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    Author: Richard Irwin

    Director of SMN since 2015 with responsibility for rebuilding the Network's on-line presense. I have a passion for reconciling science with spirituality (see http://danceineternity.com), who also composes and arranges music (see http://hymnswithoutwords.com).

    Next Steps for Wellbeing in Education Conference

    DESCRIPTION Back by popular demand IPEN and The University of Buckingham are hosting Next Steps in Wellbeing Education Conference. With the same great topics but…

    Richard Irwin 4 September 2017

    Plant Fields and the Bumble Bee

    The fact that living beings are surrounded by an electric field should not come as any surprise, as every living cell can be described as…

    Richard Irwin 4 September 2017

    David Lorimer – Gnosis, Initiation and Transformation

    Following the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the interest in personal and esoteric spirituality as opposed to conventional exoteric institutions, there has been…

    Richard Irwin 30 August 2017

    Tim Freke – Emergent Spirituality – A New Worldview

    We understand life through the stories we tell. Contemporary society is experiencing a ‘soul crisis’, because we have fallen under the spell of a particularly…

    Richard Irwin 28 August 2017

    Tim Freke – Emergent Spirituality: A New Worldview

    We understand life through the stories we tell. Contemporary society is experiencing a ‘soul crisis’, because we have fallen under the spell of a particularly…

    Richard Irwin 28 August 2017

    The Frenchman’s Cove Experience – Me and We: Self, Gaia and the Cosmic Hologram

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    Richard Irwin 18 August 2017

    New Discoveries, New Directions – Introducing a new blog

    By Paul Kieniewicz (SMN Website Editor) In launching this blog, I am going back to some of the key ideas discussed in founding the Network…

    Richard Irwin 1 August 2017

    Beyond the Brain XII Ticket Booking

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    Richard Irwin 26 July 2017

    Transformative Innovations for Health: a gathering of change-makers

    Transformative Innovations for Health: a gathering of change-makers  Saturday 18th November 2017, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XH    The neatness of medical…

    Richard Irwin 23 July 2017

    Prof. Stuart Hameroff – The “quantum pleasure principle” – Did life evolve to feel good?

    The standard view in evolution is that life developed through behaviors which optimize survival of species. But an organism’s behavior is driven by reward, by…

    Richard Irwin 21 June 2017
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