Jung then categorized the event as “acausal,” a term one encounters frequently when studying synchronicity that is just another way of saying there is no apparent or obvious cause. “Meaningful coincidences,” Jung writes, “are ‘thinkable’ as pure chance. But the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability sinks and their ‘un-thinkability’ increases, until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance, but, for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements.”
