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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).

    Dr. Oliver Robinson: ‘Both-and’ thinking: On embracing paradox in spirituality, philosophy and science

    Dialectical 'both-and' thinking is key to resolving paradox and integrating ideas in ways that avoid reduction of one idea to the other. In this talk,…
    Richard Irwin 28 July 2016

    Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson: Miracles in the New Testament: anything comparable in modern times? The case of Sathya Sai Baba and some Catholic Saints

    No religious scripture contains as many accounts of gross paranormal or miraculous phenomena than the four testaments of the New Testament. Changing w…
    Richard Irwin 28 July 2016

    Prof. Richard Silberstein: Universal consciousness: Poetry? Metaphor? Science? OR all of the above?

    Mystics of various religious and spiritual traditions have, on occasion, described a mystical realization that the entire universe is conscious. In th…
    Richard Irwin 28 July 2016

    Scilla Elworthy: Can our Values Shift in Time to Save the Planet?

    Our world faces multiple crises, and attempts to address them are not working. We live in a world that is miserable and frightening for most of its in…
    Richard Irwin 28 July 2016

    Prof Graham Ward – Living with Invisibility

    In this lecture Graham will explore the multiple ways in which we live simultaneously with the visible, or what we can perceive through our senses, an…
    Richard Irwin 28 July 2016

    Phoebe Wyss – Inside the Cosmic Mind

    This talk will explore aspects of the emerging 21st century paradigm of a dynamic self-creating universe. Viewing the cosmos as a living organism with…
    Richard Irwin 27 July 2016

    Prof. Ravi Ravindra – Scientific and Spiritual Mysteries

    It is true that scientific research and spiritual search both begin from a sense of mystery, as was specifically remarked upon by Einstein. However, t…
    Richard Irwin 27 July 2016

    Harmut Warm – The Harmony of the Spheres: an Ancient Idea in a New Light

    Modern astronomical procedures have enabled Hartmut to discover astounding harmonic and musical structures and wonderfully aesthetic movement figures …
    Richard Irwin 27 July 2016

    Laurence Freeman OSB – Silence: Expansion beyond Limits

    There are some things we cannot get our heads around, like billions of light years or collapsing the walls of gravity. However we have the capacity to…
    Richard Irwin 27 July 2016

    Prof. George Ellis – Top Down Causation in Complex Systems like the Brain

    Causal influences in the real world occurring on evolutionary, developmental, and functional timescales are characterised by a combination of bottom …
    Richard Irwin 27 July 2016
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