A New Approach to Synchronicity: A Re-Appraisal of Jung’s Acausal Connecting Principle with a Focus on Psi
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : February 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 252
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Catalogue No : 97995
- ISBN 13 : 9781032902388
- ISBN 10 : 1032902388
Also by Lance Storm
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This book offers an up-to-date handling of C. G. Jung’s Theory of Synchronicity and the more mainstream paranormal phenomena known as extra-sensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as ‘psi’.
Author Lance Storm re-works various aspects of synchronicity, traditionally marginalized by parapsychologists, to bring about a paradigm shift in the field. Most often seen as fundamentally different, the book draws parallels between psi and synchronicity and equates the two, arguing that psi was all along a form of synchronicity – just as Jung had anticipated. To achieve this, Storm necessarily modifies both the parapsychologist’s view about psi, and Jung’s views about synchronicity, enabling a satisfactory merger of the two paranormal phenomena.
Based on rigorous scientific research and written in an easy-to-understand style, this book is an important resource for specialists such as anomalistic psychologists, parapsychologists, philosophers, paranormalists and theologians.
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There has long been an uncomfortable association between psi and synchronicity. While Jung considered psi to be part of his wider conception of synchronicity (as acausal orderedness), there is little definitive support for this position in the literature surrounding psi. Much of this is due, Storm argues, to the influence of Dr. J. B. Rhine, who held very much a causal (in contrast to Jung's acausal) explanatory position for psi explanations. Storm, however, goes one further and gives a strong argument as to why psi should be subsumed under Jung's narrower conception of synchronicity, in other words meaningful coincidences, which Jung considered to be specific instances of acausal orderedness. Storm's proposition is certainly a refreshing addition to the literature on this fascinating subject.
Laurence Browne, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, and author of The Many Faces of Coincidence
This is another superb book from Lance Storm, in which he further elaborates on the advantages of reframing psi phenomena in terms of synchronicity: shifting focus from causes to meanings, avoiding the inflation of emphasising personal agency, facilitating understanding of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and above all making sense at last of the “psychological aberrations” that beset parapsychology. His argument is radical but is masterfully presented and could be profoundly fertilising for future work in the field.
Roderick Main, Professor, University of Essex, and author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Defining Synchronicity
2. Types of Synchronicity
3. The Map Is Not The Territory
4. The Extraordinary Case of Bishop James Pike
5. Synchronicity Writ Large
References
Appendix A: The Birthday Paradox
Appendix B: Experiments on Meaningful Coincidence
Appendix C: The I Ching and the Binary System—Comparisons
Appendix D: Nostradamus and His Critics
About the Author(s)
Lance Storm is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has over 20 years post-doctoral research experience as a theorist and designer of funded experiments in parapsychology. Storm has published in major journals including Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Parapsychology and Journal of Scientific Exploration. He is a full member of the AIPR, and Chief Editor of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.
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