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In his article Synchronicity, An AcausalConnecting Principle, Carl G. Jung gives an example which has,over time, become famous: "A young woman I was treating had, at acritical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab.While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closedwindow. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. Iturned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-panefrom outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the airas it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that onefinds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer(Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidentlyfelt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment."