Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

By Roderick Main

Book Overview

Explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience.

In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791470245
• ISBN13: 9780791470244
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher