"Are Coincidences Real?" Essay on Aeson

The word coincidence exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

Meaningful coincidences are thinkable as pure chance. But the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability sinks and their unthinkability increases, until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance but, for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements. As I

Coincidences are in most cases a mental phenomenon: the patterns exist in the mind, not in the world.

synchronicity is a phenomenon that seems to be primarily connected with psychic conditions, that is to say with processes in the unconscious.

When for instance I am faced with the fact that my tram ticket bears the same number as the theatre ticket which I buy immediately afterwards, and I receive that same evening a telephone call during which the same number is mentioned again as a telephone number, then a causal connection between these events seems to me improbable in the extreme, al