Synchronicity
This tern was coined by Dr. Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli to describe meaningful coincidences that can't be described by the "law of cause and effect". Events connected by meaning rather than "time".
The concept of synchronicity - when seen in a wider and "esoteric-magical" context - raises strong questions concerning the existence of "coincidence"
at all. Before the concept was known by this name, people often referred
to such synchronistic events as portents or omens. India and Tibet
know a similar concept, called auspicious coincidence (Sanskrit,
pratitya-samutpada) and/or interdependent co-origination (Tib.,
rten-'brel) strongly hinting at the basic definition of synchronicity
as a coming together of several factors which, in concert, give
rise to a certain situation.
"I feel that the root of the enigma is to be found in the properties
of whole numbers"
- Jung on Synchronicity, Letters 1951-1961
Metaphysics
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