Consciousness Perspectives Forum
Welcome to the Consciousness Perspectives Forum page of the Scientific and Medical Network. We have regular meetings (via Zoom) with invited speakers for learning and interaction.
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Meet your Host
Claudia Nielsen PhD
I was born in Brazil and came to the UK in my twenties. Here I married, and brought up my three boys, now all grown up. Throughout my adult life I worked in a variety of industries and in my 40’s went back to Psychology – studied in Brazil – and retrained in psychotherapy, my current profession. My interests are all connected with my passion for life and living and I see human beings as an expression of a meaningful Universe. I am a Vice President of the SMN.
Forthcoming Events
Prof Carol Apollonio – “God and the Devil are Fighting here, and the Battlefield is Human Souls”: Religion and Science in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels document a great struggle to justify religious faith in an age dominated by the secular sciences. His most famous characters—The Underground Man… ...
Cynthia Bourgeault – “Go beyond the Mind”: How Evolutionary Consciousness sheds new light on an ancient Christian Dichotomy
For more than fifteen hundred years the terrain of Christian Prayer has been fundamentally partitioned into two categories: cataphatic, or “prayer of form,” drawing on… ...
Dr. Iain McGilchrist – Wisdom, intelligence and AI
The words “artificial intelligence” beg questions and lead to assumptions. What is intelligence? How does it differ from information-processing? Do we, in any case, need… ...
Dr. Christopher Buck – Bahá’í Consciousness of Oneness: Bahá’u’lláh’s Principles of Unity, from Family Relations to International Relations
In the academic study of religion, one useful methodology for a comparative phenomenology of the world’s religions is paradigm analysis, in which each religion can… ...
Dr. Michael Ebstein – Akbarian Humanism Revisited: on the Centrality of Man in the Mystical Thought of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240)
The so-called “Middle Ages” are often perceived as a period in which God was placed at the center of humanity’s intellectual and spiritual world, whereas… ...
Dr. Mark Vernon – Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
We live in a highly imaginative world. The screens and surfaces that surround us display myriad images. And yet, a sense of confusion or emptiness… ...
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