Those of you who have read much of my writing know that Albert Einstein is my model of the Jewish Hero, as well as the most important discoverer of the hidden world in the last hundred years. Because he rejected Halachic Judaism, the Judaism of laws and ritual, many people do not realize that in his essence he was a Jewish prophet following an inner source of inspiration (the still small voice of the Schechinah) into hiddenness. This is essentially the same path that Abraham and all the Jewish prophets traveled. Because Einstein did this in the early twentieth century, the prophetic quality of his work went unrecognized, while he essentially created the modern world. All our electronic devices and most importantly the internet would not exist without his genius.

Less well known is the interaction that Einstein had with Carl Jung as they frequently sat talking over lunch overlooking a Swiss lake. They shared their ideas as they were developing them with each other and their interactions influenced each other more than either realized. In particular Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Jung’s idea of Synchronicity are deeply inter-related. In Jung’s private writings he wrote that Einstein was a scientist who was only interested in data, and unsympathetic to the inner world. He would have been surprised by Einstein’s own private writings which reveal how deeply Jung’s words affected Einstein’s creation of both Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Mechanics introduces consciousness into the scientific equation.

Just as Quantum Mechanics has consciousness playing a central role Synchronicity depends upon a conscious awareness of something meaningful happening. The world is deterministic with cause and effect making many parallel chains of interaction. Jung noticed however that when two independent causal chains came together and were now in the same time and place they interacted and influenced each other. Many times this interaction was a meaningless coincidence but other times, an individual was aware of an extra layer of meaning that this synchronicity brought. In addition there was a humorous or ironic component to this experience. The individual’s awareness of this synchronicity added a non-deterministic element to reality. It was in this way that an individual could move from the level of consciousness known as ego into deeper layers of consciousness that were no longer individual but numinous. Jung called these creative sources Archetypes which gained access to the world through the individual affecting the flow of history.

Jung describe a self with a capital S or Self, which was hidden from the individual ego. Only when the individual ego is in tune with the greater mystery of the Self or what spiritual traditions such as Kabbalah call the Soul, can these Divine Archetypes of consciousness bring their gifts of creativity into manifestation. In my life I have found many episodes of co-incidence which appeared to me to have great meaning both personal and universal. This is especially true of events that my own ego found to be dystonic.

Being aware of Synchronicity and watching the humorous ironies of life appear and almost wink at you becomes an otherwise invisible guide to your own true path. No one else can see these synchronicities for you, they will only appear to you. No one else can make the individual choices for your life that must be made and it can be so hard to know which path to take. When you are young and life is full of promise and you have yet to be wounded by the ways of the world, choices are easy to make, sometimes playfully. The more experience in life you have, the more you become aware of Synchronicity. Making choices based on your awareness of Synchronicity creates a unique path that leads your ego to contact your Self or Soul and begin to live a life of truth, meaning, and happiness.

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