Scientific and Medical Network

The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN) is a worldwide professional community and membership organisation for open-minded, rigorous and evidence-based enquiry into themes bridging science, spirituality and consciousness. It promotes a cultural shift in our understanding of reality and human experience beyond the limits imposed by exclusively materialist and reductionist approaches.

The Network brings together open-minded and discerning people who are inclined to a non-materialist interpretation of the universe and who have a sympathetic interest in parapsychological and spiritual matters.

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Please see our introductory video here.
We are still in the process of transferring information across to this new site. If you cannot find what you are looking for please use this link to our new Support forum.
If you are a member of the SMN and have renewed your membership in 2016, then you should have received a username and password for this web site. If you have not renewed please use this link to renew or apply for Membership.
You are also able to join one of our Local Groups who hold regular meetings in various parts of the UK and around the world. Please click here for more details of a local group in your area.
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Forthcoming Events

Continental Meeting 2016 – Convergent Evolution, Attractors and Love

September 30, 2016 11:00 am – October 2, 2016 12:00 pm

Venue: Casa San Bernardo
Categories: Conference, Continental Event
Tags: Attractors, Convergent Evolution, Love, Syntropy

In 1941 the mathematician Luigi Fantappiè introduced a new type of causality into the explanation of life and evolution. The equations which combine quantum mechanics and special relativity show that, in addition to causality, retrocausality is also an ingredient of our universe. Whereas causality is governed by the law of entropy (diverging tendency), retrocausality is governed by a symmetrical law which leads to the increase of differentiation, complexity and structures. Combining the two Greek words syn=converging and tropos=tendency Fantappiè coined the word syntropy in order to describe the retrocausal action of attractors, the converging tendency of evolution towards a final unifying cause which he named love.

More of a Feeling: Exploring the Nature of Spiritual Emotions – Dr Oliver Robinson

September 16, 2016 7:15 pm – 10:30 pm

Categories: Kent Group, Local Group
Tags: Spiritual Emotions

Spirituality has been defined by many as the pursuit of particular kinds of feeling. This talk will present a way of understanding spiritual emotions by categorising them into a set of five types, and then exploring what all five have in common.

The Schweitzer Institute Conference, 2016

September 24, 2016 9:00 am – 7:30 pm

Venue: Old Divinity School, St John’s Cambridge
Categories: Conference, Joint Event, The Schweitzer Institute

On 24th September 2016, in association with the Scientific & Medical Network, the Albert Schweitzer Institute (UK) will be hosting a conference at Cambridge University. This is the first of a series of annual conferences which will be held at different universities each year to raise awareness of Dr Schweitzer’s life and thought.

Latest News

27th of September 2016 02:14 PM

"Jurgen Ziewe has been meditating and travelling beyond the body for over 40 years by shifting consciousness into nonphysical states of awareness with enhanced lucidity that gives him access to a huge range of afterlife realms in a similar way to Robert Monroe and, in the 18th century, Emanuel Swedenborg. "

25th of September 2016 02:48 PM

Join us next weekend at this incredible event in one of Europe's most incredible cities, Rome. Mind expanding presentations, networking and a chance to explore. Hope to see you there!

23rd of September 2016 04:16 PM

"The "double-secret super taboos," otherwise known as "woo-woo taboos," include anything in the realm of psychic phenomena. It is generally believed in the scientific community that spirituality has nothing to offer science. However, some of the iconic figures of science: Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton and Madame Curie, were all actively interested in non-scientific endeavors such as alchemy and contacting the dead."

23rd of September 2016 04:14 PM

The Laszlo Institute is now offering membership places with numerous additional associated benefits, please visit their page for full details.

22nd of September 2016 04:00 PM

"In the early 1990s psychologist and deep ecology practitioner Theodore Roszak realized that there was a connection between an individual’s emotional problems, the ills of Western society, and the exploitation of the natural world. This led him to search for a new kind of psychology that addressed the sources of our cultural madness and the psychic harm that occurs from being disconnected from nature."

