Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience
In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.
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Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience
In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.
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Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

by Roderick Main
Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

by Roderick Main

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In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791480434
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 09/18/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 458 KB

About the Author

Roderick Main is Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Synchronicity and Spirit     11
The Spiritual Dimension of Spontaneous Synchronicities     39
Symbol, Myth, and Synchronicity: The Birth of Athena     63
Multiple Synchronicities of a Chess Grandmaster     81
The Self-Revelation of Synchronicity as Spirit: A Modern Grail Story     113
Synchronicity and Spirit in the I Ching     141
Notes     189
References     233
Index     247
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