Pan-Episteme dialogue: The Nature of Nature

Thursday, 13 November 2025
5:30 – 8:00 PM (GMT)

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Dr Vasileios Basios and Dr Athena Potari will host an inspiring panel of distinguished thinkers, authors, and scientists, each offering unique insights from their respective fields.

Together, we will engage in a profound inquiry into the perennial question of the One and the Many, exploring how philosophical, scientific, and spiritual perspectives converge in illuminating how the One becomes the Many, and how the Many return to the One in the dance of Reality itself.

Happily, we welcome you into our online symposium, and:

We are particularly delighted to welcome, for the first time to our circle, Professor Bayo Akomolafe, visionary thinker, poet, and teacher, whose words and work traverse the wild frontiers of humanity, weaving together philosophy, story, and community to illuminate our search for belonging, purpose, and a more conscious world.

We are equally delighted to host for the first time here Lynnclaire Dennis, whose transformative work with the Mereon Matrix and The Mereon Legacy explores the patterns inherent in both natural and human systems, integrating art, science, and personal experience to illuminate memory, healing, and the deep interconnectedness of life and its beyond.

We are especially honoured to welcome, also for the first time here, the distinguished Professor Louis H. Kauffman, renowned mathematician and a pioneering figure in the fields of knot theory, systems thinking and quantum topology, whose seminal work unveils the deep unity between form, mathematics, and the living patterns of reality.

Our panel is proud to introduce Jacob Kyle, the philosopher, scholar, and founder of Embodied Philosophy, whose work bridges by rigorous inquiry and contemplative practice, uniting the wisdom of Kashmir Shivaism and the philosophical traditions of East and West into a living path of embodied understanding.

Last but not least, our circle is honoured to host one of our founding advisers of the Galileo Commission, Dr Roger Nelson, whose pioneering work with the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory and the Global Consciousness Project explores and provides solid proof of the subtle interplay of mind, intention, and the world, offering compelling insights into the interconnected nature of nonlocal Consciousness.

Bayo Akomolafe (PhD), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. He is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, self-styled ‘trans-public’ intellectual, essayist, and currently the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (August 2025). Bayo is the host teacher at Dancing with Mountains, an educational consultation and the visionary founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide networking project and inquiry at the edges of the Anthropocene.

Jacob Kyle is a philosophy educator, writer, scholar, and yoga and meditation teacher. He is the founder of Embodied Philosophy, an online educational platform for wisdom studies and contemplative practices.

He holds three Masters Degrees: an MPhil in Sanskrit & Indian Philosophy and Religions from the University of Oxford (2023), an MA in the History of Philosophy from the New School for Social Research (2013), and an MSc in Political Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007). He is currently pursuing his DPhil degree at Oxford University, studying Sanskrit and specializing in Kashmir Shaivaism Philosophy.

In 2015, Jacob received dīkṣā into a Tantric form of meditation and has since that time been studying and practicing with Kashmir Shaivism scholar-practitioner Paul Muller-Ortega. In 2020, he was initiated as an Acharya (authorized teacher) of Neelakantha meditation and continues to dedicate his life to studying deeply the texts and traditions of the Śaiva-Śākta Darśana, as well as making available through the Embodied Philosophy platform transformative wisdom teachings, practices and perspectives.

Professor Louis H. Kauffman is a distinguished mathematician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, famous for his research in knot theory, topology and quantum topology. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has served as editor and founder of key publications.  Kauffman has authored landmark books and papers, such as “Knots and Physics,” which explores the interface of knot theory with quantum physics, and numerous works on quantum topology, quantum computing, braid group representations, and their connection to quantum information theory.

Kauffman’s work, including pioneering the bracket and Kauffman polynomials, profoundly connects diverse concepts of unity and multiplicity within mathematics, by revealing deep relationships between knots, physics, and form and the Laws of Form. His contributions have extended beyond mathematics into cybernetics and philosophy, emphasizing the unity underlying complex systems, and he has been honored with notable accolades for his vision and influence.

As he puts it “We change the world and the world changes us. Objects arise as tokens of that behavior that leads to seemingly unchanging forms. Forms are seen to be unchanging through their invariance under our attempts to change, to shape them”.

Roger Nelson, Ph.D., was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002, and has directed the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), since its inception in 1997.

Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy and the arts have given opportunities to lead creative interdisciplinary teams at PEAR and elsewhere developing ways to study consciousness and intention. Roger’s work integrates science and spirituality, including research that is directly focused on numinous communal experiences.

Building on years of laboratory experiments, Roger began using random event generator (REG) technology in the field to study effects of special states of group consciousness. This led naturally to the GCP, which is designed to register indications of a coalescing global consciousness responding to major world events such as 9/11, the beginnings of war, or New Year’s Eve.

Speculative interpretations suggest that we may be looking at some form of consciousness field. Though we don’t have a full explanation, this frontier research provides evidence of interconnection and interaction of our minds with the environment. It is consonant with ancient and modern ideas about a nascent greater consciousness.

Lynnclaire Dennis profound near-death experiences led her to dedicate herself to working together with scientists and educators worldwide. She offers programmes and tools for personal and collective transformation, reconnecting individuals with their core values and purpose, blending art and science in her approach. She is a multidisciplinary researcher, artist and educator, best known for her work on the Mereon Matrix. This dynamic-geometric framework has been the focus of her research for decades, providing a foundation for understanding patterns in both nature and human systems. Her work explores themes of memory, healing and wholeness, drawing inspiration from profound personal experiences, including her three near-death experiences.

She is the co-founder of The Mereon Legacy CIC, a UK-based non-profit organisation dedicated to facilitating personal and collective transformation. The organisation helps individuals to align their core values with purposeful action, emphasising the interconnectedness of life and the importance of creative, intentional living.

Her own words encapsulate this as follows: “Love defined as ‘Understanding realized through diversity’ is essential to Unity. Its product is how we can spread love throughout the world. … Learning to be loving is what life is all about.”