Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MD

Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally recognized teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong, author, and founder of The Chi Center and the Southwest Sanctuary for Embodied Wisdom. Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, he trained in China under Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, including at the renowned “medicine-less hospital.” For more than three decades, he has guided tens of thousands of students around the world in practices intended to cultivate vitality, resilience, and a deeper connection with the body.His work has been featured at leading retreat and learning centers including Esalen, Omega, and Kripalu. In his new book, Coming Home to Embodied Awakening: Reclaim Your Body, Power and Purpose in an Age of AI, Mingtong explores how returning to embodied awareness can help us reconnect with intuition, meaning, and the synchronistic possibilities of everyday life. Learn more at mingtonggu.com and find him on YouTube, Facebook, Tik Tok, and Instagram.For a free chapter of Master Mingtong Gu’s book, Coming Home to Embodied Awakening visit, https://chicenter.pages.ontraport.net/t?orid=283357&opid=2

Alexandra Wilby is a renowned magazine editor and event host who has interviewed many of the world's leading authors, researchers and thought leaders in spirituality and wellbeing.She spent 18 years in celebrity and royal journalism, most recently as Deputy Editor of HELLO! magazine, securing countless major exclusives with A-listers, interviewing everyone from Rihanna and Jon Bon Jovi to Kim Kardashian and Harry Styles, and reporting live to 2.5 million viewers from the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.But following a spontaneous out-of-body experience, she pivoted her work - becoming Spiritual Wellness Editor of HELLO! London, a guest presenter on UK Health Radio's The Healing Power of Your Dreams, and host of Mind Body Spirit Festival at Olympia London. Alongside her media career, Alexandra is an internationally qualified and IPHM-accredited sound healer, Reiki Master, Rahanni practitioner and Yoga Nidra teacher.Instagram: @iamalexandrawilbyYouTube: @iamalexandrawilby

Salicrow is a natural psychic medium, seer, and practitioner of Earth-based spirituality with over 30 years of experience. Based in Vermont, she weaves her Celtic and Blackfoot lineage into her work, serving as a bridge between the living and the spirit world. Aware of her gifts since childhood, she was guided by family elders to master tarot, runes, and spirit communication. Salicrow is an international speaker, sound healer, and Reiki Master in six lineages. She is also the author of Jump Girl and The Path of Elemental Witchcraft. Through her global readings and workshops, she helps individuals connect with their intuition, honor their ancestors, and navigate their unique spiritual journeys. https://www.salicrow.com/ Salicrow married the Earth through an incredible series of coincidences. What if your body recognizes a meaningful coincidence before your mind does? What separates a random event from a synchronicity? Salicrow teaches that significance begins with attention, grows through curiosity, and becomes visible through pattern recognition. Most importantly, the body often knows first. A chill, a tightening in the gut, a surge of excitement, or an unexpected sense of peace can act as internal detectors that something deserves closer attention.Together they explore psychic development, ancestral communication, nature spirits, druids, spirit guides, reincarnation, and the consciousness of place. Throughout the conversation, they return to a practical message: train your attention, stay curious, notice recurring patterns, and trust your body's responses when they point toward meaning. Synchronicities are invitations to observe more carefully and participate more deeply in the conversation between mind, body, nature, and the human dead surrounding us.

Trust is based upon 3 cognitive elements: 1) This person will not hurt me, 2) They are predictable. 3) They want to help me. Trust is also based on the qualities of the environment in which that relationship occurs. Alison Liebling’s decades of prison research reveal that trust grows in moral climates shaped by humanity, respect, curiosity, and recognition of each person as a subject rather than an object. In I–Thou environments, people become more alive; in I–It environments, they become defensive, fearful, and diminished.Trust requires safety, conversation, predictability, and opportunities to demonstrate trustworthiness. When fear dominates the environment, even our bodies struggle to know whom to trust. Liebling’s work suggests that Humanity’s well-being depends on creating resonant environments where relationships can flourish. The future will not be determined only by technology or institutions, but by whether we create contexts that allow human beings to grow, connect, and come alive.

