Abstract

Comments on the article by V. Mansfield et al (see record 1998-12515-001) regarding the distinction between parapsychological and synchronistic events as revealed in the published works and correspondence of J. B. Rhine and C. G. Jung. The current author makes an attempt to bridge the elements of this distinction, proposing that meaning structures are created in both cases. Acausal correlations are established in the Jungian sense through the archetypes and the unconscious psychological processes of the experience of the synchronistic events, whereas in the parapsychological experiment, lacking an archetypal basis, there is creation of a meaning-structure of variables by the experimental manipulation of the variables themselves. It is argued that underlying both synchronicity and parapsychological events is the establishment of an acausal, correlation process.