What happens when loss, music, and meaningful coincidences collide? Opera singer Karli Forte joins Dr. Bernard Beitman for a deeply personal conversation about grief, synchronicity, and the mysterious ways the universe speaks through signs, songs, and perfectly timed encounters.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).Karli Forte didn’t expect a book on signs to lead her to Dr. Bernard Beitman. But just days after losing her father, she opened Laura Lynne Jackson’s Signs and saw a familiar name—Beitman’s—while sitting alone in Charlottesville, where she’d come to perform in Scalia/Ginsburg. She reached out, and what followed was a series of shared synchronicities that neither could ignore.In this heartfelt episode, Karli and Dr. Beitman reflect on the timing of her father's passing (February 27th), which happens to also be Beitman's birthday and the date of his own father's death. Their conversation explores grief, connection, and how moments of alignment can bring comfort when we need it most.Karli shares the powerful experience of walking beside a four-foot-long fish on the beach the day after her father's funeral—a moment that felt like a message from beyond. Together, they discuss what it means to trust the signs, to act on intuition, and to find healing through synchronicity.This episode is a celebration of shared humanity, the healing power of music, and the mysterious threads that connect us all.Karli Forte is a Coloratura Soprano based in New York City. She studied at Indiana University, performed internationally, and has appeared in leading roles including Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/Ginsburg. You can find her work at www.karliforte.com and on YouTube:Karli Forte Student Division Semi-Finals
"Quando m'en vo" from La Boheme -- Karli Forte, Soprano

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. https://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

Religious visions. Alien encounters. Mystical downloads. Are they all pointing to the same source?

This video first aired on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel on May 25th, 2025

Brannon is a historian of religion (PhD, University of Chicago) with over 30 years of experience studying religions, ancient texts, and paranormal phenomena. He has traveled to and done research in more than 50 countries across the world, conducting research in many unusual languages, and has been a visiting scholar at more than a dozen institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and across the United States. He is currently a professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and has published eleven books. His current work focuses on how non-human intelligences communicate with humans.In this mind-expanding episode, Dr. Bernard Beitman sits down with Brandon Wheeler, historian of religion and scholar of ancient texts, to explore how non-human intelligence might have been communicating with us all along—under different names. Whether it’s Moses at the burning bush or modern experiencers describing UFO contact, Brandon reveals how the language, hierarchy, and symbolism of these moments have deep parallels.Together, they examine how communication works between vastly different minds: divine beings, alien entities, trees in a forest, or simply two humans trying to understand one another. From the Tower of Babel to AI-facilitated insight, this conversation challenges the boundaries between myth, message, and meaning.If you've ever asked, "Who or what is trying to reach me?"—this episode offers a thoughtful, grounded, and surprising look at what might be answering.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.