Geoff Crocker – Atheist Spirituality
The rationalist-materialist paradigm is dominant, with spirituality understated. A world transforming spirituality has to be inclusive. Religion as spirituality fails to be inclusive, since many…
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).
Charles Jencks PhD – In Pursuit of Greater Meaning
Renaissance man, Charles Jencks, has many claims to his international fame. Andrew Marr has described him as ‘one of the most ambitious and radical artists…
Panspermia – Rosetta’s comet has ingredients of life
These days more astrobiologists take seriously the idea that life may not have originated on Earth but was brought here soon after the Earth formed,…
The Prince of Wales speaks on antibiotic resistance
On May 12 the Prince of Wales spoke in London to the Global Leaders Conference on One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance. HRH raised the issue…
Synchronicity and wrong beliefs – Axel Hasenhoeller
Synchronicity is a concept, first explained by psychiatrist Carl Jung which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no caus…
How old is self-awareness?
We take it for granted that we are self-aware. That we are conscious of ourselves. But how far back in human evolution can this self-awareness…
Philosophical Gleanings- Insight from Schopenhauer
Paul Entwhistle presented – “Philosophical Gleanings- Insight from Schopenhauer”. Unfortunately, I had to be away. I missed a great afternoon.
Prof Ravi Ravindra – Eternal Wisdom
By bringing together philosophical and spiritual traditions of the East and the West we will explore some of the concerns of eternal wisdom: the natur…
Singing the Body Electric
We’re used to thinking of our bodies as bio-chemical systems that our cells are maintained by chemical processes. When we visit a doctor, the treatment…