Grandson of the reindeer herders of northern Scandinavia, Carl Calleman resonates with Mayan calendars. The sine wave of the creative serpent correlates with Mayan predictions in illuminating simultaneous independent inventions like the digitalization of our cultures. The universe is alive and speaks to us through nature. Carl Johan Calleman was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm in Physical Biology from 1984 and has been a Senior Researcher at the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has served as an expert on cancer for the WHO and articles he has authored or co-authored have been quoted more than 1500 times in the scientific literature proper. He is recognized as the main proponent of the idea that the Mayan calendar reflects the evolution of consciousness and has developed a complete theory around this. He is the author of "The Living Universe: The new theory of Origins: Explaining Consciousness, the Big Bang, Fine Tuning, “Dark Matter”, the Evolution of Life and Human History" www.calleman.com Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the 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. Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's newest book "Meaningful Coincidences"