The Scientific & Medical NetworkAuthor: Nikolay Petrov
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Marco Masi: An Evidence-Based Critical Review of the Mind-Brain Identity Theory
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Imaginal Inspirations with Alastair McIntosh
David Lorimer’s guest today is Alastair McIntosh who has been described by BBC TV as “one of the world’s leading environmental campaigners.” A pioneer of modern land reform in Scotland, he helped bring the Isle of Eigg into community ownership. On the Isle of Harris he negotiated withdrawal of the world’s biggest cement company (Lafarge)…
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Max Velmans on the Four Simple Questions Series
Max Velmans, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London meets Catherine Noyce. In their dialogue they broach topics such as emptiness and fullness; trying to belong to a ground of being; the feeling of being disconnected and alienated; and more…
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Let’s be Real about Objective Science
The full release of a person from ego involves a great amount of effort. It occurs when the person reaches a stage where their ‘higher self’ can take over. The ego is not lost but more freedom is acquired to detach from it. That entrance by the ‘higher self’ is necessary to achieve a final…
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New Book: Trevor Griffiths – Clearing a Way – Unveiling the Mental Tricks That Hide Reality
How to make better life-enhancing choices when environments crumble and population shifts disrupt our ways of living? Dr Griffiths takes a deep look at how our brains trick us into seeing the surface of things so that we lose sight of the deep relatedness on which our survival as groups will increasingly depend. Many astonishing…
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Psychosynthesis and the Alexander Technique
Our goal then is to drop goals beyond our reach and to live fully in the moment, fully accepting and loving our unique selves. We must let go of the wrong-doing of striving to superimpose some projection we have of who we might be. Paradoxically, coming back to who we really are opens a greater…
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Book Launch for AAPS Volume IV: Consciousness Unexplained (AAPS Student Magazine)
As students of consciousness, we are learning to question our assumptions at every turn. What is consciousness? Where does consciousness live? How does consciousness express itself? What happens to consciousness when our bodies die? And what do our answers to these questions mean for how we live our lives? We dream that something in this…
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Peter Eastham: The Inside Out Paradigm – A New Theory of Consciousness
The inside out theory of consciousness states that fundamentally everything in the universe is comprised of an inner world of information (consciousness) and an outer world of mass/energy (the physical universe). On the inside the knower becomes (in)formed i.e. information orders, creates and makes things less random (entropy decreases). On the outside the known physical…
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New Magazine by Peter Marry on Science and Consciousness
There is a new magazine being curated on Flipboard with a focus on Science and Consciousness (https://flipboard.com/@petermerry/science-and-consciousness-sa83qtmry). The magazine is collecting and spreading news from various organisations and individuals in this area, including the Galileo Commission. The purpose is to raise awareness of developments and thinking across the domain. You can follow the magazine for…
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June 28 – July 01 – How to Think Impossibly – a mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human
From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality, but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real.
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Thoughts and Idea-leadership in AI Science, Technology and Business – A.K. Mukhopadhyay
A.K. Mukhopadhyay shares his thoughts on AI, Technology and Business in a powerful, in-depth presentation.
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Stop Asking If the Universe Is a Computer Simulation