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.
Interviews with Innocence featuring Roger Nelson
In today’s episode, Roger Nelson shares his fascinating research surrounding human consciousness and how science teaches us that love truly connects us all.
Dual Aspect Monism in Spinoza, James and Russell – Gerald R. Baron
Summarizing these more historic views, we can conclude that from Parmenides through Spinoza, Ernst Mach and William James through to Bertrand Russell that mind-matter questions burned brightly. The human intuition that mind is not matter and matter is not mind is given credence by their thoughts and ideas. But the “easy” solution of simply separating them into two essentially unconnected substances as Descartes preferred did not rest easily with those who came after the French philosopher. Like the mystics, they sought and believed they found a fundamental unity underlying everything including mind and matter. A one world, so to speak, a unus mundus. And to that idea we turn next.
Bernard Carr – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. 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 the author of around 300 papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. He is also very interested in the role of consciousness as a fundamental rather than incidental feature of the Universe. In particular, he is developing a new psychophysical paradigm linking matter and mind which accommodates normal, paranormal, and mystical experiences. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion, especially Buddhism, having been the coholder of a grant from the Templeton Foundation for a project entitled “Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and the Problem of our Existence". He is President of The Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research.
Max Velmans on “Only Connect. A Personal Journey into Consciousness”
This talk, given at Totnes Consciousness Cafe on 1st July, 2022, describes some of the major transitions in Max Velmans' own journey into a deeper understanding of consciousness. This included potent extraordinary experiences as well as ordinary experiences along with an in-depth scientific and philosophical study of consciousness for over 50 years. From this he developed Reflexive Monism, an integrative Western understanding of human consciousness as being one manifestation of a conscious, self-observing universe -- an understanding that converges closely with the non-dual Integral Vedanta of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and Aurobindo. In this talk he describes one early formative mystical experience along with some of the major intellectual steps that guided his way.
SXSW Panel Discussion: Is There Life After Death? Featuring Jim Tucker, MD and Kim Penberthy, PhD
Our relationship with death and dying is evolving and along with it, our ever expanding exploration into the nature of human consciousness. The research being conducted at UVA DOPS addresses the question of whether or not some form of human consciousness can survive bodily death.
Scientism and the Integrity of the Humanities – Austin L. Hughes
More to the point, the erroneous claim of scientism is not that science is useful in the humanities, but that science can replace the humanities. It is the latter claim that needs to be resisted if we are to maintain the integrity both of the humanistic and the scientific elements of our Western intellectual heritage.
Webinar 31 July 2022: Consciousness and Cosmology
A talk about Consciousness and how the new Life/Intelligence Symmetry theory discussed in previous talks provides the key to convincing solving both the so called Easy and Hard problems of Consciousness.
Consciousness & Non-locality Workshop – J. Mossbridge, J. Mishlove, S. Schwartz, D. Radin
Consciousness & Non-Locality - Julia Mossbridge, University of San Diego, IONS, TILT, Jeffrey Mishlove, New Thinking Allowed; Insight Associates (R), Stephan A. Schwartz, Saybrook University (R), Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Science -IONS (R)
Featuring Lorna Green – #15: Ideas
The problems we have created for the Earth and ourselves, owe to ideas. And so, we need to rethink ourselves from the ground up. And the hope for the Earth plane is new ideas. These new ideas are in fact coming in everywhere.