A combination of Jungian study, literary analysis, and therapy, this guide offers a powerful vision for capitalizing on synchronicity to instill peace in the self and the world. Synchronous moments are more than pure chance, coincidence, and dumb luck; this book shows that by recognizing them as a connection to a much larger, older pattern, readers can use the myths of culture and 1,000-year-old civilizations to guide themselves out of suffering and into tranquility. Starting with a new explanation of synchronicity and then offering practical instructions and exercises to tap into this collective wisdom, the book helps readers identify the mythic patterns that guide humanity, allowing them to face inner monsters without fear, convert them into love and compassion, and relax as part of a universal harmony.

Preface ‘A Funny Thing Happened...’
Part 1
Chapter 1 Synchronicity? Or Just Dumb Luck?
Chapter 2 The Guiding Hand, Synchronicity, Fate, and your Future
Chapter 3 The Conflict of Head and Heart, Force and Flow
Chapter 4 Practical Examples of Synchronicity
Chapter 5 Ask for What You Need.
Chapter 6 Paying Attention to What Comes Our Way. Literature as a Guide. The Turning Points of Your Life
Chapter 7 Act With Courage; Prince Five Weapons
Chapter 8 Doing the Work; Dante and the Descent into the Self; Meeting the Shadow Self; The Animus and Anima
Chapter 9 Myth and Literature; Personal Perspectives

Part II The Things that Keep us from Synchronicity
Chapter 10 Obvious Obstacles; Mind-Traps
Chapter 11 Fate, Flow, and Destiny in Literature: Oedipus, Jesus and Jonah Chapter 12 Refusing the Flow; The Role of the Heart; The Chakras
Chapter 13 Practical Ways to Move into the Flow
Chapter 14 What Stops Flow: Our Thought Patterns
Chapter 15 Friends: Choose them Wisely
Chapter 16 Family; Getting Sucked in to Old Patterns
Chapter 17 Illness; The Gift and the Loss
Chapter 18 A Summary of the Obstacles and their Roles in our Life.
Chapter 19 The Necessity of Experience
Chapter 20 Channeling and Synchronicity
Chapter 21 Conclusion: What Synchronicity Needs from Us.

Dr. Allan G. Hunter received his doctorate in literature from Oxford University, which led him to study the deep correspondences between mental disturbance and literary expression. He is a counselor, a therapist, and a professor of literature at Curry College in Boston, where he also teaches memoir writing for the Blue Hills Writing Institute. He is the author of several books, including Spiritual Hunger, Gratitude and Beyond, The Six Archetypes of Love, Stories We Need to Know, The Path of Synchronicity, Write Your Memoir, and Princes, Frogs & Ugly Sisters. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.