A New Approach to Synchronicity

This book offers an up-to-date handling of C. G. Jung?s Theory of Synchronicity and the more mainstream paranormal phenomena known as extra-sensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as ?psi?.

Author Lance Storm re-works various aspects of synchronicity, traditionally marginalized by parapsychologists, to bring about a paradigm shift in the field. Most often seen as fundamentally different, the book draws parallels between psi and synchronicity and equates the two, arguing that psi was all along a form of synchronicity ? just as Jung had anticipated. To achieve this, Storm necessarily modifies both the parapsychologist?s view about psi, and Jung?s views about synchronicity, enabling a satisfactory merger of the two paranormal phenomena.

Based on rigorous scientific research and written in an easy-to-understand style, this book is an important resource for specialists such as anomalistic psychologists, parapsychologists, philosophers, paranormalists and theologians.

"There has long been an uncomfortable association between psi and synchronicity. While Jung considered psi to be part of his wider conception of synchronicity (as acausal orderedness), there is little definitive support for this position in the literature surrounding psi. Much of this is due, Storm argues, to the influence of Dr. J. B. Rhine, who held very much a causal (in contrast to Jung's acausal) explanatory position for psi explanations. Storm, however, goes one further and gives a strong argument as to why psi should be subsumed under Jung's narrower conception of synchronicity, in other words meaningful coincidences, which Jung considered to be specific instances of acausal orderedness. Storm's proposition is certainly a refreshing addition to the literature on this fascinating subject."

Laurence Browne, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, and author of The Many Faces of Coincidence

"This is another superb book from Lance Storm, in which he further elaborates on the advantages of reframing psi phenomena in terms of synchronicity: shifting focus from causes to meanings, avoiding the inflation of emphasising personal agency, facilitating understanding of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and above all making sense at last of the ?psychological aberrations? that beset parapsychology. His argument is radical but is masterfully presented and could be profoundly fertilising for future work in the field."

Roderick Main, Professor, University of Essex, and author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung?s Critique of Modern Western Culture