Julie Exline, Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, explores some of humanity's biggest questions: What happens near death? Can meaningful coincidences, telepathy, and after-death communications reveal a deeper reality? In this fascinating conversation, she explains why mystical experiences—whether through meditation, near-death experiences, psychedelics, or even emerging technologies like virtual reality—so often leave people with the same powerful realization: we are profoundly interconnected. But the journey doesn't end with awe. Julie shows how these transformative experiences can heal broken relationships, deepen forgiveness, rebuild trust, and inspire greater compassion in everyday life. Together we explore near-death life reviews, after-death communications, the wisdom of the body, and why love, empathy, and relationship—not fear—may be the true foundation of human flourishing. If you've ever wondered whether extraordinary experiences can help transform not only individual lives but Humanity itself, this episode offers hope, science, and a compelling vision of our shared future.Julie Exline, Ph.D., is the Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and the Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia Health Systems. Before taking this position in July 2025, she spent 25 years on the Psychological Sciences faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has extensive research programs on spiritual struggles and supernatural attributions, along with a broad interest in extraordinary experiences around the life/death boundary (e.g., after-death communications, near-death experiences, children’s memories of possible past lives). Dr. Exline is also a licensed clinical psychologist and certified spiritual director. To receive the monthly newsletter of the Division of Perceptual Studies please visit https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/

https://everysoulknows.com "Entertainment for an Awakened Heart and Open Mind"What happens when a devastating life crisis becomes the doorway to an entirely new reality? In this deeply personal episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Bernard Beitman talks with filmmaker, photographer, and former entertainment attorney Peter Alessandria about the meaningful coincidences that transformed his life and led to the creation of his documentary Every Soul Knows.After losing his successful legal career during the 2008 financial collapse, Peter expected the Universe to reward his leap into creativity. Instead, he faced years of rejection, self-doubt, and silence. Everything changed only after he confronted the hidden beliefs that were sabotaging him from within.Peter shares how synchronicities, inner guidance, near-death experiencers, spiritual seeking, and profound personal losses gradually shaped his documentary exploring consciousness, the afterlife, spirit guides, and the deeper purpose of human life. A moving conversation about crisis, identity, intuition, and the mysterious forces that may help guide us forward.Peter Alessandria is an internationally-published photographer, filmmaker, author, TEDx speaker and former entertainment attorney who has won more than 75 Awards for his work. He is the producer/director of the documentary entitled, "Every Soul Knows: The Joy of Remembering Who We Really Are." Featuring interviews with more than 60 near-death experiencers, psychics, channels and mediums, the film brings to light our true nature as eternal spiritual beings. Peter is also the author of “Be Bigger Than You Think You Are: Overcoming Our Self-Imposed Limits to Have the Life We Want.” The book describes how he rose above many of the challenges he faced while transitioning from lawyer to photographer/filmmaker after losing his law practice in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.https://www.bebiggertoday.comhttps://www.mindfulentertainment.ushttps://www.peteralessandriaphotography.comhttps://www.facebook.com/peteralessandriahttps://www.facebook.com/PeterAlessandriaPhotographyhttps://www.instagram.com/peteralessandria

Dr. Bandy X. Lee is a forensic and social psychiatrist specializing in violence prevention. She taught at Yale Law School and Yale School of Medicine (2003-20), then joined Harvard Medical School (2021-24), and is now president of the World Mental Health Coalition and cofounder of Preventing Violence Now. Internationally known for her scholarship in violence prevention and nationally known for editing the bestselling The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, she has advised U.S. lawmakers, foreign governments, and the World Health Organization. She now advocates for a more life-affirming world order and urges humanity to turn away from its collective suicidality.Humanity is moving toward self-destruction—but psychiatrist and violence prevention expert psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee believes we can still change course. In this powerful conversation, Bernard Beitman and Dr. Lee argue that our greatest threat is not technology, politics, or economics, but a crisis of collective self-awareness. Lee exposes structural violence—the systematic deprivation of basic human needs—as the hidden engine driving war, inequality, discrimination, climate disruption, and social collapse. Drawing on decades as a forensic psychiatrist, she explains why societies must learn to recognize dangerous patterns early and set firm boundaries before destructive leaders and institutions spread their pathology. Together they explore psychotherapy for Humanity, the emergence of a Collective Self-Observer, and the urgent need to replace despair with agency. Lee's forthcoming book, One World or None, offers a bold vision: Humanity can either continue its suicidal trajectory or awaken to our shared fate and build a life-affirming future.

