The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your. This paperback edition of jungs classic work includes a new foreword by sonu shamdasani, philemon professor of jung history at university college london. Sonu shamdasani is editor of the red book and philemon professor of jung. Carl jung discusses synchronicity, clairvoyance, esp, telekinesis, and other psychic phenomena in scientific terms. An acausal connecting principle, a vastly expanded version of the 1951 paper, originally published in 1952 alongside an essay by pauli in the interpretation of nature and the psyche english translation 1955. Allan combs is author of more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on.
On synchronicity, originally delivered as a lecture at the 1951 eranos conference synchronicity. Synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. My reading of the book was motivated by a recent strikingly synchronistic experience of my own. Synchronicity is a word coined by the swiss psychologist carl jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. The art of coincidence, change, and unlocking your. Jung, is a book published by princeton university press in 1960. This book gives insight into jungs concept of synchronicity and its relevance to understanding the human psyche and the patterns of the universe. Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but only gave a full statement of it in 1951 in an eranos lecture, then in 1952 published a paper synchronicity an acausal connecting principle in a volume with a related study by the physicist and nobel winner wolfgang pauli.
First place coverjacket in the professional, scholarly series, new york book. It was a principle that he felt compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience. The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your mind surprise. An acausal connecting principle bollingen series xx. Full text of synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. Jungs book on synchronicity behind all these phenomena he places the constellation of an archetype which, in his view, engages equally objective manifestations in the physical world and subjective ones in the individuals psyche. I have read it a dozen times and it rings true to the fact that their seriously are no accidents in life.
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