6th Oxford Humans Online Forum on Death and Dying
You are warmly invited to the 6th Oxford Humans online forum on death and dying. Dr Pim van Lommel, previously a cardiologist at Hospital Rijnstate in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will present the results of his long-term research on the cases of cardiac arrest. He will argue that consciousness is independent of body, and possibly it continues to exist after physical death.
International Network for the Study of Spirituality
The International Network for the Study of Spirituality (INSS) is a unique international network for people interested in bringing the study of
International Consciousness Research Laboratories
The International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) is a consortium of individuals from all walks of life, united within a shared passion: understanding consciousness
International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) was founded in 1980 and is the oldest organisation dedicated to the Near Death and
Institute of Noetic Sciences
The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individual and collective transformation through consciousness research, transformative learning, and
Institute for Global Transformation
The Institute for Global Transformation™ is a new type of organization engaged in building new forms for how, together, we can create
Existential Consciousness Research Institute
The Institute for Existential Consciousness Research unites and connects scientists, researchers, thinkers, authors and pioneers from different disciplines. Questions around the research
EUROTAS
The European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS) developed from a group of practitioners of health and healing and researchers in sciences and spirituality. It
Essentia Foundation
Do we really live in a fundamentally physical universe? Are we essentially material beings? Essentia Foundation is a new force in the
Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), University of Virginia
Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is a highly productive university-based research group devoted to
Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona
The Center is a unique institution whose aim is to bring together the perspectives of philosophy, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, the social
British Psychological Society – Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section
Consciousness was the original focus of psychological research and is once more a central topic of inquiry. The growth of interest and
British Psychological Association – Transpersonal Psychology Section
Transpersonal Psychology addresses the spiritual nature of humankind. Unlike religion and theology, its interest centres on the mind and behaviour; hence it
British Holistic Medical Association
The BHMA is a grassroots membership organisation of mainstream healthcare professionals, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners and members of the public.
Anthroposophic Medicine
Anthroposophic Medicine is an international, integrative medical movement celebrating nearly a century of caring for the whole human being, at the levels
Animas Valley Institute
Mythologies from around the world tell of spiritual seekers whose arduous journeys into the underworld bestow boons to bring back for the
Alister Hardy Society for the Study of Spiritual Experience
The Society supports the work of the Alister Hardy Trust and Religious Experience Research Centre (RERC), and provides a focal point for
Alef Trust
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.
Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences
Our VISION To inspire scientists to investigate mind and consciousness as core elements of reality. Our VALUES Support rigorous applications of the
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iain McGilchrist and Muhammed Foulds – The Wisdom Traditions
Galileo Commission adviser Iain McGilchrist talks to Muhammed Foulds, a Biologist & Human Ecologist and Historian specialising in the study of Nature Connectedness, Cosmometry and Biogeometry and its connection to Divine Order.
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.