Synchronicity: Reason, Revelation, and Religious Implications with Roderick Main

Welcome to episode 53 of the MindThatEgo Podcast. Roderick Main works at the University of Essex, where he is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. His research focuses on religion, mythology, literature, and, of course, synchronicity.

His books include Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, The Rupture of Time, Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment, and Revelations of Chance. He is also a fellow co-author on the Playful Universe.

To honor the purpose of that book, I was keen to approach synchronicity firstly from Roderick’s personal experience, understanding how he interprets and unpacks their meaning, before moving into theoretical explanations.

The result is a dialogue that provides practical ways to participate with synchronistic events, such as deciphering symbols and intuitively linking relevant associations. We look at different forms of synchronicity, including the personal, archetypal, and collective, and the nuances of discernment.

How do you tell genuine synchronicity from delusions or magical thinking? What are pathologies of meaning or dark synchronicities? What are the religious and philosophical implications? And what truly is the power of myth? 

All that, and more, coming up.

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00:00 Intro
02:00 Investigating Roderick's Praying Mantis Synchronicity
10:30 Unpacking Meaning and Points of Parallel
13:00 Emotion as Guiding Synchronicity
16:00 Collective, Transformational, Archetypal Symbols
19:30 The Transpersonal As Beyond Purview
22:00 Synchronicity in Research and Academia
28:30 Jung and the "Whole Judgement"
34:00 Synchronicity and Ruptures in Time
38:00 Relationship to the Unseen and Religious Implications
41:00 The Mind Body Problem and Dual-Aspect Monism
47:00 Madness, Naive Enchantment, and Animism
53:00 Pathologies of Meaning and Delusions of Reference
01:05:00 Madness as Influx of Unconscious Material
01:07:00 Mythological as Sacred Stories Alive and Manifesting
01:17:00 Synchronicity and the Emergence Factor
01:21:00 Fetishising Synchronicity and Timing of the Moment
01:24:00 Revelations of Chance

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