By C. G. Jung

Jung was once intrigued from early in his occupation with coincidences, particularly these incredible juxtapositions that clinical rationality couldn't safely clarify. He mentioned those principles with Albert Einstein ahead of international struggle I, yet first used the time period "synchronicity" in a 1930 lecture, in connection with the weird mental insights generated from consulting the I Ching. a protracted correspondence and friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli prompted a last, mature assertion of Jung's pondering on synchronicity, initially released in 1952 and reproduced the following. including a wealth of old and modern fabric, this essay describes an astrological scan Jung carried out to check his concept. Synchronicity finds the entire volume of Jung's learn right into a wide variety of psychic phenomena.

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In the first fifteen aspects of Table II, these aspects occur six times for men and only twice for women. 22 : 1 for all masculine aspects between Asc. or Desc. on the one hand and one of the four heavenly bodies on the other. Figures 2 and 3 give a graphic representation of the frequencies shown respectively in columns 2 and 5 of Table I from the point of view of the dispersion of aspects. This arrangement enables us not only to visualize the dispersion in the frequency of occurrence of the different aspects but also to make a rapid estimate of the mean number of occurrences per aspect, using the median as an estimator.

Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analog to a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. 38a I should like to mention another case that is typical of a certain category of events.

Baynes from the Richard Wilhelm translation. 43 THE NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE reasons, a cognitive operation of this kind is impossible to the tided intellect. Judgment must therefore rely much more on the irrational functions of consciousness, that is on sensation (the "sens du reel") and intuition (perception by means of subliminal contents). The I Ching, which we can well call the experimental foundation of classical Chinese philosophy, is one of the oldest known methods for grasping a situation as a whole and thus placing the details against a cosmic background- the interplay of Yin and Yang.

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