Educational Events
Current and Future Conferences & WebinarsAll sessions are recorded
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Disclaimer: We welcome the diverse views expressed by individual speakers in our webinars and conferences, but these are not necessarily representative of any general Scientific and Medical Network views or positions – the Network is in no way liable for such views or opinions expressed by our speakers.
Prof Massimo Pigliucci – How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
Season TicketWebinarsCan ancient Stoicism help us flourish today? A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today. Whenever we worry about what to eat,… ...
Prof Douglas Hodgson – Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil: Life Lessons from Multiple NDEs
Season TicketWebinarsWhat can humanity learn from NDEs? Professor Hodgson will discuss his research findings on what Humanity can learn from the messages imparted to some 500… ...
Dr. Edi Bilimoria – Legendary Scientists, Without Exception, Affirmed Divinity
‘Science rests on facts and evidence whereas religion is based on faith and belief’ is a sneering remark that I have personally heard, not infrequently,… ...
Elizabeth Oldfield – Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times
Season TicketWebinarsAre we being the people who are needed? Elizabeth Oldfield will be discussing Fully Alive, a collection of personal essays exploring how these apocalyptic-feeling times… ...
The Future of Humanity – Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event at The Royal Institution in London
An in-person hybrid event at The Royal Institution in London, with Iain McGilchrist and guest speakers Prof Mattias Desmet and Elizabeth Oldfield, hosted by David… ...
Prof Allan Leslie Combs – Jean Gebser and Owen Barfield in a Nutshell
Season TicketWebinarsIs the evolution of consciousness the key to our future? In this webinar, Professor Combs will discuss these two 20th century theorists of the evolution of… ...
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. ...
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… ...
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… ...
Elizabeth Oldfield – Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent TimesSeason TicketWebinars
The Future of Humanity – Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event at The Royal Institution in London
21 Albemarle Street Mayfair, London, W1S 4BS
Prof Allan Leslie Combs – Jean Gebser and Owen Barfield in a NutshellSeason TicketWebinars
Beyond the Brain 2024Conference
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 |