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Synchronicity

Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia

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This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 2 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.

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Summary

Overview of Carl Jung's concept of meaningful coincidence as an acausal connecting principle, including its psychological context and later New-Age expansion.

How this source is used on the map

Use this for the history of synchronicity claims. It helps define the concept but does not establish that coincidences are externally arranged or causally meaningful.

Citation record

Authors
Wikipedia contributors
Year
2024
Publication
Wikipedia
Source type
Secondary summary
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context
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secondary
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Verified
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Linked claims

Evidence score 4/10
Synchronicity

Jung's term for meaningful coincidence. Real as a psychological event, very hard to verify as anything more.

Related evidence hubs

Topic hub
Meaning, Fate & Free Will

Life purpose, growth, synchronicity, soul groups, destiny.

Evidence pillar
Life purpose & meaning

Growth, suffering, synchronicity, calling.

Related research reports

Synthesis report
Mystical Experience and Altered States

A source-linked synthesis of mystical experience, meditation, psychedelics, DMT entities, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, and synchronicity.

Related sources

Secondary summary · context
Confirmation bias

The standard ordinary-cognition explanation for many 'meaningful coincidence' and pattern-matching claims.

Study · challenges
Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception

A strong cognitive counterweight for synchronicity and meaning-pattern claims: humans are built to find patterns, especially under uncertainty.