The Folly of Scientism – Austin L. Hughes
Of all the fads and foibles in the long history of human credulity, scientism in all its varied guises — from fanciful cosmology to evolutionary epistemology and ethics — seems among the more dangerous, both because it pretends to be something very different from what it really is and because it has been accorded widespread and uncritical adherence. Continued insistence on the universal competence of science will serve only to undermine the credibility of science as a whole. The ultimate outcome will be an increase of radical skepticism that questions the ability of science to address even the questions legitimately within its sphere of competence. One longs for a new Enlightenment to puncture the pretensions of this latest superstition.
Featuring Lorna Green – #14: And so, where are we now?
That the problems now facing both Americans and the whole world are so great that they require everyone to go beyond Democrats vs Republicans, I would call it simply: People helping people, people helping the Earth.
Comments on Pinker’s view of the Paranormal – Prof Brian Josephson
I have not been attempting here to respond to a request that has been made that I provide convincing proof of the reality of the paranormal, since ‘being convinced’ is a matter of psychology, as much as it is of data. My aim has been purely to discuss the psychology and sociology involved in the relevant belief process.
Gerard Kuiken – Thinking, No Primacy of Consciousness, “It from Bit from Qubit”, and Notions of Time
The talk proposes that space-time is in essence a three-dimensional discrete illusion. Thinking generates thoughts, thought-forms and concepts that express our personal view and knowledge of the world and of space-time.
Featuring Lorna Green – #13: Some Scenarios for What is Coming Down on Us
And so, the greatest hope of all: Ideas, it is all about ideas, the old ideas that have brought us to this crisis point in our relationship to the Earth and one another, the new ideas that will enable us to move into a new civilization based Love and Truth. And my conviction is that if we can know the truth about what is now happening on the planet, and its sources, we can know how to deal with it. The human race is resourceful. If we can honestly face the crisis we have created for both ourselves and the Earth, then we can find our way forward.
What is Real and What Isn’t – And why meditation is not the answer to all our world’s problems – Avigail Abarbanel
People don’t realise it but materialism, our dominant paradigm, is not backed by any scientific evidence, and it never has been. It is nothing more than a belief system that emerged as a reaction to religion and faith, and that is associated with the rise of ‘modern science’.
Featuring Lorna Green – #12: And now, let’s talk about truth.
If we can create a society who cares for people, it will owe to women, the original caregivers for the whole Earth. They have already demonstrated their strength in coping with the pandemic. The prophet Nostradamus foresaw this moment in history as our greatest moment, because of the reappearance of women in positions of power, making the decisions that will change the world forever.
In Loving Memory of Brenda Dunne
On Friday, June 17th, 2022 this world bid farewell and good journeys to a truly beautiful soul. There is no need to tell this family how amazing and inspiring was the human we knew as Brenda, nor to elucidate on the magnitude of our loss or how much she will be missed.
Featuring Lorna Green – #11: Getting our Barings
The system has gone, and thank heaven that it has, because now we can think about rebuilding our shattered economies, our political systems, on a whole new foundation of Love, and of Truth.
Webinar – Prof Max Velmans – “Only Connect!”: A Personal Journey into Consciousness
In celebration of his 80th birthday, this talk will describe some of the major transitions in Max’s own journey from disconnection, and alienation – from feeling “a stranger in a strange land” - to greater connection, one-ness, and “feeling at home”.
Featuring Lorna Green – #10: This Great Shift from Fear into the Love Orientation
And get clear on what it is we love about democracy, even as messy and unpredictable that it is. And how important to us our civil liberties really are, and how fragile. It is a call to really rethink ourselves from the ground up at every level and depth.
How do our brains make our minds?
However, if a brain were just a bag of tricks, then it would be difficult, if not impossible, to discover unifying theories of how brains make mind. The work that my colleagues and I have done contributes to a growing understanding that, in addition to opportunistic evolutionary adaptations in response to changing environments, there is also a deeper level of unifying organizational principles and mechanisms upon which coherent theories of brain and mind can securely build.
