What is Synchronicity?

The word synchronicity was coined by the psychiatrist and anthropoligist Carl Gustav Jung to describe “the acausal connection of two or more psychic and physical phenomena” (1) . Jung studied these coincidences, acasual phenomena together with the Nobel prize for Physics Wolfgang Pauli, known for the “Pauli exclusion principle” according to which when two coupled electrons are separated even at a large distance, and the spin (direction, verse) of one electron changes also the spin of the other changes simultanelty and instanstantly. What can this pratically mean?That indenpendently from space and time everything is interconnected.

Thus thanks to synchronicities we have a glimpse of Oneness!

Now let's see better what is this all about and how we can experience more synchronicities in our lives.

First of all, it's necessary to distinguish between the meaning of “coincidences” versus “synchronicities”. Generally when we think of a coincidence we associate it to something random with no meaning, it just happens and there's no source to it. While a synchronicity is connected to something else, that has a meaning; an other definition of synchronicity is indeed “meaningful coincidence” or “synchronic event”. Therefore when something is synchronic it means that it happens while something else is happening, at the same time.

“A meaningful coincidence or synchronic event

is the result of two or more events connected by

a relation of an an analogous meaningful content” (2)

Although being a well known physicist, Pauli was also known for ruining any experiment with his only presence. Did this happen by chance? Everytime he entered in the laboratory something happened. Expensive machines would break, something would go on fire, and events of this kind to the point where this phenomenon was called “Pauli Effect” (2)

Here we can start to understand more clearly the link with Paul's principle and the principle of Oneness (known as Advaita in Hinduism) and how -an other principle of quantum physics- it's the observer who modifies what is observed, making us understand how the state and space of the observer is important to “modify” what is observed, thus said differently, to manifest our reality.

So when we start to understand that the observer and the observed are one and the same, we start to understand that it's not really what is observed that changes, but us ourselves. And that's the secret!

Some examples of synchronicities in my life:

• I'm having an English conversation during which I bring a scientific article to talk about. The only thing I knew about the person was that she's a doctor, so I just thought to bring her a scientific article which turned out to be about the specific field she works in. Also she was shocked to notice this!
• Thinking I'd like some hummus but cannot go out, after an hour my friend knocks at my room door asking me if I wanted the hummus his sister made- which never happened before.
• While somebody writes me on FB asking me how many languages I know and thinking “that's an odd question!” immediately from nowhere a video on youtube from Paramahamsa Nithyananda's channel goes on and I hear his voice saying “why do you need to know a language? Language is just for communication. Period!”
• I'm buying a bus ticket, the guy who's selling me it says to a person: “at 11:30!”, not even a second later I turn around and there's a group of youung people, one says “Let's meet at 11:30”!

I can make many other examples, but the point with people who don't believe or have experiences with synchronicities is that for them a coincidence happens rarely. For me they happen pretty frequently. Why? Because I notice them. And I can say also an other thing, that syncronicities really do happen to everyone, we just don't notice/aren't aware of them. Once I saw a synchronicity happening to a friend of mine who used to live with me, the story is too long but it went like this. The synchronicity was evident, after it happened he just went into his room without being surprised so I knocked at this door and asked him if he noticed anything, he seemed almost worried and said “no”. After I told him, he answered, that yes it's true what I said, but he just didn't give importance to it. I told him that yep, that was the point. That or 1. we don't notice them or 2. we don't give importance to it maybe by saying “oh, it's just a coincidence!”

So one way to bring synchronicities in our lives is to be aware to what's happening around us and to just play with the thought and belief (it doesn't cost anything, if it doesn't work after a few months you can stop) that there aren't any coincidences. But to be aware, we also have to be aware of our thoughts that come in the way, not making us notice the synchronicities.

'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.' Albert Einstein

Bibliography

1. http://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html
2. The Power of the Quantum Brain by Italo Pentimalli and J.L Marshall

Written by Anna Leporace