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    David Lorimer is a a writer, lecturer, poet and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, as well as three edited books about Beinsa Douno. He is also Chair of the Galileo Commission which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view.

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    Dr. Iain McGilchrist

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    It has become customary to talk about consciousness as the great unsolved problem of our age.  I argue that consciousness itself is not the problem; the problem is our customary mode of thinking.  I will outline the thesis of a new book, The Matter with Things, in which I suggest that, because of our allegiance to a certain model of the world, demonstrably associated with the left hemisphere of the brain, we misunderstand the fundamental nature of the world, and as a result run into predictable problems in trying to make sense of it.  These problems are in evidence all around us in the modern West.  For the purposes of this talk I will focus on the relationship between matter and consciousness, and ask: are they two things or one?  Are they things at all?  If they are different in what way?  How necessary are brains to consciousness? And why do we have consciousness at all?

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    Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, medicine, philosophy and psychiatry. He is the author of Against Criticism (Faber 1982), The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009), The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why Are We So Unhappy? (Yale 2011), and is currently working on a book entitled The Matter with Things to be published by Penguin Random House.

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    Dr. Tamara Russell

    MERGING THE MIND AND BRAIN TO ACCELERATE OUR CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE

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    While we have yet to answer the question “is the mind in the brain” this does not preclude us using the existing neuroscientific knowledge to inform our practices. This may be more important than ever if we want to accelerate our capacity to expand our awareness and access the benefits this brings to us personally as well as collectively.  Drawing on over ten years of embodied ethnographic research sharing the neurocognitive model of mindfulness, and stemming from work with non-ordinary states of various origins, this workshop will i) provide an overview of the neurocognitive model of mindfulness; ii) demonstrate its utility in helping us understand the neural correlations of various contemplative practices; iii) explore its utility in helping us progress our training and accelerate our growth. Through a variety of practices, the workshop will demonstrate the utility of this model to support a more rapid developmental process of expanded awareness. The utility of mindfulness as a training tool is balanced against the risks of getting stuck in the conceptual. So the workshop will also look at the “edges” of the model and how we traverse “the default mode network” and beyond in psychologically safe ways.

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    Dr. Tamara Russell MSc, PhD, DClin

    is a dedicated clinical scientist and mindfulness innovator who takes her lab out into the streets and the community.  Her 20-year career combines clinical, research and innovation work across a range of settings around the world, including mental health, education, private and public organisations.  Her clinical work has specialised in embodied psychotherapy with those experiencing non-ordinary states including psychosis, depersonalisation, and dissociation.  Tamara has a strong interest in innovative service development (including VR/AR and integral health), education and training the next generation integral healthcare workforce. She has developed a number of mindfulness-based approaches informed by the neuroanatomy of the emotion regulation system and the interaction of mind-body. This includes Body in Mind Training (a mindful movement programme detailed in her book Mindfulness in Motion), The Tools to Transform, The Dragon Way to Mental Wealth and a mindfulness teacher training based on the neurocognitive model she will share in this workshop. As with any passionate innovator, much of this work mirrors Tamara’s own personal development journey.  While the scientific models help to frame the work, ultimately, these are ultimately an offering to optimise and accelerate the journey to the heart and beyond. Tamara is the Founder and Co-Director of the Mindfulness Centre of Excellence, a think tank dedicated to next generation healthcare, leadership, education and technology.

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    Prof Janice Miner Holden &

    Dr Noelle St. Germain-Sehr

    AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATION: A CENTURY OF RESEARCH

    2 Sessions

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    In after-death communication (ADC), a living person perceives the presence of a physically deceased person or animal. In this presentation, Jan and Noelle will summarise a systematic review of published research on ADC from the earliest study in 1894 through the most recent in 2010 involving a total of over 50,000 people from over 20 countries. Findings from this review reveal many facts about the ADC, including their prevalence, incidence, forms, effects, and relationship to mental health. Jan will present an example of veridical ADC, in which the experiencer received specific information during the ADC that was otherwise unknown to any living person and that was subsequently verified as accurate. Following this summary, Jan and Noelle will share some of their ADCs, and audience members who have experienced ADC will have an opportunity to share their experiences. The speakers will invite discussion, including implications of ADC for an understanding of the consciousness beyond the brain.

