Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity As Spiritual Experience (S U N Y Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching. Introduction Synchronicity and spirit The spiritual dimension of spontaneous synchronicities Symbol, myth, and synchronicity : the birth of Athena Multiple synchronicities of a chess grandmaster The self-revelation of synchronicity as spirit : a modern grail story Synchronicity and spirit in the I Ching.