Now, although it was Jung who coined the word synchronicity (in collaboration with physicist Wolfgang Pauli) in 1950, he did not invent it. For this, the credit must go to the Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer, who was fascinated by coincidence and began collecting examples at the age of 20 (in 1900). A typical one concerned two young soldiers called Franz Richter, both admitted to the same military hospital with pneumonia. Both were 19, born in Silesia, and volunteers in the Transport Corps. He collected a hundred such coincidences in his book The Law of Seriality in 1919. As the title implies, he did not believe that coincidence is a matter of chance, but there is some unidentified principle in the universe that draws like together, a kind of gravitational force concerning events. If coincidence piles on coincidence he called it a progressive series. - Colin Wilson (from the book Superconsciousness: the quest for the peak experience (2009).
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