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    Noelle R. St. Germain-Sehr is Clinical Assistant Professor and Counselling Clinical Experience Director for the Online Counselling Program at William & Mary (based in Williamsburg, Virginia). She has over 25 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counsellor (NCC) and advanced training in EMDR, clinical dream work, counselling adult survivors of sexual trauma, transpersonal approaches to counseling including Induced After-Death Communication (IADC), an intervention to assist grieving individuals experience a connection with those they are grieving. Her clinical and research interests include transpersonal perspectives in counseling, mindfulness meditation, LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling, gender socialisation and women’s issues, grief and loss, and bioenergetic analysis. She has engaged in multiple research projects, including the first empirical study of the effects of Induced After-Death Communication (IADC). Within her local community she is an active member of Kadampa Meditation Center of Texas, assisting with and teaching meditation classes.

     

    Prof Janice Miner Holden served 31 years as a member of the University of North Texas (UNT) Counselling Program faculty—12 of those years as chair of the Department of Counselling & Higher Education. In 2019 she retired as professor emerita of Counselling. Dr. Holden’s primary research focus has been counselling implications of near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other transpersonal experiences—those that transcend the usual personal limits of space, time, and identity. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications and over 100 national and international presentations. She served as lead editor of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation, and she co-edited the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counselling’s (ASERVIC’s) 2017 Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counselling. Among her professional service was three years as President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, and since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of that association’s scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies. For her outstanding and sustained contributions to scholarly-creative activity, teaching, and service, Jan received the UNT Foundation’s 2019 Eminent Faculty Award. In her retirement Jan is continuing in her role as Journal editor, adjunct teaching graduate counselling courses, and pursuing various scholarly activities.

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    David Lorimer

     GNOSIS IN A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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    The classical scholar Peter Kingsley has argued in a series of books that the origins of Western philosophy are to be found in direct experiences of mysticism and gnosis rather than in Socratic dialogue and reasoning, which was a later development. We have lost our roots and centre represented by the Self, and our identity is primarily shaped by outer factors corresponding to the third person and quantitative perspective of modern science. This also corresponds to what Iain McGilchrist would understand as the cultural dominance of the left hemisphere at the expense of the right. The last 50 years have seen the rise of interest in mystical and near death experiences and their significance for the nature of consciousness and reality. I will suggest that these are one expression of non-dual gnosis that can give us an insight into deeper structures of consciousness where head and heart come together, pointing to an overall participatory approach beyond the dichotomy of subject and object.

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    David Lorimer is a a writer, lecturer, poet and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, as well as three edited books about Beinsa Douno. He is also Chair of the Galileo Commission which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view.

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    Tim Freke

    CONSCIOUSNESS … AND WHY I WAS WRONG ABOUT IT

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    The great intellectual task of our times is to unite science and spirituality into one coherent narrative.  Like many others working in this area, I have previously been convinced that this requires science to come around to the spiritual philosophy that consciousness is the ground of existence. In this presentation, I will explain why I now think I was wrong. I want to explore an emergentist philosophy that accommodates the discoveries of science while casting new light on spiritual ideas such as the survival of death and psychic experiences.

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    Tim Freke is a philosopher and the author of 35 books, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph ‘Book of the Year’.  He is one of ‘The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’ on the 2020 list in Watkins Magazine (# 50). He lectures and leads experiential retreats internationally.   www.timfreke.com

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    Prof. Les Lancaster &

    Dr Jessica Bockler

    Alef Trust Introduction

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    The Alef Trust is a global leader in transformative education and training in the areas of consciousness,  transpersonal and spiritual psychology. We provide postgraduate education programmes and community programmes, which promote holistic psychological frameworks and perspectives, nurturing the development of human consciousness and culture. We also undertake research and provide consultancy and leadership for private and public sector organisations, building creative community projects and business engagements.

