About the Book

Synchronicity As Mystical Experience follows Carl Jung's lead in recognizing meaningful coincidence as a kind of modern-day enlightenment or emotional therapy everyone, not only sufferers from chronic neuroses, may use to connect with the spiritual basis of being. This fresh view of the subject defines the phenomenon in abundant anecdotal material, such as related accounts of the Titanic disaster, which attracted a constellation of synchronicity never described so thoroughly before, and informs readers how they may interpret the often-puzzling elements in meaningful coincidence. These details include the significance of recurring numbers, and personal discovery of our parallel lives.

There are several, recent titles dealing with Synchronicity, and all of them contribute valuably to the subject. For all their excellence, they neither address the daily application of the phenomenon, nor its intimate relationship with the human chakras. These are energy centers rising from the base of the spine to the top of our heads, and comprise fundamental aspects of human psychology, or, if you will, the soul. Their surprising relationship with meaningful coincidence indicates that each one of us is connected to the organizational scheme of all creation.

This important revelation is brought to light through Synchronicity, any apparent coincidence that inspires a sense of wonder and personal meaning or particular significance in the observer. It is a perceived connection between two or more objects, events, or persons without any recognizable cause. It is conditioned by situations in which apparently unrelated events converge to form a shared experience regarded as momentous by the person or persons experiencing it. An example of synchronicity is when, for no apparent reason, you suddenly remember a friend you have not thought of or heard from in years, and just then the telephone rings and the voice on the other end belongs to the recollected person.

Events such as these are typical instances of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence; events like these happen to millions of people every day. They are common enough, and most people, who experience them, after initial feelings of strangeness, forget about them or dismiss them as inevitable but trifling quirks of life classified under luck, good or bad. A closer examination of such phenomena suggests there is much more to them. While individual instances of synchronicity may seem trivial, they assume startling magnitudes of influence when seen in the bigger picture of their role in our lives, as explained in Synchronicity As Mystical Experience.

About the Author: After its publication by Boston's Element Books, in 1999, Frank Joseph's Synchronicity & You, Understanding the Role of Meaningful Coincidence in your Life was released in Japan, Holland, Hungary, Slovenia, Mexico, twice in Italy and twice in England. He was subsequently interviewed by several nationwide radio broadcasters, such as Art Bell, Whitley Strieber, and Jeff Rense. Joseph has been Shirley MacLaine's featured guest for half a dozen of the film celebrity's Internet shows. He is a frequent speaker at Minnesota's Theosophical Society, together with Association for Research and Enlightenment chapters in Virginia, Illinois, Texas, Arkansas and Wisconsin. Dozens of his related articles have appeared in Fate and Australia's New Dawn magazines over the last thirty years, while Joseph's other metaphysical books include Sacred Sites, a Guidebook to Mystical Centers (MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1992); Sacred Sites of the West (WA: Hancock House, 1997); Opening the Ark of the Covenant (NJ: New Page Books, 2007); Gods of the Runes (VT: Bear & Company, 2010); and Places of Power (Bear & Co., 2018). He lives today with his wife, Laura, and their Norwegian Forest cat, Sammy, in the Upper Mississippi Valley.