The Burning Bush, Moses and UFO Synchronicities | Brannon Wheeler, EP 402

Religious visions. Alien encounters. Mystical downloads. Are they all pointing to the same source?This video first aired on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel on May 25th, 2025Brannon is a historian of religion (PhD, University of Chicago) with over 30 years of experience studying religions, ancient texts, and paranormal phenomena. He has traveled to and done research in more than 50 countries across the world, conducting research in many unusual languages, and has been a visiting scholar at more than a dozen institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and across the United States. He is currently a professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and has published eleven books. His current work focuses on how non-human intelligences communicate with humans.In this mind-expanding episode, Dr. Bernard Beitman sits down with Brandon Wheeler, historian of religion and scholar of ancient texts, to explore how non-human intelligence might have been communicating with us all along—under different names. Whether it’s Moses at the burning bush or modern experiencers describing UFO contact, Brandon reveals how the language, hierarchy, and symbolism of these moments have deep parallels.Together, they examine how communication works between vastly different minds: divine beings, alien entities, trees in a forest, or simply two humans trying to understand one another. From the Tower of Babel to AI-facilitated insight, this conversation challenges the boundaries between myth, message, and meaning.If you've ever asked, "Who or what is trying to reach me?"—this episode offers a thoughtful, grounded, and surprising look at what might be answering.About Dr. Bernard Beitman:Dr. Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to seriously study coincidences. He is the founder of The Coincidence Project and the author of Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. He received his psychiatric training at Yale and Stanford and has served as Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia.