Synchronicity: Coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events... Read More
Synchronicity: Coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it. Jung variously defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence", and "acausal parallelism." He introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture.