Synchronicity

Carl Jung's theory of cause and effect
Was: acausal events can connect.
This assumption he named
Synchronicity, aimed
To endorse déjà vu with respect.

In our "real life" we occasionally encounter events that cannot be easily reconciled naturalistically, e.g., déjà vu episodes or improbable synchronicity events. In modern times we have learned to treat such events skeptically, to write them off as memory glitches. Most of the time this is probably valid. It's very easy for humans to be deluded and see patterns when none exist. However, not all events can be so easily dismissed.

Such improbable events received attention from the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology Carl Gustav Jung (1876–1961). Jung spoke of synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle and formally introduced the concept in his 1952 paper of the same name. One of Jung's favorite quotes was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."