Carl Jung's Synchronicity: meaningful patterns in life

I was always looking for for something in between you know something that linked that remote past with with the present moment uh and I found to my amazement it is alchemy yungk early realization of his own Consciousness sets the stage for his lifelong exploration of the mind never do human beings speculate more or have more opinions than about things which they do not understand from his childhood Yung experienced strange and seemingly unexplainable phenomena he feared that he was going mad and went on the quest to discover what they meant I saw yellow waves swimming rubble

and the death of countless thousands two weeks passed then the vision returned still more violent than before and an inner voice spoke look at it it is completely real and it will come to pass you cannot doubt this Yung had these Vivid Visions just before the first world war broke out when this happened he was sure that no schizophrenia was threatening him he understood that his dreams and Visions came to him from the subsoil of the collective unconscious Jung's Visions continued into adulthood providing Eerie premonitions that aligned with significant historical events as far as I

can remember nothing had happened before that would explain this sudden coming to Consciousness you hadn't for instance been quarreling with your parents or anything no no uh what Memories have you of of your parents were they strict and oldfashioned in the way they brought you up oh well you know they belonged to to the later parts of the Middle Ages and uh my father was person in the country and and uh you can imagine they what people were then you know in the' 70s of the B century they had the convictions in which uh people

have lived since 1,800 years yung's upbringing and environment also played crucial roles in shaping his perspectives on Consciousness and reality for Yung the pressing question was how are such meaningful events not linked by any apparent causal chains possible what does this say about the physical Universe these were surprising juer positions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain yung's ideas intersect intriguingly with modern scientific discoveries such as the principles observed in quantum physics the double slit experiment in quantum physics demonstrates that particles can behave differently depending on whether they are observed this shows that our observation

has a direct impact on reality supporting the idea that synchronicities are a profound interaction between our Consciousness and the physical world these Concepts aren't just just theoretical they can manifest in our daily lives through meaningful coincidences let's say you're feeling stuck in your job and unsure about your future career path one weekend you attend a community event out of curiosity while there you meet a speaker who talks passionately about their journey of changing careers and following their dreams inspired by their story you strike up a conversation with them after the talk this connection leads to

a mentorship providing you with the guidance and encouragement you need to pursue your own passions and make a successful career change as you delve deeper into the Realms of psychology and personal transformation you discover that even renowned figures like KL Yung had their own experiences with the extraordinary as a youth Yung not only experienced unusual Visions but also events that could not be explained in any manner during the summer holidays Yung was studying his textbooks and heard a sound like a pistol shot he rushed to the room and saw that a solid table had split

from the rim to be on the center some two weeks later he heard another sound this time he saw that inside a cupboard the bread knife which had been used shortly before had been snapped off in several pieces these inexplicable events sparked yung's fascination with the unknown driving him to explore the depths of the human psyche and the mysteries of the supernatural Yung finished his medical studies and became a psychiatrist during this time he attended seances for communicating with the dead and had an interest in parapsychology and the cult mainly due to his own personal

experiences this formed the basis of his medical dissertation published in 1902 entitled on the psychology and pathology of so-called occult phenomena a psychiatric study the connection between our perception and reality is echoed in the words of prominent physicists like Neil's bore everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real this highlights how our perception shapes reality aligning with the concept of synchronicities on one occasion Yung was having a conversation with Freud about parapsychology Freud in his materialism rejected most of yungk questions as nonsensical Yung had a strange sensation as if

his diaphragm were made of iron and were becoming red hot at that moment there was a loud noise in the bookcase which stood right next to them that both of them stood up in alarm fearing the thing was going to topple over them Yung told him there that is an example of so-called catalytic exteriorization a phenomenon Freud replied that it was sheer Bosch Yung replied that it was not and to prove his point he predicted that in a moment there will be another such loud noise another detonation went off in the bookcase Yung wrote in

his autobiographical work memories dreams Reflections to this day I do not know what gave me this certainty but I knew beyond all doubt that the report would come again Freud only stared a gast at me I do not know what was in his mind or what his look meant yung's dialogues with contemporaries like Freud often highlighted their differing views on the nature of the psyche oh well I just paid a visit to him in Vienna and and then we talked for uh 13 hours without interruption 13 hours 13 hours without interruption we didn't we didn't

