It is not coincidence, it is synchronicity

You were going to call someone on the phone and when you go to dial the number, that same person is calling you. You think about how long it’s been since you’ve seen your friend Clara and you run into her on the street. You are thinking of learning French and you receive an email offering you a course that fits perfectly with your schedule. It may seem like a coincidence, but it is a synchronicity.

Synchronicity, much more than a coincidence

The psychologist CG Jung defined the synchronicities as “temporal coincidences of two or more events related to each other in a non-causal way and having some relationship to the thoughts and emotions of the person experiencing it”. Are coincidences happen more often when the person is living with special intensity, due to growth processes or great creativity.

“Synchronicities are temporary coincidences of two or more events that are related to each other in a non-causal way and that have some relationship with the thoughts and emotions of the person who experiences it”

According to Jung, the periods of transition or transformation of human beings –such as deaths, job changes, divorces– are more prone to the occurrence of synchronicitiespossibly because our internal restructuring caused by changes or crises generates a meaning-seeking energy that forces us to find patterns in external circumstances.

Guiding messages of spiritual reality

Some authors suggest that when these coincidences occur we are in a correct life path They would be a kind of guidance messages from spiritual reality. There is a close relationship between the internal and external events that we experience.

Some authors suggest that when these coincidences occur we are on a correct life path.

Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof recommends interpret them as if they were dreams and not be tempted to make immediate irrational decisions. The already fully accepted concept of synchronicity also has a lyrical side.

target chance

The French poet and Surrealism theorist André Breton also spoke of the “target chance”, which designates the unexpected or random confluence “between what a person wants and what the world offers him”. Objective chance is one of the fundamental concepts of surrealism: coincidences or coincidences whose emotional charge gives them meaning.

The significant coincidence phenomena They generally occur in people with a high degree of spirituality, those who can perceive their hidden interior or bring out their deepest unconscious knowledge or very reserved feelings.

They generally occur in people with a high degree of spirituality or who perceive their hidden interior

Universality is coordinated in the internal psychological field with the external world of tangible phenomena, that is to say: there is a close relationship between internal events of the spirit with phenomena of external life that is expressed in the phenomena of synchronicity not sought by deliberate will.