Dr. Mike King: Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism
The Quaker George Cadbury was considered by his biographer to be both a businessman and a mystic. In this talk Mike King explores the role of religion…
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).
Prof. Robert Romanyshyn: The Frankenstein Prophecies: Reflections on the Shadow Elements in Culture
According to Mary Shelley the idea for her story came to her in a waking dream. In her waking dream, Victor Frankenstein appears as a man of titanic a…
Prof. Juan Nunez del Prado: An Andean transcendental Anthropology in the Andean Cosmology
Juan Nunez del Prado has been researching ‘The Supernatural Andean World’ since 1968. In 1979, he became apprentice to Don Benito Qoriwaman Vargas…
Dr. Melissa Harrington: Modern Pagan Witchcraft From occult anomaly to Britain’s largest New Religious Movement in fifty years. Contemplating the past and anticipating the future of Wicca
Wicca emerged in the mid 20th century as an esoteric anomaly that was thought to be a surviving remnant of an ancient religion. In fifty years it grew…
Dr. James Davies: The New “Mental Illness” Epidemic – are psychiatric manuals to blame?
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed, and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of …
Prof. Bernard Carr: Making Time for Matter and Mind
Although physics claims to be close to a “Theory of Everything”, there are two features of the Universe that are far from understood: time and con…
Charles Eisenstein: Scientific Heresies: Heralds of a Nondualistic Mythology
Why do some heterodox scientific theories attract such vehement ridicule, while others are merely contentious? From adaptive mutation to psi phenomena…
Dr. Iain McGilchrist: The Porcupine is a Monkey, or, Things Are Not What They Seem
Iain McGilchrist will contend that the world in which we live in the West is shaped by a set of beliefs about reality which we know from experience, a…
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona: Implications of the Social Brain Hypothesis: Integrated Indigenous Wisdom and Neuroscience
Increasing evidence is emerging that the brain is largely shaped by our social experiences through neuroplasticity, Social experience may have more po…
Rupert Sheldrake PhD: Science and Spiritual Practice
Science is now transcending the materialist philosophy, and pointing toward a new sense of a living world. The cosmos is no longer like a machine run…