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Jung on synchronicity and the paranormal

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Encountering Jung)Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press c1997Description: 177p.; bibliog. refs.; indicesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691058377
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Contents:
Part 1 - Encountering the paranormal. 1 Spiritualism. 2 Spirits and hauntings. 3 Analytical psychology. 4 Astrology and the I Ching. Part 2 - The theory of synchronicity. 5 Synchronicity. 6 Parapsychology. 7 Jung's astrological experiment. 8 Physics. Part 3 - Outer limits. 9 Visions and altered states. 10 Life after death. 11 UFOs. 12 Miscellaneous insights and speculations
Abstract: 'In his introduction, Roderick Main discusses Jung's encounters with and observations of the paranormal, the influences that contibuted to his theory of synchronicity, and the central ideas of the theory itself. The selections include Jung's writings on mediumistic trance phenomena, spirits and hauntings, anomalous events in the development and practice of analytical psychology, and the divinatory techniques of astrology and the I Ching.'
List(s) this item appears in: Introduction to Jungian Psychology Concepts | Synchronicity
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Selected and introduced by Roderick Main.

Part 1 - Encountering the paranormal. 1 Spiritualism. 2 Spirits and hauntings. 3 Analytical psychology. 4 Astrology and the I Ching. Part 2 - The theory of synchronicity. 5 Synchronicity. 6 Parapsychology. 7 Jung's astrological experiment. 8 Physics. Part 3 - Outer limits. 9 Visions and altered states. 10 Life after death. 11 UFOs. 12 Miscellaneous insights and speculations

'In his introduction, Roderick Main discusses Jung's encounters with and observations of the paranormal, the influences that contibuted to his theory of synchronicity, and the central ideas of the theory itself. The selections include Jung's writings on mediumistic trance phenomena, spirits and hauntings, anomalous events in the development and practice of analytical psychology, and the divinatory techniques of astrology and the I Ching.'

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