Synchronicity is a word coined by the swiss psychologist carl jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. First place coverjacket in the professional, scholarly series, new york book. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. This book gives insight into jungs concept of synchronicity and its relevance to understanding the human psyche and the patterns of the universe. My reading of the book was motivated by a recent strikingly synchronistic experience of my own. The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your. Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but only gave a full statement of it in 1951 in an eranos lecture, then in 1952 published a paper synchronicity an acausal connecting principle in a volume with a related study by the physicist and nobel winner wolfgang pauli. I wish you the best of synchronicity, and would love to hear from you about your own synchronistic experiences, or thoughts on the book, via my website at. An acausal connecting principle bollingen series xx.
It was a principle that he felt compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience. Synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. Full text of synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. The art of coincidence, change, and unlocking your. Sonu shamdasani is editor of the red book and philemon professor of jung. Jung, is a book published by princeton university press in 1960. I have read it a dozen times and it rings true to the fact that their seriously are no accidents in life.
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