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 …
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…