EP 229, Richard Grossinger: Thoughtforms and Synchronicity--Assume the Impossible

What is a synchronicity sync-hole? Or synch-whole? Bar Harbor Maine is one. If we are more energy than matter, our thoughts can take shape and go out into our polarized world to create newly imagined possibilities as thought-forms.  Hopefully, this discussion will inspire you to courageously imagine the future. Our guest, Richard Grossinger was born in New York City, attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan with a BA in English and a PhD in anthropology. He has more than 40 published books with his 4 main topics being non-Western medicine, cosmology, embryology, and consciousness. With his wife Lindy Hough, he was the founding publisher of North Atlantic Books, which he ran for 45 years till removed by a cancel-culture cabal. He is now the curator of Sacred Planet Books at Inner Traditions. Their children are Miranda July, multimedia artist, and Robin Grossinger, urban ecologist. They live in Bar Harbor and Portland, Maine. Richard is the author of Bottoming Out the Universe which contains valuable discussions of synchronicity. One of his forthcoming books is titlec Dreamtimes and Thoughtform to be published by Inner Traditions next year. 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