Synchronicity Quotes

“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the wheel depends. We turn clay to make a vessel; But it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the vessel depends. We pierce doors and windows to make a house; And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the utility of the house depends. Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the utility of what is not. [Ch. XL]”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“Every emotional state produces an alteration of consciousness which Janet called abaissement du niveau mental; that is to say there is a certain narrowing of consciousness and a corresponding strengthening of the unconscious which, particularly in the case-of strong affects, is noticeable even to the layman.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. … These are called the shapeless shapes, Forms without form, Vague semblances. Go towards them, and you can see no front; Go after them, and you see no rear.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
― Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“Jung introduced the idea of synchronicity to strip off the fantasy, magic, and superstition which surround and are provoked by unpredictable, startling, and impressive events that, like these, appear to be connected.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogeneous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche. The same applies to the temporal determination of the psyche and the psychic relativity of time. I do not need to emphasize that the verification of these findings must have far-reaching consequences.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“Natural laws are statistical truths, which means that they are completely valid only when we are dealing with macrophysical quantities. In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“One consistent experience in all these experiments is the fact that the number of hits scored tends to sink after the first attempt, and the results then become negative. But if, for some inner or outer reason, there is a freshening of interest on the subject’s part, the score rises again. Lack of interest and boredom are negative factors; enthusiasm, positive expectation, hope, and belief in the possibility of ESP make for good results and seem to be the real conditions which determine whether there are going to be any results at all.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“The most that can fairly be demanded is that the number of individual observations shall be as high as possible. If this number, statistically considered, falls within the limits of chance expectation, then it has been statistically proved that it was a question of chance; but no explanation has thereby been furnished. There has merely been an exception to the rule.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“...existe la posibilidad de que los números fueran encontrados o descubiertos. En tal caso, ya no son únicamente conceptos, sino algo más:-entidades autónomas que contienen de alguna forma algo más que cantidades. A diferencia de los conceptos, no se basan en una hipótesis psíquica, sino en la cualidad de ser ellos mismos, en un 'algo' que no puede expresarse mediante un concepto intelectual. En estas condiciones, podrían estar dotados fácilmente de cualidades que están todavía por ser descubiertas. Debo confesar que yo me inclino por hacia la opinión de que los números fueron tanto hallados como inventados y que, en consecuencia, poseen autonomía relativa análoga a la de los arquetipos. Entonces tendrían, en común con los anteriores, la cualidad de ser preexistentes a la consciencia y, por ello, de vez en cuando, la de condicionarla en vez de ser condicionados por ella. También los arquetipos, en cuanto formas ideales a priori, son tanto encontrados como inventados: son descubiertos en tanto y en cuanto no se conocía su existencia autónoma inconsciente e inventados en tanto y en cuanto su presencia se dedujo de estructuras conceptuales análogas. De acuerdo con esto, podría parecer que los números naturales tienen un carácter arquetípico. Si esto es así, no sólo algunos números y combinaciones de números tendrían una relación y un efecto sobre ciertos arquetipos, sino que lo contrario sería también cierto. El primer caso es equivalente al número mágico, pero el segundo equivale a preguntar si los números, junto con la combinación de arquetipos encontrados en la arqueología, manifestarían una tendencia a comportarse de alguna forma especial.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

“Rhine’s experiments confront us with the fact that there are events which are related to one another experimentally, and in this case meaningfully, without there being any possibility of proving that this relation is a causal one, since the “transmission” exhibits none of the known properties of energy.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Johannes Kepler.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity