Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster

By Allan Combs and Mark Holland

Book Overview

Carl Jung coined the term "synchronicity" to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569248451
• ISBN13: 9781569248454
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Marlowe & Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Trickster Lives On . . .

For all those potential readers and for those previous reviewers, I state that this book is one of a mere handful of books to adequately treat this subject with the respect and wonder that it deserves. Though few books deserve the title of "perfection" I must defend the authors in their attempt at covering this subject, however misunderstood. This book is a brief attempt at exploring the concept of synchronicity. That...

The return of human meaning to the cosmos

I read the first edition of this book years ago and the concepts in it have haunted me ever since. Then, I bought my own copy of this second edition and found that the ideas contained in it had lost none of their power and were every bit as profound as I had remembered.Briefly, this book deals with the concept of synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. It deals with it on two levels, the level of science and the level of...

let go of your 'life' line

The previous reviewer ("Throw out a life line") - who seems to be trying to sell an unpublished science fiction story to Hollywood - is typical of the mental-rational minded types who see the Universe as a big clockwork toy, a camera, a sewing machine and other metaphors governed by his own unique take on Planck's theory (see his website). Whatever. Such hyper-rationalist always miss the point of such informative, playful...

The single best book on Jung's concept of synchronicity.

This is one of my favorite types of books: short, profound and beautifully written. It moves smoothly back-and-forth between cutting-edge scientific support for synchronicity, real-life examples, and the mythological underpinnings of synchronicity. It is so lucidly written that the reader will probably read it from start to finish, and never realize that they are dealing with difficult concepts. A truly wonderful book.