Mark Gagnon

nexus when pure rationalism felt inadequate to many people.

He was also deeply influenced by his conversations with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who worked on quantum mechanics.

And it's important to note here, some people assume synchronicity is based on quantum physics.

It's not really.

Pauli influenced Jung philosophically, but not scientifically.

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Synchronicity is a psychological and philosophical concept only.

It's not a physical one.

So Jung borrowed the feeling of quantum weirdness and sort of the, you know, kind of instability and uncertainty.

This idea that, you know, the universe is stranger and operates outside of the classical mechanical suggestions.

But he wasn't doing like equations or anything like that.

Jung's most famous example of synchronicity is the Scarab Beetle story.

He was sitting with a patient who was describing a dream about a golden scarab.

You've probably seen these from like the movie, The Mummy.

It's an Egyptian symbol of rebirth.

And as she was speaking about it, Young heard a tapping on the window and he opened it.

And as he opens it, all of a sudden a rose Schaefer beetle flies in.

And that's the closest thing to a golden scarab that you're going to find in Switzerland at the time.

And he caught it and he handed it to her and said, here's your scarab.

And the moment was so striking that it broke through the patient's psychological resistance and her treatment made a breakthrough.