Meet the Board

Speakers

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  David Lorimer Writer, Lecturer, Poet, Editor
  

  David Lorimer

  Writer, Lecturer, Poet, Editor

  David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a visionary polymath – writer, lecturer, poet and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network  and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. David is also the Editor of Paradigm Explorer, and Chair of the Galileo Commission, which seeks the expand the evidence base of science of consciousness beyond a materialistic world view.

  Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Survival? Death as Transition (1984,2017) Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One) (1990/2017), The Spirit of Science (1998), Thinking Beyond the Brain (2001), The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about the Bulgarian sage Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov): Prophet for our Times (1991, 2015), The Circle of Sacred Dance, and Gems of Love, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince (2003) – has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. His most recent books are A Quest for Wisdom and his collection of poems, Better Light a Candle.

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  Bernard Carr Emeritus Professor, SMN President
  

  Bernard Carr

  Emeritus Professor, SMN President

  Prof Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD, he studied the first second of the universe with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University and Caltech. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter, and the anthropic principle. He is a former chairman and current President of the Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research.

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  Filippo Dal Fiore Senior consultant
  

  Filippo Dal Fiore

  Senior consultant

  Dr Filippo Dal Fiore has always been driven by love for life and for our common humanity, despite all tribulations. He does his best every day to honour this by cultivating the deepest desires of his heart, including pursuing his vocation to reconcile science to Love (what happens if we say God?). Over the years he has been working behind the scenes on his own personal and spiritual development, all the while vigorously contributing to family life as well as serving students and organizations (as an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna and a senior consultant at the Great Place To Work Institute). His social scientific background is multi-disciplinary and international: he holds university degrees in Communication Science and Applied Economics, with significant research experience accrued in the USA, The Netherlands and Italy.

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  Laurel Waterman Writer, Speaker
  

  Laurel Waterman

  Writer, Speaker

  Laurel Waterman, MA currently a doctoral student in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, has been teaching creative non-fiction writing at the University of Toronto since 2009. She published About Local Food: Four Conversations with Toronto Food Activists, a book based on her MA research in Adult Education and Community Development. Waterman has been a writer, researcher, and editor for several books, essays, research projects, and conference presentations throughout her academic career, mostly in the areas of non-fiction writing, education, food systems, and environmental sustainability. In 2021, she was awarded a grant from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship fund for her doctoral research in consciousness studies education. She is a student member of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-materialist Sciences (AAPS).

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  Joan Walton University researcher and educator
  

  Joan Walton

  University researcher and educator

  Dr Joan Walton’s first degree was in Social Theory and Institutions (University of Bangor, North Wales). Following University, she travelled for a year in India and South East Asia, including working in one of Mother Teresa’s children’s homes in Calcutta. Her early professional career was in social work, mainly working with children and families in residential and community settings. In 1995 she established an independent Centre for Action Research and Education, which enabled her to be involved in a wide range of staff development and research projects in the public, private and not-for profit sectors. Following completion of her PhD in 2008, she had a career change, and entered the academic world, initially at Liverpool Hope University, and now at York St John University in the School of Education.

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  Simon Duan
  

  Simon Duan

  Dr SIMON DUAN is founder of Metacomputics Labs that researches post materialism paradigm that unifies consciousness, mind and matter.  The new paradigm is based on simulation hypothesis which describes the universe as processing output of computation. Metacomputics theoretical framework postulates that a nonphysical computer that is made by, of, with and from Consciousness exists in platonic realm that computes the universe. Further details on www.metacomputics.com

  In collaboration with researchers around the world, Metacomputics is being applied to spiritual and personal development, innovative healing and healthcare practice, brain science and artificial intelligence.

  Dr Duan came from China to the UK to study in the ’80s. After receiving a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University, he worked for many years in research and development, technology commercialisation and management consultancy in both the UK and China. He has long-standing interests in paranormal research and was past vice president of Chinese parapsychology association.