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Synchronicity and Carl Jung’s metaphysics. #CollectiveUnconscious #GermanIdealism #BernardoKastrup

Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts

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The Importance of Synchronicity in Inner Life

The Ignatians develop that very greatly psychotherapy I think too is more generally a practice that tries to understand inner life. Jung's metaphysics gives a grounding for taking synchronicity active imagination unconscious dynamics more seriously because it says it's not just part of mere fantasy going on in my head and your head but actually is part of our participation in a wider reality. This leads me just to a thought about German idealism because it's a form of idealism that personally I'm wary of. It comes out of the ideas of Jakoburmö and then picked up in various ways by German romantic figures like Schelling, Hegel and Bermer.

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