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The University of Essex Synchronicity Research Group will hold online meetings from 2024 to 2025, focusing on the concept of synchronicity as introduced by Jung, and its implications across various fields. The research group will feature three panels throughout the year, exploring topics such as divination, intellectual and experimental aspects of synchronicity, and altered states of consciousness. Participation is by invitation or application, and interested individuals can contact Nathan Fraikin for more information.

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The University of Essex Synchronicity Research Group will hold online meetings from 2024 to 2025, focusing on the concept of synchronicity as introduced by Jung, and its implications across various fields. The research group will feature three panels throughout the year, exploring topics such as divination, intellectual and experimental aspects of synchronicity, and altered states of consciousness. Participation is by invitation or application, and interested individuals can contact Nathan Fraikin for more information.

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University of Essex
Synchronicity Research Group 2024-2025 (Online Meetings)
Organizers: Jingchao Zeng (University of Essex, UK) & Nathan Fraikin (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France).
Advisor: Professor Roderick Main (University of Essex, UK).

Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity in his article in 1952 as a principle of non-causal connection, acknowledging
that the evolution of this principle in his thinking spanned several decades (CW8: §816). He combined his supernatural
experiences, mediumship, divination experiences, dreams, clinical practice, and interest in physics to formulate the final
version of this concept. Not all of these areas, within Jung's context and the possibilities for further exploration by post-
Jungians, have been fully explored and discussed. The significance of synchronicity in different fields continues to be
explored. The aim of this research group is to focus on and discuss the meaning of synchronicity in different contexts, and
its historical and contemporary implications and applications.
The autumn panel will focus on the connections between divination and synchronicity, starting with an annual discussion
session based on Marie-Louise von Franz’s book On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance.
In the spring we will explore more on the intellectual and experimental aspects of synchronicity by dividing into German
philosophy, Parapsychology and boundary phenomenology. The summer panel will be concentrating on “Synchronicity and
Altered States of Consciousness”, revisiting synchronistic experiences from three normal and paranormal perspectives.

The group sessions will be held online on Wednesdays from 5 to 6:30 pm (UK time), for a total of 9 sessions during the
year 2024-2025 (see the calendar below). Participation in this research group is by invitation or application. Primarily, we
want to promote an international academic gathering, with scholars from diverse fields of research. If you would like to
participate or to propose someone to be invited to join this group, please send your/their information (name, academic
situation, email) to Nathan Fraikin via this address: [email protected] .

Research Group Calendar


Autumn term - Panel 1: Synchronicity and Divination
16th October 2024 - Initial discussion: On Divination and Synchronicity (Chapter 1, Marie-Louise von Franz)
6th November 2024 - Jessica Fink (PhD Candidate, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA): Tarot and Synchronicity: An
Invitation to the Unknown
27th November 2024 - Nathan Fraikin (PhD Candidate, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France) and Jingchao Zeng (PhD
Candidate, University of Essex, UK):The Quest of Synchronicity in Contemporary Astrology

Spring term - Panel 2: Intellectual and Experimental Explorations into Synchronicity


22nd January 2025 - Paul Bishop (Professor, University of Glasgow, UK): Is a Beetle Sometimes Just a Beetle?
Swedenborg, Schwärmerei, and Synchronicity in a Kantian Context
12th February 2025 - Walter von Lucadou (PhD, Scientific Society for the Advancement of Parapsychology, Germany):
The model of pragmatic information and the concept of synchronicity in an experimental context
5th March 2025 - Justin Parsons (PhD Candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA): Synchronicity,
Enantiodromia, the Transcendent Function and the Psychoid Archetype: Boundary Phenomenologies and the Modeling
Relation
Summer term - Panel 3: Synchronicity and Altered States of Consciousness
23rd April 2025 - Angela Rossée (Dr. med., Jungian analyst, Germany): The Mystery of Synchronicity - Dreams, Events,
Reflections
14th May 2025 - Rajiv Bhala (MAJ Student, University of Essex, UK): Psychedelics and Synchronicity: A Deep
Connection in Meaning?
4th June 2025 - Roderick Main (Professor, University of Essex, UK): Synchronicity and the Hermeneutics of Exceptional
Experiences

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