In Jung's own words
Synchronicity: Jung recounts the story of the Golden scarab beetle
Posted on*July 19, 2010*by*Stephen Parker, Ph.D (Article Selection and Commentary)*•*2 Comments
scarabaeid beetle (Cetonia aurata)
scarab beetle/dung beetle
A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which, contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since
Synchronicity: An Acasual Principle*(1952)
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Paragraph 843
Princeton University Press Edition.
2 Responses to*Synchronicity: Jung recounts the story of the Golden scarab beetle
Stephen Clementson*says:
October 31, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Yes, the scarab beetle event caught Carl Gustav Jung with his pants down, so-to-speak. That is because he wasn’t anticipating third-party intervention in what he believed to be the product of collective consciousness.
I am certainly not a religious person, but I have reasons to postulate that we are not alone in this universe. Furthermore, there appears to be a link to ancient Egypt. My wife and I have experienced Egypt-centred paranormal events of our own.
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Stephen Parker, Ph.D (Article Selection and Commentary)*says:
October 31, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Yes, Egypt has a strong psychological and synchronistic power…
Here is the link
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Synchronicity: Jung recounts the story of the Golden scarab beetle
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