Parapsychology in China with Simon Duan
Simon Duan came from China to the UK to study in the ’80s. He received a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University and currently works for the UK government on technology commercialization between the UK and China. He has long-standing interests in paranormal research and is a past vice president of the Chinese Parapsychology Association. Here he describes Chinese culture's historical interest in the paranormal, contemporary developments, psychic education of children in China, personal experiences of high strangeness, and his own theoretical model to explain his many observations.
Imaginal Inspirations with Athena Potari
David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Athena D. Potari, Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2022/23). She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, specializing in Political Philosophy, and holds an MA in Political Theory summa cum laude from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Stephen Phillips – Occult Chemistry Explained by Modern Physics
This presentation will examine their claim by comparing their psychic observations with salient facts and ideas of nuclear and particle physics. Reasons will be given why it can now be concluded that they were mistaken in believing that they had been observing atoms in their natural, undisturbed state.
Surviving Death – Netflix docuseries
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
Imaginal Inspirations with Peter Fenwick
David Lorimer's Guest today is his old friend and long-time colleague Dr Peter Fenwick who is Emeritus Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital and Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. His other appointments included Consultant Neurophysiologist at St. Thomas’s, Westminster and Broadmoor Hospitals.
Between Two Worlds: The Encapsulated Self – Marye O’Reilly-Knapp
This article considers how the schizoid condition may manifest as dissociative and autistic states, and a fourth pattern of insecure attachment is introduced. Case vignettes are used to illustrate the phenomenological experiences of the schizoid's unspoken and sequestered world and to identify how contact and the methods of inquiry, involvement, and attunement are used in an intensive therapeutic relationship.
Tao Science: The Science, Wisdom, and Practice of Creation and Grand Unification – Sha & Xiu
Tao is the Source of everyone and everything. Tao Science is the science of the Source and creation. It is science that tells us what everyone and everything are made of, how everyone and everything are created, how everyone and everything interact, and much more. Step into the universe of Tao Science. Tao Science is more than a theory. It is a practice. It is the way of life. You will never step back.
Imaginal Inspirations with Mario Beauregard
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr. Mario Beauregard, a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He received a bachelor degree in psychology and a doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of Montreal. Dr. Beauregard is the author of more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry.
Cracking consciousness: how do our minds really work? – Kit Wilson
With scientists mapping our neurons in ever greater detail, and companies like Google claiming they’re close to creating human-level artificial intelligence, the gap between brain and machine seems to be shrinking — throwing the question of consciousness, one of the great philosophical mysteries, back into the heart of scientific debate. Will the human mind — that ineffable tangle of private, first-person experiences — soon be shown to have a purely physical explanation? The neuroscientist Steven Novella certainly thinks so: ‘The evidence for the brain as the sole cause of the mind is, in my opinion, overwhelming.’
Galileo Commission Summit V: Spiritual Awakenings Book Launch
This series of round-table discussions, which will take place over the course of two days, will mark the launch of a new collaborative book by the Galileo Commission and the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS): Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Share Their Experiences - edited by Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer, Co-Chairs of the Galileo Commission. You may find out more about the book by visiting: https://spiritual-awakenings.net.
Edi Bilimoria – Unfolding Consciousness
This talk presents an overview of a work, in four volumes, which has been has been some two decades in the making, much of this time during the most turbulent period in modern world history, and represents the fruits of over half a century of exploration and research in science and the Perennial Philosophy.
Synchronicity and the IChing – Shantena Sabbadini
Shantena Sabbadini talks about Synchronicity and the IChing
Nonlocal Consciousness Correlates Analysis: the ‘oREGano’ project – Vasileios Basios & Wolfhardt Janu
Our working group, historically the first one to emerge, came about as an informal gathering of friends from the GC who had similar interests on studying traces of consciousness’ states manifesting in organizational dynamics. It is about the study of trace-signals of “organizational closure” which is now being detected due to an innovation on standard random event generators (REGs).
