synchronicity
that in principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the-way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name.
C. G. Jung • Synchronicity
But when an event is observed without experimental restrictions, the observer can easily be influenced by an emotional state which alters space and time by “contraction.”
C. G. Jung • Synchronicity
All the phenomena I have mentioned can be grouped under three categories: 1. The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous, objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or content (e.g., the scarab), where there is no evidence of a causal connection between the psychic state and the external event, and
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Engaging in group activities that generate synchronicity – such as rituals, dancing or singing in choirs – alter the sense of self and increase connection with others.
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Goethe thinks of synchronistic events in the same “magical” way. Thus he says, in his conversations with Eckermann: “We all have certain electric and magnetic powers within us and ourselves exercise an attractive and repelling force, according as we come into touch with something like or unlike.”53
C. G. Jung • Synchronicity
Every answer of nature is therefore more or less influenced by the kind of questions asked, and the result is always a hybrid product. The so-called “scientific view of the world” based on this can hardly be anything more than a psychologically biased partial view which misses out all those by no means unimportant aspects that cannot be grasped
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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
