Six seasoned explorers of synchronicity share their insight into the topic, including how synchronicity, as an experience or as a principle, plays a vital part in their professional work.

This is the inaugural set of talks in a new ‘Beyond Jung’ series hosted by the Pari Center, honouring the seminal work and inspiration of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. Our title, ‘Living Synchronicity’, refers to both the vital contemporary importance of synchronicity and the possibility of our living more synchronistically. Beginning with this topic seems especially apt in view of the seminal contribution to the study of synchronicity by the founder of the Pari Center, the late David Peat.

With Rick Tarnas, session 1 of 6.
The profound shift of horizon entailed by the ongoing fact of synchronicities occurring in countless individual lives carries existential implications at the most intimate as well as most cosmic levels of human concern. In this lecture, Rick Tarnas hopes to address some of these more practical implications as well as those that touch on the great metaphysical and epistemological issues at play.

With Suzanne Gieser, session 2 of 6.
In Suzanne’s personal journey of 37 years of working with Pauli’s correspondence, there has been a peculiar parallel process of synchronicities also mainly expressing itself in objects splitting and systems breaking, as well as an emergence of a ‘mirroring’ theme. In her case the theme of splitting showed itself in a very numinous dream in 1982, long before I encountered the Pauli material. This lecture will probe into synchronicity from these angles.

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With Jean Shinoda Bolen, session 3 of 6.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is the author of the seminal book, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self, now published internationally in eleven languages. The Tao of Psychology provides the key for each individual to interpret the synchronistic events in his or her life and gives fresh insight into the relationships, dreams, and flashes of perception that transform our existence. In this session, Dr Bolen will share her personal inspiration, insights, and experiences of synchronicity throughout her life as an international author, activist, psychiatrist, and Jungian analyst.

With Roderick Main, session 4 of 6.

In this presentation, Roderick Main will first clarify the holistic character of Jung’s proposed epistemological contribution with his concept of synchronicity. He will then illustrate how this holistic approach to knowledge informed Jung’s scientific and scholarly work, including on synchronicity itself. Finally, he will indicate some of the ways in which my own work as a researcher and educator has been influenced by holistic epistemological principles based on the concept of synchronicity.

With Joe Cambray, session 5 of 6.

In this lecture Joe Cambray will detail a series of events, personal and professional, spanning his career that have led him to critically explore Jung’s synchronicity hypothesis on an on-going basis. Consequently, he has 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.

With Richard Berengarten, session 6 of 6.

As a working poet, Richard Berengarten is interested, both theoretically and practically, in how Jung’s theory of synchronicity—with all its connections of specificity in time and place—is entangled in our ideas and experiences of inspiration, imagination, discovery and creativity. This means that he’s interested in how Jung’s theory is intervolved in both the sciences and the arts, and as much in our day-to-day experiences and dream-life as in, say, religious and visionary experience. To explore his themes and ideas, and to broach some questions arising from them, he’ll read a small selection of his own poems connected with synchronicity, which he’ll open for discussion.

Jonathan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Perspectiva, a publishing house and praxis collective based primarily in London. Perspectiva describes itself as an urgent one-hundred-year project to improve the relationship between systems, souls, and society in theory and practice. Jonathan is a philosopher and social scientist by academic training and has degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. He has written extensively on the idea of metacrisis as our multi-faceted delusion, and he is increasingly focused on experiments in community and spiritual praxis to help shift socio-economic immunity to change.

Robert Traer’s newly released book, Verifying Spiritual Reality, brings together a wealth of information that disproves that hypothesis of materialism, painting a much older, enduring perspective on the nature of humanity: that we are spiritual beings within a much deeper reality, one grounded in love and interconnectedness. There are, of course, numerous books that relate experiences supporting that conclusion, but if one seeks a single, comparatively short overview, Traer’s book, which provides an overview/survey of the evidence, provides enough specific information to convince any reader that our spiritual nature is undeniable.