

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/.
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Mar 15, 2023 • 1h 10min
Organizing Synchronicity and Serendipity, Jessica Pryce-Jones: EP 268
Understanding meaningful coincidences parallels the fable of the elephant and the blind men--there are several aspects that make up the whole. Jessica Pryce-Jones interviews Bernie about the categories of coincidence in his book Meaningful Coincidences. The shape and complexity of meaningful coincidences is coming into clearer focus!
You can purchase Dr. Beitman's new book here, Meaningful Coincidences, available now! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
Jess started her career in finance where she learned about numbers, strategy and leadership. After 10 years in the corporate world, she did a psychology degree; she wanted to understand why some of her bosses were brilliant and others were frankly dismal. Those insights launched a new career facilitating, coaching, designing interventions and writing. Coachees and delegates tell her she’s warm, funny, challenging and rooted in practicality. Most importantly, she believes in using hard, soft, and intuitive information to get to the heart of complex and opaque professional issues.
Tapping into this different knowledge gives fresh insight into how to solve problems, particularly around our worries, work and wellbeing. www.webpsyched.com She’s worked as adjunct faculty in leadership development at many business schools including Cambridge Judge, Cass, Cornell, Chicago Booth, Cranfield, London Business School, and Saïd (Oxford); she’s also a Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Coaching. Finally, she’s written two books (Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success and Running Great Meetings & Workshops For Dummies) and she’s trying hard to finish a third, Intuition at Work. When she’s not working, she loves weightlifting and walking her dog in the woods.
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 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 12, 2022 • 1h 7min
Honing Your Inner GPS, Nicole Frolick: EP 267
Americans have become too comfortable in our comfort zones, says intuitive life coach Nicole Frolick. Too much restriction, too much saying no to opportunities. At age 31 she broke out of her Type A confinement to embark on a new alchemy informed life.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences out now! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Nicole Frolick is an intuitive life coach who specializes in inner child healing and building deeper intimate connections with self and others. She hosts her own weekly podcast, Enlighten Up, and through her Alchemy Academy, you can find a variety of online courses designed to help you deepen your spiritual connection, heal your inner child, and harmonize your masculine and feminine energies. Her wisdom comes from life experiences acquired walking the pathless path and her gifts are designed to help you establish your internal pathway to answers and solutions you seek while developing and integrating your intuition to give you a more accurate internal GPS system that you can depend on.
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 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 9, 2022 • 1h 2min
Voices from Beyond, Anne Archer Butcher: EP 266
A riptide carried Anne Archer to sharks. Terrified, a voice told her to lie flat. She argued with the voice, a man's voice coming from outside of her. Suddenly she was lifted up and carried to shore by dolphins who deposited her in chest high water and began nudging parts of her body. Her vibration level was increased permitting downloads of information she had never learned. By sharing the near death experience of her sister, she was able to provide surgeons information that saved her sister's life.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Anne Archer Butcher has lived an extraordinary life. Best-selling author. International speaker. Editor. Producer. Devoted wife and mother. But mostly, she is a spiritual adventurer. She was rescued by dolphins from a shark attack, survived a near-death experience, and had an out-of-body journey that taught her about the true nature of life and death. However, her mind-boggling experiences in 1984 are beyond all that and described in more detail at FiveBlueRings.com. Anne has a Master’s Degree in literature and taught high school for 10 years. She studied Comparative World Religions to explain some of the remarkable things she was experiencing. www.FiveBlueRings.com, www.annearcherauthor.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 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

Sep 3, 2022 • 1h 10min
Amazing Travel Coincidences, Rachel Hill: EP 265
Travel increases meaningful coincidences by breaking us out of our often rigid routines. As a child, Rachel Hill knew she would travel the world. Exasperated she quit her high paying corporate job and travelled to Thailand with only a backpack. There she met someone who helped her launch her digital marketing career which financed her extensive travelling. She is guided by her Higher Self and believes that life is a choose your own adventure game something like the computer game Super Mario.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books... .
Rachel is a digital marketing consultant, content creator, instructor, and published author; with expertise being in the Travel + Tourism Industries. With a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), she had over 12 years of professional experience in campaign creation, influencer marketing, process automation, and data and analytics. She has merged her expertise in tech with her passion for travel – into a successful global brand with an engaged audience of over 30,000. Rachel has been featured in many Press + Media as an Industry Expert on Cheddar News, Norwegian Airlines Inflight magazine (September 2018), Lonely Planet, USA Today, and HuffPost – to name a few. https://rachelvhill.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 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

Sep 3, 2022 • 53min
Synchronicity Melts Materialism, Eben Alexander: EP 264
Adopted soon after birth, Eben Alexander chose the neurosurgical subspecialty of vascular surgery only to discover that his maternal birth family carried a genetic predisposition to brain aneurysms. This synchronicity coupled with a rich NDE is driving him to help change scientific materialism, especially physicians, into recognizing our profound interconnection in the One Mind.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Dr Eben Alexander spent 54 years of his life honing a conventional scientific world view, including teaching neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School for 15 years. His profound near-death experience during a weeklong coma due to gram-negative bacterial meningo-encephalitis in November 2008 (in which the medical parameters obviated all but the most rudimentary of conscious experiences) changed his worldview from materialism (brain creates consciousness) to idealism, acknowledging the primacy and unity of consciousness in the universe, with the brain serving as a filter to limit the expression of that primordial mind. He works with scientists around the world to more fully explain these phenomena: https://galileocommission.org and https://scientificandmedical.net.
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 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

Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 6min
The Voice of the I Ching, Mary Kay Landon: EP 263
To I Ching reader Mary Kay Landon, the I Ching speaks to her like an intelligent entity with a voice. The questions the querent asks very much determine the I Ching's response. Unlike Tarot cards which are created by many different people at different historical times, the I Ching emerged from the third century B.C.E and has remained fairly much the same through time, The I Ching has more ethical and moral instruction embedded in it than do Tarot cards. Contact Mary at her website for a look into your near future, no longer than three months out.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books... Mary Kay Landon received her PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Previously, Mary Kay had already become a regular practitioner and student of the I Ching. Upon entering the Institute, she embarked on a more formal study with noted Taiwanese scholar Dr. Yi Wu. Since that time, she has presented lectures on the I Ching in various forums and conducted readings for many friends and clients on the topics of business, finance, careers, relationships, and health. She has since launched her own web site, DecisionPointIChing.com, and recorded several YouTube videos on her I Ching practice. https://www.decisionpointiching.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 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

Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 8min
Synchronicity: My Guiding Principle, Josh Silver, EP 262
Josh Silver is following the three stages of Hindu spiritual development: student, householder, monastery dweller. His monastery is every place he is. He is wherever he is. His openness to experience, his flexible boundaries invite synchronicities into his awareness. He fluidly responds to their suggestions, not limited by standard cultural habits. You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Our guest Josh Silver has 4 years of experience as a devotee of Swami Muktananda, and has spent the last five years outside barefoot meditating on the earth, the sun, and the miracles of Creation for about 4 hours, nearly every day. He is an active member of Deep Time Network, a worldwide organization to use the universal evolution story to inspire and unite us in a shared global context.
Josh holds Master's degree in Counseling Psychology, and has ran a non-profit organization devoted towards helping low income fathers be better parents He has raised 5 children with his wife for 28 years, mostly free of media, especially during their first 10 years of life.
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 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

Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 17min
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Chris Bache, EP 261
Chris Bache, a mild mannered professor at a Midwest university, led a secret life. Outside the ivory tower, he took 73 high doses of LSD to explore consciousness. He learned how we are each part of the human species, its history, biology and consciousness, and that there are no private thoughts. To help the species through the coming cataclysm we must do what we each are called to do and learn to cooperate. You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Chris Bache, Ph.D., is professor emeritus in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at CIIS, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of Grof Legacy Training. An award-winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy; The Living Classroom - an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe - the story of his 20-year journey with LSD. https://chrisbache.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 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

Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 4min
Being a High Frequency Coincider: Katrin Windsor, EP 260
What if you experience lots of coincidences? A puzzled Katrin Windsor found two coincidence books that told her she was more normal than she thought. She feels the distress of loved ones at a distance, runs into people she knows in faraway places and follows coincidences on the life journey. She loves telling her stories and triggers listeners into telling theirs. She lights their fires and elevates them both.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Katrin Windsor is an international Executive and Teamwork coach, change-agent, speaker and facilitator with 20 years of experience helping leaders and teams perform at their best. She coached teams to greater performance in 40+ countries. Her clients range from founders to CEOs of publicly traded companies and their teams. As a speaker, she has given keynotes in 3 languages and delivers immersive workshops Katrin is an expert in facilitating experiences from very large group events to one-on-one personal coaching sessions. A native of Switzerland, she has lived in 5 countries and is fluent in 5 languages. https://www.windsorgroup.biz
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 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

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 7min
Synchronicity is Super Human: Jeffrey Kripal, EP 259
Jeff Kripal sharpens your knowing that being human means being superhuman. Meaningful coincidences signal the non-duality source of our individual and collective superpowers, Let this modern day Professor Xavier of the X-Men accelerate your progression to the Oneness source of your superpowers.
You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books...
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Jeff is the author of ten books, including, most recently, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities (Chicago, 2022), where he intuits an emerging new order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories, cultures, and futures.
He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com He thinks he may be Spider-Man.
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 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