Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MD

Many years ago, Nick Kettles and a friend updated bibliomancy--asking a question and randomly opening a holy book to a page that provides the answer. Instead, they set their TV recorder to a random channel to record at 3AM to answer the question they had in mind. Yes! It worked! We don't need the apparent mystical like tarot or I Ching. We just need to jump outside usual time line to find meaningful coincidences. We discussed how projection is both normal and necessary and provides a way to learn about our repressed selves. That to surrender is not to give up but the opposite--to deeply commit AND to let go of any desired outcome. How does being vulnerable influence the person with whom you are speaking? When you are being authentic, you are indirectly suggesting that the listener be authentic. Some people will join you and others with reject you. Nick is a Master Certified Coach, who is known for his compassion, keen insight and fierce commitment to creative and personal transformation. Nick has been working in the field of personal and professional development for over 25 years and today works as a leadership coach, course-facilitator, training design consultant and mindfulness teacher. In his work he supports executives, leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators, navigate uncertainty and complexity, from a foundation of deep self-acceptance and authorship. Often this calls us to embrace parts of our selves which we have marginalised into the shadow, a process Nick skilfully guides with compassion and full permission.https://www.thresholdsofthesoul.com Archetypes of Awakening   / @archetypesofawakening   Individuation is a process not a goal. You are always unfolding. Nick consults with businesses and finds that some managers are deeply committed to recognizing that their inner life is reflected in their surroundings. The corporations have energetic fields and a subconscious. While also confronted with the bottom line pressure, some managers help their employees evolve. Surprise to those of us who project evil onto all corporations. Some are not totally evil. Nick has much to teach us! Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.https://www.innertraditions.com/books...Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research

Meet a fervent advocate for synchronicity and AI!Through a cyclone of synchronicities, Guitarist Randy Preston has become a thriving coincidence scholar. He is fully appreciating how they help:*Navigate challenges with resilience.*Build meaningful relationships.*Stay aligned with your purpose.*Find joy and insight in everyday life.*Help with decision making.He is developing an app called JottIt to help people utilize synchronicities to sharpen their self-reflective capacities and receive helpful feedback on how to optimize their lives. He was inspired to develop the app by a mystical experience. From the age of 10, Randy Preston has pursued a life rooted in creativity, connection, and expression, deeply centered around his passion for music and thought experimentation. Always drawn to the strange and beautiful, he’s more recently found himself immersed in profound synchronicities and cosmic insights. He sees this journey as just the beginning of an evolving work in progress - and one that he is excited to share with others. With curiosity, humor, and a sense of wonder, he’s exploring how resonance and the universe’s mysteries shape our lives, inviting all to join him in discovering meaning along the way.Band Instagrams• Des & The Swagmatics:   / desswagmatics   • Karmic Juggernaut:   / karmicjuggernaut   Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.https://www.innertraditions.com/books...Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research

Visa Virén is from Finland, where the light comes from the North. He illuminates the human ability to dissolve our identity into the vast flux field in which we are immersed and of which each of us is a part. To experience the energy-information flow in emptiness, he suggests cutting a hole in the ice, swimming, and then staring into the space between 2 stars.This episode was uploaded to YouTube on January 27th, 2025Visa wants to help each of us bring together our 3 brains--mind (word based), heart (image based) and gut (impulse to move). He sees how possible it is for us to communicate without words by connecting our auric fields, our biofields. We have the opportunity to create more opportunities through Holokineticshttps://www.holokinetics.org/ to let go of our rigid self and get our energy to move through the wholeness. In the last 15 minutes of this episode, we discuss the creation of the Collective Self-Observer to help our Collective Human Organism become more self-aware. As an example, we address the Power Pyramid prevalent throughout human history--the repeated emergence of power relationships with a few on top and the many below.Visa Virén, founder of Holokinetics, is a nature enthusiast, co-entrepreneur, and explorer of life. Over the past 15 years, he has experienced a deepening collapse of local identity, allowing new layers of perceptual reality to emerge. Through Holokinetics, the science of living form, Visa playfully shares life's paradoxes, integrating science, philosophy, and spirituality to guide collective inquiry into non-local awareness and emergent knowledge. He emphasizes the shift from rigid, individualistic perceptions to a fluid, interconnected understanding of reality, fostering collective intelligence and creative exploration.https://www.holokinetics.org#coincidence#serendipity#synchronicitiy

