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The Joyful FriarFinding Joy with Guest: David LorimerFr. Nathan speaks with David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA, a visionary polymath, spiritual activist, and poet. David who is Founder of Character Education Scotland, Global Ambassador of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org) and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences (www.mysticsandscientists.org) every year since the late 1980s.David is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (w...2025-06-2434 min
Spiritual AwakeningsEPILOGUE by Marjorie Woollacott and David LorimerIn this final episode of the Spiritual Awakenings podcast, editors Professor Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer look back on the 57 accounts of spiritual transformations by scientists and academics. The full text is available in paperback book form and kindle editions, as well as in this series of podcasts. Links: The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/Producer: Martin Redfern2023-11-1035 minSpiritual AwakeningsWalking in Two Worlds by Isabelle GouletDr. Isabelle Goulet is both a cellular and molecular biologist specializing in epigenetics and a healing facilitator trained in shamanic practices. In 2014, she founded Scientive to bridge two worlds: the physical and the non-physical, science and spirituality. She is presently working on her first book, in which she speaks openly about her personal healing and mystical experiences and explores a possible model of the nature of consciousness and the powerful interactions between body, mind, heart, and soul. Through the publication of this model, she wishes to help scientists define better rounded questions to explore and propose new approaches to...2023-11-0308 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Activism Informed by Psychic Experience by Natalie TobertMedical Anthropologist Dr. Natalie Tobert is an itinerant scholar who teaches in medical schools, hospitals, and universities. Her course modules support integrated health and explore multiple narratives and plural ways of understanding consciousness. As Education Director of Aethos Training, Natalie designed 8 - 10 weekly courses covering “Cultural Diversity, Mental Wellbeing, and Spirituality”. She developed a Training Manual on Cultural Equalities for Frontline Health Service Providers, and has facilitated workshop seminars in UK, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA (CIIS - California Institute of Integral Studies). Dr Tobert conducted three ethnographic fieldwork projects: one in Sudan for her doctorate, and two in...2023-10-2713 minSpiritual AwakeningsMy Awakening by Stephan A. SchwartzStephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, a BIAL Foundation Fellow, columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net. He is one of the founders of Remote Viewing research, and the author of nearly two hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals covering a spectrum of disciplines, two dozen book chapters, and an award-winning author of four non-fiction books, and three novels. He is the recipient of the Parapsychological Association Outstanding Contribution Award, OOOM Magazine (Germany) 100 Most Inspiring People in the World award, and the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Award for Outstanding C...2023-10-2010 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Surge of Energy by Lorne SchusselLorne Schussel, MS, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist, Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Director of the Contemplative Science and Post Materialism Lab at Columbia University, Teachers College. He is visiting faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute and formerly Project Director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Connectivity Project. His research focuses on the utilization of novel mind-body practices, human connectivity, contemplative neuroscience, and integrating clinical biomarkers (epigenetic, HR, EEG) into clinical research. Dr. Schussel developed a psychological healing practice known as “The Best Self Visualization Method” which has been cited in the New York Times, ABC-online, and the Huffington Post. Lorne...2023-10-1309 minSpiritual AwakeningsSteps Toward an Animated Worldview by Michael GrossoProf. Michael Grosso studied classics and received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University. He has taught philosophy and the humanities at New Jersey City University, CUNY (City University of New York), and Kennedy University, CA. His recent books include Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief; The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation; The final Choice: Death or Transcendence; Experiencing the Next World Now; etc. Michael’s focus is on the science of extraordinary human experience and the creative implications of altered states of consciousness. Links:...2023-10-0609 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Visit from my Great-Grandfather by Kim PenberthyJennifer “Kim” Penberthy, PhD, ABPP is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Division of Perceptual Studies, and the Associate Director for Clinician Wellness at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Kim is a board-certified clinical psychologist and conducts research, teaches, and provides clinical care. Her research interests focus on the mind-body relationship and exploring human consciousness as well as extraordinary human experiences and the impact of such on human abilities and wellness. Recent work includes exploring the occurrence and impact of after death communications. She is also dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion and expl...2023-09-2909 minSpiritual