

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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Apr 27, 2024 • 1h 10min
Coincidences in the Thin Veil of Bali, Crystal Harrell: EP 313
By following a Facebook ad and for some unknown reason being offered a guided visualization, Crystal Harrell took a chance on chance which led to a spiritual awakening on the Island of Bali and the elimination of years of anxiety. On Bali she experienced thinking of a need and having that need met. Her journey from deep Alabama poverty to major scholarship help inspires many others. She is part of the young person cohort helping to transform the self-centered focus of much of humanity into recognition of our interconnectedness. She studies Spiritual Consciousness at Yale.
Crystal Harrell is a best-selling author, motivational speaker, Academic Success Coach, and Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. After growing up in public housing apartments with nine siblings and losing a parent to a chronic disease, Crystal saw education as her ticket out of poverty. Throughout her academic journey, she has been awarded over $670,000 in scholarships, including the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship. Crystal’s story has graced the TEDx stage, and her popular education blog benefits thousands weekly. Her first best-selling book, Crystal Clear, inspires fellow non-traditional students to harness the power of personal growth and self-awareness to achieve their goals. Crystal's research emphasizes the interplay between psychology and spirituality, focusing on the enhancement of well-being through Spiritual Consciousness.
https://crystaltharrell.com/books
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences . to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Apr 23, 2024 • 1h
The Stunning Path to Finding Oneself, Ricardo Escamilla: EP 312
Ricardo Escamilla's uncertainty was turned into his life work through stunning synchronicity. His path to leadership consulting, creativity and business consulting is paradigmatic for any person willing to grasp the opportunities presented to them.
Since childhood, Ricardo Escamilla has been interested in the mind and consciousness. At the age of 11, he took his first spirituality course. He studied administration at ITAM, a prestigious business institute in Mexico, and received a national award for his research on creativity and entrepreneurship. He pursued a master's degree in Applied Creativity in Spain and a postgraduate degree in Emotional Ecology. His fascination with synchronicity began at the age of 23, sparked by a fortunate event that led him to focus on business training. With 25 years of professional experience, he teaches various soft skills, creativity, and innovation. Through awareness-raising activities on synchronicity, he aims to connect individuals with life's purpose. Currently, he is writing a book on meaningful coincidences based on personal experiences and close ones.
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Apr 1, 2024 • 1h
Thoughts Influence Computers, Terje Simonsen: EP 311
The wrong telephone number becomes the right opportunity and launches Terje Simonsen into a career in parapsychological realities. His existential mission is to accelerate human intuitive capacities for the benefit of all living beings.
Terje Simonsen is educated as a Historian of ideas, specializing in esoteric and occult traditions. Having heard inexplicable stories from reliable relatives and friends from childhood, and later experiencing things of that nature himself, he combined this fascination with the unknown with a scholarly study in esoterica and mystical traditions. And moreover, with a personal interest in meditation and therapy - gestalt, psychosynthesis, psychomotoric physiotherapy, transpersonal psychology, etc. https://www.facebook.com/OurSecretPowers/
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences, to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Mar 30, 2024 • 1h 10min
Sine Waves Are Fundamental, Carl Johann Calleman: EP 310
Grandson of the reindeer herders of northern Scandinavia, Carl Calleman resonates with Mayan calendars. The sine wave of the creative serpent correlates with Mayan predictions in illuminating simultaneous independent inventions like the digitalization of our cultures. The universe is alive and speaks to us through nature.
Carl Johan Calleman was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm in Physical Biology from 1984 and has been a Senior Researcher at the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has served as an expert on cancer for the WHO and articles he has authored or co-authored have been quoted more than 1500 times in the scientific literature proper. He is recognized as the main proponent of the idea that the Mayan calendar reflects the evolution of consciousness and has developed a complete theory around this. He is the author of "The Living Universe: The new theory of Origins: Explaining Consciousness, the Big Bang, Fine Tuning, “Dark Matter”, the Evolution of Life and Human History" www.calleman.com
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 5min
Experience Plants as Sentient Beings, Kat Maier: EP 309
As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Chile coupled with her training as a Physician’s Assistant, Kat Maier is able to weave the language of biomedicine with traditional energetic systems. She is co-author of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas, and author of Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions Integrating Elements of Vitalism, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine. This book won the Gold Medal Nautilus Award in 2022. https://sacredplanttraditions.com/in-the-media/
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 6min
Quantum Activism to Heal the World and Ourselves, Amit Goswami: EP 308
Amit Goswami teaches and lives the love from the heart that will help bring heaven to earth. Hell is where people at the banquet that is earth try unsuccessfully to only feed themselves while heaven is where we feed each other. He leads quantum activists to help each and all of us work to change ourselves and simultaneously work to change the world through creative intentionality--joining with the flow of the evolutionary merging of opposites into Oneness.