At age 4 Jude Currivan was connected to universal consciousness. She knows through personal experience that each of us is unique AND part of the greater whole. She communicates with the Universe and experiences its purpose which involves increasingly greater complexity with continuing expanded consciousness. The Universe playfully puts together improbable entities like DNA and seems to enjoy what happens next, only to proceed to the next adventure. For us living here on Earth, let's recognize our interconnections, our interdependence to find the love and self-awareness inherent in the Universe of which we are all a part. Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author and co-founder of WholeWorld-View (www.wholeworld-view.org) . Previously one of the most senior business women in the UK, she has a Master’s degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology, and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading researching ancient cosmologies. A life-long researcher into the nature of reality, she integrates leading-edge science, consciousness research and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic worldview, has travelled to some 80 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and globally, serving conscious evolution and transformational change. Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research #coincidence #serendipity #synchronicitiy

Your mind reflects the greater mind. In a dream, cosmologist Bernard Carr sees two trains on a collision course—one representing quantum physics, the other relativity theory. The next day, he reads an article about the collision between these two scientific paradigms. Was it precognition? Synchronicity? This experience challenges our conventional understanding of time, shifting from a linear 3D perspective to deeper, subjective layers. Carr shares more stories of meaningful coincidences, leading into a discussion of how physics continually expands our awareness—from the tiniest particles, like quarks, to the vast cosmos. As cosmologists delve deeper into the universe, they increasingly perceive it as a vast, ever-expanding mind—a thought in constant motion. Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD he studied the first second of the universe with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University and Caltech. He then held Research Fellowships at Trinity College and the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge before moving to Queen Mary. His professional area of research is cosmology and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter and the anthropic principle. He is also very interested in the role of consciousness, regarding this as a fundamental rather than incidental feature of the Universe. He is President of the Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research. B.J.Carr@qmul.ac.uk Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research #Coincidence #Serendipity #Synchronicity

Mind and matter are merging in our collective consciousness through the increasing experiencing of synchronicities. Synchronicities often connect our thought and feelings with our environment. We are both individuals and part of a greater oneness. Monica Bryant expertly describes how the microbes in our guts are very similar to the microbes in the soil. As she says, "It's everywhere, it's everywhere" coining the term pansynchronicity to inform us that meaningful coincidences are everywhere. Just look around, be curious and connect the dots! She and I discovered that each of us wanted to go to California and coincidentally found portals to realities that were to become part of our futures and the future of humanity--the living wonder of synchronicity. Come join us on our adventure!!! Monica Bryant is an Evolutionary consultant and coach who has provided archetypal perspectives to support soul evolution since 1994. She is an independent transdisciplinary researcher with an ecological and holistic worldview. Monica’s MA was on transformative learning, synchronicity and transpersonal research methodologies. She pioneered symbiosis-restoring approaches for health, taught The new Microbiology at the University of Sussex (1980s) and has trained practitioners internationally. For 30 years, Monica was Director of her company promoting natural health. www.evolutionary.co.uk . She has written an excellent chapter in The Playful Universe, a book about the many personal aspects of synchronicity. Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research

Maybe your life is a dream, rich in symbols communicating with you. Paul Levy knows this to be true. He has is awakening to the lucid dream that is his life. If you descend into darkness, you can emerge through the alchemy of the tension between opposite as one of our needed wounded healers. The wounding facilitates our becoming shaman-like because descent into darkness enriches our understanding, our experience of the evolution of personal and collective consciousness. A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has authored six books, three of which are on the Wetiko mind-virus. His soon to be released book is The Quantum Revelation: Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality (Inner Traditions 2024). He is the founder of the “Awaken in the Dream Community” in Portland, Oregon. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung, and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for almost 40 years. Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research

