Category: Past Events

In this webinar Drs. Ben Williams and Marjorie Woollacott explore parallels between theories about the origins of cognitive processes that filter out a broader perceptual awareness in both modern neuroscience and in a medieval Sanskrit text on non-dual philosophy, the Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā (‘Stanzas on the Recognition of Śiva’).

What many might call “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences and effects, we refer to as emergent phenomena. We refer to practices designed to lead to emergent phenomena, such as meditation, psychedelics, yoga, prayer, etc., as emergent practices.

Following the publication of Joan Walton’s article in Paradigm Explorer and our Bohm Dialogue in Pari, we wanted to provide the wider Galileo Community with an opportunity to share their experiences in this area.

The talk outlines the ways in which both ordinary experiences and mystical experiences are reflexive, supporting the view that we are manifestations of a self-observing universe. We address fundamental confusions that prevent a clear understanding of how consciousness relates to the world described by physics, the relationship of consciousness to mind, and the relationship of…

This presentation will examine their claim by comparing their psychic observations with salient facts and ideas of nuclear and particle physics. Reasons will be given why it can now be concluded that they were mistaken in believing that they had been observing atoms in their natural, undisturbed state.

This series of round-table discussions, which will take place over the course of two days, will mark the launch of a new collaborative book by the Galileo Commission and the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS): Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Share Their Experiences – edited by Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer, Co-Chairs…

This talk presents an overview of a work, in four volumes, which has been has been some two decades in the making, much of this time during the most turbulent period in modern world history, and represents the fruits of over half a century of exploration and research in science and the Perennial Philosophy.

Foreshore Dreaming grows out of the established practice of Social Dreaming and is further inspired by the tradition of ‘centring down’ in Quaker Worship so that the Meeting can become ‘gathered’.

The talk proposes that space-time is in essence a three-dimensional discrete illusion. Thinking generates thoughts, thought-forms and concepts that express our personal view and knowledge of the world and of space-time.

The topic stems from the fact that neuroscience is currently the accepted scientific authority on the nature of consciousness, even though some of its major underlying assumptions are verifiably inaccurate.  The purpose of this talk is to begin a dialogue about unintended bias in experimental design.

In this Call, we argue that there is good scientific evidence to refute the claim that we are merely ‘hackable animals’ (in Yuval Noah Harari’s words) or complex biological machines, as proposed by the recent movement of Transhumanism.