What are coincidences?  How do they happen?  Why do they happen?  What do they mean? Coincidence,  as commonly defined, is when two or more events happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection. But this definition only considers events that are causally related.  Synchronicity, a term coined by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920s, recognizes that concurrent events may be connected by meaning, rather than cause.  Synchronicity is when two or more events that appear not be connected, and are unlikely to occur together by chance, in fact do occur together in a way … [Read more...]