The simulation hypothesis and Consciousness – Simon Duan
The proposed working group will facilitate the development of new models that adequately account for parapsychology phenomena and offers mechanism that underpins these phenomena.
Asian Traditional & Indigenous Wisdom and Science – Rahul Goswami
Traditional medicinal, healing and curative sciences and arts stand, in many ways, at the threshold between material and non-material worlds. Their most experienced practitioners have developed ways of not only seeing, but of understanding and diagnosing currents and fluxes within and surrounding our gross bodies.
Completing the Spectrum – Nicholas Rosseinsky
This initiative adopts a tentative (non-dual) psychospiritual framework for Ground, Self, and Soul; for the arising of the illusion of separation; and for the emergence of our local Universe and material process, as a response to that arising. In this hypothetical context, humanity’s challenge is: how are we to relinquish participation in separation, individually and collectively?
Enrichment Through New Insights: Balancing Mind against Materialism – Joachim Reuter
Our task is to inform people about the new insights how quantum physics may be enriching our life with balancing mind against materialism. We want to help bringing about new life plans to reduce excessive striving for material goods and to overcome the mental poverty of people in highly developed countries.
Psychophysics of Consciousness: How psychology lost its mind – Charles Fox
The intention of this initiative is to explore a new approach to the psychology of mind/consciousness... At this point in history, theoretical physics, cognitive science, and psychology are demonstrating a collation and integration of evidence that may provide a fruitful ground for this new psychology to grow.
Evolution of Consciousness for Organizational and Global Transformation – Carsten Ohrmann
This working group of the Galileo Commission Curators mainly investigates and promotes the implications a post-materialistic paradigm will have on our lives, our businesses, our society and the world.
Carsten Ohrmann
Carsten Ohrmann is a recognized independent Transformation Advisor, Executive Coach and Business Mentor, supporting individual leaders, leadership teams and major companies during periods of profound personal and organisational change.
Six Days: Reason as a Cosmic Phenomenon – Alexei Tsvelik
The book gives a popular description of the cosmogenesis as viewed by the modern science, but with a teleological twist putting homo sapiens into a cosmic perspective. The appearance of human species is considered as a final step in a long succession of events from the Big Bang to present times. Starting from a structureless state of the newborn Universe the cosmogenesis then goes through the succession of aeons (“days”) characterized by increased complexity of the emergent structures culminating in the appearance of the most complex physical objects presently known—human brains. Each “day” prepares a ground for the next breakthrough in complexity. It is demonstrated that appearance of ever more complex structures cannot be taken for granted, but is highly conditional on a very special structure of the laws of physics.
How We Are Being Misled About the Science of Consciousness – Gerald R. Baron
The large gap between science consensus and what the public believes has come to light on a number of topics: climate change, GMOs, safety of vaccination, and so on. One of the biggest gaps may be what science says about the mind-brain connection and what the public is told science says about that through popular media...
IANDS lecture – Near-Death Experiences and Mystical Experiences
Dr. Peyton, a former atheist, neurologist and hospice physician, shares her NDE and Dr. Marjorie Woollacott, a neuroscience professor, discusses the transformations caused by near-death experiences and mystical experiences, along with their relationship to consciousness, love, and joy.
Ruth Jones – Foreshore Dreaming
Foreshore Dreaming grows out of the established practice of Social Dreaming and is further inspired by the tradition of ‘centring down’ in Quaker Worship so that the Meeting can become ‘gathered’.
Neuroscience of Spirituality – Lisa Miller
Learn from Dr. Lisa Miller on the new science of spirituality and our quest for an inspired life. A captivating look at what happens to our brains when we’re connected to something greater than ourselves — and what it does for our lives. What makes life worth living? Dr. Miller explains we each have a neuro-seat of transcendence that hardwires us to toggle between two realities: 1. awakened awareness and 2. achieving awareness.