Educational Events
Current and Future Conferences & WebinarsAll sessions are recorded
You will receive a video link to events you have booked, in case you cannot attend live.
Disclaimer: We welcome the diverse views expressed by individual speakers in our webinars and conferences, but these are not necessarily representative of any general Scientific and Medical Network views or positions – the Network is in no way liable for such views or opinions expressed by our speakers.
Pre-conference Film Panel – Science, Spirituality, and NDE’s
ConferenceThis year’s pre-conference film is a very special event which will explore episodes Episodes 1 and 8 of the 16-part docuseries created by the Bial… ...
Sun, 9 November
Beyond the Brain 2025 – The Extended Nature of Reality – 30th Anniversary Conference
ConferenceThis year’s 30th anniversary conference includes Rupert Sheldrake, Donald Hoffman, Raymond Moody, Anita Moorjani and many more influential speakers in the field. There will daily experiential sessions. ...
Dr Silvia Caprioglio Panizza – The Ethics of Attention in a Digital Age
Season TicketWebinarsHow does your attention shape your reality? This talk will explore the ethics of attention: in what ways is attention morally relevant? Dr Silvia Caprioglio… ...
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… ...
Luigi Morelli – Restoring Cycles of Water: Holistic Approach to Climate Change
Season TicketWebinarsCould shifting our mindset be the key to reversing the ecological crisis? Climate change elicits passionate yes or no responses. I will advance that, yes,… ...
Dr Jonathan Ellerby – Soul Signals: Nervous System Regulation and Spiritual Expansion
Season TicketWebinarsWhat would your life feel like if you lived from your soul every day? Science has come to the realisation and proven that care for… ...
Rev’d Santou Beurklian-Carter – Angelic Sound Frequency: Healing in “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”
Season TicketWebinarsWhat if the musical frequency of angels is not imagined, but are real and meant for our healing? In this uplifting presentation about angelic healing… ...
Christopher Robinson – Premonitions Received Via Thousands of Precognitive Lucid Dreams
Season TicketWebinarsIs premonition possible? At the age of 35, during a heart attack, Christopher had a near-death experience which catalysed his unique ability to lucidly dream… ...
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 Michael Krieger – From Materialism to Mysticism: A Psychiatrist’s Psychic Odyssey
Season TicketWebinarsWhat happens when a psychiatrist begins to have extraordinary experiences that turn his worldview upside down? Michael Krieger was meandering through his ordinary life as… ...
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 Silvia Caprioglio Panizza – The Ethics of Attention in a Digital AgeSeason TicketWebinars
Luigi Morelli – Restoring Cycles of Water: Holistic Approach to Climate ChangeSeason TicketWebinars
Dr Michael Krieger – From Materialism to Mysticism: A Psychiatrist’s Psychic OdysseySeason TicketWebinars
Webinar Programme
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Charmian Wylde | When Acupuncture meets Mainstream Healthcare: A Culture Clash? |
| Wednesday 11 | Dr Tina Maschi | Galileo’s Participatory Engagement with the Arts, Science and Spirituality |
| Wednesday 25 | Nicholas Colloff | Dom Bede Griffiths: A Universalist Christian Mystic |
| October 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 2 | Thomas Mayer | Living with the Deceased |
| Wednesday 9 | Helena Norberg-Hodge | Ancient Futures: Recovering our Sacred Connections |
| Wednesday 16 | Prof Massimo Pigliucci | How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life |
| Saturday 19, (2pm) | Prof Douglas Hodgson (Australia) | Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil: Life Lessons from Multiple NDEs |
| Wednesday 23 | Elizabeth Oldfield | Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times |
| Wednesday 30 | Prof Leslie Combs | Synchronicity: In the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster |
| November 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 13 | Peter Russell | Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential Change |
| Wednesday 20 | Avigail Abarbanel | The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World Peace |
| Wednesday 27 | Monika Renz | Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Dying Process |
| December 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Nora Bateson | Combining: Living the Experience of Complexity |
Webinar Programme Archive
2023 Webinar Programme
2022 Webinar Programme
January 2022
Monday Dialogue
Giles Hutchins and Oonagh Harpur – Regenerative Leadership as a Transformational Journey
Monday Dialogue
Prof Sean Kelly – Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation
Monday Dialogue
Prof William Halal – Beyond Knowledge
Monday Dialogue
Prof Etzel Cardeña – Psi phenomena in non-representational visual art
Annalisa Burello – Creativity, Art and Spirituality: Expanding the Ontology of Spirituality to Non-Religious Contexts
Monday Dialogue
February 2022
Prof Alastair McIntosh – Climate Change and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature
Monday Dialogue


