AwakeningsIf You’re around Can You Give Me a Sign? by Bradley HeinzBradley Heinz is a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. He hopes to contribute to shifting our scientific and medical frame from one that regards life as nothing more but lifeless atoms bumping into each other according to physical laws in a dog-eat-dog arena to one that embraces our interdependence within a living universe with consciousness as an irreducible core component. Links:https://voices.berkeley.edu/sciences-mathematics-and-biotechnology/career-changing-software-engineering-medicineThe Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/T...2023-09-2207 minSpiritual AwakeningsAn Experience in Psychometry by Laurel WatermanLaurel Waterman, currently a doctoral student in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, has been teaching creative non-fiction writing at the University of Toronto since 2009. She published About Local Food: four conversations with Toronto food activists, a book based on her MA research in Adult Education and Community Development. Waterman has been a writer, researcher, and editor for several books, essays, research projects, and conference presentations throughout her academic career, mostly in the areas of non-fiction writing, education, food systems, and environmental sustainability. In 2021, she was awarded a grant from the...2023-09-1509 minSpiritual AwakeningsWhy? By Jude CurrivanJude Currivan has a master's degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading. She is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author who was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and in 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View. Integrating leading edge science, research into consciousness, and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic world-view underpins her work serving conscious evolution and empowering transformational and emergent resolutions to collective human and planetary issues. For over two decades she has also travelled around the world in service to planetary healing. A member of the...2023-09-0811 minSpiritual AwakeningsPt 7: From Depression to Transcendent Non-Duality by Helané WahbehHelané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University, and President of the Parapsychological Association. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her research around — and noetic app...2023-09-0110 minSpiritual AwakeningsI’m Not Ready Yet by Natasha Tassell-MatamuaNatasha Tassell-Matamua, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies, School of Psychology, Massey University in Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has been researching near-death experiences and other extraordinary experiences for 12 years, and is particularly interested in cultural influences of NDEs, as well as the potential beneficial implications of NDEs across a range of disciplines and life domains. Natasha teaches courses in Indigenous Psychologies and established and is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies. She has been a pracitioner of Buddhist philosophy for more than two decades. Natasha shares three children with her...2023-08-2509 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Being of Light by Mario BeauregardMario Beauregard, PhD, is a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He is author of more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Because of his research into the neuroscience of consciousness, he was selected (2000) by the World Media Net to be one of the “One Hundred Pioneers of the 21st Century.” In addition, his ground-breaking research on the neurobiology of spiritual experiences has received international media coverage. As an author, Dr. Beauregard has published The Spiritual Brain, Brain Wars, and Expanding Reality. He actively contributes to the articulation of the postmaterialist paradigm. In addit...2023-08-1811 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakening is a Life-Long Process by Yvonne KasonDr. Yvonne Kason, MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP is a retired family physician and transpersonal psychotherapist, previously on faculty at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, an internationally renowned expert on Near-Death Experiences. Kundalini Awakening, and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences™. She is the person who first coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experiences™ in 1994 who has had many STEs herself. She is the Co-Founder and President of Spiritual Awakenings International, the Co-Founder of Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group, , and the Past-President of IANDS (2019-2020). She also co-founded the Spirituality in Health Care Network in 2000, and the Kundalini Research Network (KRN) in 1990. The results...2023-08-1111 minSpiritual AwakeningsEben Alexander: Illuminating Consciousness through Extraordinary ExperienceDr Eben Alexander III received his BA in Chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1976, MD from Duke University in 1980, completed neurosurgical residency at Duke in 1987, and a cerebrovascular fellowship at Newcastle General Hospital in the U.K., before teaching neurosurgery at the Brigham & Women’s and Childrens’ Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston for 15 years, achieving the rank of Associate Professor. He also held academic positions at UMass Memorial and the University of Virginia, and wrote over 150 peer-reviewed papers and chapters. His clinical expertise and leadership included advances in linear accelerator-based stereotactic radiosurgery for numerous indications, development of the world...2023-08-0408 minSpiritual AwakeningsPt6 Intro & Joyce Hawkes - a Crack on the HeadJoyce Hawkes’ doctorate in Biophysics opened her to a