If you're life has been anything like mine over the past few years, you've probably had some experience with synchronicity. The following is an excerpt from Sylvia Browne's "Phenomenon" book, it helps to explain synchronicity far better than I could have put into words:
Synchronicity is a close relative of coincidence. The word "synchronicity" was popularized by the brilliant Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who was in his office with a patient one day discussing Egypt when a beetle known as an Egyptian scarab walked across his desk. Jung found the word "coincidence" too ordinary to describe an Egyptian beetle, thousands of miles from where it belonged, appearing at the exact moment he was talking about Egypt. It was a clear sign to Jung that this universe God created is not random and chaotic, but ordered, perfect and patterned - in a word, synchronized, from which Jung coined "synchronicity."
Synchronicity, is an especially meaningful coincidence. Like Jung's Egyptian scarab, it always involves some kind of unmistakable physical sign, not only to call your attention to the magical harmony of the universe but also to give you tangible proof that you are exactly where you charted yourself to be, exactly when, exactly with whom - God, who co wrote your chart with you, is giving you a visible thumbs-up, a nod to say, "Yes, I am with you, and I am watching, and at this moment you are in perfect sync with your blueprint. Good work."
True synchronicity is not likely to happen as often in our lives as coincidences are. But watching for it, and recognizing it when it occurs, means catching a chance for a private smile between you and God.
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I haven't read Brown's book, but if that's a direct quote from it, she got the beetle story wrong. The insect didn't walk across his desk and he and his patient weren't talking about Egypt.
The patient,a stubborn woman whose therapy wasn't making much headway, told Jung a dream about a golden scarab. Just as she was relating the dream, his area's equivalent of a scarab fluttered at the window.
He knew that in Egyptian mythology, the scarab is a symbol of rebirth and took the beetle's appearance at the window just as the patient was relating the dream as an indicator that she would now improve. That's when he coined the term synchronicity. The story is in his autobiography.
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