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Sun, 10 November
Beyond the Brain 2024
ConferenceThis year’s event covers children who remember previous lives, energy medicine and healing, spiritual awakening in scientists and academics, neuroscience and spirituality, terminal lucidity, DMT and consciousness, and the more general issues of nonlocal consciousness and the consciousness-brain relationship. There will also be an experiential session on each day. ...
Peter Russell – Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential Change
Season TicketWebinarsWhy has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity’s accelerating pace of development. However fast the… ...
Avigail Abarbanel – The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World Peace
Season TicketWebinarsHow can we navigate uncertainty and embrace adaptability? It would not come as a surprise to anyone that things are not going so well for… ...
Prof. Keith Ward – Emotion, Thought, and Feeling in the Cosmic Mind
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 Steve Taylor – Stepping out of the River of Time: Time Expansion and Time Cessation Experiences
Season TicketWebinarsWhy does time sometimes slow down radically in accidents and falls? Perhaps you’ve experienced a radical slowing of time during meditation, under the influence of… ...
Nora Bateson – Combining: Living the Experience of Complexity
Season TicketWebinarsHow do we thrive in complexity? More information coming soon! • About the speaker: Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator,… ...
The Future of Wisdom and Intelligence – A Four-Part Series
ConsciousnessHumanityWebinarsIn partnership with the World Community for Christian Meditation “Humanity is now too clever to survive without wisdom” – EF Schumacher Please note: The first three… ...
Dr. David Grumett – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Philosopher and Theologian
A French Jesuit of the first half of the twentieth century, Teilhard called boldly into question classic philosophical conceptions of matter and spirit. Motivated by… ...
Dr. David Egan – Wittgenstein and the Religious Point of View
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) once remarked to a friend: “I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point… ...
Paul Kieniewicz – The Structure of Reality – a Gnostic Perspective
The physical world of atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies appears real to us. But is that world all that there is? Plato, in his allegory… ...
Gary Lachman – Who Was Hermes Trismegistus?
For centuries, the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus – “thrice greatest Hermes” – was believed to be a real individual who, at the dawn of time,… ...
Beyond the Brain 2024Conference
Peter Russell – Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential ChangeSeason TicketWebinars
Avigail Abarbanel – The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World PeaceSeason TicketWebinars
Nora Bateson – Combining: Living the Experience of ComplexitySeason TicketWebinars
The Future of Wisdom and Intelligence – A Four-Part SeriesConsciousnessHumanityWebinars
Webinar Programme
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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September 2024 | ||
Wednesday 4 | Charmian Wylde | When Acupuncture meets Mainstream Healthcare: A Culture Clash? |
Wednesday 11 | Dr Tina Maschi | Galileo’s Participatory Engagement with the Arts, Science and Spirituality |
Wednesday 25 | Nicholas Colloff | Dom Bede Griffiths: A Universalist Christian Mystic |
October 2024 | ||
Wednesday 2 | Thomas Mayer | Living with the Deceased |
Wednesday 9 | Helena Norberg-Hodge | Ancient Futures: Recovering our Sacred Connections |
Wednesday 16 | Prof Massimo Pigliucci | How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life |
Saturday 19, (2pm) | Prof Douglas Hodgson (Australia) | Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil: Life Lessons from Multiple NDEs |
Wednesday 23 | Elizabeth Oldfield | Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times |
Wednesday 30 | Prof Leslie Combs | Synchronicity: In the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster |
November 2024 | ||
Wednesday 13 | Peter Russell | Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential Change |
Wednesday 20 | Avigail Abarbanel | The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World Peace |
Wednesday 27 | Monika Renz | Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Dying Process |
December 2024 | ||
Wednesday 4 | Nora Bateson | Combining: Living the Experience of Complexity |