In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung’s psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Synchronicity and Spirit
3. The Spiritual Dimension of Spontaneous Synchronicities
4. Symbol, Myth, and Synchronicity: The Birth of Athena
5. Multiple Synchronicities of a Chess Grandmaster
6. The Self-Revelation of Synchronicity as Spirit: A Modern Grail Story
7. Synchronicity and Spirit in the
I Ching
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Roderick Main is Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and the author of
The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture.
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