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The 2016 Network Annual Gathering returns to Horsley Park in Surrey from 8-10 July 2016. The Programme will begin on Friday evening with drinks and dinner and continue on Saturday with presentations from 2014 Network Book Prize winner Dr Mick Collins on Doing and the Next Evolutionary Threshold, and Dr Chris Thomson on Conscious Evolution: from the Esoteric to the Exoteric.
A special introduction by David Lorimer, 7-9 pm, Monday 17th September at the Study Society, Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road, London W14 (Tube Baron’s Court). SMN members […]