Carl Jung Paranormal, Part 2: Split Table

July 27, 2012 by Doug Dillon 3194 0 0

Carl Gustav Jung

A suddenly split table in Carl Jung’s youth brought him face-to-face with a paranormal coincidence he couldn’t explain. Such events led him to a more complete theory of mind as well as the development of what he will call, Synchronicity.

One day during his teenage years, Jung was studying in his room. His door actually led to the dining room where his mother sat knitting. It was partly closed at the time.

Jung’s mother pastime

Suddenly the sound of a large bang, like a gunshot, shattered the silence. It had come from the dining room. Immediately, Jung jumped up and ran to see what had made the noise. There he found his mother in an understandably startled condition, her knitting having fallen to the floor. “What happened?” She asked, then telling her son the sound had come from somewhere very near to her.

Jung’s focus zeroed in on a table

Looking around, her eyes and Jung’s came to rest on the dining room table. That’s when they both discovered it had split wide open. Astounded, Jung inspected the split table and found that the fracture had occurred within the solid oak itself and not along any connecting joints.

What the split table might have looked like

Explosive, fractured wood

This discovery led to quite a commotion in the family, obviously because no one could figure out how such a thing might happen. Having belonged to Jung’s grandmother when she was young, the table was anything but new. Green wood might split but certainly not oak that had aged so long. Besides, there were no fluctuations in the weather conditions that might cause such a thing. No one ever came up with a plausible explanation for the event.

Soon after the incident with the split table, something else startling happened, again the dining room. These two events when taken together seem to be primary among the many in his youth that would propel Jung into investigations of the paranormal.

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The blog post above, and the others like it, became so popular that I created a book using them as the basis for particular explorations of the paranormal. Titled, Carl Jung, Hauntings, and Paranormal Coincidences, it combines the Jung material with supporting information from my own experiences and those of others.

If you are interested in reading that book, you can find it in most online bookstores. Listed below, however, are direct book links to some of the larger retail outlets in the English speaking world: