Adopted soon after birth, Eben Alexander chose the neurosurgical subspecialty of vascular surgery only to discover that his maternal birth family carried a genetic predisposition to brain aneurysms. This synchronicity coupled with a rich NDE is driving him to help change scientific materialism, especially physicians, into recognizing our profound interconnection in the One Mind. You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books... Dr Eben Alexander spent 54 years of his life honing a conventional scientific world view, including teaching neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School for 15 years. His profound near-death experience during a weeklong coma due to gram-negative bacterial meningo-encephalitis in November 2008 (in which the medical parameters obviated all but the most rudimentary of conscious experiences) changed his worldview from materialism (brain creates consciousness) to idealism, acknowledging the primacy and unity of consciousness in the universe, with the brain serving as a filter to limit the expression of that primordial mind. He works with scientists around the world to more fully explain these phenomena: https://galileocommission.org and https://scientificandmedical.net. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app