If I ever go into the Supermarket & a staff member from ‘fresh-produce’ comes over to me randomly & says “Yes we have no bananas” ….I will take that as 100% proof we are living in a simulation. Either that or it’s just Jungian synchronicity – for I just wrote some prose mentioning bananas. It’s one or t’other brother!.
On that matter, while I was in Dunedin NZ a few weeks ago I spent some time in the 2nd hand bookstores (‘Hard To Find Books’ in Dowling St), I read the first 30 odd pages of Jungs Synchronicity. It was very interesting & he posited (well this is my take on what he posited) that there is a ‘a-causal field’ psychic related probably to the consciousness/sub-consciousness that emanates outwards & perhaps everywhere in what physicists like to call ‘non local fashion’. I think there is truth to this, as I have experienced this synchronicity myself.
Now Jung did say that co-incidence can be confused with Synchronicity, & you need to be careful. Real Synchronicity is of the kind he mentioned with his “Scarab beetle” example while he mentioned in the book. He had a customer on the couch who was talking of her dream, which involved a Scarab beetle (or some rare Beetle at least). Immediately upon saying this, a Beetle of that exact description flew in the window & landed on Jungs hand – he presented it to her & said “was it like this”. The Beetle in question was not known to be in the area & the season for Beetles was all wrong etc etc – so the chance coincidence was the cause was of such infinitesimal unlikeliness, that Jung believed that the psychic/creative force that he called ‘Synchronicity’ was the reason.
I myself had something similar happen. A couple of weeks ago I went to my usual day job which was doing soem gardening for an older man. unrelated to this around the same time I went on a saturday drive to a town nearby, where I went to a Salvation Army store & bought a secondhand book, a autobioraphy by Hulk Hogan . In the book he talked of going back to his old childhood house, digging in the back yard & findign one of his old ‘dinky’ car toys (in NZ we use the term ‘Dinky’ for the little toy cars kids have). Ok back to my garden job. When I went to my garden job, I had not yet got to the page where Hulk Hogan tells of digging up the little car toy from his childhood. While I was on the Garden job, I myself dug up an old ‘dinky’ car toy. Two days later I got to the part in the book where Hulk Hogan talks about digging up the car toy.
I believe this personal experience was indeed Synchronicity. Coincidence can be discounted, as the chances of me buying a book where someone talks of digging up a toy car, in the same few days where I do the same thing are infinitesimal. It was Synchronicity. I’ve had a few things like that happen. Jungian Synchronicity is real.
I bet you have experienced it to.
This kind of thing is amazing phenomena. Modern science is perhaps not so denouncing of ‘psychic fields’ as it used to be, but I would say only slightly so. Modern science still feels embarrassed about this kind of stuff – even though the Truth of quantum physics, (with all its non local effects & instantaneous fields & entanglements etc) which has been totally accepted, proved & used in our various electrical technologies. Science & Physics shame on you! Be more courageous! It ( that is a-causal Synchronicities like Jung described) is not weirdo stuff!
I have my own ideas about it all. Let me tell you my idea. Physics has its big bang theory. At the start of the big bang, everything that would constitute the later universe of today was all melded in together in something the size of a grapefruit, or perhaps even only a golf ball. Entropy theory tells us that this grapefruit (or golf ball) was almost perfectly ‘ordered’, & then it slowly became less ordered & more chaotic, differentiated – the less order allowed what we have in our daily universe – protons electrons gravity, electromagnetic waves etc etc. My theory is that at the start the universe was basically one amorphous thing, there was no real differentation (other than what was required by the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle – which incidentily was the seed for the Universe to evolve). So atthis early stage, the Universe acted as one thing – you might call it a “pre-entangled singular state” – (but this is probably neccesarily an imperfect description).
My theory is that the universe could not ever possibly lose this oneness – dispite the appearences of our universe as it is (lots of seemingly different things, obeying different applicable laws of physics – Gravitation, Electrostatics, Nuclear etc etc). Synchronicity must happen, as the universe still has lingering effects of the totalised oneness at the beginning of the Universe. Physicist believe that the information content in the Universe cannot ever be lost – so this would marry up with the idea that Syncronicity is the (very real) informational echoe of that information about the oneness of the Universe that can’t be destroyed.
P.s. I should also state that Synchronicity is also an effect of the eternal oneness of the Universe in the way that we see everything in the universe being entangled with everthing else (Entanglement has been proved by Physics in terms of particles, & perhaps also very basic atoms but not for much larger objects like a Human) . I believe that Entanglement does apply to everything big & small in the Universe – particles, quarks, photons, bosons, Cats, Planets, Black Holes, Rocks, People, Clouds etc).
Synchronicity -Entanglement-Oneness these are all seemingly different phenomena of essentially the same thing.
Anyway that’s my theory – I hope you enjoyed it, & maybe you have an idea or twon on it all.
Now Goodnight from a very cold, very wintery, but beautifully starry night in Central Otago New Zealand
Martin A. Smith 14 Jun 2025
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