The Meaning Factor in Synchronicity by Nora Mindell Lecture held in Guarda, Switzerland, on February 24, 1994 (this transcript incorporates Marie-Louise von Franz’s corrections from June 13, 1994). Mindell: C. G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz emphasize the fact that synchronistic events are characterized not only by an equivalence (and relative simultaneity) between inner and…
Edward F. Edinger: The Syzygy — Anima and Animus Jung’s chapter on the syzygy begins with paragraph 20. Let us first examine the term itself. It means pair or couple. The pairs of aions that the Gnostic god emanated were called syzygies, but the original meaning of the word was “to yoke together.” It is…
Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) Hildegarde von Bingen, a significant personality quite apart from her mysticism, expresses herself about her central vision in a quite similar way. “Since my childhood,” she says, “I always see a light in my soul,…
M. Esther Harding: The Moon Cycle of Women As we have seen, the belief that there is a peculiar connection between woman and the moon has been universally held from the earliest times. Her power to bear children, surely a most mysterious thing, was thought to be the gift of the moon. The activities which were…
Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers-Quotations This means asking individuals who have had accidents to use the I Ching, write down their dreams, lay out tarot cards, and engage in other forms of divination. In order to demonstrate how the unconscious symbolically makes congruent observations about their accidents. In other words, we must approach…