"In his essay on #synchronicity, Jung presents 5 lines of argument that imply he saw synchronicity as a cosmic principle & wished to be able to say so directly. When we add to these passages evidence from his correspondence w/Pauli, the theme becomes undeniable." ~John Ryan Haule

"The 1st argument is from the nature of 'absolute knowledge.' Jung has demonstrated with numerous examples that the psyche sometimes seems to exhibit knowledge of matters that cannot be available to it by ordinary causal means." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"Such things happen frequently enough that we have to take them seriously. They are, in fact, 'characteristic of #synchronistic phenomena, a knowledge not mediated by the sense organs.'" ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"But if the psyche can, in principle, know anything in the universe, regardless of space & time, some 'self-subsistent meaning' must exist. Apparently this means that meaning & the possibility of connection pre-exists the occasional moment when Swedenborg has a vision" ~J.R.Haule

"The 2nd argument is from the nature of the psychoid dimension. [Jung] says that the archetype's psychoid nature makes it 'transgressive,' meaning that 'it does not confine itself to the psychic sphere but can occur in circumstances that are non-psychic' (CW8: ¶964)." ~J.R. Haule

"This comment is clarified by a passage in a letter from Jung to [Wolfgang] Pauli where he calls the #archetype's #psychoid nature 'transcendental.' It participates in both the physical sphere and the psychic." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Jung in the 21st Century

"In a passage from an earlier letter, [Jung] muses on the role the #archetype plays in #synchronistic events. He says there are three possibilities.…" ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Jung in the 21st Century Vol. 2, Ch. 7, on the next episode of Speaking of Jung

"Maybe 'psyche casts a spell on mass…or mass bewitches psyche,' but more likely the #psychoid nature of the #archetype allows it to transgress the dividing line between realms and 'assimilate' the physical and the psychic." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"In 'a so-called numinous moment, [it] causes a joint field of tension' [Pauli/Jung Letters: 62f). All of this implies that matter (or mass) is susceptible in principle to the #psychoid archetype." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"Matter, then, is not 'dead.' Some sort of #psychoid susceptibility must be everywhere in the universe, making #synchronicity a universal principle." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"The 3rd argument is based on an analogy with quantum mechanics originally suggested by Pauli. Everything in the quantum realm is in constant flux, energy turning into one sort of particle, which winks back into energy & remerges as another sort of particle." ~John Ryan Haule

"Consequently nothing is definite, one can only speak of probabilities." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"Similarly, Jung argues, 'The #archetype represents psychic probability… It is a special psychic instance of probability in general, which is made up of the laws of chance [and] lays down rules for nature just as the laws of mechanics do' (CW8: ¶964)." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D.

"Here the #archetype again bridges the psychic and physical realms, organizing both. On account of this #psychoid activity, #synchronicity would be a universal principle. Matter is always responsive to the psychoid archetype." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, next SoJ

DID YOU CATCH THAT? "MATTER IS ALWAYS RESPONSIVE TO THE PSYCHOID ARCHETYPE."

"The 4th argument derives from [Jung's] correspondence with [Wolfgang] Pauli in which they frankly speak of two meanings of #synchronicity, a 'narrower' one and a 'holistic' one." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Jung in the 21st Century Vol. 2, Ch. 7

"The distinction first appears in a letter [to Jung] from [Wolfgang] Pauli, where the 'narrower sense' refers to 'a small number of individual cases' when a meaningful connection is noticed." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"Pauli is surprised by Jung's recent remarks which suggest that ' #synchronicity…comprises every acausal &—I should like to add—holistic system.' Jung seems to include even the data of quantum mechanics within the realm of synchronicity (Pauli/Jung Letters: 63)." ~John Ryan Haule

"Jung responds that #synchronicity in the narrower sense is a special case—the numinous moment when an acausal incident 'occurs (by chance) in the psychic sphere' (PJL: 69). In the end, this view was published in [Jung's] #synchronicity essay (CW8: ¶965)." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D.

"The 5th and most persuasive argument is based on statements and diagrams that clearly claim #synchronicity to be a universal dimension of nature." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"For example, ' #Synchronicity ascribes to the moving body a certain #psychoid property which, like space, time, and causality forms a criterion of its behavior' (CW8: ¶947)." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"Later Jung says that #synchronicity 'supplements' 'space, time, and causality, the classical triad of physics' and draws one of his 'quaternity' diagrams, crossing vertical and horizontal lines with each of the four ends labeled." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

Jung says the vertical space-time axis stands for the irrepresentable continuum, by which he means Einstein's universe: the gravity field that is usually pictured as a flexible membrane pressed down into bowls here & there by the mass of each sun, planet & black hole. ~J.R. Haule

"Acting on the entities of this material universe are the principles located on the horizontal axis, causality & #synchronicity. This clearly places the #psychoid, organismic effects of synchronicity on a par with the billiard-ball & vibratory effects of causality." ~J.R. Haule

"Space, time and causality are certainly central principles in Newtonian physics. Jung wishes to 'complete the quaternity' by including #synchronicity as the acausal principle." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Jung in the 21st Century Vol. 2, Ch. 7

"[Wolfgang] Pauli objected to Jung's diagram of universal principles, saying that a 'modern physicist' would find space and time separated at opposite ends to be 'particularly unacceptable.'" ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"[Pauli] proposed replacing Jung's vertical axis with an opposition between 'Energy (conservation)' and 'Space-time continuum' (Pauli/Jung Letters: 56f). Jung accepted and published a wordier version of Pauli's diagram, but without much enthusiasm." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D.

"In the end it seems obvious that both Jung and Pauli were inclined to see #synchronicity as more than an uncertain talent unique to the human psyche." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

"[Jung and Pauli] decided the #psychoid principle had to be an inherent quality of the universe. Nothing would be exempt from its effects, although those effects might often go unnoticed." ~John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Jung in the 21st Century Vol. 2, Ch. 7

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