Philip Athans’s Reviews > Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal > Status Update

Struggling to remain interested enough to finish this.

Jung: Thus, for example, psychokinesis or extrusions of ectoplasm are objective facts and not intuitions or hallucinations.

Me: No, man, they’re not hallucinations they’re magic tricks. Did this guy believe a stage magician actually sawed a woman in half?

In 1951 Jung wrote: “Astrology is in the process of becoming a science.” Yet, seventy-five years later, it’s still bullshit.

Is it at all possible to separate the scientist/theoretician from the superstitious/quasi-religious?

I'm struggling with that.

Jung's steadfast unwillingness to investigate the source of strange sounds or feelings of what he calls "synchronistic phenomenon" calls into question his entire body of work. Was this all based on supposition and belief?

"…science is simply a matter of intellect, and that the intellect is only one among several fundamental psychic functions and therefore does not suffice to give a complete picture of the world. For this another function—feeling—is needed too. Feeling often arrives at convictions that are different from those of the intellect, and we cannot always prove that the convictions of feeling are necessarily inferior."

I didn't really just read 54 pages of this book… I skipped the 44-page introduction to read at the end (if at all). I'll decide what to think of what Jung thinks on my own.