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.
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".
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’.
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.
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.
David Lorimer on the Unravelling the Universe podcast
The conversation largely revolved around the question: what happens after we die? Topics discussed include Near-Death Experiences, Consciousness, Reincarnation, Psychic Phenomena, and more.
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.
Karmic Law: A Synoptic Approach – Adrian Klein
In this paper, an extended approach to the philosophical term of Karma is presented, suggesting a high compatibility between its traditional (initiatically transmitted, especially Buddhist) and scientific interpretation. Blending of both apparently dissimilar concepts is meant to reach a more synoptic perspective on this widely known doctrine, which basically addresses a universal law of nature and its impact on individual and collective worldlines.
Daniel Ingram – Spiritual Experiences, Applied Medical Ethics and Global Scalability
What many might call “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences and effects, we refer to as emergent phenomena. We refer to practices designed to lead to emergent phenomena, such as meditation, psychedelics, yoga, prayer, etc., as emergent practices.
Does Mystical Experience Give Access to Reality? – Paul Marshall
There are reasons for the neglect, and in the present article I consider two major theoretical obstacles to finding metaphysical significance in the experiences: a radical form of contextualism and a reductionist approach to neuroscience. With these obstacles addressed, there is room to consider how mystical experience and metaphysics can be brought into dialogue, a task facilitated by the contemporary resurgence of interest in alternatives to materialist metaphysics and a renewed interest in mystical experience encouraged by psychedelic research.
Imaginal Inspirations with Cynthia Bourgeault
David Lorimer's guest today is Cynthia Bourgeault, who is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude in her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule travelling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths.
Gerard Kuiken on the Pushing Boundaries podcast – False Dualities, Space-time, Life-death
Gerard proposes that without a limitation there is no existence and that the brain is the tool for setting up limitations and controlling the consciousness of differences. In this way, 'man becomes aware of himself by limitation and experiences that as the awakening of his own world. Time is part of the form world and the formless world is timeless, a formulation corresponding to insights from near-death and mystical experience. Life and death are complementary in the sense that in life, spirit is beyond space-time and substance is in space-time.
Joan Walton and Athena Potari – Politics of Knowledge: Discussion
Following the publication of Joan Walton’s article in Paradigm Explorer and our Bohm Dialogue in Pari, we wanted to provide the wider Galileo Community with an opportunity to share their experiences in this area.
Back to the Aether in Physics and Cosmology – Adrian Klein
The concept of a universal medium pervading everything, the aether, has been long ago rejected by mainstream science as a speculative one, especially after the famous Michelson-Morley experiment that failed to confirm the reality of a luminiferous essence invoked for the propagation of E.M. waves. Nevertheless, the concept has been re-established as a serious, experimentally proven one, by the work of Nicola Tesla, the genial physicist widely recognized in modern academic circles. His achievements are quite unparalleled in experimental physics, and recently recalled to public attention by Serbian researcher Goran Marjanovic – whose papers have been published in various academic editorial outputs of high credibility.
Max Velmans – Experiences of a Self-observing Universe
The talk outlines the ways in which both ordinary experiences and mystical experiences are reflexive, supporting the view that we are manifestations of a self-observing universe. We address fundamental confusions that prevent a clear understanding of how consciousness relates to the world described by physics, the relationship of consciousness to mind, and the relationship of consciousness to self. Finally, we touch on how consciousness relates to matter/energy within the primordial nature of the ground of being, and the various ways in which that can be known.
Imaginal Inspirations with Mark Gober
David Lorimer's Guest today is Mark Gober who is an award-winning author of four books: "An End to Upside Down Thinking" (2018), "An End to Upside Down Living" (2020), "An End to Upside Down Liberty" (2021), and "An End to Upside Down Contact" (2022). He is also the host of the podcast "Where Is My Mind?" Gober serves on the Board of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment.
Science on mysteries of human nature making strides, despite resistance – Liza Horan
There’s a whirlwind of action happening on the frontiers of scientific research into phenomena of the human experience — but you’d never know it. Unless you are following the scientists or the organisations sharing their research, it’s pretty tough to learn about the body of evidence exploring the “what” and “how” of consciousness, telepathy, premonitions, dreaming, and life after death, to name a few.
A Scientifically Acceptable Mechanism for the Reincarnation Process of the Self – Adrian Klein
We propose a novel paradigmatic approach to sentient reality as a whole, with specific application to Information-guided DNA dynamics, leading to a triadic genomic configuration , which accommodates besides the parental hereditary legacy, a transcendental originating highly complex guiding matrix able to control the specific way the protein-synthesis is performed.
Imaginal Inspirations with Dean Radin
David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Dean Radin who is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.
Parapsychology in China with Simon Duan
Simon Duan came from China to the UK to study in the ’80s. He received a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University and currently works for the UK government on technology commercialization between the UK and China. He has long-standing interests in paranormal research and is a past vice president of the Chinese Parapsychology Association. Here he describes Chinese culture's historical interest in the paranormal, contemporary developments, psychic education of children in China, personal experiences of high strangeness, and his own theoretical model to explain his many observations.
Imaginal Inspirations with Athena Potari
David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Athena D. Potari, Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2022/23). She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, specializing in Political Philosophy, and holds an MA in Political Theory summa cum laude from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Stephen Phillips – Occult Chemistry Explained by Modern Physics
This presentation will examine their claim by comparing their psychic observations with salient facts and ideas of nuclear and particle physics. Reasons will be given why it can now be concluded that they were mistaken in believing that they had been observing atoms in their natural, undisturbed state.
Surviving Death – Netflix docuseries
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
Imaginal Inspirations with Peter Fenwick
David Lorimer's Guest today is his old friend and long-time colleague Dr Peter Fenwick who is Emeritus Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital and Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. His other appointments included Consultant Neurophysiologist at St. Thomas’s, Westminster and Broadmoor Hospitals.
Between Two Worlds: The Encapsulated Self – Marye O’Reilly-Knapp
This article considers how the schizoid condition may manifest as dissociative and autistic states, and a fourth pattern of insecure attachment is introduced. Case vignettes are used to illustrate the phenomenological experiences of the schizoid's unspoken and sequestered world and to identify how contact and the methods of inquiry, involvement, and attunement are used in an intensive therapeutic relationship.