“…with synchronicity, an event (a psychological event, a dream, or a vision), links non-locally. Jung calls it 'acausal'—that is, outside of time and space—with something in the world. This points to the fact that we are nonlocally/acausally connected to the spirit of the earth. I think this is terribly important in terms of a feeling relationship to the ecological crisis. I think Jung was saying that the psyche/archetype is not only inside us but extends into nature—we are in psyche. And, as he was searching for ways to describe this psyche-matter connection or psyche-nature connection, he said in the end that psyche is really 'world.'
“For me, the synchronicity hypothesis is so incredibly important, not just for describing an interesting, even transforming experience, which it is—and in my book, I elaborate the key features of such events—but for a whole new way of looking at our connection to nature, and of being in the world in general. The fact that we are deeply, deeply connected to the spirit of the earth—not just to the earth as a rock, but as Jung says, 'The earth has a soul. Nature is spirit, too.' So, we are connecting to the earth as a spiritual being: Gaia.
"And I think that synchronicity events really point in this direction and can sustain a way of being in nature and walking on the earth, which allows developing a relationship that doesn’t split psychematter, and which focuses on our Eros ties to nature rather than our scientific understanding. Synchronicities can point the way—and of course they involve our participation, our noticing—but we can sustain this nonlocal connection to nature even when we are not having unique experiences. So, as an example, what occurs as we walk—attentive to what is showing itself from the spirit of the earth—can become quite a magical experience: you enter that universe where your own imagination is connecting, as I see it, to the imagination of nature. And there’s a oneness that happens there where everything seems to belong together, and the earth discloses itself as wise and beautiful, and deeply coherent, and you are just a little being in a much larger mystery."
-Veronica Goodchild in "Dreams, Synchronicities and Our Relationship to the Earth," collected in Earth, Climate, Dreams: Dialogues with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene