![]() ![]() While synchronicity has gotten a lot of play in psychological and New Age circles, skeptics remain. The bulk of the book focuses on relationships, work, dreams, spirituality and ""matters of life and death,"" anecdotally illustrating how synchronicity often leads people in the direction they unknowingly need to go. ![]() ![]() It must also be personally meaningful or symbolic one person's life-transforming event is another's banality. As Hopcke, Director of the Jungian Center for Symbolic Studies, explains Jung's 45-year-old coinage, a synchronistic event must take place at a transitional moment in one's life and must defy a simple cause-and-effect explanation. While people have ""a tendency to deny, dismiss, or discount"" synchronistic events, Hopcke contends that when greeted with openness and acceptance, these occurrences, which briefly connect one's inner and outer life by shattering normal interpretive frameworks, have the power and purpose of transformation. ![]()
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