Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MD

What do psychedelic visions and biblical prophecy have in common? In this 400th episode of Connecting with Coincidence, psychiatrist Bernard Beitman sits down with Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, to explore how altered states of consciousness might connect with ancient spiritual traditions.Order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).Both trained psychiatrists with Jewish backgrounds, Beitman and Strassman reflect on shared experiences—from early psychedelic encounters to a lifelong interest in the edges of consciousness. Strassman discusses his return to the Hebrew Bible after decades of Zen practice, offering a new lens on DMT experiences as potentially prophetic rather than purely mystical or hallucinatory.The two explore entity encounters, the psychosphere, and how meaning can emerge through synchronicities and personal interpretation. Whether or not you believe in otherworldly beings, this conversation offers thoughtful reflections on science, spirituality, and the unknown.Rick Strassman, MD performed the first new U.S. clinical research with psychedelic substances in decades. He is the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, DMT and the Soul of Prophecy, The Psychedelic Handbook, and My Altered States. His work bridges psychiatry, neuroscience, and spiritual inquiry.🌐 rickstrassman.comBernard D. Beitman, MD is the founder of The Coincidence Project and author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. A Yale- and Stanford-trained psychiatrist, Dr. Beitman explores synchronicity and meaningful coincidence as a form of knowledge and healing.

What happens when we step outside the boundaries of the physical world?Psychiatrist Bernard Beitman and neuroscientist Marina Weiler dive deep into the mysteries of out-of-body experiences (OBEs), near-death experiences (NDEs), astral encounters, and the possibility of life beyond the body.Pre-order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).Marina shares her personal brushes with the paranormal—including poltergeist-like events and vivid dreams of the departed—even though she has never had an OBE herself. Bernard recounts his own surreal journey to the "coincidence control office" during an out-of-body episode. Together, they explore how these extraordinary events can transform our perspectives, reduce fear of death, and inspire profound life changes.Can we meet others—or even non-human entities—while traveling the astral plane? Is consciousness truly separate from the brain? Join this fascinating conversation as science and the mystical collide, and discover how synchronicity, intention, and expanded awareness can reshape our understanding of reality.Marina Weiler is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), University of Virginia. A trained neuroscientist with expertise in neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and consciousness studies, she investigates experiences that transcend traditional physical explanation. Her research has earned recognition from CAPES (Brazil), the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, the NIH, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Research.🌐 Learn more at DOPS - University of Virginia | https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/

Bernard D. Beitman, MD, is a pioneer in the study of meaningful coincidences and synchronicity. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is the founder of The Coincidence Project. Dr. Beitman is the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences, and his work has reached more than one million people worldwide through his blog, books, and podcast.📘 Learn more at www.coincider.com

Ask a question. Look around.Wherever you are, clues, hints, and answers are reflected back to you—if you’re willing to see them. Dr. Philip Merry teaches global leaders how to recognize synchronicity as a real-world tool for insight, connection, and transformation. The same principle applies beyond the boardroom—into families, communities, and nations.As authoritarianism rises across the globe, synchronicity offers a subtle but powerful guide toward a different future—one rooted not in domination, but in collaboration. What if we could all shift from "Me" to "We"? What if the universe is already showing us how?In this episode, discover how synchronicity is not just a personal curiosity—it’s a collective compass.Pre-order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).Guest Bio: Dr. Philip MerryFor over 40 years in 63 countries, Dr. Philip Merry has helped organizations and leaders unlock the power of teams, including at the United Nations, World Bank, and Fortune 300 companies. He is a Master Team Coach who has certified over 400 team coaches worldwide. With a PhD in Synchronicity and Leadership, Philip is a recognized global thought leader in applying synchronicity to leadership, personal growth, and global change.🌐 www.PhilipMerry.com📘 The 9 Keys of Synchronicity – Read on AmazonAbout Dr. Bernard BeitmanBernard D. Beitman, MD, is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is the founder of The Coincidence Project. Dr. Beitman is the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences, and has reached over 1 million people through his blog, books, and podcast.📘 Learn more at www.coincider.com

Meet a highly empathic physician. David Cannon intends to help his patients. Through the fun and adventure of coincidences he strengthens the therapeutic alliance which increases positive outcomes. A patient which chronic lung disease had no options anymore Dr. Cannon had recently read about frankensense oil as a possible anti-inflammatory for lungs.

While fearing being ridiculed for suggesting this to his patient, he went ahead. Very surprised, the patient said the he too was afraid to mention that possibility also fearing ridicule. It was as if the doctor had read the patient's mind. That's empathy! For more stories like this, tune into this episode.

Pre-order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).

