The dance transcending the worlds of mind and matter is responsible, in Jung’s view, for the phenomenon of ‘meaningful coincidence’, which he called synchronicity: ‘a coincidence in time of two or more causally unrelated events which have the same or similar meaning’ (1952: par. 849) – as when one dreams of the death of a distant relative the very same night as she dies. There can be no causal connection between the two events, yet a personally impressive acausal connection is established through their shared meaning. Synchronicity, Jung believed, is the expression of an acausal orderedness
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