Jung explains that the ancient Chinese school of thought was more modern than we suspected. Jung would go on to propose that psyche and matter are one in the same and that through synchronicity, inner psyche and the outside world are intrinsically connected in a way unknown to scientists still tied to their irrefutable axiom truth of causality. Our notion of coincidence is the main concern of the I Ching.
Jung believed that the traditional Chinese mind, as he saw their work laid out in the I Ching, is preoccupied with the chance aspect of natural events. “Western scholars have tended to dispose of it as a collection of ‘magic spells,'” wrote Jung in the foreword. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another, whereas synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance.”Įven today, such talk of synchronicity gets eye rolls from the materialist and positivist crowd as just a bunch of New Age hogwash. “… A certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Coming from a scientific background where demonstrable causality is gospel, Jung was very curious to see why this ancient book was so apt to a seemingly infinite amount of circumstance. There was a great deal of meaningful and relevant answers to his patients’ questions. Jung used the oracle with his patients during therapy sessions. I was already fairly familiar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early 1920s he confirmed for me then what I already knew, and taught me many things more.”
“For more than 30 years I have interested myself in this oracle technique, or method of exploring the unconscious, for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance.
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