21st of September 2016 02:21 PM

Just two days to go until this incredible event, we hope to see many of you at the Cambridge University this Saturday!

20th of September 2016 01:28 PM

"A new world record for quantum teleportation has been set, bringing quantum communication networks that can stretch between cities a step closer. Two independent teams have transferred quantum information over several kilometres of fibre optic networks."

19th of September 2016 11:41 AM

"Prior to the mid-1980s, I had been a research scientist, working as a molecular biologist in Canada then in the USA attempting to describe, locate and isolate plant genes involved in nitrogen fixation. Soon after arriving in the UK I was researching organic germanium, published a paper, then a book and attempting to organise a clinical trial to test its potential clinical efficacy in HIV/AIDS."

17th of September 2016 04:19 PM

Interview on the new paradigm within science, with Ervin Laszlo by Guido Ferrari and Patrik Soergel.

15th of September 2016 03:05 PM

Two dolphins have been recorded having a conversation for the first time after scientists developed an underwater microphone which could distinguish the animals' different "voices".

12th of September 2016 03:23 PM

Recent research by Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazal indicates that a regular practice of meditation leads to changes in the brain. Also, that it can prevent some of the shrinkage of grey matter associated with ageing.

11th of September 2016 03:16 PM

"For some years I have been interested in New Thought and have studied the work of writers such as Ralph Waldo Trine, Thomas Troward, Charles Haanel, Wallace Wattles, Napoleon Hill, Neville Goddard, Earl Nightingale and others. This book by lawyer and global management consultant George Mentz provides a superb summary and practical introduction to this way of thinking and living from inside to outside, recognising the creative power of thought and imagination. "

10th of September 2016 04:19 PM

"The Psi Encyclopedia is a new collection of articles and case studies about psi research, the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. It's a work in progress, being created by the Society for Psychical Research in London."

7th of September 2016 12:48 PM

"A beautiful but unproved theory of particle physics is withering in the harsh light of data.

For decades, many particle physicists have devoted themselves to the beloved theory, known as supersymmetry. But it’s beginning to seem that the zoo of new particles that the theory predicts —the heavier cousins of known particles — may live only in physicists’ imaginations. Or if such particles, known as superpartners, do exist, they’re not what physicists expected."

6th of September 2016 02:37 PM

Should you take Hormone Replacement Therapy? Avoid eating peanuts while pregnant to lower the risk of peanut allergy in your child? Take a daily does of Statins to lower your cholesterol? The answers are often by no means clear despite published medical studies.

5th of September 2016 03:31 PM

“This is a very speculative, hypothetical paper,” says Mark Bullock, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. It doesn’t prove that Venus was habitable, he says, but the researchers do show that conditions existed under which Venus could have maintained oceans and a temperate climate for billions of years.

4th of September 2016 04:05 PM

"David Fideler’s background is in philosophy and history of science, but he is also a musician sensitive to the wonders and beauty of nature, and he lyrically describes a number of his own experiences in this book."

3rd of September 2016 03:03 PM

"According to a study led by Dr. Attila Andics of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, dogs use the left hemisphere to process words and the auditory region of the right hemisphere to process intonation, and praising activates dog’s reward center only when both words and intonation match."

1st of September 2016 03:18 PM

"Curious about meditation research? Ever wonder how you can become a meditation researcher? In this video Dr. Helané Wahbeh talks about her experience as just that! She also describes the historical arc of the field, where it has been, where it is now, and where it is going-- particularly the areas of meditation research that are wide open and waiting for new researchers to study."

31st of August 2016 02:30 PM

In a recent interview with journalist Wim Kayzer, string theorist Edward Witten says consciousness will remain a mystery that we may never solve. Thus he joins Roger Penrose, Clin McGinn and others who assert that the scientific method has limits to what it can explain in terms of other known quantities, using scientific reductionism. And one of its hard limits may be the nature of consciousness. Owen Flanagan referred sarcastically to this position as Mysterianism.