Monday 26 December 2011

Synchronicity

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance and that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.[1]
The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead it maintains that, just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by meaning. A grouping of events by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of cause and effect. For example, the words Jung and junk both contain three of the same letters, in the same order. Such a grouping is acausal, yet meaningful, and would have utility in an English dictionary or a telephone directory.

in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

see also:
Quantum mind–body problem

Global Consciousness Project

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