Prof Richard Silberstein – Bioelectric fields, where biology and reincarnation intersect.
The late Professor Ian Stevenson engaged in a multi-decade study of evidence for reincarnation based on the claimed past-life recollection of children. Subsequent research by his collaborators as well as independent researchers have yielded consistent findings. In Stevenson’s numerous publications he reported that such children are more likely to recall a violent death in their […]
Diana Durham – Coherent Self, Coherent World: Synthesising Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm’s Implicate Order
This talk comprises a series of thought experiments that build through the windows of myth and archetype, Tibetan Buddhist thought and David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order to show how our thinking becomes coherent when our ‘personality self’ is in meaningful relationship with a deeper quality of awareness and identity. Poet and author Diana […]
Rupert Sheldrake PhD – Ways to Go Beyond: And Why They Work
This talk is on the theme of Rupert Sheldrake’s recent book, Ways to Go Beyond, in which he looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. All provide ways of going beyond our everyday states of mind into a sense of a greater conscious presence, bliss, fuller understanding, or deep connectedness. […]
Nicholas Maxwell – Can Universities Save Us from Disaster?
Grave global problems threaten our future: population growth, destruction of natural habitats, loss of wild life, rapid extinction of species, lethal modern war, nuclear weapons ready to be unleashed at the touch of a button, pollution of earth, sea and air, undermining of democracy by the internet, and worst of all, the impending disasters of […]