Revelations of Chance

Roderick Main

Description

In this fascinating book, Roderick Main examines meaningful coincidence or what Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung called synchronicity. Moving beyond Jung's psychological theory, he explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience and clarifies connections between the phenomenon and a range of traditional spiritual concepts, including numinosity, miraculousness, transformation, unity, transcendence and immanence, providence, and revelation. Through the detailed analysis of two remarkable series of synchronistic events, Main illustrates and further develops these connections. He also includes an examination of the alleged synchronistic basis of the ancient Chinese Oracle of Change, the I Ching.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Synchronicity and Spirit

3. The Spiritual Dimension of Spontaneous Synchronicities

4. Symbol, Myth, and Synchronicity: The Birth of Athena

5. Multiple Synchronicities of a Chess Grandmaster

6. The Self-Revelation of Synchronicity as Spirit: A Modern Grail Story

7. Synchronicity and Spirit in the I Ching

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

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Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791480434
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

R EVELATIONSOF C H A N C E

Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

R O D E R I C K M A I N

Revelations of Chance

SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology

Richard D. Mann, editor

Revelations of Chance

Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience

Roderick Main

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2007 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Main, Roderick. Revelations of chance : synchronicity as spiritual experience / Roderick Main. p. cm. — (SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7023-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7024-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Coincidence—Religious aspects. I. Title. II. Series.

BL625.93.M35 204'.2—dc22

2007

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2006012813

In memory of John Mein Main (1930–2006)

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

CONTENTS

2. Synchronicity and Spirit

3. The Spiritual Dimension of Spontaneous Synchronicities

4. Symbol, Myth, and Synchronicity: The Birth of Athena

5. Multiple Synchronicities of a Chess Grandmaster

6. The Self-Revelation of Synchronicity as Spirit: A Modern Grail Story

7. Synchronicity and Spirit in theI Ching

Notes

References

Index

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Whole and divided lines

The four kinds of lines

Hexagram 44, Kou/Coming to Meet

The eight trigrams

Hexagram 43, Kui/Break-through (Resoluteness)

Hexagram 35, Chin/Progress

Hexagram 12, P’i/Standstill (Stagnation)

Hexagram 61, Chung Fu/Inner Truth

Hexagram 50, Ting / The Cauldron

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