Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity As Spiritual Experience (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful  coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity.  Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and  value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and  clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional  spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation,  unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the  detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main  illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an  examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese  Oracle of Change, theI Ching."Main's presentation of the existing literature on synchronicity is nearly  exhaustive. He explicates the varying positions held by others and then  proceeds to criticize all of them. His criticisms of others, especially  Jung, are unfailingly logical, precise, and fair. He then lays out his own  views systematically and illustrates them in an array of venues, each of  which he analyzes methodically and open-mindedly. Bold and original, this  is an important work." -- Robert A. Segal, University of Aberdeen"By breaking synchronicity out of the cage of psychological study into the  larger world of religious and spiritual concern, Main addresses an  important topic that has not been adequately treated despite the recent  torrent of writing on synchronicity. The care and thoroughness of his  analysis is impressive. Mature, authoritative, and interesting, this is  Main's best work." -- Victor Mansfield, author ofSynchronicity,  Science, and Soul-Making: Understanding Jungian Synchronicity through  Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.