“It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.”

—  C.G. Jung , book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 94

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