Culture, Spirituality and Health:
Meanings and Beliefs Presented by Dr Natalie Tobert this comprehensive course Culture, Spirituality and Health: Meanings and Beliefs offers seminars that explore new spiritual and cultural frameworks for understanding ourselves and unusual experiences. It explores what it means to be human in today’s world. The case studies provided in the training hint at radical challenges to common consensus in our […]
The Heart of the Rose
The Heart of the Rose The Sacred Mathematics and Liberal Arts Festival January 19th and 20th 2019 A collaboration between Mathematics & Mythos and the Scientific and Medical Network A weekend of workshops, talks, music and performance. A collaboration of Mathematics & Mythos with the Scientific and Medical Network. The Heart of the Rose contains […]
Dr. Shantena Sabbadini – The I Ching, synchronicity and time
In this presentation we will take as our departure point the I Ching, the ancient Chinese oracle and wisdom book, in order to explore first the notion of time underlying its philosophy and its use, a notion that has been called by C.G. Jung synchronicity. Then we will consider the notion of time in a […]
Dr. Mike King – Mountain Calls
Mike King will talk about spiritual paths deeply engaged with, supported by, and supporting of Nature. Many of these paths are explored in his recent environmental novel “Mountain Calls” which is a semi-autobiographical account of his animist encounters with a mountain in Austria. Instead of seeing the human in Darwinistic, materialistic terms, the mountain has […]
Dr. Paul Marshall – The Shape of the Soul
With the rise of materialism, the concept of ‘soul’ as an inner essence that survives bodily death has become increasingly unfashionable within intellectual circles. In this talk, Paul will introduce his forthcoming book The Shape of the Soul: What Mystical Experience Tells Us About Ourselves and Reality (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Here he attempts to […]
Jeremy Naydler PhD – The Computer and the Psyche
While the digital revolution can be understood as driven by economic and social forces combined with rapid technological advances, these alone are not sufficient to explain the extraordinary degree to which it has penetrated both our outer and inner life. The readiness with which modern consciousness has embraced computer technology also needs to be understood […]
Rupert Spira – The Nature of Consciousness
In his meetings, Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, Sufism, Zen etc., and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience. This is a contemporary, experiential approach involving silent […]
Prof Ravi Ravindra – Inner Transformation through the Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita
All the sages and all the scriptures throughout human history have said in one way or another that as long as I remain the way I am I cannot come to the Truth or Light or God. A radical transformation of the whole of being of the searcher is is called for. We will explore […]