Sarah Knox – Biomedical Bias in the Conceptualization of Consciousness
The topic stems from the fact that neuroscience is currently the accepted scientific authority on the nature of consciousness, even though some of its major underlying assumptions are verifiably inaccurate. The purpose of this talk is to begin a dialogue about unintended bias in experimental design.
Featuring Lorna Green – #9: Other Reasons for Hope
Know, that in the midst in all of this upheaval, good things are happening. Find your strength in yourself, the people around you, and the leaders who are moving with these new forces of history.
Can we Crack the Mind-Body Problem? Part III – Emmanuel Ransford
...I hope to bolster the idea that a nonmaterialist, yet scientifically sound, theory of brain consciousness is possible. My approach is tentative and should be read with a “what if” mindset—what if matter were holomatter? I’ll then freely speculate on the issue of transcendence, as glimpsed through the lens of in-causation. Next, I’ll contend that science provides some intriguing clues that our life-bearing universe may have meaning and purpose. Finally, I shall ponder how Gödelian incompleteness and in-causation may relate.
Featuring Lorna Green – #8: And so, Let’s Just Stop Believing the Lies
The male thought traditions have run their course, they have brought us to the brink of our distinction, they are over with. And new ideas must be found, we need new ways of thought and perception, and we need them now.
Interview with GC Chair David Lorimer on the Passion Harvest podcast
David Lorimer embarked on a quest for wisdom and deeper understanding of life. David, originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy is a writer, lecturer, poet and editor. In 2020 David was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader by the Visioneers International Network. This is his story, and this is his Passion.
Featuring Lorna Green – #7: Another reason for hope: The end of male domination
The light that is falling in is surfacing the darkness before it. The Feminine Principle is reappearing in history, changing everything. Courage, the current of life is ever onward. And it is never so dark as just before the dawn.
Interview with GC Adviser Dr Eben Alexander with Cathy Heller
What can near death experiences teach us about our consciousness and universal connectedness? Dr. Eben Alexander, academic neurosurgeon and NYT bestselling author was given a 2% chance of survival during his 7 day coma from bacterial meningitis - but he fought for his life and miraculously came back to tell what happened when he was in that other realm. He shares what he learned in his NDE about our shared sense of oneness, how we can live beyond the 3D while we're in this physical world, what happens when we pass into the afterlife, how to separate from the ego voice in your head and how we can tap into our ability to heal, our wholeness, and our higher soul.
Featuring Lorna Green – #6: Poetic Interlude
The winds of change are blowing everywhere, through our academies, our laboratories, our hermit cells, bringing with them new forces of life and hope, new ways of being, knowing, and understanding.
Einstein’s Abandoned Otherworld – Mukhopadhyay, AK
...In the process, the dark cold terrain of the depth cosmology beyond zero-point energy and the warm enlightened vast of depth psychology has been systematized. The organogram of the activities between zero-point energy and conscious “will” has been constructed. The door is let open for deep physics of dark energy, information, and life.
Featuring Lorna Green – #5: My Second Reason for Hope: The Women
Women need to reclaim their own power, their truth, their validity and bring into civilization fully the new ideas now showing up everywhere. It is the emerging presence of women and of the feminine that now make this moment in our history with its incredible challenges a day of shining hope for us. And there is a world to be born under our footsteps.
A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of healing therapy in a gastroenterology outpatient setting
The addition of healing therapy to conventional treatment was associated with improvement in symptoms and QoL in IBS, and to a lesser extent in IBD.
Featuring Lorna Green – #4: Where do we go from here?
The hope for the planet is that the long repressed and buried Feminine Principle is reappearing in history, putting to flight the darkness before it.
Can Thoughts Exist Outside the Brain? – Joshua Moritz
In a very real sense, then, my mind is not my own, but rather it is a product of the various contexts that I choose to inhabit and the things I choose to think upon. As Paul reflected many centuries ago, if I resolve to think upon whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, and excellent, then that is what my mind becomes.