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9 Reddit comments about Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Bollingen Series XX: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 8):

u/slabbb- · 4 pointsr/Jung

>Where can I find Jung's writings on the topic?

Not his extant work on this concept but excerpts from his writings about it can be found in Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts).
Also check out the entries in the Concordance.

To find further references to what, and where, he wrote about this you'd need to explore the General Index to the Collected Works.

Jung's Friend and an analyst in her own right, Marie-Louise Von Franz also wrote a book on synchronicity: On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance.

Jung worked with a physicist, Nobel-Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli, extrapolating this concept into considerations in regions of physics. Their work together might help clarify and deepen your understanding.

u/beamish14 · 3 pointsr/books

Pretty fabulous list! I would've tossed in John Berger's Ways of Seeing and some Jung, though. Penrose's Road to Reality has been in my "to read" queue for ages.

u/mutilatedrabbit · 3 pointsr/randonauts

You should read about Synchronicity if you haven't. Jung wrote on it originally, and David Wilcock has a book called The Synchronicity Key which elucidates many of the concepts surrounding it. I am also writing on this concept myself, as it has been a central part of my experience -- overwhelmingly so. This wouldn't even be remotely surprising if it had happened to me. Synchronicity is my life.

And ... Synchronicistically enough, I'm also more or less an uninitiated Rosicrucian and I dabble in Golden Dawn Magick. I also happen to love Conan Doyle.

So ... where is this story of yours? I'd love to read it.

u/SlothropsKnob · 3 pointsr/Paranormal

The term for meaningful coincidence is synchronicity. There are psychologists such as Carl Jung who give the concept psychological validity, as well as authors who explore a deeper connection.

The two linked books both keep one foot grounded in modern thought. You're sure to find more mystical explanations as well. But I wanted you to know that there are serious professionals who believe that it is not unhealthy to experience synchronicities as valued facets of our experience.

u/elbags · 2 pointsr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

Yeah dude, as someone mentioned. This is an occurence of Synchronicities, or MEANINGful coincidences. He actually wrote a whole book about them and tried to scientifically explain the phenomena even though it's one of the hardest things to do. Here's the book

u/MegistaGene · 2 pointsr/askphilosophy

I'm not sure how useful this is, but it is famous, might be a good foil, and you should know about it if you're working on these things: https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts/dp/0691150508/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469975708&sr=8-1&keywords=jung+synchronicity

u/HerbAsher1618 · 1 pointr/Psychonaut

Pick up Carl Gustav Jung's Synchronicity, if you have not already.

What's your conception of synchronicity? Do you think deja vu has any relevance to the subject?

u/kentbye · 0 pointsr/oculus

I understand that it's controversial as to whether or not astrological theory could provide a customized VR experience for an individual. It's an open question that I believe is worth exploring.

Beyond that I wanted to make a few brief points based on interviews with over a hundred professional astrologers.

  • We can all agree that according to science, Astrology is the gold standard of pseudoscience.
  • Sun sign horoscopes give astrology a bad name. There's debate within the astrological community that perhaps astrology would be better off without generic sun sign columns because they can spread so much misinformation about what astrology really is and what it can do.
  • There's hardly any professional astrologers who would give a reading using sun signs alone.
  • Astrologers look at a combination of planets, signs, houses, and aspects to delineate a native's core dynamics, but more importantly look to transits and progressions for how the planets move over time relative to a natal chart to be able to speak to the quality of specific moments in time. If you want to hear more about how sophisticated some of these techniques can get, then listen to some of these interviews here.
  • No intellectual argument can convince someone of the merits of astrology. You have to experience enough moments of synchronicity within your own chart to start to be convinced. It's never a slam dunk though, and I can't make a full-proof argument for astrology. There's many times when I question it's validity.
  • Carl Jung is the bridge for bringing esoteric concepts into depth psychological practices because he found that they yielded therapeutic results. He found evidence of mythic archetypes within what he called the collective unconscious.
  • At it's core, Astrology is about cycles of different periods. "All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again." - Battlestar Galactica
  • The Hermetic principle of "As Above, So Below" speaks to how microcosmic patterns are connected to macrocosmic patterns. That doesn't mean that they cause each other to happen, but instead that they're synchronistically correlated.
  • Jung worked with quantum physics pioneer Wolfgang Pauli to develop the concept of synchronicity based upon their experiences of meaningful co-incidences between their inner state and outer events in the world.
  • Just as a clock doesn't cause it to be a certain time, the movement of planets don't cause events or inner psychological states. They're merely synchronistically correlated and there's no direct causal link between the two. The subtitle to Jung's excerpted book on Synchronicity is "An Acausal Connecting Principle," which speaks to this point.
  • Rick Tarnas' "Cosmos & Psyche" is an epic book that does the best job of presenting historical evidence for the diachronic and sychronic patterning within our culture relative to astrolgy by focusing on outer planet quadrature aspects over time, such as as the Uranus/Pluto cycle being connected to revolutionary and transformational change that had peak influences during the French Revolution and the 1960's.
  • There's a difference between signs and constellations. Western Astrology is based upon the tropical zodiac, which is set by when the spring equinox and zero degrees Aries. This doesn't change over time. The constellations relative to the signs however are moving in a cycle of 26,000 years in what is referred to as the precession of the equinoxes. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, but Western astrology is based upon the tropical zodiac.

    That all said, there's nothing that I can say or do beyond that to change any minds. Esoteric traditions could be thought of as a religious belief because it gets to perennial philosophy questions that are unanswerable and there are many elements of human consciousness that don't fit into any scientific paradigms.

    If you like Star Wars, then you've been influence by Joseph Campell's work on Mythology, which was influence by Jung, who was influenced by all sorts of esoteric traditions -- including astrology.

    Archetypes are fundamental to human experience and mythology, and are at the core of why storytelling resonates with us. For me, the study of astrology is a study of these archetypal dynamics and the foundation of good storytelling.