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Synchronicity: Carl Jung’s Most Disturbing Theory About Reality

Pursuit of Wonder | May 19, 2026



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In this video, we explore one of Carl Jung’s stranger theories about psychology and reality: Synchronicity. Though often grossly misunderstood or misrepresented, this idea is much more robust when considered in Jungian terms. Regardless of its underlying truth, the idea brings into question the patterns of our lives and the nature of existence. Are things merely a coincidence? Or is there something more at play?

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  1. @cumbuchaTV

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    My older brother was always the biggest stoner I ever knew. He was also very advanced spiritually always reading books about lifes secrets while smoking dmt.. and not a little bit he would toke on dmt like it's a nicotine vape. He had a long fight with brain cancer and was very "limp" in his last days and could barely talk. I would ask him to speak with me and wouldnt get much. I remember asking my mom "can he smoke?" Which is something we ALWAYS did no matter what. He said "hell yeah!" Like he was mad that I would ask something like that. My sweet old mother always hated weed and never wanted to see it. She lit the pipe and held it for him. It gave him a rush of energy as he wanted to hop up and start working around the house or make art like he usually always would being a skilled carpenter. Sorry I'm ranting now.. He eventually passed not long after that. Funeral home cancelled the date for the funeral twice.. only to land on 4/20/26. I hope he knows that was the biggest funeral I have ever seen. His lifelong friends made sure to send him off with a big smelly sack in his pocket!

  2. @Agent_13

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    Extremely facinating topic, and the subject actually touches me a little. My username on many platforms digitally is Agent 13, some time during highschool and early into my adult life, the number 13 kept barraging me, appearing everywhere i looked. I looked into all the meanings and familiarized myself with the numerology behind it, and i dont know, i just kinda changed. If you think theres a sign, or youre recognizing a pattern, familiarize yourself with its meaning. Knowledge cant hurt you unless its a cognito hazard!

  3. @swati3916

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    Synchronicity is mind‑boggling. I have an incoherent intuition that this exists because, somewhere over billions and billions of years, we come from matter—the stars. Whatever or whoever we are today, remember that it took so much time for matter itself to form into the living persons that we are. And since we are born from it, we are part of it, and we can experience it—maybe we can even change it, the world around us, in a small way, if the will, intent, or feeling is strong enough or something of that sort. There could be a realm, dimension, or field of science—whatever you call it—that we have no idea about currently, where the answer silently lies hidden, since it is still intangible to us right now.

  4. @George-y3u4j

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    I have experienced many synchronistic events in my life, some of the more interesting ones include being born on 9th November – 9/11 and on September 11 flying from the UK to Bologna Italy, no idea of the terrorist attacks because flying, then staying in a hotel opposite the train station which has also previously been subject to a terrorist attack. Years later on 9/11 it was my 45th birthday as Donald Trump became the 45th president, his mother was a MacLeod as was my grandmother and for some strange coincidence my dog is called Baron

  5. @satyasreebolloju-g8i

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    Its daily happening for me.. good to know some scientist explained this..but it feels like burden, it feels like a trap, cant go out of loop it leads to mild psycosis surely it leads to bad events gradually

  6. @ghostiescribbles9534

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    idk if I already commented on this but if I did I have better example: the habit of waking up unintentionally at a time that was significant in a piece of fiction you recently saw
    for example, for about a few days after I watched the conjuring for the first time i woke up at 3:07 AM, which is when the clocks stop in the movie. I was only 11 or 12 years old, so I was still kinda young enough to wake up in the middle of the night if i got scared. it was 3:07 though. I don't know why.

  7. @ulibarriL

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    A book I'm writing and the experience I'm having with it is how I learned about Carl Yung. I was aware of some of his philosophies leading to terms like Yungian, but never the person.

    I am a writer, and I have tried multiple times to write a full story by plotting. I could never get anything to form and stabilize.
    It wasn't until I had a dream about a young woman living on a distant world that this feeling burst inside me. I knew I had something that absolutely needed to be written.

    I've been working on this story for over two years, and it is near completion. I can't explain it, but I don't feel like I created this story. It feels like it is being told to me by this woman. Only by writing am i able to discover the pieces and where they accurately fit. I know it in my very bones that her and I are synced. I don't know, but I can feel her.

  8. @BobHill-s2c

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    The problem with defining anything relating to the Truth is that we rarely agree on definitions and their true meanings.

    Go ask ten of your friends to define God…or Universe… or Truth. Aa Alan Watts said: language is scrawny and linear, the reality is complex and infinite.

  9. @awarmhearth

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    If we lived in a truly random reality the nature of quantum mechanics would mean the universe could catastrophically "glitch" at any given moment. Yet here we are and it is persisting for billions of years. There's no such thing as chance. Just a bunch of processes that, on the surface, appear random.

