The theme for the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be *Consilience*: Developing the Foundations of a New Scientific Paradigm.* /*Consilience refers to the principle that evidence from unrelated sources, especially science and the humanities, can converge and produce unified conclusions./ The conference will take place […]
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a pivotal text whose story haunts us today. Published in 1819, the spirit of the depths below the spirit of the times in which it was written foreshadowed how Victor Frankenstein’s dream to animate dead matter has become our nightmare. As a new god who would […]
Time is at once intimately familiar and yet deeply mysterious. We say it flows like a river, yet that “flow” seems to disappear under scientific scrutiny. No wonder poets, philosophers, and physicists have grappled with the enigma of time for centuries. In this illustrated talk – adapted from his second […]
Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. wonders if all crop circles may not be human fakes and counterfeits after all. He analyzes three mysterious, intricate, and amazing pictograms in this talk and astonishes the viewer with the prospect that these actually may be extraterrestrial communications which we have been steadfastly taught to ignore […]
According to our standard view of things, consciousness exists only in the brains of highly evolved organisms, and hence consciousness exists only in a tiny part of the universe and only in very recent history (cosmically speaking). According to panpsychism, in contrast, consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamental […]
Thank you for your interest in this event. Unfortunately, it is now sold out. Please register your interest below should any spaces become available, or for similar events like this in the future. An oracular seminar with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and Cruz Manas Sabbadini Marlborough Room, Oxford and Cambridge […]
Sunday December 1st 2019 Paradigm Explorers: London 7th Meetup TOPIC: SHAMANIC JOURNEYING 4:00pm: warm welcome & introduction with Madelyn Freeman & Lucy Sam 4:10pm: individual introductions (who you are, what you study, why you are here) 4:30pm: Discussion on Shamanism Our Experiences with Shamanism Shamanic Practices & Societies Western Culture & […]
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 […]
Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? Are there any other hidden powers of the mind and thought at work in today’s world politics? In Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, historian and cultural critic Gary Lachman takes a […]
Paradigm Explorers: London 6th Meetup TOPIC: OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES: Exploring Beyond the Body 4:00pm: warm welcome & introduction with Madelyn Freeman & Jade Shaw 4:10pm: individual introductions (who you are, what you study, why you are here) 4:30pm: Discussion on exploring beyond the body Non-local consciousness: theories beyond the brain […]