Synchronicity- Some Perspectives and its Comparison with PSI

Abstract

Synchronicity is a meaningful acausal coincidence of two or more events having infinitely small probability of occurrence. The idea of Synchronicity was first put forward by Carl Jung and since then this topic has been of interest to many thinkers and still it is being discussed and debated. If you type synchronicity on the internet, you will find a flood of articles on the subject. This paper is slightly different as it looks at it in a structured way by exploring different facets of Synchronicities starting with its definition and meaning, dissecting its components to reach deeper into its meaning, and exploring how to recognize incidences of synchronicity. Being a Parapsychologist, my interest is in psi; psi experiences are also rare and spontaneous and because of rarity and spontaneity, these also appear to be coincident happenings. The paper will also look into their similarity and differences when compared with synchronicities