Expanding the Scope of Science
ORIGINS
David Lorimer introduces the Galileo Commission Report
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The Galileo Commission was founded in 2017 with a view to expanding the worldview of science beyond its limiting materialistic assumptions, which are seldom explicitly examined. A central and widely held assumption is that the brain generates consciousness and is therefore extinguished at death.
Following widespread consultation in 2018 with 90 advisers representing 30 universities worldwide, we have published the Galileo Commission Report, written by Prof Dr Harald Walach and entitled Beyond a Materialist Worldview – Towards an Expanded Science. The report has been widely endorsed as a groundbreaking document, so we encourage you to support our movement by joining the Galileo Commission either as a Professional Affiliate or a Friend. There is also a Summary Report and a Layman’s Report, and a brief summary of the argument is available in a number of languages. We encourage you to read and support Dr Athena Potari’s Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities and to read our edited book Spiritual Awakenings, which documents the transformative experiences of 57 scientists and academics.
A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities
The “Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities”, written by Dr Athena D. Potari, is a pioneering project aiming to raise awareness regarding how the prevailing paradigm of materialism affects the ways in which knowledge is approached within the context of the Humanities. In line with the Galileo Report, which discusses the importance of liberating the positive sciences from the limitations of the paradigm of scientific materialism, this Call aims at making the case for the Humanities as well. The Call explores how recent developments in scientific studies on consciousness, and the ensuing understanding that consciousness is primary and unified, can inform our understanding of what it means to be “human” with correspondingly appropriate epistemologies, as well as how we approach key areas of human activity, including ethics, politics and the environment.What people say…
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The Playful Universe – Marjorie Woollacott, David Lorimer and Gary Schwartz (Eds)
This volume consists of essays by scientists and academics describing their own experiences of synchronicity and how these experiences transformed both their worldview and the way they lived their lives. We truly believe that this is a fundamentally intelligent, benevolent, creative and playful universe in which we, as individual expressions of the one Universal Mind, co-create our reality.
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And so, the greatest hope of all: Ideas, it is all about ideas, the old ideas that have brought us to this crisis point in our relationship to the Earth and one another, the new ideas that will enable us to move into a new civilization based Love and Truth. And my conviction is that if we can know the truth about what is now happening on the planet, and its sources, we can know how to deal with it. The human race is resourceful. If we can honestly face the crisis we have created for both ourselves and the Earth, then we can find our way forward.
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Featuring Lorna Green – #12: And now, let’s talk about truth.
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In Loving Memory of Brenda Dunne
On Friday, June 17th, 2022 this world bid farewell and good journeys to a truly beautiful soul. There is no need to tell this family how amazing and inspiring was the human we knew as Brenda, nor to elucidate on the magnitude of our loss or how much she will be missed.
Featuring Lorna Green – #11: Getting our Barings
The system has gone, and thank heaven that it has, because now we can think about rebuilding our shattered economies, our political systems, on a whole new foundation of Love, and of Truth.
