ABSTRACT
Even skeptics who give little credence to altered states, out-of-body experiences, and extraterrestrials and who would object to these phenomena as fit subjects for literary interpretation would acknowledge the reality of “synchronicities,” which for Jung may involve simultaneity in space in time, separation in time, or separation in place. 1 As he puts it,
An unexpected content which is directly or indirectly connected with some objective external event coincides with the ordinary psychic state: this is what I call a synchronicity, and I maintain that we are dealing with exactly the same category of events whether their objectivity appears separated from my consciousness in space or in time.
(CW 8, 855/445)