447: What science says about coincidences & interpersonal energy | Psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, M.D.

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Bernard Beitman, M.D.: “It's a good idea to get lost every once in a while.” Bernard, a psychiatrist and founder of the Coincidence Project, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to make sense of random coincidences, plus: - How Bernard became an expert in coincidences (~01:18) - What is a coincidence? (~03:04) - How to identify synchronicity, seriality, and serendipity (~06:14) - How to make meaning of coincidences (~12:57) - How to find coincidences without overanalyzing them (~15:42) - What drives random coincidences (~19:56) - What sciences says about coincidences (~21:45) - What type of person is more likely to see coincidences (~25:12) - How animals can give us emotional signals (~30:26) - How to communicate with plants (~32:39) - What to do after you notice a coincidence (~39:00) - How to make the most out of coincidences (~40:51) - How to attract more coincidences in your life (~48:50) - How to tap into your internal GPS (~51:23) - The most awe-inspiring stories of synchronicity (~55:16) - Why coincidences deserve more science (~01:01:01) Referenced in the episode: - Bernard's book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen. - Read Bernard's profile in the WSJ. - Learn more about the Coincidence Project. - Take Bernard's coincidence survey. - Check out Bernard's podcast, Connecting with Coincidence 2.0. - mbg Podcast episode #301, with Jim Tucker, M.D. - mbg Podcast episode #287, with Bruce Greyson, M.D. - mbg Podcast episode #344, with Lisa Miller, Ph.D. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green,
0:05.5	and your host. Dr. Bernard Beitman is a graduate of Yale Medical School and did his psychiatric
0:11.6	residency at Stanford. He's the former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri
0:17.0	Columbia Medical and our prolific contributor to psychology today. Bernard is also the founder
0:22.6	of the Coincidence Project and is here to chat about his new book, Meaningful Coincidences,
0:29.1	How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happened, which was also just profiled in the Wall Street
0:35.0	Journal. You just told me about that. And I also call out that you were colleagues at University
0:40.8	of Virginia with two former guests, Jim Tucker and Bruce Grayson in the incredible and very intriguing
0:48.4	Department of Paranormal Sciences. I wish it was. It's a division of perceptual studies.
0:54.8	Division of Percept Paranormal. I feel like that's Ghostbusters. I want to Ghostbusters,
0:58.9	sir. You did. You did. And that's why the chairman from Moalagos said the division of perceptual
1:06.4	studies to kind of hide the parapsychological part of it. I love it. I love it. So I thought your
1:14.9	book was so interesting. And I'm curious, how does one become an expert in coincidences? I assume
1:25.0	it, you know, it played a significant role in your life that you made the decision along the way
1:28.8	to say, Hey, I'm going to specialize in this. It helps to be comfortable being weird
1:35.3	because it isn't exactly the main stream, but it also is being comfortable believing what I'm
1:41.0	seeing so that I began to see coincidence after coincidence in my life. And some of them were very
1:48.8	dramatic. So I started wondering, do other people have coincidences like this? I heard stories read
1:55.9	about red books, but in 2006, I developed with the help of some researchers, the Weird Coincidence
2:03.4	Survey, which you can take on my website, which is coinciders.com, C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-R-S,
2:12.9	coinciders.com, where you can take the Weird Coincidence Survey to see how sensitive you are to
2:19.5	coincidences. The reason I did the survey in the first place was to find out how common are these
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