realize that we were almost dead at the end of it but it was tremendously interesting he was the old man and had a great experience and he was for way ahead of me and so I settled down to learn something first in 1928 when Yung was drawing the mandelas present in his red book The sinologist Richard vilhelm sent him a copy of the secret of the Golden Flower a tost alchemical book of life that teaches an ancient Chinese meditation practice for achieving whole Yung was struck by the parallelism between the Chinese Mandela and the one

he was working on and he immediately devoured the book in remembrance of this event he wrote under his mandala in 1928 when I was painting this picture showing the golden well fortified Castle Richard vilhelm in Frankfurt sent me the thousand-year-old Chinese text on the yellow Castle The Germ of the immortal body yung's work with mandalas and his interest in eastern philosophy further illustrate his quest for understanding the inter connectedness of all things I had written that book that cost me my friendship with frud because he couldn't accept it yes to think the unconscious was a

a product of Consciousness and it simply contained The Remnant I mean it was sort of of store room where all the discard things of Consciousness were were heaped up and left and but to to me the unconscious then was already a a matrix a sort of uh basis of consciousness of a creative nature namely capable of autonomous acts at the heart of yung's theory lies the concept of archetypes fundamental patterns influencing both our psyche and the physical world this was a decisive point in yung's life where his writings shifted to a focus on the psychological

significance of alchemy he wrote that from vilhelm the spark leapt across and kindled a light that was to become for me one of the most significant events of my life indeed I feel myself so very much enriched by him that it seems to me as if I had received more from him than from any other man Yung was particularly struck by a drawing of a yogi with five human figures growing out of the top of his head and five more figures growing out of the top of each of their heads the picture thought Yung portrays

the spiritual state of the yogi who is about to rid himself of his many Egos and pass into the more complete objective state of the self Carl Gustav yung's exploration of synchronicity ultimately leads to the profound idea of a unified reality the unus mundas Yung coined the term synchronicity and mentions it publicly for the first time in 1930 in his memorial address for Richard vilhelm who also translated the iing or book of changes from Chinese into German he referred to it as a peculiar principle active in the world so that things happen together somehow and

behave as if they were the same and yet for us they are not one thing is sure a great change of our psychological attitude is imminent that is certain why because we need more we need more psychology we need need more understanding of human nature because the only real danger that exists is man himself he is the great danger and we are pitifully unaware of it we know nothing of man far too little his TIY should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil by studying the psyche and understanding our inner world

we can begin to grasp the true nature of synchronicity and its implications man's soul is is a complicated thing and it it takes sometimes half a lifetime to get somewhere in one psychological development you know it is by no means always matter of uh psycho therapy or treatment of osis it it this whole psychology has also the aspect of a u pedagogical method in in the widest sense of the of of the word um it is education it is an education it is something like antique philosophy and not the uh what we understand by a

technique it it is something that touches upon the whole of man and which challenges also the whole of man Yung equated it with the Chinese concept of Tao the union of opposites from the complimentary pairs of Yin and Yang it is based on the Oneness of man and the surrounding Cosmos this is akin to the Hermetic alchemical Credo As Above So Below referring to the inner world and outer world the psyche and matter being one and the same the aim of the toist sage is to live in harmony with the TOA avoiding extremes and achieving

balance this is in fact the goal of jungian psychology the balance of opposites Consciousness and the unconscious is aligning the ego to the self as the center of the personality here synchronicity plays a vital role there is no linear evolution for individuation self-realization there is only a circumambulation the circling around in which everything is related to the center this is represented by the symbol of the Mandela for Yung finding one's own Mandela symbol is crucial for the development of the self for this circular movement to take place the Mandela must have a symbol such as

the sun a castle or a golden flower in its Center it is a visual image of the Divine pattern a manifestation of the self the end result is the alchemical procedure mysterium coniunctionis which is also the title of yung's last great work the opposite sides of Life are united in a holy marriage there is a height in and clearness of Consciousness and a deepening sense of unity of being Yung comments that Atman Tao and Christ are different cultural symbols for wholeness that correlate the inner self with the animating principle of the cosmos it is no

