October 2, 2022 — Bernard Beitman, MD and Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz explore the frontiers of reality with Bernard Beitman, MD, author of Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen. He writes that each of us has more to do with creating coincidences than we think. In this comprehensive exploration of the potential of coincidences to expand our understanding of reality, he explores why and how coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity happen and how to use these common occurrences to inspire psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual growth. Exploring the crucial role of personal agency—individual thought and action—in synchronicities and serendipities, Dr. Beitman shows that there’s much more behind these occurrences than “fate” or “randomness.” They can be clues to the functioning of the psychosphere, our mental atmosphere through which many of them happen.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:18.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.4	In a couple of minutes here, we'll be hearing Dr. Bernard Bightman.
0:37.7	He's the author of a book called Meaningful Coincidences, How and Why Synchronicity and
0:44.3	Serendipity Happen, which is a really, really well done book.
0:48.7	I've obviously not read the whole thing, but I've read parts of it.
0:52.2	Really, really well presented for everybody.
0:55.2	In fact, there's a question or a comment from one of our listeners already who is reading
1:00.3	a book and is quite impressed by it.
1:03.0	I want to talk with our co-host Tim Swartz about a couple of things first.
1:07.4	So, Tim, obviously in the last few episodes of the show, I lit into a couple of people there, mostly because it's not as if when you enter the UFO field of study, there's such a thing as a UFO or Uphology 101.
1:24.7	I wish there was. There was once, for example, a site called UFO Watchdog.com, which had the white list,
1:32.4	the gray list, and the blacklist of people in the UFO field from contactees to
1:37.1	serious researchers.
1:38.9	Unfortunately, the owner, Royce Myers, the third, who was a police officer, might be still is, he stopped updating
1:48.6	it. We then took it over for a year or two, and we added updates to it. I got a couple of
1:54.8	really good writers. And then he said, you know what, can I have it back? I said, okay, fine. But he
1:59.1	never used the updated database
2:00.8	with the extra material. So that's where it sits. The problem is, Tim, maybe you could
2:07.1	give me your thoughts about this, is people interested in UFOs. And there are lots of people
2:13.3	who are involved in the field, scientists, regular folk, journalists like myself, and people who are involved in the field. Scientists, regular folk, journalists like myself, and people who are on the fringe.
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