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could you provide a definition of synchronicity based on the works of Jung

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Synchronicity, as defined by Carl Jung, refers to the concept of meaningful coincidences or events that are not causally related but are linked by their significance or impact on the observer.

These events appear to be connected by their meaning rather than by direct cause and effect, suggesting an acausal principle at work. Jung proposed that synchronicities often occur when an individual’s internal state aligns with external events in a way that feels significant or symbolic, reflecting an underlying connection between the psyche and the external world.

In Jung’s view, synchronicity challenges the purely mechanistic understanding of the universe, introducing the idea that psychological and physical events may be intertwined in ways that transcend normal causal relationships.

This principle can be particularly observed in moments of intense psychological significance, such as in dreams, spiritual experiences, or times of personal transformation.

 As the AI says, “An idiomatic view of synchronicity would interpret it as “everything clicking into place,” where events seem to align perfectly without conscious effort, like “the stars aligning.” In everyday language, people often say something like “it was meant to be” or “everything fell into place” when referring to instances of synchronicity. These phrases capture the essence of events that appear connected, meaningful, or timely, as though guided by a hidden hand’ (Chat GPT 21.10.2024)

Synchronicity is all pervading. It just needs the moment of mindfulness to receive it, create it.

As the AI points out, a significant moment can start the building of your own personal synchronistic web. Mine crystallized with the song, Can’t Find my Way Home, by Blind Faith. It had a particular meaning for me in 1993, as I was at the end of a depressive cycle. It propelled me to wrestle with a moment of change, a duality if you will. If you can’t find your way home, as the song says, what are your choices? Carry on looking for a way: or stop. I kept looking.

This is a recalled moment of synchronicity. Sometimes the moment is too obscured by the collisions of reality to properly view it. But for me, now looking back, this was the tipping point; the starting point of my journey on the ever-tightening mesh of synchronicity.

Synchronicity is a phenomenon which is acausal, that is it’s a connection by meaning rather than cause and effect, from here we start to move into areas where we explore the reaches of our understanding. There are principles in the quantum world that can reflect the nature of the synchronistic moment, quantum entanglement, coherence, superposition, resonance and wave function decay. Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli and Jung started a discussion that tried to relate the quantum world with the synchronistic world we’ll visit this soon.

Synchronicity comes from the book The Spirit of Psychology where Jung defined it as “a psychically conditioned relativity of space and time”. As Jung explained in his book, Synchronicity an acausal principle, it is the act of ascribing meaning that reinforces the synchronistic moment. Where he and I differ is that I see the ultimate potentials of a connected universe, everything has the potential for your meaning.

Receival of synchronicity, as Jung says, can come at times of personal transformation this was like my first experiences.

A symbolic view of synchronicity can sometimes be helpful as well, as we are surrounded by symbols: numbers, tattoos, billboards, book covers, pieces of art, all these things can lead to the synchronistic moment or node. It is in the recognition that the power of synchronicity is unleashed, and the connection between the receiver and the creator coheres. Coherence develops the expanding web; one realised synchronicity leads to another, and another and our flow is maximised.

I’ll cover the web and flow of synchronicity in later blogs, but next let’s look at some axioms to expand a little on the definition of synchronicity.