Carl Jung on Synchronicity

"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - from Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960).

A friend's recent blogpost got me thinking about beliefs, then a short article from DreamThisDay popped up featuring the above quote by Carl Jung in the context of how even our most firmly held beliefs change over time.

Intrigued by the title of the book, found an interesting piece on synchronicity, a term which not incidentally was coined by Jung to describe what we might call meaningful coincidence. However, Jung felt that where a meaningful relationship obviously exists between events in the apparent absence of any causal connection, a much different principle is operating. This principle, which he called synchronicity, "...compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history - social, emotional, psychological and spiritual."

From the Crystalinks site: "Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life to help you evolve to higher consciousness or to place emphasis on something going on in your life. The more consciously aware you become of how your soul manifests, the higher your frequency becomes and the faster you manifest positively. Each day of your life encounters meaningful coincidences, synchronicities, that you have attracted - in other words created in the grid of your experiences in the physical."

"Souls create synchronicities, played out in the physical. It is why you are here. It is how our reality works."
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