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C. G. JUNG'S SYNCHRONICITY VS. CAUSALITY. WHAT TO THINK ABOUT EFFECTS WHEN CAUSES ARE "MISSING"?
Krzysztof MUDYŃ1
Publication language: English
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Guests Editors of the Issue Tomasz Herudziński, Wojciech Mincewicz
Transformations No. 4(127)2025, Publication date: 30 December 2025
Keywords: synchronicity, causality, relation of ignorance, areas of strange coincidence, operational intuition
Abstract The presented text is transdisciplinary in nature, although it is rooted in psychology, particularly C. G. Jung's analytical concepts. On a meta-theoretical level, the aim of the investigations is to confront the phenomenon of "synchronicity" with the concept of causality. The phenomenon of "meaningful coincidences," which according to Jung are acausal in nature, provokes theoretical reflection, forcing us to reconsider our stereotypical notions about the nature of reality. The second, more psychological (and closer to empirical) goal is to identify those areas of human activity in which potentially meaningful coincidences can be found. According to the author, these include:1) Inheritance of family trauma, 2) The "knowing field" in Bert Hellinger's systemic settings, 3) Children's "reminiscences" of their earlier identity, 4) Coincidence of events and behaviors in twins raised apart, 5) Telepathy and other ESP phenomena, 6) Manifestations of operational intuition, and 7) Parallel, independent discoveries and inventions. The author suggests focusing on searching for and "collecting" accounts of strange, synchronous events, resisting the temptation, stemming from the "need for cognitive closure," to immediately interpret and explain them.
Department of Psychology, University of Rzeszów, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-6177-7241
E-mail: kmudyn@ur.edu.pl