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Current and Future Conferences & WebinarsAll sessions are recorded
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Disclaimer: We welcome the diverse views expressed by individual speakers in our webinars and conferences, but these are not necessarily representative of any general Scientific and Medical Network views or positions – the Network is in no way liable for such views or opinions expressed by our speakers.
Dr Nick Spencer – Science, Religion and Alien Life
Season TicketWebinarsWhat would the discovery of (intelligent) alien life do to our idea of human uniqueness and to religious belief? The prospect of intelligent alien life… ...
Paul Cudenec – Organic radicalism and the anarcho-perennialist revival
Season TicketWebinarsWhat intellectual heritage can we draw upon in order to think our way out of the civilisational cul-de-sac of industrial modernity? A decade ago Paul… ...
Dr. Lennert Gesterkamp – Dao Fa Ziran: Daoism and the Meaning of Life
Daoism is relatively unknown and understudied in the West. Many people still have never heard of Daoism. It is neither considered a world religion, even… ...
Dr Susan Plunket – Three Perspectives on Transcendent Consciousness
Season TicketWebinarsConsciousness is one transcendent formless awareness out of which our conditioned third-dimensional mind gives us the experience of separateness. How do you experience your transcendent… ...
Mon, 25 August
WORLDS BEYOND – A Contemporary exploration of more-than-human minds and our place in the cosmos
ConsciousnessHumanityUFOWebinarsA Five-Part Series with leading UAP experts WORLDS BEYOND is a series bringing together leading experts in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). This interdisciplinary dialogue spans… ...
Dr Jack Hunter – Deep Weird: High Strangeness, Boggle Thresholds and Damned Data in Academic Research on Extraordinary Experience
Season TicketWebinarsWhat is your boggle threshold? This webinar is about the stranger reaches of extraordinary experience research, and examines why some of the most unusual experiential… ...
Jack Hunter – Ultra Misterioso
Season TicketWebinars¿Cuál es el límite de tu umbral de lo extraño? Este seminario web trata sobre los rincones más extraños de la investigación sobre experiencias extraordinarias… ...
Gary Lachman – Challenge and Response: The Goldilocks Theory of History
Season TicketWebinarsWhy do civilisations collapse? In this webinar Gary will be discussing what he calls the Goldilocks Theory of History, based on the ideas of the… ...
WORLDS BEYOND – A Contemporary exploration of more-than-human minds and our place in the cosmos
ConsciousnessHumanityUFOWebinarsA Five-Part Series with leading UAP experts WORLDS BEYOND is a series bringing together leading experts in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). This interdisciplinary dialogue spans… ...
Prof John Barton – A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a… ...
Prof Darren Oldridge – Talk of the Devil: A Historical Perspective on the Prince of Darkness
The Christian Devil has loomed large in western history, and remains a lively and complicated figure in contemporary culture. This presentation considers the various manifestations… ...
Prof Carol Apollonio – “God and the Devil are Fighting here, and the Battlefield is Human Souls”: Religion and Science in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels document a great struggle to justify religious faith in an age dominated by the secular sciences. His most famous characters—The Underground Man… ...
Dr Nick Spencer – Science, Religion and Alien LifeSeason TicketWebinars
Paul Cudenec – Organic radicalism and the anarcho-perennialist revivalSeason TicketWebinars
Dr Susan Plunket – Three Perspectives on Transcendent ConsciousnessSeason TicketWebinars
Jack Hunter – Ultra MisteriosoSeason TicketWebinars
Gary Lachman – Challenge and Response: The Goldilocks Theory of HistorySeason TicketWebinars
Webinar Programme
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Charmian Wylde | When Acupuncture meets Mainstream Healthcare: A Culture Clash? |
| Wednesday 11 | Dr Tina Maschi | Galileo’s Participatory Engagement with the Arts, Science and Spirituality |
| Wednesday 25 | Nicholas Colloff | Dom Bede Griffiths: A Universalist Christian Mystic |
| October 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 2 | Thomas Mayer | Living with the Deceased |
| Wednesday 9 | Helena Norberg-Hodge | Ancient Futures: Recovering our Sacred Connections |
| Wednesday 16 | Prof Massimo Pigliucci | How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life |
| Saturday 19, (2pm) | Prof Douglas Hodgson (Australia) | Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil: Life Lessons from Multiple NDEs |
| Wednesday 23 | Elizabeth Oldfield | Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times |
| Wednesday 30 | Prof Leslie Combs | Synchronicity: In the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster |
| November 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 13 | Peter Russell | Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential Change |
| Wednesday 20 | Avigail Abarbanel | The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World Peace |
| Wednesday 27 | Monika Renz | Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Dying Process |
| December 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Nora Bateson | Combining: Living the Experience of Complexity |