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The startling and paradoxical discoveries in quantum mechanics and the Jungian concepts of acausality and synchronicity are described and examined in terms of their parallels and their implication for our personal lives, particularly as they impart meaning to our existence. Included in the discussion are the bases for Einstein's objections to quantum mechanics, the importance of Bell's theorem as the bridge between subatomic and psychic events, the "measurement problem" in physics, along with the four major attempts at resolving the problem. Finally, it is speculated that there is already before us the arbitrary yet necessary resolution to the measurement problem: a vision of reality that provides for both an underlying order and oneness as well as its complementary partner that provides for free will, creativity, and individuality.

Quantum Mechanics: The theory that energy is not absorbed nor radiated continuously but discontinuously, in definite unit particles called quanta

Synchronicity: The meaningful but acausal confluence of events

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The Power of Meaning

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