longer you who live it lives you the Oracle of the I Ching played an important role in developing his idea of synchronicity he used it with his patients in Psychotherapy and could remember a great deal of meaningful answers and unusual psychological insights for instance he recalls the story of a patient suffering from a mother complex who feared his prospective marriage partner might be domineering Jung opened the eing and it showed the hexagram 44 entitled coming to meet which stated the maiden is powerful one should not marry such a maiden yung's experiments demonstrated that there are

meaningful connections between the psychic realm and the physical world for more than 30 years I have interested myself in in this Oracle technique or method of exploring the unconscious for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance it relates to a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another whereas synchronicity takes The Coincidence of events in space

and time as meaning something more than mere chance you know there are these pecul faculties of the psyche that it isn't entirely confined to to space and time you can have dreams or visions of the future you can see round corers and such things only ignorance deny these these facts the are it's quite evident that they do exist and have existed always now these facts be show that the psyche in part at least is not dependent upon these confinements and then what when the psyche is not under that obligation to live in time and space

alone and obviously it doesn't then in to that extent the psyche is not subed to those laws and uh that means a practical uh um continuation of life of a sort of psychical existence Beyond time and space understanding the psych's freedom from the constraints of time and space opens up new possibilities for experiencing synchronicity the archetype is a force has an autonomy it can certainly seize you it is like a seizure yes so for instance falling in love at first sight that is such a case you see you have a certain image in yourself without

knowing it of the woman of the woman yeah now you see that girl or at least a good imitation of your type and instantly you get a seizure and you're You're gone yeah and afterwards you may discover that it was a hell of a mistake yeah and that is the archetype that is so called archetype of the anima when when a man sings very high then he think he must have a very wonderful spiritual character because he can sing the highest see yeah and she's badly disappointed when she marries that particular number yeah well that

is the archetype of the Animus causality explains the connection between successive events but synchronicity reveals deeper meaningful patterns Beyond mere cause and effect the cause of striking a billiard ball with a Q leads to the effect of the ball moving in a specific Direction This fundamental principle is important in physics and also for the explanation of free will however this worldview leaves out an important question why do events sometimes coincide in a meaningful manner what does it mean if at the exact moment a distant relative dies a bird crashes into the window this coincidence is

as meaningful as the possibility that the falling bird caused the person to die for Yung this meant that there was another factor a causal in nature which he called synchronicity this he derived from Herman USA's work on the origin of religious history synchronicities rest on the simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic States Consciousness is one factor and there is another Factor equally important that is the UNC conscious that can uh uh interfere with conscious any time it pleases and of course I I I say to myself now this is very uncomfortable uh because I think

I am the only master in my house but I I must admit that there is another somebody in that house that can play tricks Yung highlights the unsettling reality that our unconscious mind can unexpectedly influence our conscious thoughts and actions this Duality within our psyche is crucial to understanding synchronicity one of yung's patients a woman was having difficulties because of her highly rationalist worldview she described a dream she had about a golden Scarab during the session Yung heard a tapping at the window when he opened it a golden green scarab beetle flew in this meaningful

coincidence broke the ice of her rationalist Outlook it became possible for her to consider the existence of a reality outside of her own head for Yung synchronistic events were a glimpse into the underlying order of the universe which he called the unus Mundus or one world the physicist poy described the underlying order as a cosmic clock in which everything has its own place and time even if we do not see the connections was out in nature I stood in a field of wheat you know no field of wheat that was ripe for house I was

a giant and I held her in my arm like a baby and the wind was blowing over that field of wheat now you know when the wind is blowing over Wheatfield these waves in the Wheatfield and with these waves I sway like that uh putting her as if it were to sleep you know and she feel she felt uh as being in the arms of a of a god of of of the godhead therefore you see it in me yeah that clicked she certainly became aware of an entirely heathenish image yes um that comes fresh

from the archetype because that value is in her and and that is a sort of Liberation and that is of course makes her complete you know yung's idea of archetypes illustrates how deep-seated patterns influence our personal behaviors and dreams Yung attempts to account for synchronistic events primarily in terms of his concept of archetype which are patterns of instinctual Behavior responsible for the organization of unconscious psychic processes archetypes constitute the structure of the collective unconscious ious which represents a psyche that is identical in all individuals and contains the images of all creation it is the master

