Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. There is a very

interesting kind of behind the scenes of today's episode. I record my episodes pretty far out.

So this one, I believe I recorded in May. And interestingly, for whatever reason, we could not find the intro to this reporting.

So I'm re-recording the intro right before I drop the podcast.

Usually I record both of them together.

But what is so interesting about today's episode and gives me some pause and question as to where possibly that initial intro disappeared to,

is that I am dropping today's podcast with Bernard Bightman, Dr. Bernard Bightman, who is a psychiatrist

and really the first one since Carl Jung, to organize and look into the field of meaningful coincidences.

And I was just having a conversation with a colleague of mine about how in the field of meaningful coincidences. And I was just having a conversation with a colleague

of mine about how in the field of psychology that these serendipitous events, these miraculous events,

have really gotten brushed under the rug. And our spirituality has really shifted and how

there's so much importance in the field of

psychology in terms of finding some sort of meaning, some bigger meaning, some larger meaning

in anything we do.

And this episode today with Dr. Bightman and also his counterpart, Ruslanana Romcova, who has joined him on the show,

is all about his book on Meaningful Coincidences and the synchronistic events and how they occur

and why they occur and how to make sense of them. There were a couple things that were really

kind of special about this episode.

One is that Bernie, as we call him, looked very similar to my own papa, my own grandfather.

And interestingly, his brother, you'll hear at the end how this all went down, but there was some weird

coincidences between how he looked and his profession and his brother, my papa's brother.

And it was just all really interestingly woven together.

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