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In this series of lectures the author calls on ancient divination practices of primitives, on the use of oracles in ancient Greece and elsewhere, but particularly on Chinese thinking, to show how modern mathematics and quantum physics have sophisticated such ideas, and, of course, Jung with his theory of synchronicity. Following her interest in numerology, she shows how most methods of divination depends on the archetypal nature of the natural integers. These are potentially eternal as they can go on forever. She discusses the patterns made with them, as in geomancy, astrology, the I Ching, etc., and the appropriate time which isolates the living moment in which the apparent miracle occurs, that is, when an outside event coincides with the inner meaning. She helps the reader with homely examples in common speech, such as ‘his number is up’.
Von Franz has some hard things to say about statistical experiments such as Rhine's, pointing out that the law of probability applies only to large numbers and has puny statistical results, ironing out the contributions of the gifted ones. It is also true, however, that these experiments have won over a number of people.
Attention is also given to divinatory techniques which do not depend on number as, for