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11:11 Synchronicities
Did your strange experience come from the collective unconscious or from your own individual subconscious?
If you’re like me, you get a kick out of seeing repeating digits. I check the time and it’s 11:11 and I think I’m on the right path. Once, a cashier was excited for my upcoming lucky day when my total came to $7.77. On another day, I made three purchases, each with a nickel back in change: 5,5,5.
Numerology has something to say about repeating digits, and if you ascribe meaning to such numbers, then encountering them is often described as a synchronicity.
But is it?
According to philosopher, professor of religion, and Jungian analyst Jenny Yates, Carl Jung observed that “space and time are part of the conscious mind,” but in the collective unconscious, synchronistic experiences are not bound by space and time.” Synchronicities are “connected through meaning rather than through cause and effect.” They put you in a “quantum world of reality rather than in the world of Newtonian physics.”
