

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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Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 10min
Cosmic Time and Synchronicity: The Mind's Connection to the Universe: Bernard Carr, EP 373
Bernard Carr has kept a synchronicity diary for 30 years, knowing that if he did not write them down, they would be forgotten. As a cosmologist he is very interested in time and describes his own experiences with precognition. He also describes how clocks stop sometimes when people die and other mind-matter interactions. The latter half of our discussion focuses on the anthropic principle, how our universe is fine tuned to create the potential for our existence. He suggests that it is our arrogance that makes us believe this is the only universe, that the multiverse is real. He suggests that we need much higher dimensions to understand our minds, that there is a greater Mind of which we are a part trying to get to know itself as each of us may be trying to get to know ourselves.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on October 28, 2024*
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.
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

Oct 20, 2024 • 58min
Awakening with Guides, Synchronicity, and Daily Transformation: Rae Leonard, EP 372
Synchronicity links Rae Leonard to her happy place in 5D. As she awakens each morning she gathers her guides together, sometimes by a fire in a beautiful old house, and describes her challenges for the day. Please help me with these things and they do. Among her spirit guides are the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, Einstein, deceased relatives and others each of whom make themselves known to her through synchronicities.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on October 20, 2024 *
Rae Leonard is an intuitive, energy worker, author, and researcher and is skilled in a number of alternative healing modalities. Her latest book is HIGH SOBRIETY: A trip Out Of The Bottle And Into Your Intuition, a wild read where she shares her rocky road of addiction with a wry gleam. Her story moves from fleeting glimpses of her past, to a transformation of a life now filled with limitless self love, jubilant health, and boundless joy.
In her intuitive practice, Rae combines her innate gifts with “Healy”, a frequency device that sees divine beings in their most exalted state of health, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, in their highest state of consciousness.
Healy technology delivers energetic adjustments which bring her clients effortlessly into that matching bioenergetic state by communicating to the quantum field, the information field in the unseen realm, that is just waiting for us to tap in. As Albert Einstein said, “Match the frequency of the reality that you want and you can not help but get that reality. This is not philosophy, this is physics.”
Rae works with The Holistic Health Community in Stone Ridge ,New York, where alternative health practitioners offer a wide range of services at no charge to the community. She feels it is a model for a new paradigm of health care that addresses body, mind and spirit and that favors the least invasive modalities whenever possible! Rae reminds us that we are not victims in this life. We are Divine Angelic Infinite Beings who can decide to change our lives at any moment. Rock bottom is simply when you quit digging.
https://raeleonard.me/
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

Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 30min
Share the Dying Journey with Loved Ones, William Peters, EP 371
No need to fear death! No need to struggle for more days of breathing if the quality of life of your loved ones is severely diminished. William Peters let's you know through systematic research and numerous stories that your loved ones pass on to a joyous dimension of new life and you can take the journey with them! If you prepare you can share their death experience with them, see where they are going, experience divine love with them and know they will be reunited with others who have passed. Williams research team can help prepare each of you.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on October 13, 2024 *
William offers services for end-of-life support. Here are the resources and links to those resources:
William's book on demand- At Heavens Door-
https://www.sharedcrossing.com/williampeters
On-Demand Self-Study Courses- https://www.sharedcrossing.com/programs-self-study
Concierge Services-
https://www.sharedcrossing.com/concierge
SDE Sharing Group-
https://www.sharedcrossing.com/sde-sharing-group
Health Professional's Customized Training- https://www.sharedcrossing.com/healthcare
William Peters, M.Ed., M.F.T., is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and Director of the Shared Crossing Research Initiative. A licensed M.F.T. therapist, he holds an M.A. in Counseling from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an M.Ed. in Group Dynamics from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California.
As the Director of the Shared Crossing Research Initiative (SCRI), William and his research team collect and study extraordinary end-of-life experiences (shared crossings).William is recognized as the world’s leading authority on the shared death experience (SDE) having developed research-based typologies that classify the full range of SDEs. He also created the Spectrum of End-of-Life Experiences, a user-friendly guide to assist the dying, caregivers and health care professionals in navigating and understanding phenomena that can manifest at the end of life.
https://www.sharedcrossing.com/programs-self-study
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 #synchronicitiy

Oct 6, 2024 • 55min
Jung's Unus Mundus Falls Short: Gary Lachman, EP 370
Gary Lachman ranges broadly and deeply through the esoteric mysteries. He rightly criticizes Jung for being too scientific around unus mundus (one world). Gary illuminates our ability to be precognitive through that everyday transition between waking and sleeping--hypnogogic-the guide from sleep. His information presents as auditory, other people use visuals. Practice monitoring your information flow as you fall asleep and as you wake up perhaps starting with waking up. Let your mind drift in this in between world and you are like to find creative urges to build on during the day.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on October 6, 2024 *
Gary Lachman is the author of many books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He writes for several journals in the UK, US, and Europe, including Fortean Times, Quest, Strange Attractor, Fenris Wolf, and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Mojo, Gnosis and other publications. He lectures regularly in the UK, US, and Europe, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He has appeared in several film and television documentaries and on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is on the adjunct faculty in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a full-time writer Lachman studied philosophy, managed a new age bookshop, taught English Literature, and was a Science Writer for UCLA. As Gary Valentine he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lachman was born in New Jersey, but since 1996 has lived in London, UK. https://www.gary-lachman.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 #synchronicitiy

Sep 28, 2024 • 59min
Unraveling the Mystery of the Headless Buddha: Ricky Derisz, EP 369
Ricky Derisz communicates with his heart and his head. Go ahead, get a feel for his wonderful heart energy. He experiences sequential synchronicities. Here is one he tells us. He unintentionally knocked the head of a state of the Buddha that initiated a series of "headless" occurrences. He interprets this one as clues to nonlocal knowledge. Several memes recurred for him: " Off with his head" from Alice in Wonderland, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." "It's the journey, not the destination." Read his chapter in the new book, The Playful Universe to get to know him in another way. We had a great connection.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on September 29, 2024 *
Ricky Derisz is a writer, speaker, and host of the MindThatEgo Podcast. Inspired by his battle with mental illness and subsequent awakening, Ricky's independent research and self-inquiry practice synthesizes depth psychology, spirituality, philosophy, science, and more, to support a cohesive model of reality that allows for a life-enriching relationship with the cosmos, one of enchantment, mystery, and mysticism.
https://www.mindthatego.com
/ @mindthatego
https://www.mindthatego.com/mindsets-for-mindfulness/
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 #synchronicitiy

Sep 27, 2024 • 51min
Synchronicity and the Nature of Consciousness: Marjorie Woollacott, EP 368
Scientist Marjorie Woollacott describes the beauty, wonder and fun of the conscious universe in which each of us is embedded and connected. Your thoughts influence the nature of your experiences as Marjorie tells us. The Universe desires to get to know itself through each of our individual experiences. She is the first editor of The Playful Universe a profoundly important book that will further connect you with the meaningful coincidences swirling around you, those you love and the people you know and don't know. We are all connected and synchronicities show us how. You can order The Playful Universe here: https://www.amazon.com/Playful-Universe-Synchronicity-Nature-Consciousness/dp/1735449172
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on September 22, 2024 *
Marjorie Woollacott, Ph.D., was professor and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology and is a member of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences, On the Science Committee of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Co-Director of the Galileo Commission and Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Woollacott has published over 200 scientific articles and written or edited nine books, including Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (receiving 8 book awards) and Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences
https://marjoriewoollacott.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... to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences".
Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicitiy

