Synchronicity

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Synchronicity
An Acausal Connecting Principle
Jung's only extended work in the field of parapsychology aims, on the
one hand, to incorporate the findings of "extrasensory perception"
(ESP) research into a general scientific point of view and, on the other,
to ascertain the nature of the psychic factor in such phenomena. While
he had advanced the "synchronicity" hypothesis as early as the 1920s,
Jung gave a full statement only in 1951, in an Eranos lecture; the
following year (he was seventy-seven) he published the present mono-
graph in a volume with a related study by the physicist (and Nobel
winner) Wolfgang Pauli. Together with a wealth of historical and
contemporary material on " synchronicity,w Jung describes an astro-
logical experiment conducted to test his theory.
"The concept of synchronicity indicates a meaningful coincidence of
two or more events, where something other than the probability of
chance is involved. Chance is a statistical concept which... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Synchronicity
An Acausal Connecting Principle
Jung's only extended work in the field of parapsychology aims, on the
one hand, to incorporate the findings of "extrasensory perception"
(ESP) research into a general scientific point of view and, on the other,
to ascertain the nature of the psychic factor in such phenomena. While
he had advanced the "synchronicity" hypothesis as early as the 1920s,
Jung gave a full statement only in 1951, in an Eranos lecture; the
following year (he was seventy-seven) he published the present mono-
graph in a volume with a related study by the physicist (and Nobel
winner) Wolfgang Pauli. Together with a wealth of historical and
contemporary material on " synchronicity,w Jung describes an astro-
logical experiment conducted to test his theory.
"The concept of synchronicity indicates a meaningful coincidence of
two or more events, where something other than the probability of
chance is involved. Chance is a statistical concept which 'explains*
deviations within certain patterns of probability. Synchronicity eluci-
dates meaningful arrangements and coincidence which somehow go
beyond the calculations of probability. Pre-cognition, clairvoyance,
telepathy, etc. are phenomena which are inexplicable through chance,
but become empirically intelligible through the employment of the
principle of synchronicity, which suggests a kind of harmony at work
in the interrelation of both psychic and physical events."
—The Journal of Religious Thought
These paperback editions of C. G. Jung's writings are chosen from
the Collected Works, translated by R.F.C. Hull and published in
twenty-one volumes as Bollingen Series XX. The excerpts are selected and
grouped thematically to introduce Jung's writings on issues and themes of
contemporary interest.
PRINCETON/BOLLINGEN PAPERBACKS Vissza