Britain’s unethical Covid messaging must never be repeated – Dr Gary Sidley
Denying individuals rational choices, and an over-reliance upon subliminal influence, is both unethical and undemocratic. Transparency regarding how government departments use ‘nudge’ techniques is now long overdue.
Bernard Carr and Doug Matzke – Post-Materialist Physics and the Search for a Deeper Reality
Postmaterialist science assumes that science can be extended to accommodate consciousness and associated mental and spiritual experiences. This should entail some form of postmaterialist physics, going beyond classical and quantum physics, and indeed this is already a feature of some grand unified theories. This dialogue brings together two researchers who are developing different but complementary approaches along these lines.
The Case Against Vaccine Passports and Mandates – Oliver Robinson
In summary, arguments at all four levels analysed here point in the same direction: vaccine passports and mandates must be dropped immediately by any country or state that has adopted them. Vaccines have protected the elderly and vulnerable from COVID-19 since being rolled out, but that does not by any means equate to becoming a requirement for participation in society and the economy. Liberal democracies must trust the foundational principles of informed consent, bodily autonomy and equality of opportunity. We must respect those who draw different conclusions from what remains an inconclusive situation in relation to vaccine side-effects and benefits. The story is still unfolding.
Marilyn Monk on how science connects the whole world
The inability of individuals and society to perceive spiritual reality has, today, become critical. But could our crisis itself be significant? Might it be valuable, even necessary for the evolution of human consciousness?
Axiology of Nature-Consciousness Reality – Mukhopadhyay, AK
Perception cannot change the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the reality across the nature-consciousness spectrum have been described without any filter, and use of any methodological reduction orchestrated or otherwise. Consciousness-as-such, consciousness-as-experienced, and consciousness-as-articulated have been laid bare to accommodate respectively the spirit, humanities, and science. The Multiversity-inspired proposed Worldview takes care of multiple universe(s), our universe, and the four-dimensional world respectively in terms of nondual reality, biological reality and material reality, and in the process constructs an unbroken wholeness of the Akhanda reality. The relevance of the Worldview in consciousness study and the impacts on psychology and psychiatry has been discussed.
Symposium: NDES & THE MIND-BRAIN RELATIONSHIP
Online Friday-Sunday, Feb. 11-13, 11:00 am-4:30 p.m. EST Days 1 and 2 - Experts in near-death experiences (NDEs), psi phenomena, past-life memories, shared-death experiences, terminal lucidity, evidential mediumship, veridical after-death communication (ADC), neurological evidence, and philosophical considerations. Day 3 - Experiencers and practitioners: physician NDErs, an evidential medium, induced ADC therapists, and out-of-body/astral projection experiencers.
Critically review of the ‘Freudian/Kleinian psychoanalytic tradition’ and the ‘Spiritual Psychology/Parapsychological tradition’ – Joe Bartholomew
When we feel down in the dumps and wallowing in the gutter we need minds, hearts, and souls in perfect harmony who can use the eloquence of their voices as finely tuned instruments to inspire eco-heart-felt revolutionary action. That is, if we really want to see social, political, economic, and ecological change and progress in our own lifetimes. John Mason has done a great service to both the Psychoanalytic tradition and the Parapsychological tradition. He has achieved this by uncovering the truth obscured by various factors to produce a more complete picture above and beyond the stasis of perceived circumstance.
New Thinking Aloud: Parapsychology in the UK with Chris Roe
Chris Roe describes the work of Robert Morris, the first person to hold the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, starting in 1985. As a result there are now hundreds of individuals who have conducted doctoral level research in parapsychology in the UK. He shares his own experiences as a student at Edinburgh. He also discusses the many problems that parapsychologists still face. He expects parapsychology to grow at a slow and steady pace in the UK.
A Hierarchy of Consciousness from Atom to Cosmos – Marilyn Monk
...It is plausible to argue that beyond this entire scheme of all that is known to exist, beyond cosmos, there may be a yet higher order of complexity.
Short History of the Mind: Theory of Norms – David Harrison
The essay presents a theory of how the mind and consciousness have evolved. It assumes that a group of neurones can act as a unit structure which then replicates at higher levels in a fractal like form. David Harrison calls that unit structure a 'norm' because it describes behaviour in simple and complex organisms as well as social structures. It is shown in a simplified schematic form. That is sufficient to explain the nature of many psychological phenomena. This work is not meant to be academically rigorous. It is meant to be understandable to most people.
