Consciousness Perspectives Forum Past Events
Prof Mary-Jane Rubenstein – Faith and the Final Frontier: The New Religion of NewSpace
Event has passedThis 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
Event has passedThis 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
Event has passedIn 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?
Event has passedEach of us feels that we freely choose our actions, yet we know that the world around us – including other minds – has a… ...
Rubin Naiman PhD – Repairing Jacob’s Ladder: Healing our REM Sleep and Dreams
Event has passedThis presentation uses the archetypal story of Jacob’s Ladder to address dream loss, one of the most critical overlooked issues in consciousness studies and healing.… ...
- Claudia Nielsen
Dr. Joke Hermsen – The Kairos momentum
Event has passedTime can race or crawl, flow or freeze, fly by or creep agonisingly along – and yet we rely solely on the steady monotone ticking… ...
Prof Paul Sutter – Your Place in the Universe
Event has passedHow is a galaxy billions of light-years away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean… ...
- Claudia Nielsen
Rupert Sheldrake PhD – Morphic Resonance and Memory
Event has passedAccording to the Rupert Sheldrake’s hypothesis of formative causation, all self-organizing systems, including crystals, organisms and societies are organized by morphic fields which contain an… ...
- Claudia Nielsen
Dr. Iain McGilchrist – What is the Matter with Things?
Event has passedMany of us are aware that the mindset of reductionist materialism is inadequate, but may find it harder to articulate why. My latest book, The… ...
Prof Christian List – The Reality of Free Will
Event has passedI will present a case for scientific realism about free will. I will begin by summarizing some of the main scientifically motivated challenges for free will and… ...
Prof Ravi Ravindra – Spiritual Search and Scientific Research
Event has passedIn this talk we will explore not what usually gets classified as ‘science’ or as ‘religion’. The emphasis will be more on the goals, intentions, attitudes… ...
Prof Keith Ward – Absolute Mind and the Christian God
Consciousness Perspectives ForumEvent has passedChristian ideas of God, at the intellectual level, have been depended heavily on the thought of Plato and Aristotle. God is an instantiation of perfect… ...
- Claudia Nielsen
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