pattern of Life the archetypes arrange the psychic material and produce meaningful patterns in the physical world they cannot be directly perceived or represented in contrast to the perceptible psychic phenomena on account of its irrepresentable nature Yung has called it psychoid Soul likee which refers to the relationship between a person's psyche and the physical world beyond that person's body we find ourselves with a factor that has nothing to do with brain activity but rather with meaningful patterns in our personal life meaningful coincidences rest on an archetypal Foundation these archetypal patterns also manifest in societal myths and

cultural phenomena shaping Collective experiences this unitary Dimension to all experience is the alchemical notion of the unus Mundus the One World Yung writes if Mandela symbolism is the psychological equivalent of the unus mundas then synchronicity is its parapsychological equivalent the world hangs on a thin thread yeah and that is the psyche of man nowadays we are not threatened by Elementary catastrophes there's no such thing as an hbomb that is all man's doing yes we are the great danger the psyche is the great danger what if something goes wrong with the psyche yes yes see and

so you see it is demonstrated to us in our days what what the power to psyche is of man how important it is to know something about it but we know nothing about it in therapy recognizing the interconnectedness of our psyches can be transformative seeing one person as radically separate from another is limiting it is the field that connects and includes the two participants that is transformative the unconscious Communications that link both Partners may usefully be described as emerging out of the psychoid realm because it transcends limited perceptions of analyst and patient possessing separate encapsulated

psyches it is particularly in the heightened tension generated by such a field that synchronistic events tend to occur the psychic life fundamentally a shared unitary realm the full of am sself is the ploma the place where past present and future exist simultaneously it is the idea that everything that will happen has already happened that is the magic of synchronicity harnessing synchronicities offers valuable life insights understanding their types and aligning them with hermetic principles unlocks deeper meaning and personal growth here's how to identify and act on them warning or alert synchronicities these occur before stressful or

pivotal events cultivate acute awareness by paying close attention to seemingly insignificant details in your daily life and be mindful of patterns or recurring themes signaling upcoming challenges recognizing vibrations and movements helps anticipate pivotal events aligning with the Hermetic principle of vibration nothing rests everything moves everything vibrates confirmation synchronicities these affirm that you are on the right path keep a detailed journal to record coincidences and patterns reflecting on entries to understand their significance and Confirmation journaling helps see the correspondence between inner experiences and external events in line with the Hermetic principle of Correspondence As Above So

Below as below so above prophetic synchronicities these are symbolic messages that guide you evaluate whether your life is on autopilot if syn ionicities seem absent Breaking Free from routine by embracing new experiences and challenges exploring your Consciousness and Breaking Free from routine aligns with the Hermetic principle of mentalism the all is mind the universe is mental manifestation synchronicities these occur when your thoughts or desires come to fruition actively step out of your comfort zone embracing a sense of awe and wonder towards reality and pursue new adventures that align with your true passion your actions causes

lead to the manifestation of your desires effects consistent with the Hermetic principle of cause and effect every cause has its effect every effect has its cause opportunity synchronicities these represent the perfect intersection of preparation and opportunity hone your discernment by developing the ability to distinguish between impulses driven by social conditioning and those emanating from your authentic spiritual core aligning your actions with your spiritual intelligence and true intuition helps recognize and seize opportunities reflecting the Hermetic principle of polarity everything is dual everything has poles everything has its pair of opposites recognizing The rhythms in your life

can help you understand the timing of synchronicities in line with the Hermetic principle of Rhythm everything flows out and in everything has its ties all things rise and fall balance the masculine and feminine principles within yourself can help you tap into the creative forces that drive synchronicities aligning with the Hermetic principle of gender gender is in everything everything has its masculine and feminine principles I was always looking for for something in between you know something that linked that remote past with with the present moment uh and I found to my amazement it is alchemy it

is the the the basis of our Modern Way of conceiving things uh and and therefore it is as if it were right under this ra of Consciousness uh giv a wonderful picture of how uh the development of archetypes that means the movement AR of archetypes uh looks uh when you look upon them as they form above from today you look back into the past and you see how the present moment has evolved out out of the past and we can construct or even predict our uh the the conscious of our days when we know what

what it has been yesterday