David Lorimer – Inwardness, Freedom and Agency
How does our understanding of who we are shape the world we create?
Join David Lorimer for a wide-ranging exploration of consciousness, inwardness and human agency.
David argues that our ecological and spiritual crises are rooted, in part, in a crisis of self-image: the model we hold of the human being shapes the model we hold of the world.
Drawing on thinkers including William James, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and Jan Smuts, he challenges the mechanistic view of the human being and explores an alternative in which consciousness and the inner life have genuine causal power.
What might follow if we see ourselves not as passive products of a material universe, but as conscious participants within an evolving whole? And how might a deeper understanding of inwardness restore our sense of freedom, responsibility and agency?
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About the speaker:
David Lorimer is Programme Director and Global Ambassador of the Scientific and Medical Network, Editor of Paradigm Explorer and Chair of the Galileo Commission. His work as a writer, lecturer and editor explores the meeting point of science, consciousness, philosophy and spirituality.
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David LorimerWriter, Lecturer, Poet, EditorDavid Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a visionary polymath and poet, who is Founder of Character Education Scotland, Global Ambassador of the Scientific and Medical Network, Chair of the Galileo Commission and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986. He created the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every year since the late 1980s.
David’s most recent publications are his essays, A Quest for Wisdom (2021), his collection of poems Better Light a Candle (2022), Spiritual Awakenings (2022, edited with Marjorie Woollacott), The Great Upshift (2023, edited with Ervin Laszlo), and The Playful Universe (2024, edited with Marjorie Woollacott and Gary Schwartz). David is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest, and a Member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle.