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Synchronicity coined after a scarab flew in a window

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A famous psychoanalyst was struggling with a patient's story about a beetle when an actual scarab suddenly tapped on the glass. Rather than brushing it off as a coincidence, he invented an entire framework of meaningful cosmic coincidences.

Synchronicity coined after a scarab flew in a window
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