La sincronicità

The central theory of 'synchronicity' relies on an unfortunate combination of flawed research and misapplied statistics. Jung hems and haws but is never able to demonstrate that any acausal connection between events exists. The first problem is his reliance on research by Joseph Rhine , who coined the Leggi tutto

Part 1 is engaging but a little dull. Part 2, which is the so-called simple astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory, is all statistical math and thus incomprehensible to me. But Parts 3 and 4, addressing similarities between Synchronicity and certain aspects of the world as explain Leggi tutto

"Haríamos bien en no considerar los resultados de la observación astrológica como fenómenos sincronísticos, sino como posiblemente causales en su origen, pues, cuando se puede pensar en una causa, aunque sólo sea de forma remota, la sincronicidad se conviene en una tesis excesivamente dudosa. De cua Leggi tutto

Jung's concept of synchronicity (i.e. acausal nonlocal meaningful coincidence) is presented with a beautiful calm and eloquence. My reading of the book was motivated by a recent strikingly synchronistic experience of my own. And it seems to me that my actual reading of the book is somehow, in turn,

MINDBLOWN! In the course of the last 9 months I've become very familiar with the concept of Synchronicity from my own experience. Slowly I began noticing it, then there was a phase when I thought it was all just a false impression, then it became too obvious to deny it and after the first quirky pha Leggi tutto

CG Jung first used the word synchronicity in 1930 in a memorial address for Richard Wilhelm, the translator of the I Ching or Book of Changes. Jung was seeking to explain the modus operandi of the I Ching and in later lectures he equated it with the Chinese concept of Tao. The philosophical principle Leggi tutto