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  • The Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize

    IONS has announced the establishment of the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. This annual prize of $100,000 will be given to an individual or team whose research advances leading-edge science around consciousness, expanding our global reach.

  • Imaginal Inspirations with Jean Houston

    David Lorimer’s guest today is Jean Houston, Ph.D., a world-renowned scholar, futurist, award-winning author, and researcher in human capacities, social change, and systemic transformation. She is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement and one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time.

  • Subquantum Principles of Life and Consciousness

    Our present contribution to the consciousness-related dialogue currently running in the “Waking Times” periodical has been triggered by Brandon West’s thrilling, recently published paper (Jan. 9, 2015), “The Nature of Mind and the Holographic Brain”.

  • Special Issue of the International Journal for Transformative Research

    his is a special issue of the International Journal for Transformative Research. This has been created as a result of a call sent out to members of the Galileo commission inviting submissions to the journal, considering ‘the implications of a postmaterialist worldview for education and the humanities’.

  • Imaginal Inspirations with Natasha Tassell-Matamua

    David Lorimer’s guest today is Natasha Tassell-Matamua PhD,  Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Massey University and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies in New Zealand. She is of Indigenous Māori, Cook Islands and European descent. Her research focusses primarily on near-death and other exceptional experiences of consciousness and their implications for…

  • Why do near-death experiences and psychedelics have a transformational effect? – Steve Taylor

    Key points: 1) A new study has shown that both near-death experiences and psychedelics can have powerful transformational effects. 2) Both experiences brought a more positive, accepting attitude to death. 3) Although both experiences have different characteristics, they each take us beyond our normal limited awareness, and reveal a wider reality.

  • David Lorimer on the Unravelling the Universe podcast

    The conversation largely revolved around the question: what happens after we die? Topics discussed include Near-Death Experiences, Consciousness, Reincarnation, Psychic Phenomena, and more.

  • Imaginal Inspirations with Eben Alexander

    David Lorimer’s guest today is Dr Eben Alexander, a pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies. Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media programs. His most recent book, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness, (co-authored with Karen Newell) has garnered accolades…

  • Karmic Law: A Synoptic Approach

    In this paper, an extended approach to the philosophical term of Karma is presented, suggesting a high compatibility between its traditional (initiatically transmitted, especially Buddhist) and scientific interpretation. Blending of both apparently dissimilar concepts is meant to reach a more synoptic perspective on this widely known doctrine, which basically addresses a universal law of nature…

  • Does Mystical Experience Give Access to Reality?

    There are reasons for the neglect, and in the present article I consider two major theoretical obstacles to finding metaphysical significance in the experiences: a radical form of contextualism and a reductionist approach to neuroscience. With these obstacles addressed, there is room to consider how mystical experience and metaphysics can be brought into dialogue, a…

  • Imaginal Inspirations with Cynthia Bourgeault

    David Lorimer’s guest today is Cynthia Bourgeault, who is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude in her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule travelling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths.

  • Gerard Kuiken on the Pushing Boundaries podcast – False Dualities, Space-time, Life-death

    Gerard proposes that without a limitation there is no existence and that the brain is the tool for setting up limitations and controlling the consciousness of differences. In this way, ‘man becomes aware of himself by limitation and experiences that as the awakening of his own world. Time is part of the form world and…