She has worked solely with adult learners since 1991. She is a writer and writing consultant and has been a small business owner. Her interests include writing as a fine art, the relationship of writing to the visual arts, contemporary film and popular literature. The term synchronicity was coined by Carl Jung to refer to those seemingly random but strangely meaningful coincidences that insert themselves all unanticipated into the everyday events of our lives. Sometimes they come with humor, as if the joke of a god, sometimes with compassion, as if the cosmos momentarily noticed our poor human plight and sent us an overdue blessing, and sometimes with such powerful force that the course of our life is knocked onto an entirely unexpected track.
Synchronicities often have a symbolic quality that they share with dreams and the deep imagination.
To take a step in the direction of understanding synchronicity we must be prepared to face the miraculous, revising our traditional views of mind, as well as our understanding of nature itself. This course takes that step, examining the parts played by synchronicity in the events of our own individual lives, our dreams, and our fantasies, as well as exploring it in terms of modern physics and depth psychology. Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher who has written many books and articles on consciousness, dreaming, synchronicity, the mind, and the brain. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Saybrook Graduate School. The Earth is integral.