Beyond Jung 2024 – An Arc of Synchronicities

An Arc of Synchronicities

with Dr Joe Cambray

Saturday, December 14, 2024
9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2024, Session 5 of 6

This event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING.

Across the span of my career as an analyst and academic, experiences with synchronistic qualities have challenged the world view of my first, scientific education. In this lecture I will detail a series of events, personal and professional, spanning my career that have led me to critically explore Jung’s synchronicity hypothesis on an on-going basis. Consequently, I have found it useful to reformulate the concept in terms of complexity theory with a focus on complex adaptive systems, which can spontaneously reorganize, exhibiting emergent properties. The reframing of several categories of synchronicities in this manner has facilitated examination of the implicit interconnectedness underlying these phenomena. As a result, a variety of cultural, historical, and environmental processes have been identified as having meaningful coincidence at multiple levels, including individual, collective and global dimensions, often overlapping. Numerous examples will be offered to ground theory in observation.

Joe Cambray, PhD, is Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is also Past-President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology as well as being on various editorial boards. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, and former President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst currently living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, several edited volumes: one with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research,and another with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals and books; he regularly teaches internationally.