Carl Jung on Synchronicity - Explained With Examples

For Carl Jung synchronicity explained a lot of coincidental occurrences in his life. A sychronicity Carl Jung tells us is an occurrence that is not to be understood as personal but as an impersonal happening connected with the greater realities of the collective unconscious.
In this episode we look at Carl Jung on Synchronicity which is what he calls an acausal principle that operates on meaning rather than causality a psychical principle rather than a materialist principle. We are going to have synchronicity explained in this regards as well as looking at synchronicity examples.

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[mindsetsquareltd]

I love the acorn story! What a great example. Fortune is shining on your endeavor because you are you taking care of both the acorns and this wonderful channel. Keep up the fabulous work!

I am constantly experiencing synchronicity and signs.

In 1993, I experienced one very weird synchronicity. At that time I was thinking of moving to a different part of the united states and I was getting a lot of grief from my family and friends. They said that I was "running from my problems".

One of my best friends hung out with me one night and we drank too much and debated whether these naysayers were right. The major topic of the whole night was whether or not I was "running away" because I wanted to move from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

In the morning I was on my way to work when I noticed a car directly in front of me.

The car license plate read "run cmc".

It was a very bizarre thing since my initials are cmc! I had never seen that car before in all the time I commuted on that road, and I never saw it again. Just once. When I needed to make a decision. The perfection of it absolutely freaked me out because it seemed like the world was saying, "go"

Looking back I think it probably needed to be a loud sign because it needed to get through the morning after a heavy drinking blur. There was probably a million less conspicuous ones before it that I missed.

So, the wrap up is I did move to North Carolina and it has been very good to me. Thank God the license plate confirmed that I should.

Life is so weird and kinda wonderful isn't it?

[maynardfrench]

Synchronicity has to do with Time. It occurs when the time of your current energetic path matches that of your future path which already exists. They are usually fleeting moments which present a coincidence that can't be explained away and are accompanied by a feeling of fulfillment.

[SirUnderwood]

What a synchronized blessing to discover this channel.

[bluemoon-rxem]

Great video, and so comforting to know I'm not the only one who questions the existence of synchronicity, flitting constantly between certainty and uncertainty. Your awareness of this makes me hopeful that you won't take offence at what I'm going to say...which is that the problem comes when we hear of others' synchronistic experiences, which may seem powerfully convincing to them whilst not so convincing to us (no doubt also true of my own anecdotes!). For example, I'm sure the acorn/youtube channel connection feels meaningful, but from Jung's perspective it would not be a synchronicity. You chose to grow your channel, and you also chose to grow some acorns; Jung stated synchronistic events must be entirely acausal. If you had chosen to grow acorns then overheard a passerby talking about acorns, for example - or anything similarly outside your agency - then this would fit Jung's theory, but otherwise the channel/acorn growing connection is surely just because you are a person who likes to nurture and grow things. Similarly, dreaming of acorns would not hold water because, to be considered synchronistic, Jung states the dream must come before the event, for example as a premonition (at least, as I understand it from his words 'an unconscious event comes into consciousness'). I hope you don't mind me making these points because this was a really wonderful video, but I hear so many people describe 'synchronicities' which do not fit Jung's definition. Keeping in mind that in his seminal essay, Jung warned about reading too much into things e.g. seeing multiple images of fish in one day meant nothing as fish are such common subjects in everyday life. In a similar vein, someone claiming that finding this video is a synchronicity... this would not fit the definition of an acausal event because YouTube runs on an algorithm. People can get very upset when you point this out - unsurprisingly, as we all crave a taste of magic - but the very concept of reality mirroring our internality is such a huge paradigm shift that any 'evidence' must be strong. As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Forgive the essay, but I feel this is a subject which deserves strong debate as I have experienced some truly bizarre 'coincidences' in my life which have made me question the nature of reality. I will be checking out your other videos as this was so eloquent and honest, many thanks.

[timmcdraw]

synchronicity really messes me up because it’s one of the things I judge SOOO hard about other people. But then I have no idea how to think of it when it happens to me.
Rarely numbers or red cars, a most recent one (which was so strange) shook out like this: I was complaining to a friend about struggling to balance my work and my relationship and I blurted out “I don’t know maybe I was born to be alone.” And then I repeated “born to be alone” cause it felt sad but also good, I’d never heard anyone say that before: born to be alone. Not two hours later Music was playing from my Spotify new recommendation playlist which I was blasting in my ears doing stuff, and suddenly The Bee Gees came on, Crying Everyday, which opens with “I was born to be alone”. Directly in my ear. And THEN, later that same night my gf and I were talking and she reached out and grabbed me and said “I feel like I can see you trying to convince yourself that like shouldn’t need anyone ever, like you were like Born to be alone, ”.
What?!
How can I not believe in synchronicities AND also feel like I really understood the meaning on the third one, yet here I am.

