Types of Synchronicity --Psyche & Matter

(1) The coincidence of an inner psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous objective, external state that corresponds in some way: An example can be taken from Jung's files. A patient was telling him about a dream she had. In it she was given a golden scarab. When she mentioned this, Jung, with his back to the window, heard a tapping noise. A flying insect was knocking against the window from the outside. He opened the window and caught it in his hand. It was a scarabaeid beetle, the closest thing to a scarab found in that northern region. (Jung, 1964)

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