Imagine the path you are walking through life. You make decisions and proceed. Imagine that clustering around you are many of other possibilities from which to choose. Telmo's curiosity drives him to select the less probable alternatives because his curiosity disturbs networks of connections that we know little about. He wants to investigate the novel, unexpected, strange and unplanned. In this episode you will gain the courage to disrupt your life to discover new ways of proceeding. You will experience more meaningful coincidences by being curious and by deviating from the expected. Science has sailed on, buoyed by the winds of serendipity. Increase those happy accidents by taking risks, getting lost, talking with strangers, trying new things. Most of all, let your curiosity flag fly! Telmo Pievani (1970) is Full Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Padua. Past President (2017-2019) of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology, he is Fellow of several academic Institutions and scientific societies. He is member of the editorial boards of Evolution: Education and Outreach, Evolutionary Biology, Istituto Treccani, and the Italian edition of Scientific American. He is author of 347 publications, included several books, the most recent: “Imperfection. A natural history” (MIT Press, 2022); “The Earth after us” (Contrasto, 2019; with F. Lanting’s photos), “Finitude” (Cortina, 2020); “Serendipity” (MIT Press, 2024); “Nature is bigger than us” (Solferino, 2022); "All Possible Worlds" (Cortina, 2024). He is Director of “Pikaia”, the Italian website dedicated to evolution. He is Director of the University of Padua web magazine, Il Bo LIVE. With Niles Eldredge, Ian Tattersall and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, he curated International science exhibitions. Author of books for children and theatre scientific shows, he collaborates with RAI radio and TV projects, he is a columnist for Il Corriere della Sera, and the magazines Le Scienze and Micromega. In February 2024, the International Astronomical Union dedicated an asteroid to him: 120098 EJ50 2003. https://www.telmopievani.com https://www.pikaia.eu https://ilbolive.unipd.it https://internationalmusic.it/artisti/telmo-pievani-e-gianni-maroccolo-in-nomadic https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=120098%20Telmopievani

Radio talk show host Doug Grunther sharpens our human context--nature and AI. The Buddhist purchases a mandala, handing the clerk at $50 bill. As they wait for receiving the difference between the cost and the bill, the clerk does nothing. The Buddhist asks, "Where is the change?" The clerk says "Change comes from within." Technological advances often reflect aspects of the human body or mind. AI reflects the hyperfunctioning of our rational, logical, knowledge filled left hemisphere. Its remarkable information intelligence is forcing humanity to go where AI cannot--to the intuitive, empathic, cooperative and loving capacities of our right hemisphere. Nature is not a series of objects to be manipulated. Nature is analogical like our right brains. AI is encouraging our analogical thinking and feeling, connecting us to our hearts. Douglas Grunther is the creator/host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a rollicking--and multi award-winning--radio talk show spiced with humor and informed by his love of philosophy, depth psychology, and spiritual insight. His guests have been among the most original visionaries of our time. Grunther graduated from Columbia University where he was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. He has been the featured speaker in front of national audiences, and is a dream work facilitator certified by Dr. Jeremy Taylor. https://douglasgrunther.com #coincidence #serendipity #synchronicitiy

The brilliant Vienna biologist, Paul Kammerer was found dead by questionable suicide. How did his pre-Jung study of coincidences create the backlash against him that may have contributed to his death? Seeking scientific rather than metaphysical explanations still created a hostile environment. Too mystical for many. His seriality differs from synchronicity. While synchronicity usually involves a mental event and an objective event, seriality always involves the possibility that the two or more events making up the coincidence are observable by someone other than the experiencer. Early on you will hear an extraordinary serial coincidence involving two women named Nadia--one in the 1920s and another in the near present. How did these two women end up being so similar? Jason Bulkeley served in the DoD as a translator and intelligence analyst during the Cold War and has a degree in English and Linguistics from UMBC. He translated and published numerous books from Russian to English on scientific and human-interest topics. He ran a restaurant for over 20 years, which spurred his interest in coincidence and synchronicity by connecting with interesting people from all over the world. He now has an international online store on Ebay specializing in rare books on philosophy, history, and metaphysical topics. He recently published the first English translation of The Law of Seriality by Paul Kammerer, the first comprehensive study of the theory of coincidence, written in 1919. Come to Jason's real life Coincidence Café: Orchard Market & Cafe8815 Orchard Tree LaneTowson, Maryland 21286For reservations please call (410) 339-7700The website is: ⁠www.orchardmarketandcafe.com⁠ Customers can purchase Jason’s translation of The Law of Seriality: https://www.amazon.com/Law-Seriality-Theory-Recurrences-Events/dp/B0CTHLBPWD Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.⁠https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences⁠ to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit ⁠https://www.coincider.com/⁠ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research ⁠#coincidence⁠ ⁠#serendipity⁠ ⁠#synchronicity