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What if your deepest thoughts could be felt rather than explained? In this episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Dr. Bernard Beitman welcomes psychologist and parapsychology researcher Christine Simmonds-Moore for a compelling conversation about “exceptional experiences” and how they shape our understanding of reality.
Order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).
Christine Simmonds-Moore is a UK native with a PhD from the University of Northampton. She is a Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia where she teaches courses on parapsychology, transpersonal psychology and other topics. She has research interests in parapsychology, exceptional experiences, transpersonal psychology, psychological boundaries, paranormal beliefs and disbeliefs, mental health correlates of exceptional experiences, synesthesia, ASMR, altered states of consciousness, healing and placebo effects. Christine is the recipient of several Bial grants including a recent project on aphantasia and exceptional experiences. She has published several book chapters and articles on exceptional experiences.
sites.google.com/westga.edu/exceptionalia/home
About Dr. Bernard Beitman:
Dr. Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to seriously study coincidences. He is the founder of The Coincidence Project and the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. He received his psychiatric training at Yale and Stanford and has served as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
What if your deepest thoughts could be felt rather than explained? In this episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Dr. Bernard Beitman welcomes psychologist and parapsychology researcher Christine Simmonds-Moore for a compelling conversation about “exceptional experiences” and how they shape our understanding of reality.
Order Dr. Beitman's newest book "Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Coincidences and Serendipities" at Simon & Schuster, Barnes and Noble, Inner Traditions, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org (May 2025).
Christine Simmonds-Moore is a UK native with a PhD from the University of Northampton. She is a Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia where she teaches courses on parapsychology, transpersonal psychology and other topics. She has research interests in parapsychology, exceptional experiences, transpersonal psychology, psychological boundaries, paranormal beliefs and disbeliefs, mental health correlates of exceptional experiences, synesthesia, ASMR, altered states of consciousness, healing and placebo effects. Christine is the recipient of several Bial grants including a recent project on aphantasia and exceptional experiences. She has published several book chapters and articles on exceptional experiences.
sites.google.com/westga.edu/exceptionalia/home
About Dr. Bernard Beitman:
Dr. Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to seriously study coincidences. He is the founder of The Coincidence Project and the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. He received his psychiatric training at Yale and Stanford and has served as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
