How to Ignite the Spark of Personal Transformation Through Synchronicity

The spark that awakens the Self

Nov 06, 2025

Note: As we narrated in the previous article, synchronicity is the simultaneous occurrence of two or more events that are not causally related, but which share a meaning or a sense of connection for the observer. For example, thinking of someone and suddenly encountering them; or seeing the same number everywhere; or reciting a song in your mind and suddenly hearing someone next to you sing it, etc.

Today we will look at how synchronicity can manifest in people at crucial moments, when there seems to be no apparent way out, thereby igniting a spark that can produce great personal transformation.

This is because, let us remember, for Jung synchronicity was not a mere coincidence but a manifestation of an underlying order in the universe, which he called Unus Mundus. This order implies that psyche and matter are not separate entities, but aspects of the same fundamental reality.

These are complex concepts that we will address gradually; for now let us concern ourselves with how we can approach those synchronicities that transform us — just as happened with a patient whose therapy with the psychoanalyst was facing difficulties, until a synchronicity changed the course of her treatment:

During a session with a young patient who had a very logical and rational mindset, she told Carl Jung a dream in which she was given a golden scarab.While the patient narrated her dream, Jung was sitting with his back to a closed window. Suddenly, a sound was heard, as if an insect had struck the window. Jung turned around, opened the window, and captured a flying golden beetle (Cetonia aurata), similar to the golden scarab from the patient’s dream.

As we know, for Jung this event revealed an acausal connection, in which the unconscious “knew” or “anticipated” an event beyond time and space.

Later Carl Jung mentioned how synchronicity could manifest favorably at moments when personal change becomes impossible, and therefore he said:

“These situations, quite different in appearance, have in common an element of ‘impossibility’. The scarab patient faced an ‘impossible’ situation because the treatment was stalled and it seemed there was no way out of the dead end. In such situations, if they are truly serious, archetypal dreams are likely to occur that mark a possible line of advance one would never have imagined.”

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Awakening the Dilemma for Transformation

The lesson of the previous anecdote is that we must be capable of reaching those elements of “impossibility,” those dilemmas that appear to have no apparent solution.

That is to say, for example, the conflict between our thoughts and our emotions, between our virtues and our faults.

We must be capable of reaching the deepest dilemmas of our soul (psyche) so that that kind of divine intelligence may manifest and unite the pairs of opposites, even through synchronicities.

For this reason Carl Jung says:

“However incomprehensible it may seem, we are finally forced to admit that in the unconscious there is something like an a priori knowledge or an immediate presence of events that lack a causal basis. In any case, our concept of causality is incapable of explaining the facts.”

Here Jung refers to the collective unconscious, which possesses that a priori knowledge, without an apparent origin, capable of encompassing everything and therefore capable of resolving the deep dilemmas of our psyche.

It is as if all the wisdom of humanity truly resided there; hence Jung’s claim that it is acausal.

Later on, the psychoanalyst goes even further and suggests that the collective unconscious seems to be a microcosm of the macrocosm: that is, it reflects the entire universe, connecting the individual with the universal through archetypes.

Recognizing the existence of such a higher intelligence opens us to the potential of synchronicities, which can guide us as “signals” from the Self and bring us closer to the transformations we require.

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Albertus Magnus: There Is Great Power in Our Soul

*Saint Albertus Magnus*, a fresco by Tommaso da Modena (1352), Chapter hall of convent of St. Nicholas, Treviso, Italy

Bishop Albertus Magnus (1193–1280), teacher of Thomas Aquinas and one of the greatest intellectuals of the Middle Ages, considered the patron saint of science, became aware of synchronicity and its relationship with emotivity.

We conclude with some of his words quoted by Carl Jung, which are useful for our purpose.

Albertus Magnus says:

“I have discovered an instructive account (of magic) in Avicenna’s Liber Sextus Naturalium, which says that in the human soul there resides a certain power to alter things and that all else is subordinate to it, especially when it is moved by an outburst of love, hatred, or pleasure. Therefore, when a man’s soul falls into excessive passion, it (magically) binds things together and transforms them at will. For a long time I did not believe it, but after having read necromantic books and others on signs and magic, I realized that the emotionality of the human soul is the main cause of all these things—either because, due to its great emotion, it changes its corporeal substance and the other things it seeks, or because, considering its dignity, the other inferior things are subject to it, or because the proper hour or the astrological situation or some other power coincides with such disordered emotion, and we (consequently) believe that it is the soul that unleashes this power… Whoever learns the secret of making and unmaking these things must know that anyone can influence everything by magic, if they fall into some outburst… and that they must do it at the moment the outburst overtakes them and act with the things the soul indicates.”

These words of Albertus Magnus coincide with what Jung himself demonstrated in his experiment on synchronicity: there is a relationship between results favorable to synchronicity and the enthusiasm to obtain them.

Therefore, I believe that this relationship can be used to our advantage, awakening a great desire to reach our fullness or individuation. To connect with that higher intelligence that goes beyond the conscious mind, so that synchronicities may manifest and resolve what appears irresolvable.

We need to know what our soul’s deepest desires and yearnings are and connect with them. Let us remember that within us lies a natural desire to find something valuable for our lives, to give profound meaning to our existence.

Let us connect with it and let the higher intelligence of our Self do its work and guide us to wholeness.

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