I posted the following a while ago in the synchronicity tribe, and since we are on the topic of Scarab Beetles...

www.innerexplorations.com/catch.../mys3.htm

C.G. Jung (1875-1961), the noted Swiss psychotherapist, did not write at length about synchronicity until 1952 when he published an essay called, "Synchronicity, An Acausal Connecting Principle" which appeared together with an essay on archetypes in Kepler by Wolfgang Pauli whom we have already met in connection with quantum theory. Jung had been long aware of events in his own life and those of his patients that seem to defy the normal laws of causality. For example, one of his patients whose treatment had resisted progress because of her excessively rationalistic cast of mind, had a dream in which she received a golden scarab, an insect that plays an important role in Egyptian mythology. Later, when she was telling Jung the dream, he heard a gentle tapping at the window, and when he opened it, in flew a scarabaeid type beetle which was Switzerland's equivalent to the golden scarab, and he caught it in his hand and handed it to her and said, "Here is your scarab." This uncanny event had the effect of breaking through the rationalistic shell that she had built around herself.