What is "synchronicity"

1953; from synchronic + -ity. Originally in Jung. Synchroneity is from 1889, but equally malformed, and see synchronism.

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being synchronous or simultaneous. 2 (context Jungian psychology English) coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".

n. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism, synchrony, synchroneity, synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing] [ant: asynchronism, asynchronism, asynchronism]

Carl Gustav Jung

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Synchronicity is a concept, first explained by psychiatrist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship, yet seem to be meaningfully related. During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it.

Jung variously defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence", and "acausal parallelism." He introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture.

In 1952, he published a paper Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge (Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle) in a volume which also contained a related study by the physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli.

Jung's belief was that, just as events may be connected by causality, they may also be connected by meaning. Events connected by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of causality. This does not generally contradict the Axiom of Causality except in specific cases.

Jung used the concept to try to justify the paranormal.

A believer in the paranormal, Arthur Koestler wrote extensively on synchronicity in his 1972 book The Roots of Coincidence.

Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by English rock band The Police, released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1983. The band's most successful release, the album includes the hit singles " Every Breath You Take", " King of Pain", " Wrapped Around Your Finger", and " Synchronicity II". Much of the album's material was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence, which inspired the title and concept of the album. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year and won three. At the time of its release and following its tour The Police were hailed as the "Biggest Band in the World".

The album was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the U.S. Billboard 200, and sold over 8 million copies in the U.S. Synchronicity was widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centred on its cohesive merging of disparate genres and sonic experimentation. Rolling Stone described "each cut on Synchronicity [as] not simply a song but a miniature, discrete soundtrack." It has since been included on their lists of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" and the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

In 2009, Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In the 1983 Rolling Stone readers poll, Synchronicity was voted "Album of the Year". In the U.S., the chart-topping hit "Every Breath You Take" was the best-selling single of 1983 and fourth best-selling single of the decade.

"Synchronicity" is the debut album of singer-songwriter Olivia Lufkin. It includes her first six singles. The First Press edition includes an extra track called "Mint". The album reached #20 on Oricon charts and charted for five weeks.

The music video for " Dress Me Up" was shot on March 21 and 22, 2000 at Sunshine City, Tokyo, featuring footage of the roof, the aquarium and the shopping center.

Synchronicity is Bennie K's third album.

Synchronicity ('Rock Est Immortalis') is the rock music festival of Antaragni the annual cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, held in the month of October, and is one of the popular college festivals in India. It is a three-day-long festival, attracting participation from over 400 rock bands of India.

Synchronicity is a 2015 American science fiction film directed, written, and edited by Jacob Gentry. It stars Chad McKnight, A. J. Bowen, Brianne Davis, Scott Poythress, and Michael Ironside. McKnight plays a physicist who invents a time machine and becomes suspicious that others may be trying to steal the technology. It premiered at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival and was released as a limited release in theaters and on video on demand and iTunes on January 22, 2016.

Synchronicity, in philosophy, is the experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. It was first described by Carl Jung in the 1920s.

Synchronicity may also refer to:

• Synchronicity (book), a book about synchronicity by Carl Jung
• Synchronicity (The Police album), 1983
  • " Synchronicity I", a 1983 song by The Police from the Synchronicity album
  • " Synchronicity II", a 1983 song and single by The Police from the Synchronicity album
  • Synchronicity Tour, a 1983–1984 concert tour by The Police
• Synchronicity (Bennie K album), 2004
• Synchronicity (Olivia Lufkin album), 2000
• Synchronicity (film), a 2015 American science fiction film

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, by C.G. Jung, is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1960. It was extracted from Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche, which is Volume 8 in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. The book was also published in 1985 by Routledge.

To Jung, synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence in time, a psychic factor which is independent of space and time. This revolutionary concept of synchronicity both challenges and complements the physicist's classical view of causality. It also forces a basic reconsideration of the meaning of chance, probability, coincidence and the singular events in our lives.

Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, but first used the term " synchronicity" in a 1930 lecture, in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli inspired a final, mature statement of Jung's thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952 and reproduced in this book. Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material, this essay describes an astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory. Synchronicity reveals the full extent of Jung's research into a wide range of psychic phenomena.