David Cannon was originally from West Virginia, and attended Duke University for his undergraduate degree in chemistry before going on to get his medical degree also at Duke. He went on to complete his postgraduate training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, and following residency training he completed two years of active duty in the US Navy.After completing his military service, he returned to Lynchburg, Virginia, to join a then small group practice in general internal medicine. This has evolved over the past several years into a large primary care group with several offices of family physicians serving the community. Dr Cannon completed the Integrative Medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona in 2005, and since that time has shifted his focus to an integrative style of practice.

Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to create a blueprint for the practical new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and later as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached over one million readers through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and his books Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, Dr. Beitman is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.

What if help from the unseen was just a question away?Anthropologist and modern shaman Julie Mariel shares astonishing stories of spirit communication, dream-based healing, and energetic connection across time and space. From encounters with discarnate souls to messages delivered in dreams, Julie shows us how to access the invisible realms around us—and why it's more real than we think.In this conversation with Dr. Bernard Beitman, Julie explores the power of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience in healing. Learn how she collaborates with spirit guides, angels, and even ascended masters to assist in her work. Whether you’re a therapist, energy worker, or simply curious about synchronicity and soul connection, this episode invites you to tune your awareness to the higher frequencies all around us.Julie Mariel is a Danish anthropologist and shaman of the new era. She specializes in hypnotherapy, healing, clairvoyance, and past life regression. She leads spiritual journeys to energy-rich sites like the Bosnian Pyramids and Montségur, and appears on Danish national TV and multiple podcasts. Her upcoming book on ayahuasca anthropology will be published by Lemuel Books.📧 Email: kontakt@juliemariel.dk🌐 Instagram + YouTube | @JulieMariel🏡 Retreat Center: Naturhotellet, Djursland, Denmark

ernard D. Beitman, MD, is a pioneer in the study of meaningful coincidences and synchronicity. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is the founder of The Coincidence Project. Dr. Beitman is the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences, and his work has reached more than one million people worldwide through his blog, books, and podcast.📘 Learn more at www.coincider.com

Eminent researcher Elizabeth Davies knows that thoughts influence our physical world. Each of us is both separate and part of the collective human organism. Her research shows that the we are bioelectromagnetic fields interacting with each other through fields that carry information-energy among and between us. In the last 15 minutes she describes the activity of slime molds which like us are both individual amoebas and capable to becoming part of a greater whole. When their food dries up, pacemaker cells sent out electromagnetic pulses that direct chemicals to signal other cells: its time to gather up! They become a slug with different cells operating at the bottom as mobile movers and other cells become antennae that send out spores. Somehow, perhaps sensing fields, the slug moves to where there is more food. Upon reaching a nutrient space, the cells become single amoebae again. Some cells die. And the cycle starts over again. Does the slug have consciousness? Probably. What would be the consciousness of the collective human organism? Are you ready to find out?Elizabeth Davies has published research in bioelectromagnetics involving the effect of pulsed magnetic fields on living cells. She used a Slime Mold, as a model cell system for human cellular activity. She monitored the dynamics of cell signaling during exposure to applied electromagnetic fields, as used in orthopedics and physiotherapy. Her recent published research has involved monitoring correlations between dynamics in the geomagnetic field and oxygen production in pond plants, correlations between geomagnetic field dynamics and heart rate variability, and changes in EEG brain wave dynamics during mediumship, compared with imagination. She has written poetry since childhood, and illustrated and printed her own work.

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

"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.

Bree Greenberg experiences the web of interconnections highlighted by synchronicities! She is very familiar with ontological shock--when your world crumbles in front and around you, nothing you knew exists anymore (except maybe your daughter). She took years to find and stabilize her sense of self, her energy signature so she can now vibrate harmonically with others. She has become more honest, more vulnerable, less demanding, more truthfully herself. And she continues to evolve. And helps others find their true selves, to become in touch with their true Eros--the creativity that comes from creative love. Bree Greenberg, LMFT has a passion for creating individual, organizational and global creative liberatory change. She is the founder of the former Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy which opened in 2010 and was one of the first mental health centers to combine ancient systems of healing interwoven with current cutting edge systems of care. She is known for her dynamic speaking presence and her ability to weave disparate elements into new forms that change view, conversation, and care.

Bree is an adjunct faculty member of Dartmouth Medical, and has spoken extensively at institutions, hospitals, conferences and universities on topics in integrative medicine, eating disorders and addictions. She has trained and supervised over 150 practitioners from disciplines ranging from internal medicine to yoga therapy. www.breegreenberg.com ig @breegreenberg0 Facebook: Bree Greenberg; Love of Nothing X @breehgreenberg YouTube: Bree Greenberg Film: "All of Me Kingdom" - County Productions 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.

