Guest Bernard Beitman, M.D. is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence. He is the author of Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Matter, and the co-author of the award-winning book Learning Psychotherapy. The founder of The Coincidence Project, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

Summary

Our conversation explored a number of questions:

• Why it is beneficial to pay attention to coincidences.

• The difference between synchronicity and serendipity.

• Obstacle to acting on triggers

• How telepathy works.

• The nature of simulpathity.

• How the psycho-sphere is likely to function.

• The relationship between coincidence and prayer.

• How agency – free will, making personal choices – is essential when it comes to understanding and leveraging meaningful coincidence.

Links/References

Website: https://coincider.com/

Podcast: https://www.coincider.com/podcasts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBeitman

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coincider?fref=nf

Instagram: bernardbeitmanmd

 

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