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 21min
Physicist: We are Conscious Quantum Fields, Beyond Space and Time: Federico Faggin, EP 367
In this episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Dr. Bernard Beitman and guest Federico Faggin dive into the profound questions about the fundamental nature of reality, the "one totality of existence, free will, consciousness and wanting to know ourselves. Federico Faggin is a physicist, inventor of the first commercial microprocessor, and consciousness researcher. Together, we discuss Federico's "postulate of being", which posits that the universe, "the totality of existence" is dynamic, holistic, and wants to know itself. We explore the intersections of quantum physics and consciousness, the role of free will, and the ways in which our individual perspectives contribute to the collective understanding of reality. The conversation also touches on the importance of self-observation and the potential of synchronicities to reveal deeper truths about our interconnectedness and purpose.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on September 15, 2024 *
Federico Faggin created MOS Silicon Gate Technology that underlies all modern computing, the first commercial microprocessor, the touchpad, the touchscreen, and neural nets that all contemporary AI uses. After an extraordinary experience of consciousness more than 30 years ago, Federico has devoted his work to understanding the nature of consciousness, which along with free will, he postulates to be fundamental aspects of existence itself.
https://www.federicofaggin.com/ Published books and other content
📕 "Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature" https://tinyurl.com/yc2fepx9
www.fagginfoundation.org Consciousness Research Foundation
👋@fedefaggin on X, IG, TikTok, YT @federico.faggin on LinkedIn
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 #synchronicitiy

Sep 25, 2024 • 1h 15min
The Flaming Sword of Quantum Physics: Timothy Eastman, EP 366
Plasma physicist Timothy Eastman cuts our ties to classical physics to release the genie of quantum physics into our collective minds. Solids, liquids and gases now have a 4th state of matter--plasma--in which electrons, protons, electromagnetism and other forces are constantly interacting to create this newest state of matter. Can this new state be a way of understanding psi phenomena and the functioning of the psychosphere?
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on September 8, 2024 *
Timothy E. Eastman, PhD, plasma and space physics, and philosophy: Dr. Eastman's scholarly works, including three books and over 100 research papers, encompass research and consulting in space physics, plasma applications, space weather and education. Having realized the pervasive impact of multi-level processes and emergence in the natural world, he began to critically assess the implications of new developments in science and philosophy. Dr. Eastman's major work, Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context (Lexington, 2020), synthesizes recent developments in philosophy, physics, logic, process thought, and biosemiotics, and contributes to a new natural philosophy for the 21st century.
https://plasmas.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.
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 #synchronicitiy

Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 1min
Let Precognition Fuel Your Creativity: Eric Wargo, EP 364
Your future is calling you. Feel the tugs, notice the foggy signals coming from what you are being drawn to. Eric Wargo feels the future. He knows you can touch your future because it is trying to touch you. Evidence? Listen to the artists who predict the future without consciously knowing what will happen. They write and paint things that will later happen. Your intuition captures the symbols that can guide you on a path seemingly already laid out for you, if you choose to follow it.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on August 25, 2024 *
Eric Wargo has a PhD in anthropology from Emory University and is the author of From Nowhere, as well as two previous books on precognition: Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self and the acclaimed Time Loops. He also writes about science fiction, consciousness, and parapsychology at his popular blog, "The Nightshirt."
https://www.thenightshirt.com/https://shorturl.at/Ot58s book link at Amazon
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

Sep 24, 2024 • 59min
Bringing Love Back to Christianity: Shannon Winters, EP 363
"I'm right. You're wrong." Deeply devoted Christian Shannon Marie Winters speaks up against this ego driven declaration prevalent in most of modern Christianity, She is hoping to inspire the love that Jesus taught before Christianity became institutionalized and a means of control. To be born again is to destroy your ego and awaken to the love that flows through us. This is the new fundamentalism--the roots of Christianity.
*This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on August 18, 2024 *
Activate your self-observer to study and change the landscape of your mind, to better connect with yourself and with others, to move toward Divine Love. Shannon describes her own experience with Divine Love and the Unconditional Love she experiences with her soulmate Dave. At the beginning of this episode, she describes how the voice of Jesus comforted her within a divinely inspired joy that she would meet her soulmate. She did meet her soulmate through many amazing synchronicities between them.