| 749 <fc green>Footnote</fc> <fc red><sup>15.</sup></fc><sub>Strictly speaking, the experience of synchronistic events is not based on the coincidence of inner and outer events but, as Jung says, "on the //simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic stats.//" (More precisely, it is by no means the case that we comprehend an event of the outer world "in itself," since it is also, in the final analysis, perceived via the filter of our psyche." The two conditions are 1) the normal, probable (i.e., causally explainable), <fc green>(so what we see)</fc>and 2) another which is not causally deducible from the first state, namely, the critical occurrence which, as it were, "breaks into" the first state. In the latter case "an unexpected content which is directly or indirectly connected with some external objective objective event coincides with the ordinary psychic state" ("Synchronicity," //The Structure and Dynamics of the Psychi, CW//, Vol. VIII, §855). </sub> | 749 <fc green>Footnote</fc> <fc red><sup>15.</sup></fc><sub>Strictly speaking, the experience of synchronistic events is not based on the coincidence of inner and outer events but, as Jung says, "on the //simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic stats.//" (More precisely, it is by no means the case that we comprehend an event of the outer world "in itself," since it is also, in the final analysis, perceived via the filter of our psyche." The two conditions are 1) the normal, probable (i.e., causally explainable), <fc green>(so what we see) </fc>and 2) another which is not causally deducible from the first state, namely, the critical occurrence which, as it were, "breaks into" the first state. In the latter case "an unexpected content which is directly or indirectly connected with some external objective objective event coincides with the ordinary psychic state" ("Synchronicity," //The Structure and Dynamics of the Psychi, CW//, Vol. VIII, §855). </sub> |