Synchronicity
How Does Synchronicity Play a Part in Psychic Phenomenon?
Meaningful coincidences are known as synchronicities. Psychologist Carl Jung believed that the traditional notions of causality were incapable of explaining some of the more improbable forms of coincidence. Where it is plain that no causal connection can be demonstrated between two events and yet a meaningful relationship, nevertheless, exists between them, Jung called this operating principle synchronicity.
In The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Jung describes how his research into the phenomenon of the “collective unconscious” led to the observation of coincidences that were connected in such a meaningful way that their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. He provided numerous examples culled from his own psychiatric case studies — many now legendary. Synchronicity is a phenomenon most people can readily understand because they have experienced it themselves.
When events in the material world clearly coincide with those of the dream world or history, it is synchronicity. In the world of synchronicity, time does not seem to apply. Synchronicities are people, places, or events that your soul attracts into your life — to help you evolve or to place emphasis on something going on in your life.
The more “consciously aware” you become of how your soul creates, the higher your frequency goes and the faster your soul manifests. Each day, your life will become filled with meaningful coincidences — synchronicities — that you have attracted or created in the grid of your experiences in the physical.
A famous example of Synchronicities are the President Lincon/President Kennedy coincidences.
There are no accidents — just synchronicity wheels commonly known as the gears of time or the wheels of time, the wheel of karma. As seen above, not all synchronicities are positive. Sometimes these lead to learning lessons — when you are deceived into thinking that it is the right road to take at that moment in time. This is not always the case. If you are dysfunctional of dramatic inclinations, you will attract dysfunctional people and events. There are two fundamental types of synchronicity:
1. One in which the compensatory activity of the archetype is experienced both inwardly and outwardly. (The event seems to emerge from the subconscious with access to absolute knowledge, which cannot be consciously known.)
2. One in which the compensatory activity of the archetype is experienced outwardly only. (These convey to the ego a much-needed wholeness of the self’s perspective; they show one a new perspective)
At a point in time, you might feel that you have met someone who interests you and touches your soul. Through synchronicity, that person seems to come into your life over and over again. You begin to feel a destiny with that person. You begin to think with your heart instead of your head. You connect with that person. In some cases, the karma between the two people is positive; but, in many cases, you have attracted that person into your life for a learning lesson whether you are aware of it or not.
An event can be considered synchronistic when an inner experience such as a dream, vision, or other form of déjà vu prepares you for the physical event. All synchronistic phenomena can be grouped under three categories:
1. The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or content where there is no evidence of a causal connection between the psychic state and the external event, and where, considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a connection is not even conceivable.
2. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding external event taking place outside the observer’s field of perception, i.e., at a distance, and only verifiable afterward.
3. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet existent, future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be verified afterward.
Synchronicities often prefigure a profound transformation. A person who showed excessive rationality and remained psychologically inaccessible might improve in demeanor once presented with a case of synchronicity.
Jung believed that the phenomenon of synchronicity was primarily connected with psychic conditions. Couplings of inner (subjective) and outer (objective) reality evolved through the influence of the archetypes, patterns inherent in the human psyche and shared by all of mankind. These primordial images comprise man’s collective unconscious, representing the dynamic source of all human confrontation with death, conflict, love, sex, rebirth, and mystical experience. When an archetype is activated by an emotionally charged event, other related events tend to draw near. Thus archetypes become a doorway that gives us access to the experience of meaningful (and often, insightful) coincidence.
Implicit in Jung’s concept of synchronicity is the belief in the ultimate “oneness” of the universe. Such phenomenon betrays a “peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers.” Jung claimed to have found evidence of this interdependence — not only in his psychiatric studies, but in his research of esoteric practices as well.
The I-Ching, a Chinese method of divination, is regarded as the clearest expression of the synchronicity principle. Similarly, Jung discovered that the synchronicity within the I-Ching also extended to astrology.
In formulating his synchronicity principle, Jung was influenced to a profound degree by the “new” physics of the twentieth century, which had begun to explore the possible role of consciousness in the physical world. The belief suggested by quantum theory and by reports of synchronous events — that matter and consciousness interpenetrate — is, of course, far from new.
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective worlds. Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
Essential Characteristics of the Synchronistic Event are:
1. The specific intrapsychic state of the subject defined as one of the following:
a. The unconscious content which, in accordance with the compensatory needs of the conscious orientation, enters consciousness (something is in our conscious)
b. The conscious orientation of the subject around which the compensatory synchronistic activity centers (something happens concerning what is in our mind)
2. An objective event corresponds with this intrapsychic state (may be literal or figurative correspondence):
a. The objective event as a compensatory equivalent to the unconscious compensatory content
b. The objective event as the sole compensatory of the ego-consciousness
3. Even though the intrapsychic state and the objective event may be synchronous according to clock time and spatially near to each other, the objective event may, contrary to this, be distant in time and/or space in relation to the intrapsychic state (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, etc.)
4. The intrapsychic state and the objective event are not causally related to each other’s causality
5. The synchronistic event is meaningful (excludes some coincidence, but does not require the meaning to be understood)
a. The intrapsychic state and the objective event as meaningful parallels
b. The numinous charge associated with the synchronistic experience (feeling of spiritual experience)
c. Import of the subjective-level interpretation (the content must reflect back on the issues of the individual)
d. The archetypal level of meaning (transcends the individual and implies absolute knowledge)
Synchronicities can also go nowhere as they just occur to make a point. Always take into consideration the bigger picture of the synchronicity — not the actual event. Look at the underlying facts when the synchronicity occurs, to be sure you know why you attracted that situation into your life.