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Synchronicity Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster
- Type
- Book
- By
- Allan Combs and Mark Holland
- Publisher
- Marlowe & Company
- Source
- Marlowe & Company
- Published
- 2001
A wide-ranging collection on synchronicity: science, mythology, the trickster archetype, and the trickier edges where meaning and chance blur.
This anthology, edited by consciousness researcher Allan Combs and Jungian analyst Mark Holland, gathers essays on synchronicity from an unusual range of angles: science, mythology, and the trickster archetype, which disrupts categories and makes a virtue of ambiguity.
The collection is more kaleidoscope than argument. Its value is breadth — it shows how many disciplines have taken up the idea and what each does with it — rather than a single line of evidence. Readers looking for a verdict will be frustrated; readers looking for a map of the territory will find it useful.
The meaning
It gathers serious voices from many disciplines, treating synchronicity as a real phenomenon worth mapping.
The skeptic
The essay collection is more kaleidoscope than argument; breadth is not the same as evidence.
About the author
Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher; Mark Holland is a Jungian analyst. Together they survey synchronicity from many angles.
Key takeaways
- Surveys synchronicity across science, myth, and the trickster archetype.
- Edited by a consciousness researcher and a Jungian analyst.
- Useful as a map of the many ways the idea has been taken up.