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April 26, 2008

Synchronicity?

Link: Earthpages.org - Jung and Synchronicity.

Coincidence
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
Albert Einstein

I've had a strange and wonderful couple of days. I won't go into all the details, but I will offer you one little piece of it: yesterday three different and completely unrelated people, none of whom knew each other, all strongly recommended that I read the same part of the same book.

The article above talks about this phenomenon - Carl Jung posited a principle called synchronicity, which he defined as "meaningful coincidence" or "an acausal connecting principle."

I don't know if you've had this experience, but I often find that when I have a clear intention - that is, when I have a good sense of the future I want to create for myself in a particular realm - events seem somehow to conspire to support me in achieving my goals. Obstacles are removed, resources show up, subtle and not-so-subtle directional signals get posted around my life.

This doesn't really track in the logical part of my brain...but then, I often suspect that logic is the tip of the iceberg of human experience.

Maybe it just comes down to this; that knowing what kind of life you want to create for yourself is a powerful thing.

What do you think?

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