Consciousness Perspectives Forum Past Events
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… ...
Arabella Thaïs – Depth Cosmology: the Poetics and Physics of the One Cosmic Mind
Event has passedIf 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
Event has passedThe 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
Event has passedWe 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
Event has passedWestern 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
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
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