Synchronicity

As synchronicity ( altgr. σύν syn, with ',' together ' and χρόνος chronos ' time' ) referred to the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung temporally correlated events that are not linked by a causal relationship ( which are therefore acausal ), but by voluntary association as are connected to each other, seen in relation to each other and interpreted. Synchronism other hand, denotes the order of events by time.

Theory

The term synchronicity

It is in synchronicity around an inner event ( a lively, aufrührende idea, a dream, a vision or emotion ) and an outer, physical event, which is a ( physically ) manifested reflection of the inner ( mental ) state or its equivalent is. In order to actually define the double event as synchronicity, it is essential that the inner chronologically before or exactly at the same time ( "synchronous" ) is done with the external event. Otherwise, it could be assumed that the inner phenomenon on the externally perceived previous event responding ( bringing back a quasi- causal explanation would be possible ).

The synchronistic principle

Jung referred to by the term he introduced both the phenomenon and the hypothetical underlying principle. He uses the term " synchronistic principle " publicly for the first time in 1930 in his obituary for Richard Wilhelm: " The Science of I Ching is in fact based not on the principle of causality, but on a not yet named - because when we are not occurring - principle, which I tentatively as synchronistic principle have called. "

Demarcation from the seriality

Jung borders (unusual methodically for him) strictly on the seriality of synchronicity, as it has mainly studied Paul Kammerer in his book "The Law of the series" (1919 ) This he regarded as strange -. Merely amusing - coincidences of the creatively transforming potential of synchronicity missing., this potential is derived by Jung from the activation of an archetype that focuses on the individual psyche for some time to find where refinement. This process is referred to Jung as individuation.

Symbolic power

Meaningful synchronicity is through their symbolic power, the bearer of the symbol, the physical component of the coincidence thanks to their intension ( specific equivalent) and their limited extension is (low frequency ). Thus, it can be detected as a resonance and response to the ( chronologically previous ) emotion. Frequently numerology ( symbolic meaning of numbers) plays an essential role in the " Sinnknüpfung " a synchronicity.

The quaternion

The principle of synchronicity demonstrates Jung in a quaternion, a cross of two each polar complementary pairs of concepts that complement each other and thus diametrically similar regarded are the pair of terms such as wave / particle in the transition from classical physics to quantum theory.

With " indestructible energy ", the size is referred to herein, which remains constant for all physical processes, that is for the conversion of energy in the ground and vice versa. Your running through all physical processes constantly changing appearance is virtually regarded as a dance that unfolds as an evolution on the stage of the space-time continuum.

Young does not dispute that each of the events involved is in its own causal chain. Therefore, the synchronicity is not the causal principle in question, but added linearly to the purely acausal polar opposite: things are related in their development meaningfully with each other and " arranged as they are" ( Acausal orderedness ).

Cooperation between Jung and Wolfgang Pauli

With the physicist Wolfgang Pauli Jung discussed during his many years of correspondence (1932-1958, published in 1992 by CA Meier, a Zurich psychiatrist and longtime friend of the physicist and the depth psychologists ) intensively this topic. The term synchronicity appeared in the Pauli / Jung correspondence for the first time in 1948 to (Letter ). However, Pauli should it have known already in 1934, as Jung used it in a letter to his fellow physicist Pascual Jordan. Pauli knew Jordan of his time in Hamburg ago and perverse further orally and in writing with him. Jung mentions the term synchronicity in 1950 publicly in the preface to the English translation of the I Ching. Finally, he published in 1952 together with Pauli the book explanation of nature and psyche, treated in the young, entitled Synchronicity: An acausal principle contexts the issue comprehensively.

The Pauli effect, the fact that in his presence failed unusually common experimental apparatus or even spontaneously were broken is a traditional anecdotal experience that felt Pauli himself as a real problem and also the inspiration for his work with Jung.

Examples

The best known example of guys practice:

" A young patient had a dream in which she received a Golden Scarab to gift at a crucial moment of their treatment. I sat while she told me the dream, with his back against the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, as if something quietly knocked on the window. I turned around and saw a flying insect from the outside pushed against the window. I opened the window and caught the animal in flight. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that were able to apply our latitudes, namely a Scarabaeide ( scarab beetles ), cetonia aurata, the common rose beetle, which had felt obviously caused, contrary to his usual habits in a dark room to penetrate right at this moment. "

The physicist Wolfgang Pauli believed themselves to the anecdotal traditional Pauli effect, therefore, in his presence failed unusually common experimental apparatus or even spontaneously were broken. As Pauli was admitted to the Red Cross hospital in Zurich in 1958, he found deeply frightened that he just stood in the room 137. The number he associated with the value of the fine structure constant, almost exactly 1/137 is, and saw this as a bad omen. Pauli died there after an unsuccessful operation on 15 December 1958 which is to say that the prognosis for malignant pancreatic cancer, as in the case Paulis, (regardless of the room number ) extremely poor.