title: Synchronistic mind-matter correlations in therapeutic practice: a commentary on Connolly (2015).
abstract: This commentary adds some ideas and refinements to the inspiring discussion in a recent paper by Connolly () that makes use of a dual-aspect framework developed by us earlier. One key point is that exceptional experiences (of which synchronicities are a special case) cannot in general be identified with experiences of non-categorial or acategorial mental states. In fact, most exceptional experiences reported in the literature are experiences of categorial states. Conversely, there are non-categorial and acategorial states whose experience is not exceptional. Moreover, the psychodynamics of a synchronistic experience contain a subtle mesh of interacting processes pertaining to categorial, non-categorial and acategorial domains. We outline how this mesh may be addressed in particular cases of synchronicity described by Connolly.
authors.affiliation: Zurich and Freiburg.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atmanspacher
authors.affiliation: Zurich and Freiburg.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fach
keywords: Geist-Materiebeziehungen; Synchronizität; acategorial states; akategoriale Zustände; aspecto-dual del monismo; außergewöhnliche Erfahrungen; correlaciones mente-materia; correlazioni mente-materia; corrélations entre l'esprit et la matière; dual-aspect monism; duale-Aspekte Monismus; esperienze eccezionali; estados acategoriales; estados no-categoriales; exceptional experiences; experiencias excepcionales; expériences exceptionnelles; mind-matter correlations; monisme à double aspect; monismo dal duplice aspetto; nicht kategoriale Zustände; non-categorial states; sincronicidad; sincronicità; stati acategoriali; stati non categoriali; synchronicity; synchronicité; états acatégoriels; états non-catégoriels; акатегориальные состояния; двух-аспектный монизм; исключительные переживания; корреляции «ум-материя»; не-категориальные состояния; синхронистичность