SYNCHRONICITY: ARCHETYPE OF TIME, SPACE AND INTUITION
| Synchronicity is Jung's scientific term for the a-causal connection between seemingly random or coincidental events. Many people around the world have daily experiences which they cannot explain through rational or logical means. For example, you think of someone you haven't seen for a long time and bump into them at the grocery store. At the conscious or cognitive two dimensional level of the mind the linkage is invisible and subject to the limitations of the five senses. Yet at the level of the collective unconscious the link between random events is more complex. In our book we refer to the Collective Unconscious as a "time machine." |
| We know from the study of dreams that the unconscious is not subject to the limitations of time and space that ego-consciousness is. Past, present and future somehow co-exist together. The historical record is filled with some famous documented examples of Para-normal dream activity of future events--many of them warnings such as the Titanic sinking. We learn from the C. G. Jung/Einstein's correspondence that their meetings took place in Zurich from 1909-1913. After these conversations Jung's concept of Synchronicity began to slowly gel, yet it would be decades before his paper entitled, "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle" would be published. | |
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| Jung was also influenced by his long time friendship with physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who he met in the mid 1930's. Pauli was professor of Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Institute of Technology. Jung was looking for a unified view between the new discoveries in sub-atomic physics and the world of the psyche. He believed that these seemingly isolated fields represented 'two ends of the same stick.' |
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| This is a quote from our book, "Jung reasoned that if time, space and causality are three dimensions that rule the physical world of traditional physics, then there must be a hidden fourth dimension that represents the transcendent psychoid (unconscious-conscious) factor underneath. Time-space represents two arms of the continuum and causality the third; synchronicity must then be the fourth arm forming a quaternio or fourfold symbol of wholeness. This was the psychological factor." |