  10. @jasondragna4144

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    I watched this video and another video on Arthur , and it didn’t make sense. Arthur interested me because I have a theory that’s mainly based on Will Purpose and Especially, Sensitivity. I didn’t gain insights from a video the seems insightful to me why?

  11. @Shubh_123S

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    I'm in the military, I've a close friend during my training but we broke up at the end of the training due to a fight, we never spoke after that, after 7 years I've a dream about him getting married, and the next day I was taking over call with one of our mutual friend, then he said that that friend is getting married, I was totally shocked 🤯🤯 I've never experienced something like that

  12. @redrabbit6392

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    With all of the variables sure it's possible that it's coincidence but I would argue. With all of the variables the fact that synchronicity happens to so many at important moments where they can receive the experience in a way that affects them fundamentally is unlikely with how short of lives we live. So many of us

  13. @QUINT34577

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    Like all videos about this topic, this one gives absolutely no new advances or greater clarity with the language in explaining anything. Just the same vaugness of almost all the other videos. For me anyway. Followed by lots of examples in the comments which shed no light on anything.

  14. @GrantGarrido

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    I have heard it said, “there are no coincidences,” strange improbable things happen because they are messages, or guidance from the universe.

    5th July 2025; my sister’s birthday was coming up and wife found the perfect, “Sister” Birthday card, which I added my heart felt feelings for her. My Sister and I have found the true meaning of family, and we had recently shared with each other how meaningful our relationship is to both of us, and we both agreed that the two of us have finally figured out how to be a loving family. I am not sure if I said it, but I do remember that the thought came to me that our mom and dad would be very happy that the last “two “of our immediate family have figured it out, and truly respect and love each other, especially our mom. We mailed the card in time for her to receive it before her Birthday on July 11th.

    25th August 7:00 AM; At this point in time, wife and I have been dealing with the most heart-breaking situation we have ever encountered. For me, this issue created a feeling of hopelessness and a very dark sadness.

    I routinely start my day by going to our desktop computer where I keep my translated version of the Tao Te Ching and practice a version of what I learned from Henry Groves, my grandfather. He would start his day by randomly opening his bible and, without looking, drop his finger on the page and that is the verse he would start his day with. My version of this is to open the Word Document of the Tao Te Ching, pull the cursor down and randomly let go, and the verse it lands on is the verse I start my day with. This morning, as I struggled with the turmoil in my heart, I landed on the 79th Verse.

    After a disagreement, resentment always lingers.

    But the wise understand to rely on the love that The Perfection has filled your heart with.

    The best response is to return kindness for any perceived insult, because hostility will never bring a positive result.

    So, the wise will always reject retaliation and offer forgiveness.

    Never expect to receive gratitude for your goodwill, because the ultimate reward is the gift you give to yourself.

    The ones that retaliate, will always return to the emptiness of their heart.

    The real winner will return positivity in all situations.

    The ones that offer forgiveness, will always experience the fullness of life.

    I shared this with my wife and we both felt the heaviness lift, and it was clear to us that we would proceed with this issue with positivity and love. But, I realized, this was going to be the ultimate test of all I have learned and accepted as my spiritual truth. So, this was a wonderful way to start our day, but little did I know how unbelievably amazing this day would be.

    25th August 3:30 PM; We received a living plant from my sister. The name of the plant is Peace Lilly, so we called my sister in California to thank her. She told us when she saw the name of the flowering plant, she felt we would appreciate some peace at this point in time, and then thanked us for the card, and commented that it was so ironic that you got the plant the same day I got your card! We were stunned, and ask what card? She said, my birthday card! We told her that card was sent before her birthday in July! We were shocked and baffled, and thought, that the card must have been lost for a month and a half, and then amazingly was found so these two acts of love, somehow would find us on the same day. So, of course I was thinking divine intervention, but I then thought, that might just be wishful thinking on my part. But for sure it was going to be an amazing story to tell.

    My sister then got the card in its envelope and told us that the card went to Tacoma, WA. It was not post marked until 22nd August. With this shocking information, I now know that all of this was divinely guided by our mother, and maybe both of our parents had a hand in it, and I now believe they are still watching over us.

    The post mark on my sister’s Birthday card is, 22nd August, and this is our mother’s birthday, and by the way, our dad’s name is, August.

  15. @imontheyoutubes

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    I haven't watched this channel lately and I kinda wish the cuts with the narrator weren't added. It just had such a nice vibe you could kinda lose yourself in before, the cuts kinda take away from the flow of the video. Maybe he could just do an outtro? It's not the guy, it's just chopping up the great animations and visuals. It's a little jarring compared to how it was without.

  16. @MrClout-vi4il

    May 19, 2026 at 8:04 am

    Crazy I decided to search you guys up after not watching for idk how long now, and this is what I see. All I’ve been noticing lately is synchronicity’s, been telling my friend and girlfriend too bc I feel nuts sometimes.

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