Synchronicities: There are no coincidences

Modern Intuitionist, 12/21/20; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Introduction to Synchronicities | Why patterns in our lives aren’t coincidences

(Modern Intuitionist) In this introduction to synchronicities, we explore the following: One of the most common ways to dismiss an idea is to say, “It’s just a coincidence.”

But how do we know if something really is a coincidence? Let's explore coincidence, synchronicity, and numerology in this video.

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This is something even scientists have struggled with. We can see this in the example of geologist Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift.

We also see it in the real-life story of Paul and Esther Grachan. These examples tell us that we should be skeptical whenever so-called experts dismiss something as “just a coincidence.”

In the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Percy Williams Bridgman: “Coincidence is what you have left over after you’ve applied a bad theory.”

 

Gregg Levoy once said, “When you’re on the right path, the universe winks and nods at you from time to time, just to let you know. And once you start noticing these little cosmic clues. Once you understand that you’re on a path at all, you’ll begin to see them everywhere.”

These clues are what Swiss psychologist Carl Jung called “synchronicity.” In 1952, Jung published a paper explaining that, in the same way that we can connect events by cause and effect, we can also connect them with meaning.

Synchronicity happens when there’s a meaningful coincidence. Jung believed that life is not a series of random events but rather an expression of a deeper order, which he called “Unus mundus.”

In fact, Jung’s concept of Unus Mundus bears a striking similarity to Pythagoras’ idea that everything in the universe is connected by a fundamental mathematical structure.

In a much broader sense, our whole universe can be thought of as an almost impossible coincidence. Many scientists have pointed out that the physical laws we see all around us seem to be perfectly arranged in just the right way in order to support life as we know it. It’s an idea known as the “fine tuned universe.” 

And if we go even more deeply, we find another type of synchronicity that shows up in relation to numbers. According to numerology, when we see numbers that keep appearing in our lives over and over again in different situations and in different ways, it’s no accident. It’s happening for a reason.

Find out more in this introduction to synchronicity. 

• 00:00 - Prologue
• 00:35 - The Story of Continental Drift
• 04:12 - The Story of Paul Grachan
• 06:40 - What is Synchronicity?
• 10:30 - Epilogue