November 2016 Atheist Spirituality The November presentation was given by Geoff Crocker, who has a career in business strategy working with international corporations, and who, following a re-evaluation of his relationship with the Anglican Church, developed a model of spirituality which he calls Atheist Spirituality. He is the author of An […]
London Group – Past Events
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A list of past events can be found here and the upcoming events here. February 2021 Parallel Universes: Can we Model them Theoretically and explore them Experimentally? Speaker Dr. Simon Duan came from China to the UK to study in the ’80s. After receiving a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University, […]
Click here for forthcoming events and meeting reports here. London Group Meetings 2013 London Group Meetings 2012 London Group Meetings 2011 London Group Meetings 2010 London Group Meetings 2009 London Group Meetings 2008 London Group Meetings 2007 London Group Meetings 2006 London Group Meetings 2005 London Group Meetings 2004 London Group […]
November 2015 Top Down Causation in Complex Systems like the Brain In November we hosted Prof George Ellis, Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. George is the author of 12 books, one of them […]
December 2014 Implications of the Social Brain Hypothesis: Integrated Indigineous Wisdom and Neuroscience In December we hosted Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, a GP, geriatrician, psychiatrist and neuropsychologist, currently the Executive Director of Coyote Institute in Maine, USA, an organisation whose purpose is to bring the wisdom of indigenous cultures into contemporary […]
December 2013 Mid-winter Celebration In December, we came together in a spirit of sharing, to celebrate mid-winter. Each person in the group shared something that was meaningful to them, some said poems, others talked about their experiences, and others about the meaning of this moment in the year. We listened, […]
November 2012 Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality In November we heard Gary Lachman, who has spoken to the group before. Gary is a prolific author who writes on the meeting ground between consciousness, culture and the Western Esoteric traditions and this evening he spoke about his new book. […]
November 2011 Life Reflects Music: Music Echoes Life The key signature of Edi’s talk was Beethoven’s famous affirmation ‘music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life’. In acting as mediator we were shown how the inexpressible content of music and of life reflect and echo each other: […]
November 2010 The Ghosts of Kusnacht: Jung and the Dead Gary Lachman, is a prolific author who writes on the themes of consciousness, culture and western esoteric tradition. This evening he spoke about a particular aspect of his latest book Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life […]
November 2009 (2) Blackfoot Worldview and its Quantum Implications Prof Leroy Little Bear from the Blackfoot Confederacy was an invited speaker at our SMN conference on the Legacy of David Bohm. Leroy founded the Native American Studies Dept of the University of Lethbridge. He met David Bohm and had many […]