That his model of the world is a decidedly psychophysical structure. Of consulting the oracle to cure neurosis.įinally: The ancient Chinese mind contemplates the cosmos in a way comparable to that of the modern physicist, who cannot deny Principle, the psychic events and those happening in the outside world may have an acausal, almost simultaneous appearance, a so-called coincidence, and this is why one can use even the ancient method Psyche and matter are not separated in fact, nor are the inner and outer worlds. Was the exponent of the moment in which it was cast. Whoever invented the I Ching was convinced that the hexagram worked out in a certain moment coincided with the latter in quality no less than in time. What we call coincidence seems to be the chiefĬoncern of this peculiar mind, and what we worship as causality passes almost unnoticed. The Chinese mind, as I see it at work in the I Ching, seems to be exclusively preoccupied with the chance aspect of events. This principle matches the curious mode of functioning of the ancient Chinese mind.
Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it isĪ sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another, whereas synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance. A certainĬurious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. He is depicted as a head sitting on a mountain, showingīut how this book manages to give us such inspired answers, asked himself Jung? And he answered. įu Hsi is the creator of the pa-kua (eight trigrams). The response of I Ching was hexagram 44, entitled Coming to Meet, which worn saying: One should not marry such a maiden. He recalled the story of a patient stuck between ambivalent feelings related to a girl he wanted to ask out (actually the patient suffered from a Ould remember a great deal of meaningful answers. Using the oracle with his patients during the psychotherapy Jung c I was already fairlyįamiliar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early nineteen twenties he confirmed for me then what I already knew, and taught me many things more. He said:įor more than thirty years I have interested myself in this oracle technique, or method of exploring the unconscious, for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance. Interested in the method of exploration of the unconscious. Practiced the oracle 30 years before meeting Richard Wilhelm, the German translator of the book. Pa-kua, the eight trigrams which form the basis
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