A New Approach to Synchronicity

A Re-Appraisal of Jung’s Acausal Connecting Principle with a Focus on Psi

Lance Storm

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040304006
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Experimental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book offers an up-to-date handling of C. G. Jung's Theory of Synchronicity and the more mainstream paranormal phenomena known as extra-sensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as 'psi'.

Author Lance Storm re-works various aspects of synchronicity, traditionally marginalized by parapsychologists, to bring about a paradigm shift in the field. Most often seen as fundamentally different, the book draws parallels between psi and synchronicity and equates the two, arguing that psi was all along a form of synchronicity – just as Jung had anticipated. To achieve this, Storm necessarily modifies both the parapsychologist's view about psi, and Jung's views about synchronicity, enabling a satisfactory merger of the two paranormal phenomena.

Based on rigorous scientific research and written in an easy-to-understand style, this book is an important resource for specialists such as anomalistic psychologists, parapsychologists, philosophers, paranormalists and theologians.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Defining Synchronicity
• 2. Types of Synchronicity
• 3. The Map is Not the Territory
• 4. The Extraordinary Case of Bishop James Pike
• 5. Synchronicity Writ Large
• Appendix A: The Birthday Paradox
• Appendix B: Experiments on Meaningful Coincidence
• Appendix C: The I Ching and the Binary System—Comparisons
• Appendix D: Nostradamus and His Critics
• References
• Index