"Are Coincidences Real?" Essay on Aeson
The word coincidence exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.
Chuck Klosterman • Eating the Dinosaur
synchronicity is a phenomenon that seems to be primarily connected with psychic conditions, that is to say with processes in the unconscious.
C. G. Jung • Synchronicity
According to Jung, synchronicities often arise during periods of psychological transformation—what he called individuation, the process of becoming a whole, integrated person. When unconscious material is rising toward consciousness, meaningful coincidences tend to appear in clusters, as if the psyche and the universe are in dialogue.