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• Tells the author's personal stories of unlikely coincidences, showing how synchronicity can be identified and evolve in one's own life
• Explores how recognizing synchronicity and serendipity can help individuals find their life purpose, accelerate their spiritual and interpersonal development, and positively impact their lives
• Builds on the work of Carl Jung on the significance of synchronicity
In Life-Changing Synchronicities, pioneering psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, M.D., explores the experience and ramifications of meaningful coincidences, including how synchronistic happenings came to define his own life. Building on Carl Jung's groundbreaking work on this phenomenon, Beitman applies new insights on coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and related phenomena to the contemporary age, ultimately helping readers begin to better identify patterns of synchronicity in their own lives, find deeper meaning, and more consciously align with their personal life path and goals.
The unlikely trajectory of the author's own life reveals the strange and counterintuitive nature of synchronicity. From Wilmington, Delaware, to 1960s-era San Francisco, Beitman explores his experience with precognition and telepathy while playing high school football, his life as a psychiatric medical school student and hippie in Haight-Ashbury, and his rise to become head of psychiatry at University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School while developing The Coincidence Project. As well as providing questions for readers to reflect on, throughout the book Beitman provides additional tools to illustrate synchronicity, offering insightful comments and principles in each section to synthesize useful reflections that serve as a guide for readers' own "coincidence diaries." Bernard Beitman, M.D., a graduate of Yale Medical School, did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today and is the author of Meaningful Coincidences. The founder of The Coincidence Project, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. INTRODUCTION
The Strangeness that Masquerades as Real Life
Paper is patient.
-Anne Frank
I'VE BEEN IN MANY PLACES in my life and times. I've encountered many coincidences and made some surprising finds. I've taken a chance on chance. Like Alice in Wonderland, I've encountered the strangeness that masquerades as real life.
I was an adventuresome and curious boy who discovered an imaginary hidden tunnel in the woods near my house. When my dog Snapper and I walked through the tunnel, a beautiful jungle was revealed, teeming with dazzling pairs and bouncy triples and occasional twirls of four. Within the repeating patterns, similarities were glowing that were strikingly familiar and simultaneously different. Opposites within opposites. I ran back through the tunnel to tell anyone who would listen. But I was mute. I could not speak. I had no words to describe what we saw. No one was there to understand except Snapper. Were they illusions or emblems of an untaught reality? Many years later I found a way to describe those dazzling shapes. These meaningful coincidences are keys to how our minds work, to our interconnectedness, and to saving ourselves from our own self-destruction.
Contrasts breed synchronicity and serendipity. I am an ambulating contradiction. As a scholarly, nearsighted student, I ran back kickoffs and punts during high school and college football games without glasses or contact lenses. While a psychiatric resident at an elite school, I was a part-time hippie during the ecstatic vortex of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, in the late 1960s. As chairman of an academic psychiatry department, I initiated a formal research project to investigate the immense promise in meaningful coincidences.
This autobiography unfurls the tapestry of meaningful coincidences across
• Explores how recognizing synchronicity and serendipity can help individuals find their life purpose, accelerate their spiritual and interpersonal development, and positively impact their lives
• Builds on the work of Carl Jung on the significance of synchronicity
In Life-Changing Synchronicities, pioneering psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, M.D., explores the experience and ramifications of meaningful coincidences, including how synchronistic happenings came to define his own life. Building on Carl Jung's groundbreaking work on this phenomenon, Beitman applies new insights on coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and related phenomena to the contemporary age, ultimately helping readers begin to better identify patterns of synchronicity in their own lives, find deeper meaning, and more consciously align with their personal life path and goals.
The unlikely trajectory of the author's own life reveals the strange and counterintuitive nature of synchronicity. From Wilmington, Delaware, to 1960s-era San Francisco, Beitman explores his experience with precognition and telepathy while playing high school football, his life as a psychiatric medical school student and hippie in Haight-Ashbury, and his rise to become head of psychiatry at University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School while developing The Coincidence Project. As well as providing questions for readers to reflect on, throughout the book Beitman provides additional tools to illustrate synchronicity, offering insightful comments and principles in each section to synthesize useful reflections that serve as a guide for readers' own "coincidence diaries." Bernard Beitman, M.D., a graduate of Yale Medical School, did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. The former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School for 17 years, he writes a blog for Psychology Today and is the author of Meaningful Coincidences. The founder of The Coincidence Project, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. INTRODUCTION
The Strangeness that Masquerades as Real Life
Paper is patient.
-Anne Frank
I'VE BEEN IN MANY PLACES in my life and times. I've encountered many coincidences and made some surprising finds. I've taken a chance on chance. Like Alice in Wonderland, I've encountered the strangeness that masquerades as real life.
I was an adventuresome and curious boy who discovered an imaginary hidden tunnel in the woods near my house. When my dog Snapper and I walked through the tunnel, a beautiful jungle was revealed, teeming with dazzling pairs and bouncy triples and occasional twirls of four. Within the repeating patterns, similarities were glowing that were strikingly familiar and simultaneously different. Opposites within opposites. I ran back through the tunnel to tell anyone who would listen. But I was mute. I could not speak. I had no words to describe what we saw. No one was there to understand except Snapper. Were they illusions or emblems of an untaught reality? Many years later I found a way to describe those dazzling shapes. These meaningful coincidences are keys to how our minds work, to our interconnectedness, and to saving ourselves from our own self-destruction.
Contrasts breed synchronicity and serendipity. I am an ambulating contradiction. As a scholarly, nearsighted student, I ran back kickoffs and punts during high school and college football games without glasses or contact lenses. While a psychiatric resident at an elite school, I was a part-time hippie during the ecstatic vortex of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, in the late 1960s. As chairman of an academic psychiatry department, I initiated a formal research project to investigate the immense promise in meaningful coincidences.
This autobiography unfurls the tapestry of meaningful coincidences across