Why do hostility, scarcity, and rejection keep shaping human history? Benjamin Casteillo argues that they are not simply political or economic problems but expressions of deep collective trauma carried across generations. In this thought-provoking conversation with Bernard Beitman, he explores how fear drives competition, conflict, and the survival mindset that now threatens Humanity in an age of powerful technologies. The discussion moves from diagnosis to possibility: Can surveillance systems be "hacked" to connect rather than control? Can AI and technology serve collective awakening instead of manipulation? And how can funding shift from accelerating weapons and extraction toward healing, consciousness, and human flourishing? Together they examine the metacrisis facing Humanity, the psychological roots beneath global instability, and the urgent need to replace unconscious patterns with self-awareness, cooperation, and a vision worthy of our future. A challenging conversation about trauma, technology, and whether Humanity can still change course before it is too late.Benjamin left a successful corporate career to tackle the deeper roots of our sustainability challenges. Using a systemic and transdisciplinary, he is dedicated to share key insight as to how the interrelated crisis of our times can be turned into opportunities for the entire human species. He has hosted dozens of conferences on the subject and is now in Europe to share knowledge that could change the fate of humanity - for the better. https://newworldtogether.org/

Do you have a coincidence story to tell? Please go to The Coincidence Project website to share your story!https://thecoincidenceproject.net/share/Rob Sacco joins Connecting with Coincidence for a fascinating exploration of synchronicity through systems theory, coherence, resonance, Fibonacci patterns, and the law of large numbers. Rather than treating meaningful coincidences as supernatural anomalies or quantum mysteries, Rob argues that synchronicities emerge from complex systems organizing under shared constraints. Out of apparent randomness, hidden patterns begin to appear.Rob Sacco is an independent researcher and writer whose work explores emergence, meaning, synchronicity, and temporal organization through the lenses of complex systems, information theory, and constraint-based dynamics. He is the creator of the Fibonacci LifeChart framework, an interdisciplinary model investigating harmonic timing structures and relational coherence in human experience. His research integrates ideas from systems theory, statistical physics, probability, and philosophy to develop scientific approaches to meaning and synchronicity. He continues to develop an interdisciplinary framework for understanding structure, transformation, and human experience across scales.Rob Sacco is an independent researcher and writer whose work explores emergence, meaning, synchronicity, and temporal organization through the lenses of complex systems, information theory, and constraint-based dynamics. He is the creator of the Fibonacci LifeChart framework, an interdisciplinary model investigating harmonic timing structures and relational coherence in human experience. His research integrates ideas from systems theory, statistical physics, probability, and philosophy to develop scientific approaches to meaning and synchronicity. He continues to develop an interdisciplinary framework for understanding structure, transformation, and human experience across scales.www.FibonacciLifeChart.com

What happens when synchronicity meets music, mathematics, and emerging technology? In this fascinating conversation, Bernard speaks with Lilly Fiorino about meaningful coincidences, harmonic alignment, and the possibility of detecting patterns of connection across human experience.Lilly explores how synchronicities appear in music ensembles, relationships, creative collaboration, and everyday life. Drawing from tarot, oracle systems, mathematics, and studies of harmony, she describes her work developing systems that can recognize when people, ideas, or events begin moving into unexpected alignment. Rather than focusing on technology alone, the discussion centers on the human experience of meaning, resonance, timing, and participation.The conversation moves from jazz improvisation and drumming to acausal connections, first meetings, collective harmony, and the emergence of “domains of synchronicity” where meaningful patterns seem to organize future events. Lilly also discusses her evolving SETA project and her vision for creating practical tools that help people recognize and work with meaningful coincidences in their own lives.A rich exploration of synchronicity, creativity, human connection, and the search for coherence in an increasingly fragmented world.