Thursday, 5 November 2009

Of course, there is also an alternate to consider, having a set Jungian based cards also ?

So I could in fact create 6 sets of 4 cards per suit, having 3 sets of Jungian based cards also fits with Jung's coining of the term synchronicity to describe what he called the "acausal connecting principle" that links mind and matter.

He said this underlying connectedness manifests itself through meaningful coincidences that cannot be explained by cause and effect. Such synchronicities occur, he theorized, when a strong need arises in the psyche of an individual.

He described three types that he had observed:

the coinciding of a thought or feeling with an outside event.
a dream, vision or premonition of something that then happens in the future;
and a dream or vision that coincides with an event occurring at a distance.

No one has come up with a definition that has superceded his, although there has been debate on whether events linked to precognition and clairvoyance should be included as synchronicity.

This last point brings me back to my original thoughts about this project and the use of Zener Cards.