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Prof John Barton – A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Event has passedThe Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a… ...
Dr. Lennert Gesterkamp – Dao Fa Ziran: Daoism and the Meaning of Life
Event has passedDaoism is relatively unknown and understudied in the West. Many people still have never heard of Daoism. It is neither considered a world religion, even… ...
Dr. Shantena Sabbadini – Life as Act of Creation
Event has passedIn 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… ...
Prof Dana Sawyer – What if Aldous Huxley was spot on? Current psychedelic research supports Huxley’s ‘Perennial Philosophy’ as deeply relevant.
Event has passedBased on the collaborative theory of Huxley and Humphry Osmond that psychedelic substances sometimes trigger genuine mystical experiences (including experiences of what Huxley termed the… ...
Gary Lachman – Who Was Hermes Trismegistus?
Event has passedFor centuries, the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus – “thrice greatest Hermes” – was believed to be a real individual who, at the dawn of time,… ...
Paul Kieniewicz – The Structure of Reality – a Gnostic Perspective
Event has passedThe physical world of atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies appears real to us. But is that world all that there is? Plato, in his allegory… ...
Dr. David Egan – Wittgenstein and the Religious Point of View
Event has passedLudwig 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… ...
Dr. David Grumett – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Philosopher and Theologian
Event has passedA French Jesuit of the first half of the twentieth century, Teilhard called boldly into question classic philosophical conceptions of matter and spirit. Motivated by… ...
Prof. Keith Ward – Emotion, Thought, and Feeling in the Cosmic Mind
Event has passedThere is a rising interest in Idealism, the idea that there is a cosmic mind from which the material universe flows. But there are many… ...
Dr. Edi Bilimoria – Legendary Scientists, Without Exception, Affirmed Divinity
Event has passed‘Science rests on facts and evidence whereas religion is based on faith and belief’ is a sneering remark that I have personally heard, not infrequently,… ...
Dr. Jeff Dunne – Synchronicities: Signals of Interconnectedness
Event has passedYears of research have consistently demonstrated that the traditional understanding of time as an objective property of the universe is flawed. There are countless examples… ...
Dr. Marianne Rankin – Is Altruism a Principal Fruit of Spiritual Experience? An Exploration of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre Archive
Event has passedMarianne’s recent PhD research, supported by the Alister Hardy Trust (AHT), was based on the Religious Experience Research Centre Archive of over six thousand accounts… ...
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