

Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MD
Bernard Beitman
This podcast features thinkers from around the world, exploring the subjects of coincidence, synchronicity and serendipity. Connecting with Coincidence 2.0, launched in summer 2021, is available to view on YouTube, or to listen anywhere that podcasts are available.
The Connecting with Coincidence 1.0 podcast, 2016--spring 2021, is available in audio format: an archive of 138 previous episodes is available, here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bernie-beitman-md.
The book Connecting with Coincidence by our host, Dr. Bernard Beitman, is available here: https://coincider.com/the-book/.
The Connecting with Coincidence 1.0 podcast, 2016--spring 2021, is available in audio format: an archive of 138 previous episodes is available, here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bernie-beitman-md.
The book Connecting with Coincidence by our host, Dr. Bernard Beitman, is available here: https://coincider.com/the-book/.
Episodes
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Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 9min
Synchronicity Begins in Childhood: Linda Mackenzie, EP 291
When you die, all you take with you is the love you give and the love you receive. At age 8 Linda Mackenzie was touched by intense white light and for a moment, merged with God. Since then she has expanded her psychic abilities, developed a far reaching radio network and inspired millions to expand their own psychic abilities. Her psychic code of ethics is a vital part of any psychic-spiritual practice.
You can purchase Dr. Beitman's new book, "Meaningful Coincidences", here https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
Linda Mackenzie, a former datacom engineer for the airlines, is a globally known radio/TV expert in psychic and bio-energetic healing and Founder of the 21 year HealthyLife.net All Positive Talk Radio Network. She possesses 16 of 17 psychic abilities. Her book, Symbols of You (2023), is available now for purchase! Learn more at www.lindamackenzie.net & www.healthylife.net
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Dec 20, 2023 • 59min
Godwinks with the Godwinks Guy: SQuire Rushnell, EP 290
SQuire Rushnell tells good stories! He brings meaningful coincidences to a massive number of people through his books, movies and on-going television appearances. With an emphasis on being in Divine Alignment, he is one of the world's premier Coincidence Ambassadors.
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
As a former ABC Network executive, SQuire Rushnell was one of the fathers of ABC School House Rock and led Good Morning America to number one for the first time.
Now SQuire is known as “The Godwink Guy” … who coined the new word for those little “experiences that feel coincidental but come from divine sources.” Godwinks has entered the language and appears in dictionaries.
As a New York Times Bestselling Author his 12 Godwink books have sold more than 2 million copies, in 30 languages.
He and his wife Louise are story writers and executive producers of the top-rated Hallmark Godwink Movies Series, now entering it's 5th season. They also wrote the story and executive produced the recent Netflix hit movie, "Rescued By Ruby"… which premiered as #2 in the world and in 2022 was ranked as Netflix’s 3rd “Best Movie of the Year”.
For 5 seasons SQuire has hosted “Godwinks on NBC Today” … one of the most streamed segments.
www.godwinks.com

Dec 17, 2023 • 39min
Meaningful Coincidences-The Book: Bernard Beitman, M.D., EP 289
Experience Dr. Beitman describing the content of his recent book Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen. Your understanding will expand of the different kinds of coincidences, the potential for misuse and as clues to how reality works.
You can purchase Dr. Beitman's new book, "Meaningful Coincidences", here https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences.
Bernard Beitman M.D. is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project which encourages people to tell each other their synchronicity and serendipity stories. His book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Serendipity and Synchronicity Happen (September 6, 2022) comprehensively describes their wide range of uses and explanations. The book serves both as a personal guide to using synchronicities and serendipities as well an introduction to the new discipline of Coincidence Studies. It has been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders

Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 3min
Synchronicity is Emerging into Global Consciousness: Richard Tarnas, EP 288
Richard Tarnas will help you to re-enchant your world, our world. Reality is saturated with meaning. Synchronicity provides clues to the meaning around you and in you. See his documentary Changing of the Gods first episode is free.
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
Richard Tarnas, PhD, is a professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He teaches courses in the history of ideas, archetypal cosmology, depth psychology, and religious evolution. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern widely used in universities; and Cosmos and Psyche, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network, and inspired the documentary series The Changing of the Gods. lakegeneva@tarnas.org
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Dec 13, 2023 • 1h
Synchronicity Heals: Sheila Salama, MD, EP 294
Psychiatrists are embracing synchronicities. The stories of Sheila Salama will now illuminate for you the full range of therapeutic healing through meaningful coincidences.
You can purchase Dr. Beitman's new book, "Meaningful Coincidences", here https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
Dr. Sheila Salama, MD received her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in New York City, and then completed her Internship, Residency in Psychiatry as well as Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at Kings County Hospital.
Since the early 1990’s Dr. Salama has acquired several certifications in non-pharmacological modalities. These facilitate the healing from acute and chronic traumatic events, as well as many other disorders. She has worked extensively with veterans coping with war trauma, moral injury, and survivors of early childhood abuse.
Dr. Salama is also a strong advocate for human rights and participated in the United Nations meetings advocating for the Yezidi victims of genocide. She is currently on the clinical advisory board of Free Yezidi Foundation
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Dec 11, 2023 • 50min
Synchronicity Aided Finding My Children: Dr. Lisa Miller, EP 287
After five years trying to get pregnant, Lisa Miller is guided through synchronicity, trail angels and mystical messages to a Lakota healing ceremony to adopt her Russian son Isaiah and at the same time became pregnant with Isaiah's spiritual twin sister.
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and her new book, The Awakened Brain. She is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
https://www.lisamillerphd.com
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Dec 9, 2023 • 60min
Synchronicity: Leaks in the Matrix: Sujith Ittan, EP 286
Could this reality be a simulation, a virtual reality programmed by another consciousness? Synchronicities look like clues, like leaks from this simulation. Let's try to figure this one out.
Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coinciders
Sujith Ittan is an engineering graduate and an Information Technology services professional. He lives with his family in Bengaluru, India. In addition to his day job, he is passionate about his hobbies; he actively updates the digital art library on his TV App, PixArt Gallery. The book, God System Game, is his first foray into writing.
In the book, God System Game, Sujith explores the reasons for synchronicities and meaningful coincidences. His conclusions include the possibility that our world is very likely a simulation.
https://godsystemgame.com/
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Dec 6, 2023 • 1h 9min
Spirituality and Synchronicity Belong in the Practice of Medicine: Daniel Ingram, MD, EP 285
With deep, personal immersions in transcendent experiences, this brilliant former emergency department physician is leading a wide range of highly skilled researchers to integrating spirituality into the daily work of physicians and their patients.
You can order Dr. Beitman's new book here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 13min
Coincidence, Interpersonal Energy and the Imaginal Realm: Alan Steinfield, EP 284
Immersed in coincidental energetic love fusion with a stranger, Alan faced shocking contact experiences that shook his hold on his view of reality.
You can order Dr. Beitman's new book here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
Alan Steinfeld has been the host of the Manhattan cable program New Realities for over 25 years. In that time he has interviewed the leading experts in human potential, health, spirituality, and UFOs. His most recent book Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of ET Existence debuted as the #1 best seller in the field when it was released in May of 2021. In that book, he makes it clear that only when we combine the outer wisdom of the mind with the feeling nature of the soul- will we find our true connection to the cosmos. http://www.MakingContactSeries.com
Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast--anywhere that podcasts are available--and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...]
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

Nov 24, 2023 • 49min
Get to Know Your Own Energy Signature: Anna Yusim, MD, EP 283
Psychiatrist Anna Yusim mirrors my mind. She knows energy signatures and interpersonal resonance. She describes these essential realities in clear language that will help you monitor, experience, and understand your own energy signature.
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book, "Meaningful Coincidences".
Dr. Yusim has published over 150 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. www.annayusim.com
Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast--anywhere that podcasts are available--and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...]
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com