Film
In the 1976 WWII film ''The Eagle Has Landed'', set during 1943, the character Max Radl (Robert Duvall) asks a subordinate if he is familiar with the works of Jung and then explains the theory of synchronicity. This is an unintended prochronism, as Jung did not lecture or publish on the issue until 1951, and Max Radl explicitly mentions synchronicity appearing in "the works of Jung".In the 1984 film ''Repo Man'', Miller's "Plate 'o' Shrimp" theory outlines the idea of synchronicity. The Miller character states that while many people see life as a series of unconnected incidents, he believes that there is a "lattice o[f] coincidence that lays on top o[f] everything" that is "part of a cosmic unconsciousness."
Other media
Writer and iconoclast Charles Hoy Fort mentioned synchronistic situations in his books (''Book of the Damned'', ''Lo!'', ''New Lands'', ''Wild Talents''). ''New Lands'' (1923) tells of a woman who lost her ring in a nearby lake only to recover it years later inside a fish she bought at a local market. He also wrote about the ''butterfly effect'' years before Edward Lorenz, the American mathematician, coined the term (although the effect had been described in earlier works).In the 1983 release ''Synchronicity'' by The Police (A&M Records), bassist Sting is reading a copy of Jung's ''Synchronicity'' on the front cover along with a negative/superimposed image of the actual text of the synchronicity hypothesis. A photo on the back cover also shows a close-up, but mirrored and upside-down, image of the book. There are two songs, titled "Synchronicity I" and "Synchronicity II" included in the album. Dr. Robert Aziz provides an explanation as to how the lyrics link to the synchronicity concept.
The ''Dirk Gently'' series of books by Douglas Adams often plays on the synchronicity concept. The main character carries a "pocket ''I Ching''" that also functions as a calculator, up to a point. In Philip K. Dick's ''The Game-Players of Titan'', several characters possessing pre-cognitive abilities cite the acausal principle of synchronicity as an element that hampers their ability to predict certain possible futures accurately.
In 2002, manga author Itagaki Keisuke based one of the story arcs of ''Baki The Search Of Our Strongest Hero'' on the synchronicity theme, presenting a story in which five death row inmates escaped at the same time, in different countries, each after surviving his own execution. Each inmate went back to Japan at the same time to meet in the same place for the same objective.
Heavy metal band Blaze, led by Blaze Bayley, released an album entitled Tenth Dimension. The overall concept of the record is based on Jung's work and the title song features the concept of synchronicity heavily.
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