Dr. Amit Goswami, PhD, is a retired professor from the physics department of the University of Oregon (1968 to 1997). He is a renowned pioneer of the new paradigm of quantum science based on the primacy of consciousness.
Goswami has written several groundbreaking popular books based on research on quantum science and consciousness, among them, The Self-Aware Universe, The Quantum Brain, Quantum Integrative Medicine and Quantum Spirituality (the last three books - with Valentina R. Onisor, MD), The Quantum Doctor, Physics of the Soul, Quantum Creativity and The Everything Answer Book.
In 2009, Amit started a movement called Quantum Activism, now gaining ground in North and South America, Europe, and India. In 2019, he and his collaborators established Quantum Activism Vishwalayam, acting as the department of Quantum Science at the University of Technology in Jaipur, India, and developed a Master and PhD program in Quantum Science of Health, Prosperity, and Happiness, an international program of transformative education.
Amit was featured in the movie What the bleep do we know? and the documentaries The Dalai Lama Renaissance and The Quantum Activist.
Amit is a spiritual practitioner and calls himself a quantum activist in search of Wholeness.
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.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 11min
Synchronicities Connects Us to Departed Loved Ones, Sharon Rawlette: EP 307
Philosopher Sharon Rawlette provides you clear evidence that minds survive death. Apparitions, mediums, near-death experiences, and reincarnation form the background for evidence from synchronicities of living beyond death. A key lesson: when that butterfly or bird feels like a loved one is communicating with you, enjoy the exchange of love. Try to avoid analyzing.
Sharon Hewitt Rawlette is a philosopher and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in anomalous phenomena and their implications for our understanding of consciousness. Rawlette earned her PhD in philosophy from New York University in 2008 and taught at Brandeis University before leaving academia for an independent writing career. Her books include The Source and Significance of Coincidences, The Supreme Victory of the Heart (a memoir), and Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness (2021), which was a runner-up in the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) 2021 essay contest.
https://sharonrawlette.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Source-Significance-Coincidences-Astonishing-Evidence/dp/1733995706/https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Death-Evidence-Survival-Consciousness/dp/1733995749/
https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Victory-Heart-Memoir-Synchronicity/dp/1733995722/
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.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Feb 24, 2024 • 1h 2min
Angel Guides and Synchronicity, Liliane Fortna: EP 305
Liliane Fortna's amazing resilience has been fueled by adversity. Her ability to imagine, to release her inner child and to recognize her angel guides each become examples for our own lives. Her dance through life demonstrates a delight filled way to increase meaningful coincidences .
Liliane Fortna is an energy healer, Reiki master, and the author of Winks from Above. She suffered a very difficult childhood but overcame adversity through her close alignment with the spiritual world. Being highly intuitive, she receives assistance from her Guides and Angels to both help carry her through some tremendously difficult events, as well as to guide her to some amazing accomplishments. Previously she has been a professional dancer, European fashion model, fashion consultant, and Amazon rain forest explorer. French Vietnamese by birth, she grew up in France and has lived in Europe, Asia and now the United States. https://winksfromabove.com
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST !
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 7min
Astrology as a Tool for Understanding Ourselves, Dr. Christine Page: EP 304
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Physician Christine Page beautifully describes astrological basics and articulates Mayan principles describing the world inflection point that occurred in 2012. Learn about the character of each of the planets in our solar system and how they reflect who you are.
Known as a mystical physician, Dr. Christine Page has been a pioneer in the field of healthcare for over 40 years, working in particular with women. As an author, gifted intuitive, astrologer & international speaker, she sees herself as a bridge builder whether between different modalities of wellbeing or states of consciousness. She is the author of nine books including Frontiers of Health and her latest The Heart of the Great Mother.
https://www.christinepage.com
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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.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST !
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"

Feb 13, 2024 • 1h 17min
Paul Kammerer’s Seriality: The First Overview of Synchronicity-related Events, John Townley: EP 302
Why does the moon always show the same face to us? Astrologer-musician John Townley explains the three steps: attraction, imitation, and persistence. These three steps describe much of what happens in our world and universe including meaningful coincidences. John was born on the same day as Paul Kammerer the Austrian botanist who developed a basic science view of meaningful coincidences (seriality) that influenced Jung's ideas of synchronicity and offers clear ideas about how the future is now and attracts us to it.
John Townley is a writer, historical and folk/pop musician and record producer, maritime preservationist, and theoretical astrologer with a broad list of published books and record albums covering over sixty years. He designed the first 12-track studio (Apostolic) in New York where Frank Zappa created much of his music, was founding president of the Confederate Naval Historical Society, and currently working on a book-to-film project about Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer and his seminal 1919 Das Gesetz der Serie which introduced the structural concept of seriality, tapped by Jung in his speculation on synchronicity. Articles, records, and more at www.astrococktail.com
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder.
Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST !
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"