    In all our work we aim to foster wellbeing & health, cultural self-expression & inclusivity, ecological sustainability, and compassionate service to the world. Whilst being rooted in academic excellence, all our programmes in consciousness, spirituality and transpersonal psychology encourage personal and professional growth through multiple ways of knowing, embracing creative, spiritual and somatic practices alongside intellectual study.

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    Jennifer "Kim" Penberthy

    CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND EXTRAORDINARY

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    Extraordinary experiences and abilities may be brought about by intentionally changing consciousness via various contemplative methods such as meditating. Some research indicates that various forms of meditation are associated with increased mindfulness and paranormal experiences of precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, and synchronicities. Data exploring these descriptive studies of reported experiences will be presented, along with our early investigations on the impact of a meditation course in various populations. We will focus on self-reported extraordinary experiences and psi in a variety of contexts and studies and present data that found large percentages of people in the general public report such experiences. We will also review our most recent research comparing a self-selected group of meditators versus non-meditators and our findings regarding the frequency and impact of self-reported mindfulness, paranormal experiences, and performance on psi tasks over time and the meaning associated with these experiences. Recommendations for future research will also be provided.

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    Jennifer “Kim” Penberthy, Ph.D., ABPP is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Kim is a board certified clinical psychologist and conducts research, teaches, and provides clinical care at UVA in psychiatry and the cancer center. Her research interests include studying the mind-body relationship and exploring human consciousness as well as extraordinary human experiences and abilities. She is a founding member of the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center and is Co-Director of the Effective Communication and Coping Skills for Physicians, and founding member of Be Wise which is dedicated to promoting mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in medicine. She has published extensively on psychotherapy and mindfulness, including multiple books, and scores of manuscripts and book chapters, and lectures internationally regarding her research. She is deeply interested in meditation, mindfulness, contemplative practices, and the intentional alteration of consciousness as well as their potential positive impact upon human potential and healing.

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    Prof. Ed Kelly

    CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES

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    This presentation will begin with a sketch of the 15-year Esalen “Sursem” (from “survival seminar”) project that resulted in Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015). The former mainly sought to collect in one place a large amount of empirical evidence for various “rogue” psychological and physiological phenomena that resist or defy explanation in conventional physicalist terms, while the latter went on with a modest degree of success to the more difficult problem of identifying some more commodious sort of conceptual framework, or worldview, or metaphysical system potentially capable of accommodating those phenomena. I will then go on to a brief account of subsequent developments including recent advances in both research and theory, which will result early next year in a third book in this series, and end by attempting to state succinctly what I think the entire project adds up to, both intellectually and practically.

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    Edward F. Kelly is currently a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at UVA. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics/cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in experimental parapsychology, followed by a similar stint with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill where he carried out EEG and fMRI studies of human cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015), both produced under the auspices of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research. He is now returning to his central research interest – functional neuroimaging studies of psi and altered states in exceptional subjects.

     

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    Q&A 

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    Dr. Peter Fenwick

    NONDUALITY AT THE TIME OF DEATH

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    This presentation will begin with a sketch of the 15-year Esalen “Sursem” (from “survival seminar”) project that resulted in Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015). The former mainly sought to collect in one place a large amount of empirical evidence for various “rogue” psychological and physiological phenomena that resist or defy explanation in conventional physicalist terms, while the latter went on with a modest degree of success to the more difficult problem of identifying some more commodious sort of conceptual framework, or worldview, or metaphysical system potentially capable of accommodating those phenomena. I will then go on to a brief account of subsequent developments including recent advances in both research and theory, which will result early next year in a third book in this series, and end by attempting to state succinctly what I think the entire project adds up to, both intellectually and practically.

