Synchronicity - F David Peat. Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and the Acausal Connecting Principle: A Case Study in Transdisciplinarity :: Charlene P. E. Burns :: Global Spiral. Synchronicity and Acausal Connectedness - Jim Fournier. Jim Fournier Spring 1997 PAR 667 David Ulansey Introduction This is an attempt to say something coherent about synchronicity. A task which may be impossible as it seems that the very nature of these phenomena is to confront one with a direct experience of paradox in which our categories of mind, matter and time fail. Much, indeed most, of the material currently in print on synchronicity seems to spend more time referring back to Jung, what Jung thought and what Jung said, than actually trying to grapple with primary data in any systematic way. Definitions Without going into Jung's various definitions of synchronicity for the moment, if you asked most people, and some dictionaries, the simple definition of synchronicity would be: a "meaningful coincidence.
" It is important to recognize that there is also a further implicit assumption in our definition of synchronicity; at least half of the pattern exists "out there" in matter, as opposed to "in here" in our minds. Maps of Mind and Matter. Carl Jung - Synchronicity. What is Synchronicity? The term synchronicity is coined by Jung to express a concept that belongs to him. It is about acausal connection of two or more psycho-physic phenomena. This concept was inspired to him by a patient's case that was in situation of impasse in treatment. Her exaggerate rationalism (animus inflation) was holding her back from assimilating unconscious materials. One night, the patient dreamt a golden scarab - cetonia aurata. So, the idea is all about coincidence: in this case, between the scarab dreamt by the patient and its appearance in reality, in the psychotherapy cabinet. But this coincidence is not senseless, a simple coincidence. Thus, a significant coincidence of physical and psychological phenomena that are acausal connected.
Jung writes a book on synchronicity together with Nobel laureate W. It is also present in psychotherapy, as we have already shown. Further resources for the study of synchronicity: Synchronicity. Synchronicity is the occurrence of two or more events that appear to be meaningfully related but not causally related. Synchronicity holds that such events are "meaningful coincidences". The concept of synchronicity was first defined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, in the 1920s.[1] During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it.[2] Jung variously defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence," and "acausal parallelism.
" He introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture.[3] In 1952, he published a paper "Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge" (Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle)[4] in a volume which also contained a related study by the physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli.[5] In his book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, Jung wrote:[6] Description[edit] Examples[edit] Criticisms[edit]