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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…

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed, and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of …

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…

Why do some heterodox scientific theories attract such vehement ridicule, while others are merely contentious? From adaptive mutation to psi phenomena…

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…

Increasing evidence is emerging that the brain is largely shaped by our social experiences through neuroplasticity, Social experience may have more po…

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…

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,…

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

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