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Synchronicity, Mind, and Matter

Włodzisław Duch

Published Sep 3, 2007• 3 citations
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Abstract

UBLICATION OF the Pauli-Jung correspondence (Pauli & Jung, 1992) leaves no doubt that Wolfgang Pauli devoted much thought to the concept of synchronicity, or the acausal synchronicity of meaningful events.This concept was introduced by C. G. Jung (Jung & Pauli, 1952/1973) in a book that also includes Pauli's contribution.Despite many discussions of synchronicity that Pauli had with scientists working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA (where he spent his war years), the idea was somehow abandoned.Physicists were not ready to discuss acausal coincidences between events distant in time and space, mental experiences (dreams, intentions, thoughts), and meaning.Pauli himself was famous for creating trouble in laboratories he visited, and apparently he

DOI
10.14704/nq.2003.1.1.4

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