[danielkelley]

Three days before the terror attacks of 9/11, I was standing on the porch of my mother's house early in the morning. I looked up at the sky and froze to the spot. An solid image of two soldiers in profile set against an American flag appeared in the blue sky. And it remained there until I looked away. When I saw it, I felt a terrible feeling of danger. I'll never forget that moment.

[claironaut]

A thought that helps me come to an understanding of synchronicity is the idea that someone being born isn't caused by the reproduction of their parents, but rather the process of manifesting or submerging themselves into this reality. The physical world is an expression of energy of the personal and collective psyche.

[loribenvenuto]

Im thinking more that synchronicities don't really have a specific meaning, but that they show us that we are in harmony, balanced and flowing with all of it ... when they happen for me when I've been meditating, or feeling mellow (not stressed), more going along with life... then they happen way more. My observation...

[yaraa]

I think there’s a difference between confirmation bias (seeing things /after/ the idea enters your subconscious) and synchronicity where you have a thought, hear a word in a song or read it in a book or on your phone, etc. and “at the same time something else quite independently happens that portrays just that thought, ” as Jung puts it. Being an atheist myself, I still can’t and probably will never be able to explain the countless synchronicities I experience on a daily basis. This guy was onto something.

[drm]

I have been reading Freuds work on dream interpretation recently. I have been analyzing my own dreams every afternoon. My dream today involved drinking tea and seeing someone draw a butterfly on a chair. I was walking back to work after pondering this dreams latent meaning when my wife called me and asked if I wanted her to buy my favorite tea on the way home, at the same time a butterfly flew past I understand dreams according to Freud, but am yet to move on to Jung. So my question is, according to Jung, what significance do synchronicities hold?

Carl Jung bought me here... this is the first video I watched on your channel. I experience synchronicity quite frequently reading or hearing same words/phases to me it indicates we are not random beings thrown out into the chaos without some guidance or signal? I don't understand it fully, but I like to think it's the universe's way of getting us to pay attention to something.
Totally in love with your acorn story very heartfelt 🥰

[samshuijzen]

I' m renewing my algo on yt and decided this guy deserves an all rinkeling bell on the notifications! I like his chill energy, nice ' presence '.

[stewartwilson]

Patience is a beautiful thing to be able to attain. So elegantly put.

The paradoxical nature of the universe also states that one must let go in order to receive. This goes for deep meditation also. Let go of attachment to any outcome in order to advance.

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[aprilelizabeth]

Synchronicity is where I was thinking about beef wellington last night and as I finished my thought I looked down at my phone, scrolled half an inch and there was a huge photo of beef wellington on the screen.

It’s when I THINK a question in my head and someone next to me suddenly answers it aloud.

Etc

[TimBitten]

I’ve lately come around from my strict materialism to a cautious, even begrudging acceptance of the reality of these synchronicities. I posit that, just from sheer chance, we will, in our lives, experience many random events which *seem* to hold some deep, poetic meaning. I want very much to see life as such a harmonic work—such a poem. Perhaps it does not matter how we see life, if it is so. All will become clear to us in death, in that case, as we become pure beings of the realm which underpins this one, and causes these “too perfect” coincidences…

This is, perhaps, my concession in a long battle with the understanding of reality. A truce. A realization that even if I cannot understand every atom and its properties, and how they tie into one another, I can understand enough to fulfill my chosen purposes, and perhaps those that have been chosen for me by this theoretical cosmic ordering force.

[sticktron]

I enjoyed your explanations, very relatable. For myself the threshold between bias and synchronicity gets crossed when becoming manic.

“Too much synchronicity in the world” has become a red flag to help me catch myself before it’s too late.

It’s a fascinating experience for sure.

[josephjensen]

I desperately needed this video, thank you so much for making it.

[markdpricemusic]

Very interesting that you start with the idea of a conflict between your rational/sceptical 'self' and your poetic/ 'spiritual self'. i suspect most people have this experience, and in terms of phenomenolgy its a strong piece of evidence for how fragmented and poorly integrated we are in a society which constantly requires us to ''take sides'' in either/or contests - often requiring us to take sides against ourselves. Thanks again for the channel. M :)

[HotelMariMaker]

Thank you for making this video I haven’t seen too many good videos on synchronicity. You deserve more subs!

Synchronicities are tied to meaningful events throughout your life. Sometimes they have a common theme. Sometimes they take you by surprise to get your attention.The wider you open your eyes, the more amazing synchronicities you will see. They are occurrences that do not happen by chance.