At guest speaker at Mystics and Scientists 2016, Dr. Helen Ford, is a holistic physician who initially worked with conventional medicine. She gradually realised that there was more to illness than the conventional medical models take into account. So for the last thirty years she has focused on ways of accessing […]
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Honorary Members of the Scientific and Medical Network Capra, Fritjof, Dr. (US), physicist and systems theorist, founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, and on the faculty of Schumacher College. Dossey, Larry, MD, (US), physician and author on the healing power of prayer, spirituality, and other non-physical factors. […]
Professor Jim Malone discusses how he uncovered a painting of Erwin Schrödinger and what the painting says about the artist, the subject and their relationship to science and spirituality.
These days there’s no shortage of conspiracy theories. Many people still believe that the moon landings were faked, that climate change is a hoax, nuclear power is available at low temperatures or that the 9/11 attacks were staged by the US military. While some conspiracy theories do end up being […]
One of the most exciting things about being a Human Being is the way we can use our imagination to manipulate the future. The original Star Trek series is noted for its influence on the world outside of science fiction. It has fired the imagination of many a scientist and designer. Remember how Captain […]
Depth Psychology has never had it easy. Most articles in New Scientist and other scientific journals denounce psychoanalysis as pseudoscience, a collection of disproved and discredited techniques for curing mental illness. At worst, a scam. A long review article by Oliver Burkeman recently published in the Guardian takes a different view that […]
In a recent talk to IONS, just posted on youtube, Dean Radin, a researcher known best for his work in parapsychology speculates on the future of consciousness research. Today new techniques are available for expanding our consciousness, not only new drugs but electromagnetic devices that affect the brain’s activity; enhance […]
The existence of “free will” was thrown into question in a famous study conducted by Benjamin Libet in the 1980s in which he demonstrated that his subjects responded to stimuli before they were even aware of them. A person’s brain records precursor activity to moving an arm before that person […]
Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth by Dr. Tim Read Reviewed by David Lorimer In this bold book, Tim Read skilfully navigates the SMN guidelines of intuitive insight and rational analysis by combining his own psycho-spiritual journey with his extensive psychiatric experience of spiritual emergence and emergency, […]
The debate on the nature and origin of consciousness has lately taken an unexpected turn. Rather than restricting consciousness to the human species, the new theories such as Integrated Information Consciousness (IIC) are expanding the notion of consciousness to many material entities, non-biological included. After a long detour into the […]