Synchronicity & You
Joseph, a marketing director at Galde Press who has appeared on Fox Television's Strange America, here presents a way for individuals to find ultimate meaning within the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated events. "Synchronicity"?or meaningful coincidence?"is the long-lost, direct experience with God." Such an experience, Joseph contends, is at once individual and a "materialization of the organizational will of the universe." Joseph provides 17 categories for such experiences and offers meditation as a technique for reflecting on their meaning. From Etruscan to Jungian, a long tradition of monistic esotericism is summoned to support Joseph's teaching: "Synchronicity...is the golden key, searched for by generations of thinkers, to unlock the reality of spiritual existence.... It is our individual lifeline to that Compassionate Mystery that speaks its care to us in symbols meant specifically for us." While Freud is not the psychologist of choice here, some readers may opt for Jung's old teacher: "Freud, as it happens, had a name for this obsessive perception of affinities (he called it paranoia)" (Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books, November 12, 1998). For consideration by larger public libraries.?John R. Leech, New YorkCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.