Synchronicity & You: Understanding the Role of Meaningful Coincidence in Your Life [Paperback]

Frank Joseph (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2003

Synchronicity can be defined as meaningful coincidence, those seemingly random incidents that connect people, objects and events without a recognizable cause. Synchronicity and You is a lively study of the diverse cultures that have explored this phenomenon, and a discussion of anecdotal evidence from individuals who've witnessed the power of synchronicity in their own lives. The significance of coincidence, the author asserts, clearly reveals our parts in the vast tapestry of existence, through which we are all related. Covering such topics as precognition, significant numbers, and shared dreams, this fascinating exploration provides a way to analyze and decode these events, allowing readers to recognize and interpret them, unlocking the deepest secrets of the subconscious and helping to make a powerful and positive impact on their everyday lives.

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Joseph, a marketing director at Galde Press who has appeared on Fox Television's Strange America, here presents a way for individuals to find ultimate meaning within the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated events. "Synchronicity"?or meaningful coincidence?"is the long-lost, direct experience with God." Such an experience, Joseph contends, is at once individual and a "materialization of the organizational will of the universe." Joseph provides 17 categories for such experiences and offers meditation as a technique for reflecting on their meaning. From Etruscan to Jungian, a long tradition of monistic esotericism is summoned to support Joseph's teaching: "Synchronicity...is the golden key, searched for by generations of thinkers, to unlock the reality of spiritual existence.... It is our individual lifeline to that Compassionate Mystery that speaks its care to us in symbols meant specifically for us." While Freud is not the psychologist of choice here, some readers may opt for Jung's old teacher: "Freud, as it happens, had a name for this obsessive perception of affinities (he called it paranoia)" (Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books, November 12, 1998). For consideration by larger public libraries.?John R. Leech, New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Frank Joseph is the marketing director of Galde Press and the editor of Ancient American, a bi-monthly archaeology magazine. He is the author of four books and has appeared on "The Art Bell Show", "The Laura Lee Show" and Fox Television's "Strange Universe". He lives in Wisconsin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Vega (September 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843331020
• ISBN-13: 978-1843331025
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,898,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Frank Joseph has been the editor-in-chief of "Ancient American" magazine since its debut in 1993. He is the author of twenty books about prehistory re-published in as many foreign languages, including "The Atlantis Encyclopedia", "Opening the Ark of the Covenant", and "Unearthing Ancient America". Joseph is a frequent guest speaker at various metaphysical and archaeological societies in the U.S. and abroad.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Messages from a cosmic trickster?, April 9, 2003

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Takis Tz. (InYourHead) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Synchronicity & You (Hardcover)

Is there more to interpreting reality than just the perceptions of your five senses? Is there indeed a "cosmic trickster" who decides to send you signals with irregular patterns about your own life?
In this fascinating book it is a reevaluation of older principles (the ancient Greek belief about lower and higher destiny for one) connected with modern psychology (C.Jung primarily) that leads to a mesmerising study of the phenomenon of synchronicities: events that we today tend to describe as "incredible coincidences" or dejavues without actually realising that there could be a meaning, a "code", which can reveal to us either things about to happen or can function as warnings about the future, or even, "messages" about ourselves and what we can do to alter the "higher destiny" which is the part of fate we actually can manipulate.

In the hi-tech, fast paced and materialistic modern world all this may sound like another book for "weirdos", but it can't be dismissed as others in its genre exactly because synchronicities are something mostly everyone notices at one point of life or another, and the more aware you are about them the more apparent they become.
Being a natural sceptic the first time i picked up this book i abandoned it after only being 1/3 into it becuase i felt it wasn't compatible with my own personal system of beliefs and understanding. It was only after i started noticing some startling synchronicities myself that i read it (through this time) again , only to realise that there's way more to synchronicities than, well, meets not only the eye but any of our senses.
I tend to think that the "truth" (whatever that may be) is not only something one can "learn" but it's also something one can feel and i consider both processes equally important.

The author divides synchronicities into 17 categories and studies them providing in the process numerous truly incredible examples about them. At certain parts of the book it's the examples themselves that steal the show and you may find yourself recognising situations that are in one way or the other familiar to you but you hadn't paid attention when they happened. Attention is of primary importance as you will find out if you go ahead and read it. Frank Joseph attempts to find what most of us would call a "rational explanation" about synchronicities. He's never dogmatic (to his credit) about his own thoughts and his book reads like a conversation with the reader making it one definite "cantputdowner".
In the end what he proposes is essentialy that the reader examines this his/herself and explain it in his/her terms. It doesnt actually matter how one decides to explain synchronicities he muses, what matters is that there is a different dimension of reality present for everyone waiting to be explored, discovered and deciphered.
Put this book in your bag of valuable tools.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Reccomended., August 4, 2010

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Brizdaz (Brisbane,Australia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Synchronicity & You: Understanding the Role of Meaningful Coincidence in Your Life (Paperback)

One of the best books on synchronicity that I have read.I can't recommend it highly enough.

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Joy to read, February 29, 2004

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Patricia Upczak "Patricia Rose Upczak" (Nederland, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Synchronicity & You: Understanding the Role of Meaningful Coincidence in Your Life (Paperback)

Frank Joseph and his work on synchronicity is powerful and insightful.
SYNCHRONICITY AND YOU is an absolutely wonderful book....
I highly recommend it to anyone interested in meaningful coincidences.