Synchronicity arose with Jung's use of the ancient Chinese divination text I Ching. It has 64 hexagrams, each built from two trigrams or bagua. A divination is made by seemingly random … 展开

Jung held that there was both a philosophical and scientific basis for synchronicity. He identified the complementary nature of … 展开

• A 1989 overview of research areas and methodology in the study of coincidence published by the Journal of the American Statistical Association addresses various potentials in researching … 展开

Jung
Jung tells the following story as an example of a synchronistic event in his 1960 book Synchronicity:
By way of example, I shall mention an incident from my own observation. A young woman I was … 展开

In analytical psychology, the recognition of seemingly-meaningful coincidences is a mechanism by which unconscious material is brought to the attention … 展开

Jung's use of the concept in arguing for the existence of paranormal phenomena has been widely considered pseudoscientific by modern scientific scepticism. … 展开

Since their inception, Jung's theories of synchronicity have been highly controversial and have never had widespread scientific approval. Scientific scepticism regards them as pseudoscience. Likewise, mainstream science does not support … 展开