synchronistic
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One of Jung’s most iconic synchronistic stories concerned a patient who he felt had become so stuck in her own rationality that it interfered with her ability to understand her own and emotional life.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022
Magic in this world is not a supernatural power based in fairy-tale notions of good and evil; it’s an almost synchronistic manifestation of the most powerful of needs and desires.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021
“The whole thing was a complete synchronistic opportunity,” Lennox said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2018
After that synchronistic little brush with death, the prospect of telling my mom about the book loomed rather smaller.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2014
Several connected books of chronicles have indeed been found; there is a synchronistic book of annals of Babylonia and Assyria, there is a long Assyrian chronicle, and there are annalistic fragments.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
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