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Dr. Mark Vernon – Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

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We live in a highly imaginative world. The screens and surfaces that surround us display myriad images. And yet, a sense of confusion or emptiness… ...

Dr. Michael Ebstein – On the Centrality of Man in the Mystical Thought of Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240)

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The so-called “Middle Ages” are often perceived as a period in which God was placed at the center of humanity’s intellectual and spiritual world, whereas… ...

Dr. Christopher Buck – Bahá’í Consciousness of Oneness: Bahá’u’lláh’s Principles of Unity, from Family Relations to International Relations

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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. Iain McGilchrist – Wisdom, intelligence and AI

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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… ...

Cynthia Bourgeault – “Go beyond the Mind”: How Evolutionary Consciousness sheds new light on an ancient Christian Dichotomy

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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… ...

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

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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… ...

Prof Darren Oldridge – Talk of the Devil: A Historical Perspective on the Prince of Darkness

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The Christian Devil has loomed large in western history, and remains a lively and complicated figure in contemporary culture. This presentation considers the various manifestations… ...

Prof John Barton – A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

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The 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

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Daoism 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

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In 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.

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Based 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?

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For centuries, the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus – “thrice greatest Hermes” – was believed to be a real individual who, at the dawn of time,… ...