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. On synchronicity, originally delivered as a lecture at the 1951 eranos conference synchronicity. Synchronicity is a word coined by the swiss psychologist carl jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. Synchronicity reveals the full extent of jungs research into a wide range of psychic phenomena. Jung, is a book published by princeton university press in 1960. An acausal connecting principle, a vastly expanded version of the 1951 paper, originally published in 1952 alongside an essay by pauli in the interpretation of nature and the psyche english translation 1955. I have read it a dozen times and it rings true to the fact that their seriously are no accidents in life. Allan combs is author of more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on. Jungs book on synchronicity behind all these phenomena he places the constellation of an archetype which, in his view, engages equally objective manifestations in the physical world and subjective ones in the individuals psyche. Synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your mind surprise. First place coverjacket in the professional, scholarly series, new york book.
This paperback edition of jungs classic work includes a new foreword by sonu shamdasani, philemon professor of jung history at university college london. 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. The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your. My reading of the book was motivated by a recent strikingly synchronistic experience of my own.
An acausal connecting principle bollingen series xx. The art of coincidence, change, and unlocking your. Full text of synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. Sonu shamdasani is editor of the red book and philemon professor of jung. Carl jung discusses synchronicity, clairvoyance, esp, telekinesis, and other psychic phenomena in scientific terms. This book gives insight into jungs concept of synchronicity and its relevance to understanding the human psyche and the patterns of the universe. 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.
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