

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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Jan 22, 2025 • 58min
The Conscious Universe- Bridging Science and Spirit: EP 384, Dr. Jude Currivan
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

Jan 13, 2025 • 1h 11min
Synchronicity and the Expanding Mind of Physics: EP 383, Dr. Bernard Carr
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

Jan 6, 2025 • 59min
Synchronicity: We Are Deeply Connected to Our Surroundings! Monica Bryant, EP 382
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

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 6min
The Dreamlike Nature of Reality: Paul Levy, EP 381
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

Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 9min
Take a Chance on Chance: Dietelmo Pievani, EP 380
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

Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 11min
Webbing Nature, AI, and Humans: Douglas Grunther, EP 379
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

Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 5min
Kammerer's Law of Seriality: Jason Bulkeley, EP 378
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

Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 5min
The Magic, The Mystery Of Synchronicity: Dr Ken Harris, EP 377
Chiropractor Dr Ken Harris illuminates the invisible webs that connect and unite us. "Strangers are not strangers. They really are my friends. I just haven’t met them yet. Everyone that I meet is going to teach me something." His heart felt enthusiasm for synchronicity will touch your heart. His stories of love and connection, of encounters with apparitions and the absolute enjoyment, the fun, of learning, experiencing and knowing will influence your own sense of wonder and expanding knowledge. Have fun with Ken! He's having a good time!
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on December 2, 2024 *
Dr.Kenneth Harris is a pioneer in holistic healing. A chiropractor, published author, workshop presenter and keynote speaker. Dr. Harris is the founder of the Waldwick wellness Center in NewJersey,a multi doctor facility providing all-natural health and wellness care since 1975.
1. Synchronicity -The Magic -The Mystery -The Meaning
2. Second Chances -from surviving to thriving
https://www.doctorkenharris.com
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

Nov 17, 2024 • 1h 6min
The Illusion of Time: Steve Taylor, EP 375
Time collapses, time expands. Steve Taylor studies and write books about the illusion of time embossed on our3D minds. Through the common spiritual awakenings many of you experience, we find a depth of connection to others and nature rarely available to our regular reality selves. During life threatening accidents and major falls time slows down, our minds expand to take into what we need to do to manage the crisis. These traumatic hints spotlight the limits of our linear time orientation. When you let go of the linearity to experience the interconnection of everything, you loosen the isolation of disconnection and join the worldwide movement toward collective spiritual awakening so desperately needed in these traumatic times.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on November 17, 2024 *
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Steve Taylor PhD is the author of 16 books on psychology and spirituality, and is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is a past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. His new book is The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening. His other books include Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, The Calm Center, The Leap and Spiritual Science. His books have been published in 20 languages, and his articles and essays have been published in many academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including The Psychologist, Philosophy Now, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. He regularly appears in the media in the UK, including on Radio 4’s Prayer for the Day and the BBC World Service. He writes blog articles for Scientific American and for Psychology Today. Steve lives in Manchester, England.
https://www.stevenmtalyor.com
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

Nov 10, 2024 • 1h 12min
Uniting Intuition and Rationality for Personal Transformation: Tom Morgan, EP 374
Tom Morgan, once a highly successful Wall Street banker, went on an elimination diet, became highly energized and suddenly saw the misery he was living. He had been locked into the rigid thinking of his left hemisphere and had awakened into the holistic experiences always available through his right hemisphere. He has found the beam leading him to the attractor, the passion he was meant to follow. He is following his bliss and doors are opening. Synchronicities guide him, most profoundly indicating that he is on the right path.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on November 10, 2024 *
Tom Morgan is the founder of The Leading Edge, a private network for personal transformation.
https://www.theleading-edge.org/about/
https://newsletter.theleading-edge.org/
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.
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