The Synchronicity Key: The Hidden Intelligence Guiding the Universe and You --- by David Wilcock (2013)

I first learned about synchronicity directly from the writings of Carl Jung. So I never really understood how it has been adopted by mystics, spiritualists, and others as a way to try to explain things that it was never meant to explain. The “Synchronicity Key” is one of those books.

I understand now why Jung is so often accused of being a mystic (he wasn't, he was an intellectually rigid scientist who followed the scientific evidence even when it contradicted common sense, as any true scientist should). This book makes a lot of far-fetched claims that most would consider pseudoscience at best. And it claims outright that synchronicity is “the key that unlocks the greatest mystery of all time”. Jung himself was very adamant about not trying to explain synchronicity, or suggesting that it could be used to explain anything. He simply and meticulously documented what it was, and the evidence of its existence.

Nonetheless, I found this book interesting, even though Jung humself would probably wince at the title alone. It strongly supports my own beliefs in a single Universal Intelligence that is the source of all being, and a coming “Golden Age”. Though I didn't come to these beliefs in anything like the way Wilcock does (i.e. through intellectual analysis of patterns in history). I don't completely dismiss Wilcock's discussion; but I don't think it is as convincing as a simple honest look within ourselves can be.