Although Jung has coined the word here, I feel it is making 'Synchronicity' more complex than it needs to be, it means the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. To me and reading about the event detailed below, its simply premonition. Of course there is no rational explanation for synchronicity, but parapsychological events don't have a rational explanation for the world of Spirit cannot be explained in human earth terms. When you have lived your life and you look back on it you will see this synchronicity in action, whether it was gut feelings/intuition at the time and the outcome, synchronicity will make sense and it really isn't complex at all. As for no discernible causal connection, indeed there is, it's spirit and your own soul in action. We are more than a living creature, we are more than a mind, we have a soul, a spirit and that is the reason for synchronicity.
EXCERPTS BELOW ARE FROM © Carl Jung Resources, 2011.
What is Synchronicity?
The term synchronicity is coined by Jung* to express a concept that belongs to him. It is about acausal connection of two or more psycho-physic phenomena. This concept was inspired to him by a patient's case that was in situation of impasse in treatment. Her exaggerate rationalism (animus inflation) was holding her back from assimilating unconscious materials. One night, the patient dreamt a golden scarab - cetonia aurata. The next day, during the psychotherapy session, a real insect this time, hit against the Jung's cabinet window. Jung caught it and discovered surprisingly that it was a golden scarab; a very rare presence for that climate.
Cetonia Aurata or the Colden Scarab
So, the idea is all about coincidence: in this case, between the scarab dreamt by the patient and its appearance in reality, in the psychotherapy cabinet.
But this coincidence is not senseless, a simple coincidence. By using the amplification method, Jung associates in connection with the scarab and comes to the concept of death and rebirth from the esoteric philosophy of antiquity, a process that, in a symbolic way, the patient should experience for a renewal and vitalization of her unilateral personality, the cause of the neurosis she was suffering from.
Thus, a significant coincidence of physical and psychological phenomena that are a causal connected.
Jung's book on synchronicity
Behind all these phenomena Jung places the archetype or the constellation of an archetype, which, in his view, is a process that engages equally objective manifestations, in the physical world, and subjective ones, in the psychological universe.
Jung writes a book on synchronicity together with Nobel laureate W. Pauli, a book we invite you to read (learn more).
Synchronicity, as an explicative theory, applies to phenomena from the area of parapsychology, prevision and premonition, to I Ching (specific method of consulting the Oracle of Changes), to astrology and many other borderline fields.
It is also present in psychotherapy, as we have already shown. Several psychoanalysts noted certain strange coincidences in which their patients received information about them by extra-sensorial ways, information that was not accessible to the general public.
*Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a significant contribution to the psychoanalytical movement and is generally considered as the prototype of the dissident through the impact of his scission and the amplification of the movement he created in his turn (analytical psychology).
Jung was the son of a Swiss reverend. He completed his medical studies, specialized in psychiatry and joined the staff of Burgholzli, the renowned psychiatric hospital in Zurich, run at that time by the famous Dr. Eugen Bleuler.
In 1902-1903 he attended a traineeship in Paris with Pierre Janet, and then returned to Zurich and he was called senior physician at Burgholzli.
It was in this context that Jung was introduced to Freud in 1907. Freud would be seduced by the prestige and personality of Jung and would soon see in him the spiritual son that could ensure the survival of psychoanalysis, so much so as Jung was not Jewish.
In 1902-1903 he attended a traineeship in Paris with Pierre Janet, and then returned to Zurich and he was called senior physician at Burgholzli.
It was in this context that Jung was introduced to Freud in 1907. Freud would be seduced by the prestige and personality of Jung and would soon see in him the spiritual son that could ensure the survival of psychoanalysis, so much so as Jung was not Jewish.
Intense, professional and friendship bonds form between the two, with an ambivalence dominated by the inclination of Jung to underestimate himself in comparison with Freud, the fervor of his devotion to the "father" of psychoanalysis and oneiric hostility (emphasized by Freud in the common interpretation of dreams).
Jung had a swift ascension in the hierarchy of psychoanalysis. He became the editor of Jahrbuch.
In 1908, he traveled to the United States and in 1910 he became the first president o the International Association of Psychoanalysis.
The reluctance of Jung towards the Freudian theory referred to the role of sexuality in the psychic development. In fact, Jung never completely embraced the sexual theory of Freud.
Since 1912 he became more and more distant in his writings, which would cause a scission materialized in 1914 by his resignation from all the positions he already held.
After a period of personal turmoil, Jung founded his own school and produced a vast number of studies that would attract a great number of disciples.
Jung had a swift ascension in the hierarchy of psychoanalysis. He became the editor of Jahrbuch.
In 1908, he traveled to the United States and in 1910 he became the first president o the International Association of Psychoanalysis.
The reluctance of Jung towards the Freudian theory referred to the role of sexuality in the psychic development. In fact, Jung never completely embraced the sexual theory of Freud.
Since 1912 he became more and more distant in his writings, which would cause a scission materialized in 1914 by his resignation from all the positions he already held.
After a period of personal turmoil, Jung founded his own school and produced a vast number of studies that would attract a great number of disciples.
By abandoning the meanders of psychosexuality, Jung would establish himself in the fields of spirituality and esoteric science.
