American Travis Christofferson’s Tripping Over the Truth describes the development and growing adoption of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer. Here he outlines how it offers a more accurate understanding of how cancer develops and why a ketogenic diet can be effective First, one needs to understand what the ketogenic diet is […]
Evolution
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Prof Ursula King: Beyond Mysticism West and East: Towards a Global Spirituality My lecture is an invitation to think about mystical spirituality in an inclusive, integral way, transcending all divisions through integration rather than negation. Weaving together different strands from Western and Eastern mystical traditions it will ask about the […]
Dr. Bhakti Niskama Shanta: Missing Persons: Has Science Taken the Wrong Turn? The tremendous accomplishment of mechanistic thinking have created a false conviction among scientists that the only types of causation pertinent to the scientific venture Aristotle’s material and efficient causes. Thus, modern civilisation tends to be about mechanical machines, […]
Ultimate Questions David Lorimer COSMOSAPIENS John Hands Duckworth, 2015, 704 pp., £30, h/b – ISBN 978-0-715-649558 10 years in the making, this tour de force is a critical examination of scientific theories and evidence – systematic observation or experiment – about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness and […]
Full Spectrum Intelligence: A Practical Course on Behaving Wisely and Well By Chris Thomson Changemaker Books, 2014, 194 pp., £8.99, p/b – ISBN 978-1-78279-693-0 Reviewed by David Lorimer When Chris was working in Edinburgh as a lawyer, he was in the Court of Session in Edinburgh one day when Lord Stott was […]
AGM 2016 Abstracts Conscious Evolution: from the Esoteric to the Exoteric Dr Chris Thomson There is no reason to suppose that human evolution has stopped. Indeed, our evolution seems to be continuing in at least four respects – physically, in consciousness and understanding, in character and behaviour, and in ability […]
Chris has worked as an economist, a researcher in Chinese, a lawyer, and in think-tanks in Scotland and the USA. He now lives in the Catalan Pyrenees, and devotes himself to writing, mentoring and trying to make the esoteric exoteric Events Human Evolution at a Time of Global Crisis – […]
Epigenetics — the science of gene expression is a moving target. Over the past thirty years geneticists recognised that the way a gene is expressed can be influenced by environmental factors. A mother’s obesity, diabetes stress or even mental illness can be passed onto her offspring even if the condition […]
Richard Dawkins is the high priest of popular science, this country’s unofficial scientist laureate. His theories have helped to form the generally accepted scientific ‘rational’ worldview of our culture, which most of our institutions, our media, and our respected intellectuals accept as ‘reality’. The main tenets of this worldview can […]