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This is one of the finest books in the Fay Series and the fact that it is the most recent augurs well for the future. Joseph Cambray has written the clearest and most coherent study to date of the subject of synchronicity. This book deserves to be widely read and disseminated because in the past ‘synchronicity’ has been enshrouded with confusion and prejudice and the general reader has not been able to find a suitable point of entry into the debate. Cambray has provided an entry which opens up the field in an entirely new way. He is ideally suited to this task because he is trained not only in analytical psychology but also in the physical sciences. What is remarkable about this book is that Cambray takes synchronicity out of the confines of Jungian studies and links it to current research taking place in a variety of new and exciting fields in physics and the natural sciences. Synchronicity is too big an idea to be confined to Jungian thought but deserves to be part of the larger debates about the nature of matter, time and physical reality. Here is an important way in which Jungians can overcome their insularity and rejoin the mainstream of contemporary thought.
I am not a scientist, but I welcome new works, such as those of Cambray and Jean Knox, that attempt to resituate Jung in the context of the sciences. I am tired of people dismissing Jung as a mystic, and granting him only limited application in religious studies or cinema studies. Cambray explicates contemporary developments in complexity studies and quantum and relativity theories, and shows how these have a direct bearing on the theory of synchronicity. Of particular interest is his exploration of the links between Jung and Pauli, and also the historical connections between Jung and Einstein. I appreciate Cambray's presentation of complex adaptive systems and their capacity for self-organization and emergence. The links with the concept of the Self are clearly apparent, and as I read this book I could app