After-Death Communications (ADCs) Website is LIVE
Thanks to a generous grant from a foundation, an ambitious multilingual project entitled 'Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)' was conducted from February 2018 to January 2020. The second phase of the project started in February 2021 and will be completed in January 2024. By collecting information about how ADCs occur and unfold, and by analyzing their impact on individuals’ lives, we aim to make these results accessible to people who face the death of a loved one, as well as to anyone sensitized to the finite nature of human existence.
Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Future Scientist – 19th Jan
In sum, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. It is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific.
Marilyn Monk – A Hierarchy of Consciousness from Atom to Cosmos
Motivated by the often-quoted Max Planck statement - “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness” – I have taken a scientific approach to the study of consciousness in evolution.
Spiritual Awakenings International Call for Papers
If you would like to be considered as a possible speaker at our Spiritual Awakenings International online Conference 2022, please send us your speaking proposal on topics related to any type of Spiritually Transformative Experiences or spiritual awakenings, by January 30, 2022.
The Unbearable Fear of Psi: On Scientific Suppression in the 21st Century – Etzel Cardeña
This paper describes various examples of blatant attempts to suppress and censor parapsychology research and those who are doing it. The examples include raising false accusations, barring access to journals, suppressing papers and data, and ostracizing and persecuting scientists interested in the topic. The intensity of fear and vituperation caused by parapsychology research is disproportionate even to the possibility that the psi hypothesis could be completely wrong, so I speculate on the psychological reasons that may give rise to it.
Day 10: Technocracy And Education – Pattrick Wood
In sum, Akin’s observation of Technocracy’s “Continental system of human conditioning” has proven correct: “It would essentially replace the humanities with the machine shop.”
NDEs: The Early Years – A Personal History – Kenneth Ring
I figure that before I kick the bucket, I should take the time to set down something of my personal story of how I became one of the early pioneers to study NDEs and, not long after, to co-found IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. After all, I am one of the few who was there at the beginning and would like to take you back to those exciting days of high adventure at the outset of my life in NDEland. So, gather round, friends, sit a spell and I will tell you the tale of how it came to pass that I got involved with NDEs and how IANDS was born.
Imaginal Inspirations with Jeffrey Mishlove
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Jeffrey Mishlove, who is host and producer of the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube. He is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series that was shown throughout North America. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited, American university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
WHAT IS LIFE? #35 Tim Freke and George Ellis
Professor George Ellis and Tim Freke discuss whether some things are ‘evil as a matter of fact, the reality of ’downward causation’ and why determinism is wrong, whether numbers exist in an eternal Platonic realm, and what gives meaning to life...
The Full Extent – An Inquiry into Reality and Destiny – Richard Botelho
"The Full Extent by Richard Botelho is academically impeccable in its presentation, organization, summarization, and attributions to historical predecessors….a groundbreaking and profoundly intelligent work."
‘Zombie genes’ increase expression after death – Anna Wernick
A set of immune cell genes ramp up their expression in brain cells after death, a new study has revealed. While the onset of death is often defined as the time the heart stops beating, the body's cells do not all die immediately. Now, research from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) suggests that important biological processes persist in the human brain for hours longer than previously thought.
Imaginal Inspirations with Natalie Dyer
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Natalie Dyer, PhD who spoke at the 2021 Beyond the Brain conference on universal love and who is a research scientist studying the therapeutic effects of integrative medicine and spiritual practices, including yoga, meditation, Reiki, psychedelics, and universal love.
David Lorimer on Chasing Consciousness: Are our Scientific Assumptions Justified?
In this episode we’re going to be examining the assumptions of Western Science. All science is based on assumptions. In order to isolate systems in experiments and standardise measurements of the target data, other variables need to be pinned down so scientists can form precise mathematical models, that can then be repeated accurately in the peer review process. Today we’re going to look at these assumptions, and establish if they indeed have become standard, fixed and unquestioned as some critics claim.
After Death Communications: Who have them and what impact do they have? – Jennifer Kim Penberthy
This excerpt from the IANDS 2021 Virtual Conference shows Dr. Jennifer Kim Pemberthy's presentation on an international survey on who is most likely to experience ADCs and what impact they have on their lives.
The Metaverse is a Scam: We’re Being Herded into the Matrix – Mark Jeftovic
Belief that mind emerges from matter is this era’s geocentrism. As was the case with the now antiquated idea that the Earth was the center of the universe. The heliocentric cosmos was probably understood by certain civilizations thousands of years before Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for saying as much in the 17th century. So too, did the ancients understand that “All is mental”. The universe is vibration, probability, information, energy and conciousness first.