It has been a while since I read his work, and I mostly read sections, not his entire library, back when I was young and experimenting with psychadelics and got into the more intellectual side of that subculture, so I cannot comment on that specifically.
After reading a bit more about the man and his connections to the cybernetics crowd and links through to today, I retracted some of my opinions on him, but credit is due to some of the concepts and insights he explored.
As to your comment: "Synchronicity" in general is broad enough that I am not certain the specific effects you are talking about. It can range from <whatever effect it's called> where some object is brought to your notice and then you notice it far more often (classic example is researching a car to buy and then suddenly seeing way more of that car on the roads). I think this is pretty well explained as the result of directed attention and our brain's function for pattern recognition. It makes sense in a "wild" (pre-civilization) survival perspective... if a person learns of a resource or a threat, it is in our survival interest for our brain to recall characteristics of that subject and put a priority on noticing it in the future while "tuning out" other information around us.
The day after my grandmother died for example, I was talking to my brother about iridescent clouds, and 15 minutes later we went outside for a cigarette and boom, there was a beautiful iridescent cloud right in the middle of the sky from the view that we had, which was really obstructed by trees.
The iridescent cloud I originally saw years before that is STILL my phone start screen.
If you want to get really bizarre, I watched the cloud intently with my brother, then he ran inside to grab his phone to take a picture...and it disappeared before he got back, and I swear that it faded to a perfect, rainbow colored equilateral triangle. What makes it also eerie in that regard is that my grandmother lived a very selfless life and gave away most of the little that she had to Catholic charities (for better or worse I suppose).
I've personally had enough weirdness that it's tough to chalk it up to Baader-Meinhof instances, because these aren't things I start seeing more frequently...it's usually completely one-off.
A good one just from yesterday is that I was talking to a girl from Singapore (lives in Cali), and she was pissed about the Feds raising rates, because it was dinging her crypto investments (bleh). Anyhow, I mentioned offhand that it could be purposeful, so that they could more easily get people to transition to a CBDC if it appears to be a better alternative.
Later that night I was scrolling through Reddit, and there was a post about how Singapore just completed Phase 1 of CBDC trials. Ain't that some shit?
What trips me out is that I get resounding synchronicities, and it seems like when I talk to people about them, they start getting them themselves.
I've only really skimmed Jung's synchronicity book, but I wonder if he touched upon them having any sort of cascading effects.
I fathom why they happen, but the "how" is even more interesting to me. Like a whole 'nother layer of reality there.
It has been a while since I read his work, and I mostly read sections, not his entire library, back when I was young and experimenting with psychadelics and got into the more intellectual side of that subculture, so I cannot comment on that specifically.
After reading a bit more about the man and his connections to the cybernetics crowd and links through to today, I retracted some of my opinions on him, but credit is due to some of the concepts and insights he explored.
As to your comment: "Synchronicity" in general is broad enough that I am not certain the specific effects you are talking about. It can range from <whatever effect it's called> where some object is brought to your notice and then you notice it far more often (classic example is researching a car to buy and then suddenly seeing way more of that car on the roads). I think this is pretty well explained as the result of directed attention and our brain's function for pattern recognition. It makes sense in a "wild" (pre-civilization) survival perspective... if a person learns of a resource or a threat, it is in our survival interest for our brain to recall characteristics of that subject and put a priority on noticing it in the future while "tuning out" other information around us.
To be cont'd.
Nah...synchronicity goes like this for me.
The day after my grandmother died for example, I was talking to my brother about iridescent clouds, and 15 minutes later we went outside for a cigarette and boom, there was a beautiful iridescent cloud right in the middle of the sky from the view that we had, which was really obstructed by trees.
The iridescent cloud I originally saw years before that is STILL my phone start screen.
If you want to get really bizarre, I watched the cloud intently with my brother, then he ran inside to grab his phone to take a picture...and it disappeared before he got back, and I swear that it faded to a perfect, rainbow colored equilateral triangle. What makes it also eerie in that regard is that my grandmother lived a very selfless life and gave away most of the little that she had to Catholic charities (for better or worse I suppose).
I've personally had enough weirdness that it's tough to chalk it up to Baader-Meinhof instances, because these aren't things I start seeing more frequently...it's usually completely one-off.
A good one just from yesterday is that I was talking to a girl from Singapore (lives in Cali), and she was pissed about the Feds raising rates, because it was dinging her crypto investments (bleh). Anyhow, I mentioned offhand that it could be purposeful, so that they could more easily get people to transition to a CBDC if it appears to be a better alternative.
Later that night I was scrolling through Reddit, and there was a post about how Singapore just completed Phase 1 of CBDC trials. Ain't that some shit?