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Interviews with psychologist and author and Dr. Kirby Surprise explores whether or not synchronicity is real.
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Is synchronicity caused by our fantasies as the author suggests or is Jung nearer the mark? Is this experience synchronistic or precognitive - or some other psychic phenomenon? Is it not a psychic phenomenon at all but simply an observation that external events have symbolic significance for the observer?
People see in the mirror of events around them the image of their own inner life. They see what they think, feel and believe. They even see their fantasies about what causes these reflections.
Focusing on the house, I fantasized about what being able to move an object that large would be like. I was remembering a National Inquirer headline about a house that supposedly was turned over on its side by some psychic force.
Does the psychologist need a psychiatrist? No. Apparently he had anticipated the action of a hidden bulldozer.As I stared at the house the entire cottage shuddered violently. The house started to move. It rolled over onto its side.
Is synchronicity caused by our fantasies as the author suggests or is Jung nearer the mark? Is this experience synchronistic or precognitive - or some other psychic phenomenon? Is it not a psychic phenomenon at all but simply an observation that external events have symbolic significance for the observer?