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Reseña de la charla ¿Los sistemas de conocimiento indígenas son clave para comprender la naturaleza de la conciencia?

La ponencia fue realizada por la Dra. Natasha Tassell-Matamua (Nueva Zelanda) durante la conferencia internacional Beyond the Brain (Más allá del Cerebro) el 04 de noviembre de 2022.

Dreams as journeys to depths within us – Amalia Carli

By Amalia Carli In the following pages I want to share some notes on a short presentation I did at Paul’s SMN wine bar in June where I discussed some thoughts about dreams, particularly with views from Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman as well as from work by Dr. ...

Why a ‘genius’ scientist thinks our consciousness originates at the quantum level

Do our minds have quantum structures that give rise to consciousness? Sir Roger Penrose, one of the world’s most famous scientists, believes this and can explain how he thinks it works. By PAUL RATNER 15 January, 2018 Human consciousness is one of the grand...

Complementing reductionism: Goethean science. Part 2

Part 2: Life’s unique principles By AliciaLandman-Reiner   Abstract Life sciences today approach nature through a reductionist lens. A broadened methodology, known as Goethean science, complements that one-sided perspective. Building on the elements of the...

Complementing Reductionism: Goethean Science. Part 1

Part 1: Qualities and wholeness By AliciaLandman-Reiner Abstract While integrative practices in health care have grown over the past half-century, life sciences still view nature almost entirely through a reductionist lens. Contemporary research is described that...

A big lesson from the ‘Oumuamua alienware controversy

  A big lesson from the ‘Oumuamua alienware controversy Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation. MARCELO GLEISER 05 May, 2021 Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua Credit: European Southern Observatory/M....

The Scientific World-Picture of To-Day.

THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD-PICTURE OF TO-DAY BY GENERAL THE RT. HON. J. C. SMUTS, P.O., C.H., F.R.S. PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. After what I said at the opening this afternoon it is unnecessary for me to...

Consciousness, Cognition and Behavior

Mukhopadhyay AK*   ABSTRACT The readers and authors of the journal are all neuroscientists. The purpose of such review in this journal is to make them familiar with an emerging worldview that the brain is not the source of consciousness and cognitive faculty...

The neurobiology of resilience – Professor David Peters

Neuroscience makes possible a new understanding of human nature. The practice of medicine is particularly stressful, and neuroscience helps explain why this is the case. When work is demanding and recovery poor, persistent stress begins to distort our view of...

Recognising the Matrix of Consciousness – Stephan Schwartz

Source: Schwartz, S. A. (2020). What would the world be like if the matrix of consciousness were recognized. The Journal of Science and Healing, 16(2), 81-84. In almost all discussions of the future that I see, hear, or read, the central theme is the coming crisis of...
The Science of Divinity – A. K. Mukhopadhyay

The Science of Divinity – A. K. Mukhopadhyay

Introduction The world has been taking a new turn. Humanity has been crossing the threshold to emerge as Homo spiritualis! Spiritual quest of a large number of scientists has been taking the science beyond materialism; science with space time matter and visible...

Can we Crack the Mind-Body Problem?

Can we Crack the Mind-Body Problem?

Emmanuel Ransford PART ONE: Making Sense of Quantum Randomness PART TWO: Matter and the Poached Egg PART THREE: Psychism, the Deed, and Beyond This paper is in three parts. In this Part One, the randomness displayed by quantum objects is explored. The notion of...

The Quality of Life: What Quality? Whose Life?

The Quality of Life: What Quality? Whose Life?

The Quality of Life: What Quality? Whose Life? CRISPIN TICKELL Green College Woodstock Road Oxford ABSTRACT: As a consequence of industrialization, we face unprecedented pressures on the carrying capacity of the earth. Desertification, pollution and global climate...

Ways of Knowing and Unknowing

This was the keynote lecture delivered by Fr. Laurence at the 2012 Mystics and Scientists conference on Western contemplative traditions.   We are, each of us, the product of a union of opposites. Perhaps we enjoy, for an instant after our personal big bang, a...

The Human Energy Field

Introduction Despite the recognition by modern medicine that electrophysical exchanges underlie most cellular activity, scant attention has been directed to the possible existence of a total or unified field or fields underlying the human organism. Such recognition...

The Human Future

The Human Future

As the world population passes the 7 billion mark, Sir Crispin asks: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going? There are no easy answers. For all of us the past as well as the future is an almost unknown country; and the present is a doubtful...

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