by Lance Storm

ISBN: 978-88-95604-02-2
Price: € 17.50 - £ 13.99 - US$ 18.95
Format: paperback, 338 pages, 210x150 mm (European Edition)-6x9 in (North American Edition), 14 b&w illustrations

To be released in December 2008.

Synopsis

Connecting the meanings of our life to the outer world.

Synchronicities or 'meaningful coincidences' represent one of Carl Jung's most exciting, controversial and far-reaching ideas. When our inner world of dreams and fantasies suddenly connect to events in the outer world it can herald a major turning point in our lives.

The book explores the nature of synchronicities from a wide variety of perspectives including science, religion, extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It investigates the role of the archetypes, the limits to scientific causality and the way in which synchronicities can open a door to the numinous and speak to the unification of humanity and the world. Synchronicity also reveals how we have forgotten our inter-connectedness to the cosmos at the expense of our desire for limited and reductionist explanations.

Contributions by psychologists, parapsychologists, psychiatrists, physicists, philosophers, and information theorists including Victor Mansfield, Joseph Cambray, John Beloff, F. David Peat, Marialuisa Donati, Lila L. Gatlin, Roderick Mail, Lance Storm and Shantena Sabbadini.

The book will be an invaluable reference to all those interested in Jungian ideas, parapsychology, the limits to consciousness and the mysterious nature of our inner worlds.

This collection includes:

• Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung—Divine Contenders
• Religion, science and synchronicity
• Synchronicity and the I Ching
• The limits to causality
• Psi and parapsychology
• Archetypes sand meaning
• Virtual realities and the Self

What people have said about the book

“Here is a truly groundbreaking anthology. Professor Storm brings together the foremost scholars of synchronicity in a rich dialogue between traditional thought and modern science the likes of which have not been seen since the famous friendship between Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli. It is a book that will be the fascination of both casual and scholarly readers from many backgrounds.”
Allan Combs PhD, co-author, Synchronicity: In the Eyes of Science, Myth and the Trickster.

“The term “synchronicity” is thrown around casually in occult, musical, and “new age” circles despite the sophistication reflected in the book by Jung and Pauli that popularized the term. In this collection of provocative essays, the reader will find applications of so-called “meaningful coincidences” to such disciplines as religious studies, quantum physics, Eastern philosophy, parapsychology, mathematics, and information theory. The editor, Lance Storm, has rescued the term from the derision it has received in contemporary intellectual circles, demonstrating its utility in expanding our understanding of the fabric of nature and the inadequacy of Western notions of cause-and-effect to explain both cosmic and everyday phenomena.”
Stanley Krippner PhD, co-author, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them.

“As we explore the macro dimensions of the universe, bringing into question the reality of space and time, as we delve into the micro workings of the brain, the topic of synchronicity becomes both more relevant and more mysterious. While Jung's notion of synchronicity gains more weight in scientific circles, and is also more misused in popular parlance, Lance Storm's volume of essays by authors from diverse disciplines asks the significant questions about the interactions between the human mind and the world it seeks to engage and understand.”
Beverley Zabriskie PhD, Jungian Analyst