CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—A surprising coincidence often involves something in the outside world reflecting the thoughts in a person’s mind. You think of a song you haven’t heard in ages and it starts playing on the radio. You think of a friend you haven’t heard from in ages and she calls.
Bernard Beitman, M.D., a founding father of Coincidence Studies, envisions a psychosphere. The psychosphere is like the atmosphere, but instead of air it contains ideas, emotions, thoughts.
It is “the atmosphere-like mind of which we are all giving ideas and taking … ideas. It’s almost like breathing. … We pull in ideas, we give out ideas,” he said.
Some others have talked about the “universal mind,” but Beitman said, “My mind is not large enough to envelope that.” He brings the idea to a more tangible scale. He looks at coincidences in which the physical world reflects the mind and in which one person’s mind seems connected to another’s. The psychosphere could be filled with energy information, he said, which physically forms these connections.
We haven’t identified the physical existence of this energy information yet, but we may have receptors for it. Even our five known senses are a bit of a mystery, Beitman said. There are conflicting theories, for example, as to how scent receptors in our nose work. Perhaps we have receptors for this energy information we haven’t yet located in the body.
“In modern America and much of the modern world, we don’t want to believe much of this,” Beitman said.
