this is a subject of bewilderment, but broaches for an explanation through the discussion between previous experiments, his own experiences, and some mild imagination.

I’m skimming over a lot of the wonderful details and insights of course. Mostly I’d say check this book out for it’s examples and for its scientific musings. The stories are definitely not too far from any normal person’s experiences and stirs one curiosity to find some sort of pattern or relation at work.

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