Why does the moon always show the same face to us? Astrologer-musician John Townley explains the three steps: attraction, imitation, and persistence. These three steps describe much of what happens in our world and universe including meaningful coincidences. John was born on the same day as Paul Kammerer the Austrian botanist who developed a basic science view of meaningful coincidences (seriality) that influenced Jung's ideas of synchronicity and offers clear ideas about how the future is now and attracts us to it. John Townley is a writer, historical and folk/pop musician and record producer, maritime preservationist, and theoretical astrologer with a broad list of published books and record albums covering over sixty years. He designed the first 12-track studio (Apostolic) in New York where Frank Zappa created much of his music, was founding president of the Confederate Naval Historical Society, and currently working on a book-to-film project about Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer and his seminal 1919 Das Gesetz der Serie which introduced the structural concept of seriality, tapped by Jung in his speculation on synchronicity. Articles, records, and more at www.astrococktail.com 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. Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST ! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"