ABSTRACT
Extending his speculations on number, synchronicity, and, by inference, astrology, Jung argues that synchronicities are specific instances of a general principle of “acausal orderedness,” an objective order of meaning, based on the deeper “psychoid” nature of archetypes. Jung understands this acausal ordering principle in the context of the Hermetic notion of the unus mundus, an undivided unity in which psyche and cosmos, mind and matter, might be understood as two related aspects of this single reality. His speculations also lead him to posit the existence of a “transcendental psychophysical background” to the phenomenal world.
