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Author: Nikolay Petrov

  • A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life

    This wide-ranging and highly-acclaimed volume brings together 25 of his essays written over the last 40 years. Among the significant thinkers featured here are many who have shone their light on his path, and which can provide enriching nourishment for readers on their own life journeys. The essays explore philosophy, meaning and spirituality; consciousness, death…

  • Is Consciousness the Unified Field? – John Hagelin

    We show that the proposed identity between pure consciousness and the unified field may be required to account for experimentally observed ‘field effects of consciousness.’ We present the published results of a National Demonstration Project—in which 4,000 advanced meditators markedly reduced violent crime in Washington, DC. We briefly discuss mechanisms from quantum mechanics, quantum field…

  • Imaginal Inspirations with David Lorimer – Anne Baring

    Anne Baring is a Jungian analyst and author. Her most recent book, The Dream Of The Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, is a poetic, heartfelt and spiritual quest to understand the causes of human suffering and reconnect with a deeper reality. It builds on her work on the divine feminine and dream analysis.

  • Revisiting Christopher Lasch’s “Culture of Narcissism” – Lee Siegel

    But passionate excess is often the price of original perception. The next time you close a book frustrated by the author’s “pseudo self-insight” or are taken in by someone’s “nervous, self-deprecatory humor,” the next time you find yourself repelled by the general collapse of “impulse control” and by the type of person who “sees the…

  • David Lorimer – NEW BOOK OUT IN MARCH 2021

    A Quest for Wisdom brings together 25 of David Lorimer’s highly acclaimed essays. Perceptive and illuminating, they examine the nature of life and death, questions of meaning and purpose, and the challenge of how we can live more harmoniously together. David hopes that readers will be inspired, as Dr Albert Schweitzer put it, in our…

  • The Soul Can Choose to Leave the Body Before a Fatal Accident

    “Our soul-consciousness is very much ahead of our physical-consciousness. So, when instant death occurs through an accident, the soul is aware of what is about to happen a split second before the impact occurs and leaves the body. The soul having left, no pain is felt…These sudden transitions appear tragic and ghastly to the onlooker,…

  • Imaginal Inspirations with David Lorimer – Larry Dossey

    Larry Dossey is a physician and author of nine books. He has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare.

  • The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review | The Royal Society

    The Prince of Wales and Sir David Attenborough join economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta and Nobel-prize winning biologist Sir Venki Ramakrishnan to mark the publication of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.

  • Avi Loeb: ‘It would be arrogant to think we’re alone in the universe’

    When Harvard professor Avi Loeb discovered possible signs of extraterrestrial activity, it caused a scandal in the research community. Is fear and conservatism stopping science from considering plausible evidence that there are aliens out there?

  • 03/02/2021 – Tom McLeish on The Rediscovery of Contemplation Through Science

    ISSR is pleased to announce that the 2021 Boyle Lecture will be given by Professor Tom McLeish, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of York, on the subject of “The Rediscovery of Contemplation Through Science”. The lecture will be given at 6.00 pm on Wednesday 3rd February 2021. However, due to the ongoing global…

  • Imaginal Inspirations with David Lorimer – Marilyn Schlitz

    Marilyn Schlitz is a social scientist, author, and speaker. Her clinical, laboratory and field-based research centres on consciousness, human transformation, and healing. Her latest book Death Makes Life Possible was accompanied by a film of the same title and explores the idea that facing our mortality inspires us to live our lives more fully.

  • Anthony Judge – Reframing Fundamental Belief as Disinformation

    How is misinformation to be distinguished from any information with which authorities disagree or prefer to have suppressed?