The frequency of synchronous events appears to grow when synchronicity is acknowledged and internalized. As we begin to see even those which would seem insignificant, yet still meaningful, it leaves an impression and directs our focus on such accounts, causing them to take place more often and sometimes with greater speed. For instance when a number of synchronous experiences have been witnessed, the likelihood of thinking of someone, and having them be there when you look up would be greater than had you no experience or acknowledgement of the principle. Synchronicity can be found more readily in nature. As most know birds fly in patterns, they do this perfectly in line, with no leader of the flock, and can change pattern without a hitch. The effect of the moon on the tides and certain monthly female patterns also indicates A form of synchronicity. Though this may be more fully explainable, and not as psychologically related, it still displays the great simultaneity that occurs in the universe or the the very least the world at large Jung also had a theory called the collective unconscious, basically a distilled memory of humans from primitive times to the present, which may communicate to us through dreams, visions and synchronicity. Jung’s famous concept of archetypes is connected to this theory. He refers to them as “psychoid factors” in the collective unconscious. That they were not physical, and not mental, but manifest simultaneously on both planes. On another side of this theory, the term may have synonyms which were unfamiliar to the general public in Jung’s day. In some schools of thought, cosmic ordering, magical thinking, or in common parlance known as, the law of attraction, may be a synonym for this theory. As synchronicity may occur in an unintentional manner, by us changing our thoughts, it may also be harnessed for specific or not so specific outcomes. Though the meaningfulness of this is of course subject to judgement by the thinker and open to interpretation. Some say synchronicity is not a question of cause and effect, but of a joining together in time, or simultaneity. Just as in mathematics, a coincidence is two angles that match up perfectly. Wilhelm von scholz commenting on his collection of stories showing the strange way in which lost or stolen items return to their owners comes to the conclusion that everything points to “the mutual attraction of related objects.” Jung founded this theory in attempts to incorporate findings of ESP and psychic phenomena. In regards to this I would like to bring up Professor Rupert Sheldrake, who in is book, The science of being stared it, attempts to analyze the phenomena of incidents where when others are looking at an individual, that person can feel it. He suggests that this form of intuition and telepathy may have some kind of invisible, causal influence. We may also look at the occurrence of Precognitive dreams, which, by definition are a very strong example of synchronicity in action. One may Have a dream of a future event, and only as this even begins to unfold, recall the dream, thereby having an identical link between what is occurring in the realm of thought and memory, and what is taking place physical in front of them. Precognition may also explain what we call “Deja Vu”. As the individual recalls the dream in real time, though they may not remember that it was in fact a dream, they may still get a great feeling of strange uncanny familiarity. In conclusion, though there is much to be done on the subject and theory of synchronicity, there is one thing proven; Which is that mental activity perceived by an individual can, simultaneously, be also represented by an event outside the self. Also that although chance leaves many questions to be desired, It is not always an acceptable explanation for events interconnected in such a significant way. First was the theory of correspondence, and then causality, and now, of this phenomena, synchronicity is the most current curiousity of this nature, based not on philosophy but evidence and experimentation.
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