Synchronicity: An Unfinished Journey

1994

The concept of synchronicity, introduced by C.G. Jung and advocated by W. Pauli, is linked to the nonseparability of nature as seen in the correlations violating Bell's inequalities. Experiments on remote perception and experiments with the Random Event Generators (REG) performed over the last twenty years show a small but significant anomalous effect. Scientific explanation of such experiments involves the mind of an observer and is therefore very difficult. A plausible explanation of the results of such experiments, based on the concept of synchronicity or the EPR-type of correlations between parts of the brain and physical objects, is analyzed in this paper. No extensions to standard physics are required to understand these phenomena. The mind is treated as an emergent property of the brain and understanding the mind or consciousness also does not require any special "nonphysical" assumptions. Motto: It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.

NeuroQuantology, 2007

UBLICATION OF the Pauli-Jung correspondence (Pauli & Jung, 1992) leaves no doubt that Wolfgang Pauli devoted much thought to the concept of synchronicity, or the acausal synchronicity of meaningful events. This concept was introduced by C. G. Jung (Jung & Pauli, 1952/1973) in a book that also includes Pauli's contribution. Despite many discussions of synchronicity that Pauli had with scientists working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA (where he spent his war years), the idea was somehow abandoned. Physicists were not ready to discuss acausal coincidences between events distant in time and space, mental experiences (dreams, intentions, thoughts), and meaning. Pauli himself was famous for creating trouble in laboratories he visited, and apparently he Synchronicity, Mind, and Matter Experiments with remote perception and Random Event Generators (REG) performed over the last decades show small but significant anomalous effects. Since these effects seem to be independent of spatial and temporal distance, they appear to be in disagreement with the standard scientific worldview. A very simple explanation of quantum mechanics is presented, rejecting all unjustified claims about the world. A view of mind in agreement with cognitive neuroscience is introduced. It is argued that mind and consciousness are emergent properties of the brain and are understandable without any nonphysical assumptions. A plausible explanation of the results of anomalous experiments, based on the concept of synchronicity, introduced by C.G. Jung and advocated by W. Pauli, is offered. A proof is given that strong correlations should exist between any systems that once interacted. Synchronicity events between parts of the brain and physical objects may be sufficient to explain the results of anomalous experiments. Standard physics is sufficient to understand these phenomena.

International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2023

Synchronicity is a meaningful acausal coincidence of two or more events having infinitely small probability of occurrence. The idea of Synchronicity was first put forward by Carl Jung and since then this topic has been of interest to many thinkers and still it is being discussed and debated. If you type synchronicity on the internet, you will find a flood of articles on the subject. This paper is slightly different as it looks at it in a structured way by exploring different facets of Synchronicities starting with its definition and meaning, dissecting its components to reach deeper into its meaning, and exploring how to recognize incidences of synchronicity. Being a Parapsychologist, my interest is in psi; psi experiences are also rare and spontaneous and because of rarity and spontaneity, these also appear to be coincident happenings. The paper will also look into their similarity and differences when compared with synchronicities

2016

As an alternative for causality – which modern science found to be rather construed than objective – Jung developed his idea of synchronicity according to the demands of a modern scientific approach of nature. As I will show in the following paper, even if he promised a complementary principle of explanation, he ended by offering a principle of reality. His attempt gave birth to a pretty vast literature that links Jung’s synchronicity to Bohr’s complementarity. I will show that such a connection, although not entirely groundless, should be treated with caution as long as the two approaches of reality are on completely different bases. Keywords: Jung, Bohr, causality, the measurement problem, quantum epistemology

This paper deals with the version of Jung’s synchronicity in which correlation between mental processes of two different persons takes place not just in the case when at a certain moment of time the subjects are located at a distance from each other, but also in the case when both persons are alternately (and sequentially, one after the other) located in the same point of space. In this case, a certain period of time lapses between manifestation of mental process in one person and manifestation of mental process in the other person. Transmission of information from one person to the other via classical communication channel is ruled out. The author proposes a hypothesis, whereby such manifestation of synchronicity may become possible thanks to existence of quantum entanglement between the past and the future within the light cone. This hypothesis is based on the latest perception of the nature of quantum vacuum

2014

The Unconscious, Synchronicity, Quantum Physics.

This paper is the completion of a decades-long process of investigation into Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity, which first began for me with the writing and publication of my first book The Waking Dream. That’s where I first touched upon the possibility of a broader meta-theory to help us better understand the significance of “meaningful coincidence,” not only for our own lives but the world at large. This essay lays out a tentative framework for that approach.

This paper considers the cultural significance of C.G. Jung's concept of synchronicity, as this was envisaged both by Jung himself and by the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung's most important discussant in developing the concept. For both thinkers the principle of synchronicity was, above all, an attempt to develop an expanded, more holistic understanding of science. The paper argues, however, that their motives for proposing this development were not just, as might be expected, scientific, philosophical, and psychological (including personal), but also historical, social, political, and religious, and involved consideration of esoteric as well as mainstream currents of thought.

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Unlike his dream theory and theory of archetypes, Carl Jung’s notion of synchronicity hasn’t met with success. The metaphysical system surrounding the hypothesis includes notions of supernaturalism (transcendence). This is a religio-philosophical viewpoint, rather than a scientific. The deleterious consequences are obvious. It undermines scientific respectability, promotes superstition, and has kindled obsolete polytheistic ideas in the post-Jungians. There is to date no scientific evidence to support synchronicity. But the strongest argument against the synchronistic notion is the fact that it hasn’t proved helpful in any respect. Jung’s unitarian model of the human Self is criticized. The Self really consists of two complementary aspects, a worldly and a spiritual, reminiscent of the Christological notion of hypostatic union. This would call for an altered view of reality, according to a paradigm of “dual wholeness”. Keywords: meaningful coincidence, archetype, unus mundus, psychoid, transcendental, polytheism, hypostatic union, Platonism, complementarian self.