Events

  The present global crisis has produced a flood of commentaries both pessimistic and hopeful. Many ascribe our predicament to earlier worldviews which have failed us. Others advance new views – utopian or dystopic or uncertain.  What is certain is that we are now being impelled to understand ourselves. This opportunity to understand ourselves in […]

Nietzsche famously announced the ‘death of God’ and prophesied the inevitable onset of an age of nihilism in which ‘everything lacks meaning’ and ‘our “why” finds no answer. The SMN has long been concerned with this issue and has debated from various points of view the possibility of a new paradigm or worldview ‘beyond nihilism’. […]

Humans have been trying to make sense of the universe since they first looked up at the stars. Most of us have now rejected the idea that the heavens display patterns that foretell significant events, and we certainly know more about the universe than any generation in history. But how much do we understand about […]

One of the fundamental assertions in the theory and discipline of yoga, as in any serious spiritual teaching, is that the true knower is not the mind.  The real knower –called Purusha, the Very Person– knows through the mind, not with the mind. Truth is not exclusively a matter of knowledge; it also has to […]

Kim will provide a brief overview of the Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia, its history, and current research focus, including near death experiences and their impact. She will then focus on her own current research exploring the impact of both spontaneous experiences, such as perceived communications from deceased loved ones, and […]