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How to Use Meaningful

Coincidences:

Synchronicities can offer

counsel at life's decision

points.

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Another offers to sell a "highly
effective" investment advising newsletter:
Mr. Lucky receives a financial
newsletter, no strings attached, at no cost. He
glances at it. The financial advisor announces
that there will be a dramatic rise in a specific
stock index. And there is. The next newsletter
trumpets his clever methods for making this
prediction. It also predicts another rise in the
index. And there is. Once again, the advisor
reviews his metrics for this conclusion but this
time forecasts a decline in the index. And down
it goes. After several more of these accurate
predictions, the newsletter editor asks Mr. enthusiastically discussed the Christian
Lucky to send $2,000 for future newsletters theology of that book for the rest of the
with a fuller range of trends and a greater interview. At the end, they prayed together and
potential for earning high returns. gave thanks for their meeting. Subsequently, the
Let’s look behind the scenes. By dean eliminated all other chair candidates, much
purchasing a list of investors with a net worth of to the frustration of the departmental faculty,
over one million dollars, the financial advisor and hired the professor. The faculty could not
selected 128,000, half of whom received a work with him. His wife couldn’t create a
newsletter predicting a rise in the index while positive social network. So they returned to the
the other half received a newsletter predicting a town from which they had come, wishing that
decline. To those 64,000 who got the correct that he had never accepted the job.
prediction, he sent another set of newsletters,
half predicting gains and half predicting losses. Living Life with Meaningful Coincidences
The 32,000 who received the correct prediction
were then sent another set of newsletters, again, Expecting coincidences during daily life can
half predicting gains and half predicting losses. become a way of living. They ebb and flow like
Mr. Lucky was one of the 16,000 for whom the ocean tides, coming in and moving out. They
financial advisor was “correct” three times in a are more likely during major life events like
row. He decided to wait for one more birth and death both symbolic and real. They are
prediction. Unfortunately for him, he received a also more likely to occur in times of high
prediction that was again correct, so he joined emotion, and need. They may pop up
many of the 8,000 investors who sent the humorously and suggestively and mysteriously.
advisor $2,000 for this variation on a scammer- They indicate that we are embedded in webs of
created coincidences. meaning. They show us that we have abilities
we may not have yet recognized.
Over-weighing Coincidences in decision We still must live the life of the 5 senses-
making -driving the car, caring for loved ones, earning
Coincidences can inform decision money, cooking, cleaning, and taking care of
making but cannot be relied upon as the sole our bodies. We can learn to hold the multiplicity pain and panic disorder. In addition, he has
reason for a decision. Here is an example: of our human capacities in balance, allowing
Sitting her car with her boyfriend, a 19 our minds to gracefully meet the expectations of edited two issues of Psychiatric Annals that
yo female was weighing the marriage proposal current and future demands. Synchronicity focus on coincidences, and is the founder of
Coincidence Studies.
of her boyfriend. As she pondered, awareness then becomes part of the fluid Join Dr. Bernard Beitman for his very
grandmother's favorite song came on the radio. landscape of our minds.
popular radio show, “Connecting with
She decided that was the sign she needed and Concidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD”
said yes. Meet Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD:
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She provided no more information than
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had good reasons. Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of
Past show of “Connecting with
And another: coincidences. He is a Visiting Professor at the
Coincidence” are available on iTunes, Spreaker,
During the interview with the dean of University of Virginia and former Chair of the
SoundCloud, YouTube and other online sites.
the another medical school, the professor, who Department of Psychiatry at the University of
To find a day and time that Dr. Beitman
was applying for Chair of a department there, Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical
can be heard, visit, www.xzbn.net and scroll
glanced at a pile of books on the dean’s School and completed a psychiatric residency
down to the XZBN broadcast schedule where
bookshelf and spotted a thin book with a at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two Dr. Beitman’s show is identified as CCBB.
maroon cover and gold edges. The professor national awards for his psychotherapy training Be sure to visit Dr. Beitmans website,
blurted: “I know that book.” The dean said, program and is internationally known for his www.coincider.com. []
“That’s my favorite book!” They research into the relationship between chest