“Is the world an egg? Or what a little world!?are expressions you’ve certainly used or heard at some point. These expressions are used when a matching situation occurs. A surprise encounter with someone you know in a different city than yours may be an example of coincidence, but what if we knew it actually has to do with a science called ‘Synchronicity’
While this may seem incredible, leading researchers have studied and attempted to identify relationships that may exist between two phenomena that are considered highly unlikely or that appear unrelated, and it is not a very unknown name that has tried to explain these events. We can talk about famous characters, like Carl Jung, for example, who coined the term “synchronicity”.
“Once it’s an accident, two is a coincidence and three is the enemy’s action. “Ian Fleming?
Sometimes we think that the universe sends us signals when coincidences occur that are very surprising, however, for Jung, it was simply synchronicity, which could be defined as the concurrency of different events united by a meaning that is not that of coincidence.
That is, we can summarize this singular science in a temporal coincidence of a series of events (two or more) that, although linked to each other, do not influence each other; however, there is a content relationship.
To try to make it easier for you, imagine you have a good friend. One day, when you talk to your father, you tell him this friendship and tell him your name, your family members, etc. Then, out of nowhere, his father realizes that his friend has a distant family relationship with his, because his friend’s grandfather and grandmother were second cousins.
Note in the example that the fact that you and your friend are distant relatives has nothing to do with your friendship or how it happened, however, there is a content relationship, but no coincidence.
Many authors have studied or spoken, even unknowingly, of this particular science; for Friedrich Schiller, for example, chance comes from deep sources, so there is no coincidence; however, the surrealist André Breton considered the existence of objective chance, when his desires converge with what the world offers.
However, according to Jung, when we talk about synchronicity, we mean the union of internal and external events, so the individual who experiences certain events finds meaning in the unification of the two.
Even if we dedicate ourselves to metaphysics to justify these facts, such as chance or luck, including magic, it would actually occur in the form of an unconscious attraction, an unconscious attraction that makes things happen, at least according to what Jung considers. recognition of forms.
This is why the theory of this author, born of psychoanalysis, clashes with rationalist and materialistic movements, however, the famous psychologist has established more or less favorable times for the appearance of synchronicities.
It should be noted that Jung established synchronicity or occurrence as a search for recognizable patterns, so, according to the psychoanalyst, the post-death phases of loved ones or changes in work cause greater energy for coincidence, all this is due to the changes made in us after these situations, which lead us to look for recognizable patterns that give meaning to our research , so this impulse of recognition that we all seem to have, is the basis of synchronicity.
According to some studies, in moments of high amount of dopamine in the brain, in cases of stressful situations or of great emotional depth, we usually have a magical thought, however, this magic, which would be a coincidence, is actually synchronicity.
However, we should not overlook the need to look for patterns, it is a natural thing that we have in the human mind since the time of the caves, besides, this type of thinking is linked to anhedonia, whose absence could lead to the inability to feel. In other words, it is, in fact, a skill that has helped us survive for thousands of years.
“I don’t believe in coincidence or necessity. Does my will mean?. ? John Milton
So do not think about the madness of coincidence and accident, we are inclined to look for patterns and, on many occasions, our brain handles this information unconsciously, however, it is a valuable mechanism that helps us make decisions, perhaps the magic of coincidence does not exist, but it can be beautiful and useful to think so.