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The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and Self

by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jungian psychology meets Taoist ideas of meaningful coincidence

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Jungian psychology meets Taoist ideas of meaningful coincidence

Jean Shinoda Bolen’s anniversary edition places synchronicity—the idea of coincidences experienced as meaningful—in conversation with the Taoist concept of an underlying connectedness. Framed through Jungian psychology, the book considers moments of sudden insight, dreams, intuitive perceptions, and seemingly charged encounters with the outside world. Its subject is interpretive rather than diagnostic: Bolen presents Tao and synchronicity as lenses for examining how inner life and external events can appear to intersect. The compact volume also traces links between psychology and mysticism, and between rational and intuitive modes of understanding.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Jungian psychotherapy and synchronicity
  • Readers exploring connections between psychology, mysticism, and Taoist thought
  • People curious about dreams, intuition, and meaningful coincidence

Themes

SynchronicityJungian psychologyTaoismIntuition and dreamsMysticism and the self

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Book overview

Understanding the Moments That Touch and Transform Our Lives

Who hasn't experienced that eerie coincidence, that sudden, baffling insight, that occasional flash of extrasensory perception that astonishes? Can these events be dismissed as mere chance, or do they have some deeper significance for us?

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic explores the inter-relationship between these meaningful coincidences and our intuitive sense that we are part of some deep oneness with the universe -- a oneness called Tao in Eastern philosophy and synchronicity in Jungian psychology. By relating the concepts of Tao and synchronicity, Dr. Bolen reveals important links between psychology and mysticism, right brain and left, the individual and the external world. The Tao of Psychology provides the key for each individual to interpret the synchronistic events in his or her life and gives fresh insight into the relationships, dreams, and flashes of perception that transform our existence.

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