Consciousness Perspectives Forum
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 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
Dr. Lennert Gesterkamp – Dao Fa Ziran: Daoism and the Meaning of Life
Daoism is relatively unknown and understudied in the West. Many people still have never heard of Daoism. It is neither considered a world religion, even… ...
Prof John Barton – A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a… ...
Prof Darren Oldridge – Talk of the Devil: A Historical Perspective on the Prince of Darkness
The Christian Devil has loomed large in western history, and remains a lively and complicated figure in contemporary culture. This presentation considers the various manifestations… ...
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… ...
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