According to Carl Jung, many of these rituals and symbols arise from archetypes, a shared subconscious experience arising from the Collective Unconscious. And this he claims to be the reason why people of many far-reaching and unassociated cultures have been known to give birth to very similar religious practices, rituals, or symbolic activites simultaneously.

And in his Theory of Synchronicity Jung is credited with providing empirical evidence for the existence of miracles. And many people assert that he did, indeed, empirically prove the existence of miracles with this theory.