Raccoons, Random Numbers, Ritual: Adam Curry, EP 254

Can raccoons influence the probability of a random number generator supplying a food pellet through ritual? Technology expert Adam Curry tells the full story. He introduces us to consciousness as a probability field that can be influenced by conscious intention while recognizing the limitations imposed by living in the polarities like night and dark inherent to life on Earth.  You can pre-order Dr. Beitman's new book Meaningful Coincidences due out in September here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences Our guest, Adam Curry is a tech entrepreneur in California. His background is in traditional hardware and software startups, and in the scientific study of consciousness, having spent over ten years in its research community, at places like Princeton University’s PEAR lab. Currently he is a partner at a boutique venture studio focused on applications of non-Standard Model physics concepts. Learn more about Adam's work at his website, entangled.org  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