What is synchronicity?

Synchronicities are "significant coincidences" or phenomena in which two or more separate and unrelated experiences occur simultaneously and appear to be related, even though there is no evidence that there is any relationship between them. Sometimes people perceive these events as signs or give them spiritual significance.

The concept of synchronicity was introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, who himself believed in synchronicities. Jung wrote extensively about them in his time, posing the question: how can such significant events, which are not linked by chains of regularities, be possible? What does this say about our physical universe (physical universe) (Jung, 2010)?

Jung expressed the idea that the universe does not operate solely on the principle of cause and effect, but that there is another, secondary principle of action from which synchronicity derives. His idea was that everything in the universe is interconnected, and that events in one place can have psychophysical effects in another, and that any force acting on the universe acts at the same moment on everything that exists at the same time. As a result, apparent coincidences could be significant for people seeking answers to specific questions in life because they reflect the "intent" and direction of the Universe at that moment (Courmanopoulos, 2015).

Examples of synchronicity:

• Seeing the same word, number or subject over and over again;
• Seeing an old, long-lost friend in a dream and suddenly meeting him by chance;
• The clock stops when a person dies;
• A woman in a psychotherapy room experiences a critical moment, recounting a dream in which she was only given a golden scarab. During the story, a scarab-like beetle (a case study from Jung's practice) tries to get in through the window.

The idea that synchronicity could actually be a real phenomenon has been ridiculed for years. It should be noted that science is still dominated by the view that these are simply coincidences that people attach meaning to because of their own peculiarities of thinking. People are thought to unconsciously seek out information that supports their ideas and consequently ignore information that questions their veracity, and in fact modern theories about the workings of the human mind support this. Hence the concept of synchronicity is often described as pseudo-scientific.

At the same time, the German-born physicist and theoretician Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein) has suggested that some events in particle physics seem to occur simultaneously and faster than the speed of light, and that yet unknown confounding variables cause events to appear synchronous (a theoretical impossibility, and what Einstein called spooky science 🙂 And discoveries in quantum physics in our time show that events that affect one particle also affect other related particles in the same instant, even if there is a significant distance between them. And that this phenomenon seems to be not only possible, but common. (Courmanopoulos, 2015).

Who to believe? I invite you to think for yourself! If you ask me, I tend to agree with Jung, with the caveat that I think man has understood very, very, very little about himself and the universe in which he finds himself so far.

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Sources:

Courmanopoulos, S. (2015). Jung's Synchronicity Gains Support from Quantum Physics. Medius International. https://mediusinternational.com 

Jung, C. G.. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (from Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung), Princeton University Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rsub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=832661.
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Martin, F., Galli-Carminati, G. (2009). Synchronicity, Quantum Mechanics, and Psyche. Journal of Cosmology, 29(5), 15-26.