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Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind
- Type
- Book
- By
- Kirby Surprise
- Publisher
- New Page Books
- Source
- New Page Books
- Published
- 2012
A modern, practical take arguing that synchronicity is something you can notice and work with — not a rare mystery but a feature of how attention meets the world.
Kirby Surprise's Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind (2012) is one of the more grounded modern popular treatments of the subject. Where the classic texts ask what synchronicity is, Surprise asks what you can do with it — how noticing coincidence can become a practical feature of attention and choice.
The book is deliberately un-mystical, which is both its strength and its limit. Treating synchronicity as a skill makes it useful to more people, but practical usefulness is not the same as evidence, and the book describes an experience rather than demonstrating a mechanism. It sits comfortably on this shelf as the pragmatic, how-to end of the spectrum.
The meaning
Surprise demystifies the experience and turns it into a tool, which makes it more useful to more people.
The skeptic
Practical usefulness is not the same as evidence; the book describes an experience, not a mechanism.
About the author
A counselor who writes about synchronicity as a practical feature of attention and choice.
Key takeaways
- Frames synchronicity as a practical feature of attention and choice.
- One of the more grounded modern popular treatments.
- Useful for readers who want the experience without the metaphysics.