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    Peter Fenwick was a senior lecturer at King's College, London, where he worked as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry. He was the Consultant Neuropsychologist at both the Maudsley and John Radcliffe hospitals, and also provided services for Broadmoor Hospital. He worked with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton, and held a visiting professorship at the Riken Neurosciences Institute in Japan.

    Peter is the president of the Horizon Research Foundation, an organisation that supports research into end-of-life experiences. Before this he was the President of the British branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.

    Peter has been part of the editorial board for a number of journals, including the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of Epilepsy and Behaviour.

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    Prof. Harald Atmanspacher

    THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBTLE ENERGY PRACTICES IN DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, STRESS AND WELL-BEING

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    The Pauli-Jung conjecture is a conceptual framework for relations between the mental and the physical that the physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung proposed in the mid 20th century. Its metaphysical core is the assumption of one undivided base reality from which the mental and the physical arise as dual aspects by distinction. The presentation will outline key features of this dual-aspect monist account and address some of its implications that have received comprehensive empirical support so far: (a) the relevance of non-commutative structures in the mental domain, and (b) a taxonomy of psychophysical phenomena at the interface between the mental and the physical. The significance of the known physical laws within the physical domain remains untouched.

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    Harald Atmanspacher studied physics at Göttingen, Zurich and Munich, and received his PhD in Munich in 1985. He then worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998 and subsequently served as head of the theoretical division at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology at Freiburg until 2013. In 2007 he was elected an associate fellow at Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich and University Zurich), and has been a member of its management board since 2014. In addition to a number of other academic positions he is President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research and editor of its journal Mind and Matter. His research activities cover the theory of complex systems, quantum foundations and selected topics concerning mind-matter relations.

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    Analaura Trivellato

    THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBTLE ENERGY PRACTICES IN DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, STRESS AND WELL-BEING

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    Benefits of subtle energy (bioenergy, biofield, chakra energy, chi, vital energy) exercises, generally taken for spiritual practices, are widely accepted as valid and effective among the ones who practice them; however, experiments carried out under the scientific rigour are needed to amass evidences that can lead to deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind their purported effects.

    This randomized controlled trial research compares results of the experimental group who performed the Energy Mindfulness practice technically known as Voluntary Energetic Longitudinal Oscillation (VELO), with a waitlist control group. 

    Depression, anxiety, stress, and subtle energy balance were measured pre- and post-activities employing the widely used and validated DASS-21, which was expanded to encompass the new parameter measured.

    The insights derived from this study will enlighten future research, as this is the first time that the VELO practice is analysed under this method.

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    Analaura Trivellato graduated in Psychology and Languages and holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London. She is currently undertaking an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching at the University of East London. She is an educator, researcher, coach, and entrepreneur. She has been lecturing on anomalous phenomena, human development, and multidimensional awareness for over 25 years.

    Analaura is the President of the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC), a global organisation dedicated to the study of consciousness from a non-reductionist approach.

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    Dr. Oliver Robinson

     USING SOUND TO SUPPORT MEDITATION: THE SOLFEGGIO FREQUENCIES

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    In this time of external uncertainties, learning how to connect with your still centre is more important than ever. Sound can act as a vehicle towards tuning into that centre; research shows that listening to particular auditory frequencies can help to reach deep meditative states. The Solfeggio frequencies, which are said to go back to religious chants from the 11th century, have been shown to effectively support and deepen meditation. I will be exploring the nature of these frequencies, looking at the mysterious mathematics that underpins them including the fascinating patterns that emerge from the ‘digital root’, and we will be doing a group meditation using one of the frequencies, 528 Hz.

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    Dr Oliver Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, specialising in the psychology of adult development, and also writes on topics that traverse science and spirituality.

    His most recent book is Paths Between Head and Heart: Exploring the Harmonies of Science and Spirituality. His website is www.oliverrobinson.info

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