"Are Coincidences Real?" Essay on Aeson
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,
... See moreC. G. Jung • Synchronicity
The word coincidence exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.
Chuck Klosterman • Eating the Dinosaur
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.