Why Common-Sense Reality Is a Trap – Deepak Chopra
The worldview that can reshape everyone’s life can be summarized as “consciousness is all.” Many ramifications stem from “consciousness is all.” It is premature to explore them, however, until the mystique of materialism is shattered. Until “matter first” and “mind first” are both abandoned, the battle for reality remains as futile as ever, and the hard problem presents itself as insoluble.
Imaginal Inspirations with Keith Ward
Prof Keith Ward, DD, FBA graduated in philosophy from Cardiff University, and in theology from Oxford. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, and King’s College, London. He was Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, then Professor of Moral and Social Theology and subsequently of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s, London, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. He is the author of nearly 50 books and most recently his engaging autobiography, Adventures in Belief humorously subtitled How I Discovered the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (Possibly)
Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Charles Eisenstein
"We need both union and division. And in fact, Goethe, who was an uncommonly wise man, said that uniting the divided, dividing the united, this is the whole business of nature."
Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
Most neuroscientists believe that the brain operates in a classical manner. However, if brain processes rely on quantum mechanics, it could explain why our brains are so powerful. A team of researchers possibly witnessed entanglement in the brain, perhaps indicating that some of our brain activity, and maybe even consciousness, operates on a quantum level.
Why Does Consciousness Leave So Many False Clues? – Deepak Chopra
There is only one way to get past every false clue in the hunt for consciousness. You must make it the “stuff” of creation, a non-physical state from which matter, energy, time, and space are created. Every phenomenon we can experience doesn’t have consciousness or exhibit mind.
Larry Culliford on the “Our True Colours” Podcast
In this podcast we delve into the profound interconnections between spirituality and mental health. Dr Culliford has written many books about the interface between spirituality and mental health, including 'Spirituality and Psychology' and many other books about wisdom and happiness.
The Future Human with Edi Bilimoria and Alex Gómez-Marín
A podcast episode in which Edi Bilimoria interviews Alex Gomez-Marin and discuss various topics, including religion, death, evolutionary theory, quantum mechanics, pseudoscience, vaccines and more!
Carlo Monsanto – Weak Bio-photon Emission Reveals Gateways to the Past
Event recording Event description Quantum social learning (QSL) is a powerful process to empower communication and shared understanding. From
Templeton Ideas: A John Templeton Foundation Podcast
A podcast about the most awe-inspiring ideas in our world — and the people who investigate them.
Imaginal Inspirations with Joan Walton
David’s guest today is Dr Joan Walton, a researcher in the School of Education, Psychology and Language at York St John University, UK. Joan has had an interest in consciousness studies from her early 20s, influenced initially by the work of Carl Jung, which led her to the work of other transpersonal psychologists, philosophers, scientists and writers about religions and spiritual traditions.
A third transition in science? – Stuard Kauffman (The Royal Society)
There can be no theory of everything that entails all that comes to exist. We face a third major transition in science beyond the Pythagorean dream that ‘all is number’ echoed by Newtonian physics. However, we begin to understand the emergent creativity of an evolving biosphere: emergence is not engineering.
Discover Hope for Humanity’s Future – Free Virtual Event, Saturday 22 July 2023
You’ll explore the noosphere on Saturday, July 22, and discover how science and mysticism converge in the evolution of human consciousness and our world — and deepen the meaning of our lives and the power we hold to consciously create the harmony, fulfillment, and happiness we seek.
Physicalist Materialism: The Dying Throes of an Inadequate Paradigm – Stephan A. Schwartz
These studies and experiments spread across many disciplines, using different protocols, are often dismissed by physicalists who find the very idea of nonlocal consciousness, to quote American psychologists and physicalists James Alcock and Arthur Reber, to be “impossible.” And yet this position, when the research is closely examined, is seen as a statement of ideology or belief, not a statement of science.
The Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Science Research Prize Winners
IONS is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize!
Nature: Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0
A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness would be discovered by 2023. Both scientists agreed publicly on 23 June, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in New York City, that it is an ongoing quest — and declared Chalmers the winner.
TechCast announces Portal to Global Consciousness
TechCast announces a crowdfunding campaign to launch its PORTAL TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS. The Portal will allow anyone, anywhere to experience Global Consciousness and help save the world. The portal brings together those interested in fostering a vision for a sustainable world . . . a global consciousness that recognizes humanity's interconnectedness with all life as the predominant worldview.
James Tunney – Transhumanism – Plantation of the Automatons
Event recording Event description Plantation of the Automatons warns about the rise of an automatic, global electronic plantation of
Future of AI: The Cell shows the Way – A.K.Mukhopadhyay
This model of programming is followed by a biological cell and the cell shows us the direction for the future of AI.
The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all – David Hart
The idea that AI can be conscious is a mistake. It’s just a very shiny mirror of humanity, reflecting what we want to see.
Physics Life Psychiatry: Cellular Model and the ZPE – A.K.Mukhopadhyay
Three unsolved problems in deep physics are uncertainty, symmetry-breaking, and dark energy. This paper develops the connecting thread between three unsolved problems of physics, three signs of life at the subtle level, and etiopathogenesis of three common psychiatric disorders from the evidence available in cell biology.
Registrations Open for Students of Spiritual Science Symposium, 22-23 July
The New Paradigm Navigators (NPNs) Students of Spiritual Science Symposium is only a few months away. This exciting online symposium aims to explore new paradigms that will herald in a new way of being on the earth; bringing about dynamic and heart-centred action to engage with the uncertain times we live in.
Imaginal Inspirations with Ervin Laszlo
David's guest today is Prof Ervin Laszlo. He spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the international music competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an international concert career, first in Europe and then in America. Shifting to the life of a philosopher and systems scientist, he has lectured at various U.S. Universities including Yale and Princeton. He is the Founder and President of both the Club of Budapest and the Laszlo Institute for New Paradigm Research.
The End of Quantum Reality: A Conversation with Wolfgang Smith – Samuel Sotillos
And then I would share with them the good news.You need be divided no more, I would say. The world you perceive—replete with its colors, the fragrance of flowers and the songs of birds—is not after all a res cogitans: you can henceforth hug your child, knowing for certain that it is real! In a word, you can be human once again. And as if that were not enough: you can, once again, tread the ancient and hallowed paths of your fathers, confident they will lead you to a blessed end.
The absurdity of mind as machine – David Bentley Hart
This is why, among devout philosophical physicalists, such wild extremes as eliminativist reductionism and the materialist version of panpsychism are ever more in vogue. The mental, it turns out, is no more reconcilable to the modern picture of material nature than it was in Descartes’s day. And that should make us consider whether we ought to revise our governing paradigm once more.
Why not scientism? – Moti Mizrahi
Rather than conceive of scientism in ways that could be weaponised, then, we should think about it along the lines I have proposed above. Epistemological scientism is the view that scientific knowledge is superior to non-scientific knowledge either because scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge we have, and so non-scientific knowledge is not really knowledge at all, or because scientific knowledge is better than non-scientific knowledge.