NIGHT OF THE RAT: A Soul Phenomenological Approach to Synchronicity
C. G. Jung understood synchronicity as a temporal co-incidence of inner and outer events that cannot be understood causally but remains meaningful. What he means here by “meaningful” is that the coincidence of inner and outer events, even a series of them, share a common, usually implicit meaning. I call the principle that Jung is suggesting the acausal principle of resemblance of form. On the basis of this principle, we can approach the phenomenon of synchronicity as soul phenomenologists. We must first ask how the forms or images of the synchronous events resemble one another. This methodological question engages the creative power of the imagination or psyche which alone perceives resemblances of living forms. In so engaging the phenomenon of synchronicity, we may then become available to receive the implicit thought lying within the phenomenon and also our own psychic depths.
