Synchronicity, a term coined by Carl Jung, is the experience of two or more causally unrelated events occurring together in a meaningful manner. As Jung said, to be truly synchronous, the events “should be unlikely to occur together by random chance.”

When we write we usually do so with the notion, even the hope, that others will read our words. But, the occasion of the writer and reader coming together is most often left to random chance. If we write something today, if we offer our thoughts and words to the world, there is the potential for them to be read, but we don’t know when. They could be read tomorrow. They could be read a year from now. They could be read ten or a hundred years from now. By writing, we create a space for synchronicity to occur.

As Virginia Woolf said, “Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”

I chose synchronicity to reflect the profundity of storytelling and its power to bind people, to shift consciousness, to heal hearts and souls, and to change material life.

When writers write, they access that which is deep within them, and they access that which is far beyond them. They access thoughts and desires, fears and hopes, the fundamental human experience we all share. They connect across time and space and drop a pebble in the deep puddle of humanity. They create subtle but pronounced and long-lasting, sometimes life-changing, effects.

They take interior circumstances and put them outside themselves to mix and mingle with the interior circumstances of others, to make new meanings, to bring connection and regeneration, and to bring order to the chaos of the cosmos.

This is synchronicity.