... Synchronicity is the
coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained
by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
—And we include in our
discussions Kammerer’s recognition of seriality as a form of meaningful
coincidence, which, while not considered by Jung, is encountered in such
events as the significant repetition of songs, numbers, and phrases...
To
understand how synchronicity manifests itself, we’ll look at the three
patterns in which it appears in our lives: single synchronicities; strings
of synchronicities that drive home a point; and meaning-packed, multilayered
synchronicity clusters...
Carl Jung drew upon Kammerer's work in his essay Synchronicity.
Koestler reported that, when researching for his biography about
Kammerer, he himself was subjected to "a meteor shower" of coincidences -
as if Kammerer's ghost were grinning down at him saying, "I told you
so!"
... advocated the Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence.
