"Perhaps most of the people who have, or read about, such experiences accept them as being very unlikely, very uncommon, but not otherwise unusual. Most people seem to feel no need to appeal to supernatural explanations for these events. But we frequently encounter in pseudoscience the claim that such events are in fact miraculous, and that some mysterious force or influence is required to bring about the event at all. Instead of accepting such events as normal events of low probability, there are in fact international organizations devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of examples of such “strange” occurrences, which the organization find highly significant, mysterious, and certainly NOT due to “mere coincidence.” There are even religious cults based on coincidence, or “synchronicity.” Often the examples are rendered more dramatic than otherwise by involving some famous person or media personality, or being part of some famous event in history."
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Synchronicity is the phenomenon of experiencing two or more events as meaningfully related, though they are unlikely to be causally related. They are perceived as a "meaningful coincidence", although the events need not be exactly simultaneous in time. A concept of synchronicity was first proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s. The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality, but rather maintains that just as events may be connected by a causal r
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