You think of an old friend and your phone rings — it’s them. You’re searching for a word and the radio says it. Carl Jung had a name for this, and a theory. Here’s what synchronicity actually means, what the science says about why it happens, and why the question isn’t as settled as skeptics claim.
Carl Jung proposed that beneath your personal unconscious lies something shared — a layer of the psyche common to all of humanity. Myths, archetypes, and dreams all point to the same place. Here’s what he actually meant.