Prof. Marjorie Woollacott, Ph.D., was professor and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology and is a member of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences, On the Science Committee of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Co-Director of the Galileo Commission and Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Woollacott has received over 7.2 million dollars in research funding for her research in rehabilitation medicine, meditation, spiritual awakening and end-of-life experiences, has published over 200 scientific articles and written or edited nine books, including Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (receiving 8 book awards) and Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences.
QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
I understood that all we need to do to become truly knowledgeable is to Know Ourselves – to recognise Who We Really Are. To recognise that we are infinite awareness, we are part of everything and everyone; then we will truly know ourselves. So then I said, OK – how can I integrate now these two things into my university career?
It was fascinating to watch the two sides of our society and it’s worldview. The sad thing is that materialists think that it’s an “either /or”phenomenon. What I am saying as a neuroscientist now is that it’s a “both/ and” phenomenon: we can use the understanding from science to understand consciousness but we Also need to use the understanding from the subjective point-of-view of turning within to know ourselves – and that’s what I was trying to teach my students.
