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What happens when a physician, psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and spiritual teacher are all the same person? Dr. Richard Petty returns to explore how synchronicity, healing, and bioenergetic awareness might hold the keys to medicine’s future. This episode dives into spontaneous diagnoses, energy sensitivity, and what it truly means to feel your way into knowing.
Richard Petty graduated in medicine from the Royal London Hospital Medical College, University of London. While a student, developed a deep and abiding interest in the work of Carl Jung and spent two years training in psychotherapy. After graduation, he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry, a doctorate in cell biology and trained in acupuncture and qigong in England and then in China and the USA.
He practiced, researched and taught internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolic medicine for 14 years, before psychiatric training at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London and a research Fellowship in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore.
Seven years on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting Professor, Guest Lecturer, Keynote Speaker and workshop leader on every continent. Except Antarctica; teaching wellbeing, healthy aging, spirituality and methods for increasing energy and resilience.
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Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD is a Yale and Stanford-educated psychiatrist and the founder of The Coincidence Project. He is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. He served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has authored two books: Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Through his Psychology Today blog, podcast, and public appearances, Dr. Beitman brings together science and mystery to deepen our understanding of synchronicity.
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#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
What happens when a physician, psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and spiritual teacher are all the same person? Dr. Richard Petty returns to explore how synchronicity, healing, and bioenergetic awareness might hold the keys to medicine’s future. This episode dives into spontaneous diagnoses, energy sensitivity, and what it truly means to feel your way into knowing.
Richard Petty graduated in medicine from the Royal London Hospital Medical College, University of London. While a student, developed a deep and abiding interest in the work of Carl Jung and spent two years training in psychotherapy. After graduation, he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry, a doctorate in cell biology and trained in acupuncture and qigong in England and then in China and the USA.
He practiced, researched and taught internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolic medicine for 14 years, before psychiatric training at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London and a research Fellowship in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore.
Seven years on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting Professor, Guest Lecturer, Keynote Speaker and workshop leader on every continent. Except Antarctica; teaching wellbeing, healthy aging, spirituality and methods for increasing energy and resilience.
richardpettymd.com
Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD is a Yale and Stanford-educated psychiatrist and the founder of The Coincidence Project. He is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. He served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has authored two books: Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Through his Psychology Today blog, podcast, and public appearances, Dr. Beitman brings together science and mystery to deepen our understanding of synchronicity.
coincider.com
thecoincidenceproject.net
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
