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Alef Trust is a not-for-profit community-interest organization offering online transformational Graduate Programmes and Open Learning Courses for academic, professional and personal development.

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Philip Comella – Science is Not the Quest to Prove Materialism True

This is practicing science, it is not engaging in some sort of new-age spiritual flight of fancy. Rather, it is material scientists who are engaged in something other than science, since they are the ones who ignore not only the results of the double-slit experiment, but untold number of other signs all pointing to the overwhelming order and design of our world.

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Federico Faggin – Science is Ready for Consciousness

In this fascinating interview Federico Faggin, designer of the first commercial microprocessor and pioneer in the movement to base mathematical theory on consciousness, urges science to embrace consciousness to explain the weirdness of quantum physics, and use it as the instrument of scientific investigation. "There need no longer be a duality between mind and matter," he says. "With consciousness you can reach reality from the inside." He makes a startling suggestion - that matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing.

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Athena Potari – Know Thyself: Hellenic Philosophy as a Path to Awakening and Happiness

Although for many centuries now, ‘philosophy’ has been understood and practised as a rational, argumentative, armchair vocation, involving mainly discursive reasoning, in this talk Athena will explore how Hellenic Philosophy is essentially a spiritual tradition: an intimate, self-transformative, experiential path of self-enquiry, which combines the education of both heart and mind with the purpose of awakening to one’s true Self. She will discuss some of the psychological and spiritual tools employed by ancient philosophers, as well as their non-dual teachings. Finally, Athena will discuss the relevance of Hellenic Philosophy for our times in our contemporary quest for Knowing Ourselves.

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Alan Sanderson – Psychiatry and the Spirit World

Must we remain so materialist to be happy? Would we value objects and status so much if we were certain consciousness continues in a different, spiritual realm? Organized religion was the main provider of such answers. Now that we have lost our faith, many still wonder if this is indeed, our only chance to live. Sanderson argues that there is no end. He finds intriguing threads connecting all the stories he compiles, suggesting common attributes to near-death experiences, reincarnation claims and reported medium cases, suggesting through the scientific method that they are plausible.

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James Tunney – Rule of an Automaticity Loop

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, and author. His most recent book is Plantation of the Automatons. This interview focuses on the many controlling loops in which we are embedded.

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The Source and the Genesis: In the Language of Science – A.K. Mukhopadhyay

We are heading towards a new science of information, the science of life, multiversal immersive neuroscience, depth psychology, deep ecology, life-primed physics, and consciousness-primed biology with an entirely new Worldview that simultaneously accommodates the science, humanity, and the spirit. 

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11-month Online Programme from Alef Trust: Nurturing the Fields of Change

Are you interested in the evolving principles and practices of holistic change facilitation? Do you value the exploration of inner psycho-spiritual development in service of systemic and social change? Alef Trust is launching an 11-month online programme and emerging community of practice for anyone who is interested in creating a more just, equitable and sustainable world. The programme - Nurturing the Fields of Change - aims to support change-makers to catalyse change through the power of community and co-learning.

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Marjorie Woollacott and Ben Williams – Lessons from the Nondual Philosophy of Shaivism and Neuroscience

In this webinar Drs. Ben Williams and Marjorie Woollacott explore parallels between theories about the origins of cognitive processes that filter out a broader perceptual awareness in both modern neuroscience and in a medieval Sanskrit text on non-dual philosophy, the Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā (‘Stanzas on the Recognition of Śiva’).

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When a True Scientist has a Spiritual Experience – Interview with Federico Faggin

The interview brings an overview of Faggin's trajectory "From Computers to Consciousness". He recounts his "mystical" experience and the conversation develops to discussions on the limitations of science, research of the out-of-body experience phenomenon, and the basis for a new science for consciousness.

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January 8: Jude Currivan on New Thinking Allowed podcast

On Sunday, January 8, at 10 am, USA Mountain Standard Time, our Live Stream Guest will be Jude Currivan, who will be discussing our role in the universe as biological and spiritual entities. Jude is author of The Story of Gaia and The Cosmic Hologram. She has been interviewed on New Thinking Allowed several times previously.

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The Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize

IONS has announced the establishment of the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. This annual prize of $100,000 will be given to an individual or team whose research advances leading-edge science around consciousness, expanding our global reach.

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Imaginal Inspirations with Jean Houston

David Lorimer's guest today is Jean Houston, Ph.D., a world-renowned scholar, futurist, award-winning author, and researcher in human capacities, social change, and systemic transformation. She is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement and one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time.

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Subquantum Principles of Life and Consciousness – Adrian Klein & Robert Boyd

Our present contribution to the consciousness-related dialogue currently running in the "Waking Times" periodical has been triggered by Brandon West's thrilling, recently published paper (Jan. 9, 2015), "The Nature of Mind and the Holographic Brain".

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Special Issue of the International Journal for Transformative Research

his is a special issue of the International Journal for Transformative Research. This has been created as a result of a call sent out to members of the Galileo commission inviting submissions to the journal, considering ‘the implications of a postmaterialist worldview for education and the humanities’.

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Imaginal Inspirations with Natasha Tassell-Matamua

David Lorimer's guest today is Natasha Tassell-Matamua PhD,  Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Massey University and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies in New Zealand. She is of Indigenous Māori, Cook Islands and European descent. Her research focusses primarily on near-death and other exceptional experiences of consciousness and their implications for humanity, as well as the interface between such experiences, spirituality and Indigenous knowledges.

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Why do near-death experiences and psychedelics have a transformational effect? – Steve Taylor

Key points: 1) A new study has shown that both near-death experiences and psychedelics can have powerful transformational effects. 2) Both experiences brought a more positive, accepting attitude to death. 3) Although both experiences have different characteristics, they each take us beyond our normal limited awareness, and reveal a wider reality.

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Imaginal Inspirations with Eben Alexander

David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Eben Alexander, a pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies. Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media programs. His most recent book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness, (co-authored with Karen Newell) has garnered accolades from many scientists around the world who study the mind-body question and the nature of consciousness.

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