Is it called synchronicity or coincidence?

BJintheUK said:
Yesterday I struggled up the stairs and mentioned to my daughter that we could do with a stairlift or an escalator. This morning a letter arrived, addressed to me, containing details of a home lift, and it specifically mentioned it as an improvement on a stairlift. Spooky huh?
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That is exactly what I am talking about.
Spooky stuff like that happens more times than it should, with me.
 

BJintheUK said:
Yesterday I struggled up the stairs and mentioned to my daughter that we could do with a stairlift or an escalator. This morning a letter arrived, addressed to me, containing details of a home lift, and it specifically mentioned it as an improvement on a stairlift. Spooky huh?
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Those things go too slow. I would prefer a catapult.
 
As to this specific thread, I cannot recall ever having this happen to me. However, since there are some elements similar to déjà vu, I have experienced that happening to me on at least 2 occasions.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I think it feels special and remarkable, but just accidental coincidence. :)
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@Paco Dennis, not sure what you mean in saying this. How would you interpret what Carl Jung wrote about (which I mentioned in post #8, above)?

I accept that intuition or experiences of esp are part of human experience. But "meaningful coincidence" also makes sense to me.
 
JBR said:
@Paco Dennis, not sure what you mean in saying this. How would you interpret what Carl Jung wrote about (which I mentioned in post #8, above)?

I accept that intuition or experiences of esp are part of human experience. But "meaningful coincidence" also makes sense to me.
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To me Jung thought that myth and the subconscious held powerful revelations even to the point of liberation. I don't see these events as THAT special. He got all excited about sychronistic events. Me...not so much. :)

I have noticed for a long time how I "read people's mind". On the one hand, it has happened so often I accept the 6th sense as a truth. On the other hand. I can understand and accept Whiteheads philosophy of a predictable world, which nullifies any magic.
 
Synchronicity is a concept coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 1950s to describe meaningful coincidences that appear to have no causal connection. It's the idea that internal psychological events are linked to external events through meaningful coincidences, rather than causal chains. Jung believed that synchronicities mirror deep psychological processes and carry messages like dreams.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I have noticed for a long time how I "read people's mind". On the one hand, it has happened so often I accept the 6th sense as a truth. On the other hand. I can understand and accept Whiteheads philosophy of a predictable world, which nullifies any magic.
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These things are "magic" or paranormal to people in an industrial society, such as we have in the West and elsewhere. There's a considerable amount of evidence cited by anthropologists that in indigenous societies this stuff is an accepted aspect of life, to one degree or another among individuals.
 

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