Can we predict the future? A journey into dream premonitions
A few weeks ago (or more) on a Thursday, a friend of mine who is also a colleague at work calls me up to hang out with him at night. Friday was going to be his last day at the firm, and as I was in Toronto, and so was he. He wanted to hang out and have a beer and talk about the good times and the not so good times. What the friend did not know was that I expected his call. The logical part of my brain knew that Friday was going to be his last day and that he would want to hang out before. But the illogical part was interpreting a dream I had the night before where I saw him talking to me about going out for a drink at night. This latter case is an example of what psychologist Carl Jung had called Synchronicity. At some point in his career studying and curing mental illness, Carl Jung would succumb to insanity for a period. It might have been during this period or after it that he wrote about “synchronicity an acausal connecting principle.” He starts this short volume by reca...