Experience Plants as Sentient Beings, Kat Maier: EP 309

As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Chile coupled with her training as a Physician’s Assistant, Kat Maier is able to weave the language of biomedicine with traditional energetic systems. She is co-author of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas, and author of Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions Integrating Elements of Vitalism, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine. This book won the Gold Medal Nautilus Award in 2022. https://sacredplanttraditions.com/in-the-media/ Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the 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"