Great post. When we talk about synchronicity, we enter in a grey area of the so called Unus Mundus. Jung said that there was a certain level of the unconscious where the psyché and the world could communicate, that would be the grey area that merges psyche and world, maybe in the "anima mundi".
It's amazing that synchronicity can achieve astonishing levels of coincidence, as in the examples mentioned in the text, but it can be seem too in facts that deal with the person's symbolic significance (maybe this is more of an Archetypal Psychology matter). This can happen in a way that only the person knows the significance of the fact, what is amazing too.
I believe that the occurrence of several synchronicities means that we are in the "right" direction towards individuation. They also can point to what contents are particularly strong in our unconscious.
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For me it is not as much an amazing feature, as one of the sources of my skepticism towards the idea of synchronicity (as fascinating as it is, I have to admit, it's great topic and article). Because we are beings that easily spot patterns, connections and imply casuality. It is our bias. So if only one person perceives something as "supernatural", then maybe it's just an illusion coming from the fact, that we love to spot patterns in the world and assign meaning to meaningless, especially when it comes to things that touch us, we overestimate the importance of ourselves I would say. Even if those patterns are result of randomness, then we think there is some purpose, or in this case "synchronicity" that created this situation, not pure randomness. Think about the people that claims they saw face of Jesus in the shape of clouds, in the shape of tree trunk.
I understand. In this case, we could talk about this pattern recognition as deep rooted in the archetypal basis (this numinous structure in its relation with the images). Sometimes the synchronicity lies exactly in this random subjectivity as we are dealing with te signification of an image (primacy of the signifier). One can see Jesus in the shape of a tree trunk, and what matter isn't if the trunk is in fact Jesus, but what this could say to the people's psyche. Of course one can say "so there is no miracle, because it is just the person relating to her own mind!", but in this area of psychology we deal with the notion that our ego/consciense isn't the "house owner", but lives with several complexes and images that are autonomous in a certain way. I don't discard the ocurrence of supernatural events or physical manifestations, but I'm saying that it can be a matter of what the Image awaken in us or the "symbolic" underneath the world can tell us. This is what I was talking about in the second paragraph.
I think Freud thinked like you in this topic and I agree that we can "unmask" several supernatural cases with this thought in mind. For example, when people said they dreamed about an accident, it is very curious that they only remember the "dream" after the disastrous event. Freud talked about that when he investigated supernatural phenomena.
Yes, that is what was in my mind when I was reading your comment, and I wanted to reply to you with that thought, but...
...but then I kept reading and came upon this fragment, and yes, this is very interesting. Thank you for this interesting reply, this got me thinking :)