Consciousness Perspectives Forum

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Welcome to the Consciousness Perspectives Forum page of the Scientific and Medical Network. We have regular meetings with invited speakers for learning and interaction.
SMN members and non-members are warmly invited to participate. To receive information about future meetings please subscribe to the circulation list at the bottom of the page.

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Recordings are available free for SMN members.

Meet your Host

Claudia

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

January 2025
20 January 2025
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Dr. David Grumett – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Philosopher and Theologian

A French Jesuit of the first half of the twentieth century, Teilhard called boldly into question classic philosophical conceptions of matter and spirit. Motivated by… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 20 January 2025 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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February 2025
24 February 2025
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Dr. David Egan – Wittgenstein and the Religious Point of View

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) once remarked to a friend: “I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 24 February 2025 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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March 2025
17 March 2025
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Paul Kieniewicz – The Structure of Reality – a Gnostic Perspective

The physical world of atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies appears real to us. But is that world all that there is? Plato, in his allegory… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 17 March 2025 |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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April 2025
07 April 2025
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Gary Lachman – Who Was Hermes Trismegistus?

For centuries, the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus – “thrice greatest Hermes” – was believed to be a real individual who, at the dawn of time,… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 7 April 2025 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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May 2025
12 May 2025
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Prof Dana Sawyer – What if Aldous Huxley was spot on? Current psychedelic research supports Huxley’s ‘Perennial Philosophy’ as deeply relevant.

Based on the collaborative theory of Huxley and Humphry Osmond that psychedelic substances sometimes trigger genuine mystical experiences (including experiences of what Huxley termed the… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 12 May 2025 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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June 2025
16 June 2025
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Dr. Shantena Sabbadini – Life as Act of Creation

In his rich correspondence with C.G. Jung at some point Pauli makes the following remark: “Now in physics the essential aspect of uniqueness (for which… ...

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Mon, 16 June 2025 |
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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