NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2010: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin24.html
Synchronicity can be thought of simply as “meaningful coincidence” (Jung, 1955). However, more involved definitions of synchronicity are readily available in the literature. For example, Braud and Anderson (1998) defined synchronicity as “a subjectively significant coincidence between an inner state, usually of need, and an unaccountable outer event that corresponds to and/or answers the need.” (p. 143). Irwin and Watt (2007, pp. 132-133) discussed synchronicity in…..