A book falls off the library shelf and hits physician Richard Petty on the shoulder with information he was ready to receive. How did that happen? A stranger initiates a conversation with him who then receives excellent medical advice from him. Major water pipes burst right when a woman collapses with a stroke. Utilizing principles from addiction medicine, Dr. Petty lists ways in which synchronicities can be increased including being hungry, angry, lonely and tired. Get to know the mind and heart of this brilliant man! Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research.