Consciousness Perspectives Forum Past Events

Prof. Keith Ward – Emotion, Thought, and Feeling in the Cosmic Mind

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There 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

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‘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

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Years 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

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Marianne’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… ...

Arabella Thaïs – Depth Cosmology: the Poetics and Physics of the One Cosmic Mind

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If we are to evolve human consciousness, then we must evolve our understanding of reality. Thankfully there is a new cosmological paradigm emerging and it… ...

Prof Terry Hyland – A Pragmatic Exploration of Some Contemporary Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developments: Implications for Education, Culture and Society

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The recent appearance of widely available artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as ChatGPT and Bard has fuelled a flurry of popular and academic discussions about… ...

Dr Richard Firth-Godbehere – A Human History of Emotion

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We like to think of humans as rational creatures, who have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the most important moments… ...

Prof Philip Goff – Cosmic Purpose

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Western thought is dominated by the dichotomy of religion and secular atheism. For Christians, Muslims and Jews, the universe has a purpose because God created… ...

Prof Mary-Jane Rubenstein – Faith and the Final Frontier: The New Religion of NewSpace

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This lecture explains the intensifying “NewSpace race” as a mythological project. In particular, it reveals the escalating desire to colonize other planets as an extension… ...

Prof Bernard Carr – The Many Faceted Enigma of Time and the Nature of Self

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This talk will discuss two fundamental and closely related problems: the passage of time and the nature of self. Both problems have been the focus… ...

Dr. Vincent Roy-Di Piazza – Miraculous Powers, Spiritual Enhancement, and Bodily Transformation: the Case of Emanuel Swedenborg

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In 1744-45, the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) went through what he described as a process of spiritual transformation and bodily enhancement which cemented his… ...

Prof Tom Stafford – Free thought: can you ever be a truly independent thinker?

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Each of us feels that we freely choose our actions, yet we know that the world around us – including other minds – has a… ...