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Jung and Synchronicity

Jung in his book "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle" defines synchronicity as 'the occurence of a meaningful coincidence in time'. Remarking about 'acausality'

If natural law were an absolute truth, then of course there could not possibly be any processes that deviate from it. but since causality is a statistical truth, it holds good only on average and thus leaves room for exceptions which must somehow be experienceable, that is to say, real. I try to regard synchronistic events as acausal exceptions of this kind. they prove to be relatively independent of space and time; they relativize space and time in so far as space presents in principle no obstacle to their passage and sequence of events in time is inverted, so that it looks as if an event which has not yet occurred were causing a perception in the present. but if space and time are relative, then causality too loses its validity, since the sequence of cause and effect is either relativized or abolished.