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Are your dreams just dreams—or are they messages from something greater? In this moving and thought-provoking conversation, Rabbi Irwin Keller shares how dreams, synchronicity, and ancestral memory opened doors he never imagined. From a recurring dream that led him to his family’s hidden past, to signs that feel too perfect to ignore, this episode invites you to reimagine what’s possible when we learn to listen.
Through deep spiritual insight, Jewish mysticism, and poetic storytelling, Rabbi Keller explores how asking the right question can unlock invisible guidance—and how we all might be part of a greater collective consciousness whispering just beneath the surface.
Rabbi Irwin Keller has served as spiritual leader of Congregation Ner Shalom in Sonoma County, CA since 2008 and as founder and faculty of the Taproot Community since 2017. He authored Chicago's first comprehensive human rights law, in effect since 1989, and served at the helm of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a founder of the Kinsey Sicks, America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, and most recently the author of Shechinah at the Art Institute: Words, Worry, Wonder.
📖 Learn more: goodofthewhole.org
Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to create a blueprint for the practical new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and later as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached over one million readers through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and his books Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, Dr. Beitman is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
00:00 - 01:47 Recurring Dreams and the Call to Stuttgart
01:48 - 07:19 Introduction to Rabbi Irwin Keller and Synchronicity
07:20 - 14:39 A Dream Message from Mom After Her Passing
14:40 - 21:59 Mysticism, Skepticism, and the 1/60th Prophecy
22:00 - 29:59 Can Messages Come Through Other People's Dreams?
30:00 - 38:59 Dreams That Guide: Finding Ancestors Through Intuition
39:00 - 46:59 When the Past Speaks: A Holocaust Memorial Discovery
47:00 - 52:45 Flow States and Psychic Openness in Daily Life
52:46 - 58:59 The Power of Questions and the Collective Mind
59:00 - 1:00:45 Final Reflections on Coincidence and Connection
Are your dreams just dreams—or are they messages from something greater? In this moving and thought-provoking conversation, Rabbi Irwin Keller shares how dreams, synchronicity, and ancestral memory opened doors he never imagined. From a recurring dream that led him to his family’s hidden past, to signs that feel too perfect to ignore, this episode invites you to reimagine what’s possible when we learn to listen.
Through deep spiritual insight, Jewish mysticism, and poetic storytelling, Rabbi Keller explores how asking the right question can unlock invisible guidance—and how we all might be part of a greater collective consciousness whispering just beneath the surface.
Rabbi Irwin Keller has served as spiritual leader of Congregation Ner Shalom in Sonoma County, CA since 2008 and as founder and faculty of the Taproot Community since 2017. He authored Chicago's first comprehensive human rights law, in effect since 1989, and served at the helm of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a founder of the Kinsey Sicks, America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, and most recently the author of Shechinah at the Art Institute: Words, Worry, Wonder.
📖 Learn more: goodofthewhole.org
Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to create a blueprint for the practical new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and later as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached over one million readers through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and his books Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, Dr. Beitman is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.
#coincidence #serendipity #synchronicity
00:00 - 01:47 Recurring Dreams and the Call to Stuttgart
01:48 - 07:19 Introduction to Rabbi Irwin Keller and Synchronicity
07:20 - 14:39 A Dream Message from Mom After Her Passing
14:40 - 21:59 Mysticism, Skepticism, and the 1/60th Prophecy
22:00 - 29:59 Can Messages Come Through Other People's Dreams?
30:00 - 38:59 Dreams That Guide: Finding Ancestors Through Intuition
39:00 - 46:59 When the Past Speaks: A Holocaust Memorial Discovery
47:00 - 52:45 Flow States and Psychic Openness in Daily Life
52:46 - 58:59 The Power of Questions and the Collective Mind
59:00 - 1:00:45 Final Reflections on Coincidence and Connection



![Godwinks with the Godwinks Guy: SQuire Rushnell, EP 290
SQuire Rushnell tells good stories! He brings meaningful coincidences to a massive number of people through his books, movies and on-going television appearances. With an emphasis on being in Divine Alignment, he is one of the worlds premier Coincidence Ambassadors.
You can purchase Dr. Beitmans new book, Meaningful Coincidences, here
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences
As a former ABC Network executive, SQuire Rushnell was one of the fathers of ABC School House Rock and led Good Morning America to number one for the first time.
Now SQuire is known as “The Godwink Guy” … who coined the new word for those little “experiences that feel coincidental but come from divine sources.” Godwinks has entered the language and appears in dictionaries.
As a New York Times Bestselling Author his 12 Godwink books have sold more than 2 million copies, in 30 languages.
He and his wife Louise are story writers and executive producers of the top-rated Hallmark Godwink Movies Series, now entering its 5th season. They also wrote the story and executive produced the recent Netflix hit movie, Rescued By Ruby… which premiered as #2 in the world and in 2022 was ranked as Netflix’s 3rd “Best Movie of the Year”.
For 5 seasons SQuire has hosted “Godwinks on NBC Today” … one of the most streamed segments.
www.godwinks.com
Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast anywhere that podcasts are available and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...]
Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com Godwinks with the Godwinks Guy: SQuire Rushnell, EP 290](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4WCD-8MpaqA/mqdefault.jpg)






