Synchronicity

Jung's word for coincidences that behave like messages. Count them, warns the 23 crowd, at your peril.

Jung's 1952 monograph (published, tellingly, alongside physicist Wolfgang Pauli's) proposed acausal meaningful coincidence as a principle of nature — his scarab case is the famous anecdote, the Pauli collaboration the serious content: two disciplines agreeing reality's bookkeeping might include meaning. The archive runs on the concept's misuse (every coincidence promoted to signal) and its residue (the coincidences that survive base-rate scolding). Connects the 23 enigma (its recreational strain), 11:11 (its devotional strain), and the global-consciousness experiments trying to instrument it.