How do the dividing cells of an embryo know where there need to go to create a baby? Psychiatrist Rick Leskowitz knows that an energetic template guides those cells to their proper places. Templates also seem to guide the creation of synchronicities, partly influenced by your intentions and partly influenced by current mysteries. Being able to feel the energy field of a man's amputated leg convinced Rick that we are more than flesh. More than bones. We have biofields that shape our minds and bodies, that help us get into the flow, into the zone and that participate in coincidence creations through resonance and entrainment with other people and our surroundings. Dr. Eric (Rick) Leskowitz was a consultant psychiatrist for over 25 years with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where he founded the Integrative Medicine Task Force. He holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School, has studied energy healing, meditation and hypnosis for over 40 years, and has had 50+ articles published in leading scientific journals. He has also edited three textbooks, and his documentary film about group energies and sports, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention, was broadcast on PBS. The Mystery of Life Energy is his latest book. https://www.TheMysteryOfLifeEnergy.com The Joy of Sox film (PBS): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgh11r8xB7ltgm7P6Qujblw

Sports, Energy and Consciousness (book): https://www.amazon.com/Eric-Leskowitz-Sports-Energy-Consciousness/dp/B00SB2DBUK The Mystery of Life Energy (book): https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Life-Energy-Energetics-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B0CFM722W8 Coast to Coast AM Podcast with George Noory: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-04-15-show/ 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

Ken Lloyd's vibe is amazingly wonderful to experience! His NDE opened his psyche to 13 aspects of his entire soul, encouraging him to accelerate the ascension of humanity into higher realms. Spirits entered Ken for the experience of being on Earth so that they too may continue their own ascensions. Ken helps people heal by removing traumatic energies from your body, He teaches releasing your body to heal itself. Ken Lloyd is a Soul Infusion Walk-In with 13 soul aspects, his higher-self and aspects of his oversoul merged into a single consciousness in his physical body. https://KenLloydOfficial.com Facebook: @KenLloyd.AcceleratedAscension Instagram: @KenLloyd.Official YouTube: @KenLloyd.Official 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

What you are seeking is seeking you. Radhule Weininger found the person she needed who also needed her. Through integrating Buddhist teaching with her thriving psychotherapy practice, Radhule is charting paths to your uniqueness and your part in the Collective Human Organism. Forget spiritual bypassing! Find your special gifts and join with those coming together to create a functioning Collective Organism to minimize our suicidal tendencies to destroy each other and our life giving environment. Radhule Weininger, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, founder of the non-profit Mindful Heart Programs. She is a teacher of mindfulness, compassion, and non-dual awake-awareness practices, as well as Buddhist psychology since 1981. She has a special interest in non-dual awake awareness practices. Her published books include "Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion,” and “Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Freedom and Peace-at Last.” Her third book “HeartMind: A Guide to Embodied Awakening” is forthcoming. Besides her interest in meditation, Radhule is a Jungian Therapist, trained in Embodied Imagination dreamwork. Radhule is faculty at Pacifica Graduate School and, together with her husband Michael Kearney, an author and physician, she has been teaching about self-care and resilience to caregivers locally and internationally for over twenty years. radhuleweiningerphd.com, Mindfulheartprograms.org 10 per cent happier dan harris https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ten-percent-happier-with-dan-h-29179?, https://audioboom.com/posts/8045613-radhule-weininger, https://radiopublic.com/ten-percent-happier-with-dan-harr-WwE9m8/s1!68caa, https://radiopublic.com/ten-percent-happier-with-dan-harr-WwE9m8/s1!68caa 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 #podcast #energy #interview #metacognition

You have magnetic field around you, pulsing, affecting others. Margaret Moga measures them. Orgasm is an activation of all your chakras. Your energy field resonates with some and not with other. Most of us are unfortunately shielded by buildings and walls from the healing energy of the ocean, the forest, the river that helps us reach our energy signature, the biofield activation that is closest to us.

Your house, your car, you furniture, your land, your clothes, your dogs and cats, pickup your energy fields. Telepathy may involve the perturbation of the other person energy field. Thought is made of energy and information. What you think has an effect on other people. Peg invites you to explore this expanding field of the personal, group and earth energy-information--the psychosphere. Margaret Moga is a neuroanatomist, medical educator, and subtle energy researcher, with 40 peer-reviewed papers examining the neural pathways of the central autonomic nervous system, magnetic field changes during energy healing, exceptional experiences of healers and scientific basis of the chakras. Her current research interests are developing scientific measures of energy healing and exceptional human experiences. As a complement to her research, she completed training as a practitioner in Healing Touch, an energy-based biofield therapy, and was recently President of the nonprofit organization, Society for Scientific Exploration. https://www.naturalhealingwaves.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 #podcast #energy #interview #metacognition #biofield

A book falls off the library shelf and hits physician Richard Petty on the shoulder with information he was ready to receive. How did that happen? A stranger initiates a conversation with him who then receives excellent medical advice from him. Major water pipes burst right when a woman collapses with a stroke. Utilizing principles from addiction medicine, Dr. Petty lists ways in which synchronicities can be increased including being hungry, angry, lonely and tired. Get to know the mind and heart of this brilliant man! 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.