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A book falls off the library shelf and hits physician Richard Petty on the shoulder with information he was ready to receive. How did that happen? A stranger initiates a conversation with him who then receives excellent medical advice from him. Major water pipes burst right when a woman collapses with a stroke.
Utilizing principles from addiction medicine, Dr. Petty lists ways in which synchronicities can be increased including being hungry, angry, lonely and tired. Get to know the mind and heart of this brilliant man!
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 endothelial 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.
He spent 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.
Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.
innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences".
Visit coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research.
0:00- 2:19 "Welcome to Connecting with Coincidence"
2:20 - 1:08:06 - "Introducing Our Guest: Richard Petty, MD"
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
A book falls off the library shelf and hits physician Richard Petty on the shoulder with information he was ready to receive. How did that happen? A stranger initiates a conversation with him who then receives excellent medical advice from him. Major water pipes burst right when a woman collapses with a stroke.
Utilizing principles from addiction medicine, Dr. Petty lists ways in which synchronicities can be increased including being hungry, angry, lonely and tired. Get to know the mind and heart of this brilliant man!
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 endothelial 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.
He spent 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.
Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.
innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences".
Visit coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research.
0:00- 2:19 "Welcome to Connecting with Coincidence"
2:20 - 1:08:06 - "Introducing Our Guest: Richard Petty, MD"
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
