We all experience those strange, meaningful coincidences that feel like “signs from the universe” rather than random chance. These moments are what Carl Jung called synchronicities: acausal, meaningful connections between our inner world and outer events.
This post explores what these synchronicities are and how our beliefs and expectations can invite more of them into our lives.
What Is Synchronicity
Synchronicity, to Jung, referred to the strange and unusual encounters or events that happen to individuals which appear on the surface to have no causal linkage; yet, have such a profound meaning to the individual that the event was unlikely to be the result of mere chance.
These meaningful coincidences happen to all of us, and many people experience them as signs from the universe rather than mere chance. They might be, but there is also the possibility that something more profound is at work.
A Powerful Example of a Synchronicity
A close friend of mine shared a dramatic example of this.
As a thirteen-year-old girl, she was, as she termed it, “on fire for God.” She would travel on the bus every Saturday, “looking to do God’s work.” Sometimes she would have meaningful encounters and sometimes not. But every Saturday, she rode the bus, being led where it felt appropriate.
One Saturday, she felt called to get off at a particular bus stop. Across from the bus stop was a tavern, and she walked into the tavern without knowing why.
Now, it is illegal in Canada for anyone under the age of nineteen to be in a tavern. And Ann, a young-looking thirteen-year-old, was obviously underage. Yet, no one stopped her or said a word.
“It was as if I were invisible,” she said, recounting the incident.
She walked up to a woman who was sitting alone at a table. She sat down and said to her, “God has asked me to tell you he loves you and you are not alone.” She had no idea why she was saying this or what the reaction would be from the woman.
The woman looked at her in disbelief for several seconds and then burst into tears. “Come up to my room,” she said. They walked up several flights of stairs in the run-down hotel and entered her room. A gun was on the table.
“I bought this gun yesterday,” she said, and went on to describe the horrific circumstances she was presently enduring, and how hopeless and alone she felt. “This afternoon, at one, I said to myself, ‘If God does not send me a sign or give me some hope in the next hour I am going to kill myself.’”
The clock indicated it was ten minutes to two. In ten more minutes, she would have killed herself. The two wept in each other’s arms. Then my friend left the room, never to see the woman again.
How could this have happened? Obviously, something more than luck or coincidence was at work.
According to quantum theory, each of us is part of the same vibrating matrix. So there is good reason to believe that, in extraordinary circumstances, we are led to experiences that serve purposes beyond our understanding.
Somehow, the depth of the woman’s despair and the openness of the young girl to do good were matched and drawn together.
The universe works like this in more ways than we suspect.
Expectation, Belief, and the Law of Attraction
Psychologist Jean Houston shares a conversation with the illustrious anthropologist Margaret Mead. She had noticed that Mead had an extraordinary number of fortuitous events happen to her. She always seemed to be in the right place at the right time.
Jean commented on this one time.
“You are so blessed,” she said.
“Yes, I know,” Mead replied.
“Why?” Houston questioned further.
Mead looked at her for a moment and then, in a gruff voice, answered, “Because I expect to be.”
Could it be that simple? Yes and no. Of course, there is more to it than that, but having positive expectations doesn’t hurt. In fact, it ups the chances of it happening immeasurably.
Novelist Somerset Maugham said it another way: “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” Beliefs create our reality.
We can invite more synchronicity in our lives by believing in an open and dynamic universe where all is possible, where our thoughts, wishes, and desires are heard and responded to.
Where, as Joseph Campbell said, “a thousand unseen helping hands” come to our assistance when we have embarked on a course of action that we have a passion for.
Jung’s housekeeper, in her memoirs, shared that the more Jung relied on his unconscious and trusted it, the more it worked for him.
“I observed one concrete fact, for instance in watching Dr. Jung, that the older he became, the more he got the information he needed for whatever he was thinking about or working on; it simply ran after him.”
Once, when he was occupied with a specific problem, a general practitioner in Australia sent him material he could use, and it arrived by mail just at the very time Jung said, “Now I ought to have some observations on that kind of thing.”
Jung sometimes referred to these types of circumstances as “magic causality.”
He strongly suspected it had its source in the unconscious, yet he struggled to find a way to have it accepted by the scientific community. Nor did he understand fully how it worked.
While Jung was familiar with the most up-to-date scientific discoveries and had contact with Nils Bohr and Albert Einstein, the explosive findings of quantum physics had yet to be revealed. For us of the 21st century, we have the means and ability to understand why synchronicity works, even if it still seems incredulous.
How to Experience More Synchronicity
As we accept our oneness with all things and relax in the possibilities of what we might become if we dare to believe, we can invoke synchronicity.
Once we accept the idea that the universe will bring to us whatever we need to succeed at our goals, we become more integrated within ourselves.
The minute we are willing to accept the help from this “invisible collaborator,” we will attract it everywhere in our lives. From both the seen and unseen, from that which we understand and that which is mysterious, good things will happen to us.
Some common ways you can recognize these signs include:
- Perfectly timed encounters or messages that answer a question you’ve been holding inside
- Repeating patterns or themes (numbers, words, symbols) that show up around a specific decision or desire
- A strong inner feeling of “this is too on‑point to be random” that brings clarity or calm, not panic
When you understand how your subconscious mind works, these so‑called “coincidences” stop feeling random and start becoming a natural part of your everyday life. Synchronicity is simply your inner world and the universe working together, responding to the thoughts, images, and intentions you hold most consistently.
This is exactly what the Mind Power Training is designed to teach. Through a step‑by‑step, 6‑week process, you learn how to work with your thoughts, subconscious, and energy so that you attract the people, ideas, and opportunities you need at the right time. If you want to experience more synchronicity on purpose—not just by accident—this training gives you a practical framework for doing that.
