Review of the book “Life Changing Synchronicities” by Dr. Bernard Beitman

With the unconventional book “Life Changing Synchronicities” Bernard Beitman, M.D. reflects back at an unusual life shaped by magical synchronicities. Growing up as son of Jewish parents and attending prestigious universities as an athlete and becoming a doctor of psychiatry Bernie could easily have enjoyed his successful life staying within the comfortable frame of the conventional. But a curious mind and magical synchronistic experiences awoke him to so much more.

Being a multifaceted personality, apart from being an athlete and a student of medicine, Bernie is a part-time hippie on Haight Ashbury in San Fransisco in the days of the flower children in the 1960’s. He does tarot readings and experiments with weed and psychedelics and likes to sing and dance with trees. A powerful experience of suddenly choking while his is dying far away awakens Bernie fully to the path of investigating how we are all connected.

He gets into psychosomatics, psychotherapy and synchronicity and ends up presenting a worldview where these elements merge with psychiatry. He helps build a bridge that connects the so-called ‘woo-woo’ with a rational, scientific inquiry into how the mind, the body and the outer world is all connected. I especially enjoyed how he as a psychiatrist looks with an open mind and a non-materialist view on the phenomenon of hearing voices.

Throughout the book he demonstrates how spirituality and rationality are not opposites, as they are otherwise sometimes seen. By using his scientific mindset he shows how we can logically investigate all the fascinating types of meaningful coincidences that exist.

The book is full of anecdotes from his own life and many intriguing stories of meaningful coincidences that he has gathered along the way. The book provides practical advice on how to sharpen your intuition and the flow of synchronicities like swinging from vine to vine.

A very interesting read if you also wonder how and why meaningful coincidences happen, and you want to get better at attracting and making good use of such wonderful experiences.

I recommend it as a way of learning about meaningful coincidences through a personal life story of an extraordinary person.

/Julie Mariel