In this clip from a forthcoming episode of the EPRC Podcast with Dr. Bernard Beitman and host Mariam Saleh consider how the language we use shapes perception and understanding of emergent experiences. We can always count on Bernie to bring a dose of humor to the conversation! 😉

"Emergent phenomena" is what many might call “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences. We believe that healthcare systems and the scientific community should understand emergent experiences better in order to add value to people’s lives, health, and wellbeing.

Dr. Bernard Beitman is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences, his book and 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.

Mariam J. Saleh is an attorney and Reiki Master based in southern Oregon. In 2019, she inadvertently began a journey of spiritual emergence via a meditation practice designed to simply lower stress. Mariam’s journey on the contemplative path was a pivotal experience that informed her current life’s work. Her litigation career could not continue as she found herself contending with the Dark Night stage of the path along with difficult Kundalini experiences and the blossoming of extrasensory abilities. She is the founder of Sound in Color, a new productions company designed for storytelling about both difficult and beautiful experiences along the contemplative path. Mariam’s current legal research and advocacy work is centered on the intersection of Spiritual Emergency, ethics, and law. She currently serves as acting General Counsel for Emergence Benefactors, the nonprofit organization developed to primarily support the researchers of the EPRC.

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