A psychiatrist’s review of a lifetime of synchronicities

• 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. Throughout the book Beitman provides tools to better illustrate synchronicity, offering insightful comments and principles in each section to synthesize useful reflections and serve as a guide for readers’ own “coincidence diaries,” as well as provides useful questions for readers to reflect on.

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 seventeen 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.

FOREWORD
by Roderick Main

INTRODUCTION
The Strangeness that Masquerades as Real Life

PART 1
Coincidence in Place

1 Shaker Heights

2 Wilmington

3 Swarthmore

4 New Haven

5 San Francisco

6 Psychedelic San Francisco

7 How I Became a Tarot Card Reader

8 Seattle

9 Columbia

10 Charlottesville

11 I Become a Coincidence Author

12 Literary Coincidences

13 Internal GPS

14 The Coincidence Project

15 Down by the River

16 Flowing in C’Ville

17 Interpersonal Energy

18 Deus Ex-Machina

19 Communicating with Trees

PART 2
Serial Coincidences

20 That Tom

21 Heart Trouble

22 Close Calls

EPILOGUE
Synchronicity Shows Us How We
Are Interconnected

APPENDIX I
Questions for Reflection

APPENDIX II
Thought Patterns of Synchronicity Observers

APPENDIX III
Principles of Coincidence

Acknowledgments

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