A group of actors were out on Gerristein Beach shooting scenes for a movie. All the cars up and down the road were getting ticketed. One of the actors turned to a pedestrian to ask him if this was a common occurence. Turns out, they used to be great friends, but had not seen each other in 15 years.
“A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeud beetle, the common rose-chafer, which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.”
- Carl Jung
Paul Kammerer, an Austrian biologist, postulated that all events are connected by waves of seriality. These unknown forces would cause what we would perceive as just the peaks, or groupings and coincidences. Kammerer was known to, for example, make notes in public parks of what numbers of people were passing by, how many carried umbrellas, etc. Albert Einstein called the idea of Seriality “Interesting, and by no means absurd.”
Carl Jung coined the word “synchronicity” to describe what he called “temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events.” Jung variously described synchronicity as an “acausal connecting principle”, “meaningful coincidence” and “acausal parallelism”.
Meaningful coincidences. Synchronicities.That’s what you’ll find here on Serialities - submit your own or read one of the hundreds that other internet users have submitted. Can you find a connecting principle in these seemingly random - yet impossible - events?