career at the depths of cellular function. She received a National Honorary Award and was elected as Fellow in the AAAS based on her research. Seven years after an NDE in the late 70s she was ‘called’ to change careers and became a healing facilitator, teacher, and author. She has published books, taught internationally and has a TEDx talk with over 1 million views. Additional television appearances and interviews are linked on her web site: CellLevelHealing.com. Joyce has followed a deep sense of guidance to combine science and spirit for physic...2023-07-2815 minSpiritual AwakeningsMy Story by Kenneth RingKenneth Ring, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut (though he currently resides in northern California). He is the co-founder and past President of The International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS), founder and original editor of The Journal of Near-Death Studies, and the author of five books on the subject of near-death experiences, including “Heading Toward Omega”, “Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind” and “Lessons from the Light”. For many years, he lectured internationally on his NDE research and related topics and has appeared on many radio and television programs in connection with his work. He...2023-07-2109 minSpiritual AwakeningsThe Cosmic Tour by Christopher BacheChris Bache, PhD is Professor Emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles, Dark Night, Early Dawn, The Living Classroom, and LSD and the Mind of the Universe - the...2023-07-1413 minSpiritual AwakeningsAnother Dimension of Reality by Natalie L. DyerDr. Natalie Dyer is a Research Scientist with Connor Integrative Health Network, studying the therapeutic effects of integrative medicine practices, including yoga, meditation, and energy medicine. She is also the President of the Center for Reiki Research, where she conducts and educates the public about Reiki research. She completed her Doctorate in Neuroscience at Queen’s University and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Psychology at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. She has published many scientific papers and presented her research to many diverse audiences. Natalie is also an energy medicine practitioner and teacher specializing in Reiki and North American, European, an...2023-07-0707 minSpiritual AwakeningsPart 5 Intro & A Glimpse Beyond the Veil by Oliver RobinsonOliver Robinson is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich. His research focuses principally on the changes, transformations and transitions of adulthood, and he has written a textbook on this topic entitled Development through Adulthood: An integrative sourcebook. He also writes about the relationship between science, philosophy, history and spirituality, and has recently written a book on this topic entitled Paths Between Head and Heart: Exploring the harmonies of science and spirituality. He co-organises an annual conference for the Scientific and Medical Network entitled Beyond the Brain. His interests include painting, meditation, dancing and spending time with his...2023-06-3011 minSpiritual AwakeningsThe Power of Words to Awaken by Stafford BettyStafford Betty grew up in Mobile, Alabama, the son of an economics professor. CSU Bakersfield hired him to teach Asian religions, and many scholarly publications followed, including a translation of a 16th century Sanskrit philosophical text. Only in the last ten years did his more mature interests find expression. His research books The Afterlife Unveiled, Heaven and Hell Unveiled, and When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying? established his reputation as a leading analyst and exponent of the non-religious evidence for an afterlife. His novels The Imprisoned Splendor, Ghost Boy, and The Afterlife Therapist introduced this research to...2023-06-2309 minSpiritual AwakeningsAren’t We Here to Play? By Vasileios BasiosVasileios Basios (PhD) is a physicist, conducting interdisciplinary research on the foundations of complexity science and nonlinear systems, self-organization and complex matter. During his formative years, he was tutored by Ilya Prigogine (Nobel Laureate) at the Solvay Institutes in ULB and by Emilios Bouratinos on meditation and philosophy. He is interested in the complex interface between action and information and the history of ideas in science and their role in the transformation of science beyond the prevailing naïve materialistic reductionistic world-view. With others from PEAR Lab, he initiated the Mind-Matter-Mapping Project and has since published essays for ICRL wh...2023-06-1610 minSpiritual AwakeningsPart 4 Intro and In the Library by Neal GrossmanPART FOUR: STEs Occurring as Synchronistic Transmissions through the Word At the Library: a Formative Experience by Neal GrossmanNeal Grossman received his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University in 1971. He taught Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago until he retired in 2013. Relevant papers include: (i) Who’s Afraid of Life After Death?, JNDS, May, 2002; (ii) Four Errors Commonly Made by Professional Debunkers (JNDS, 26(3), Spring 2008) (iii) Review of “The Self Does Not Die”, JNDS, 34(4), Summer 2016. His first book, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind, (ICRL, 2014) is a readable presentat...2023-06-0913 minSpiritual AwakeningsOn the Trail of Spirit by Lorna GreenLorna Green, MA (metaphysics), PhD (life sciences) is a writer and author about Consciousness, a new Metaphysics, a new system of thought for a world sorely in need of one. A New Scientific Image of Nature, A Universe based on Consciousness, Awakening into Feminism, and the Earth as a living conscious being, like ourselves. She is the author of Earth Age: A New Vision of God the Human and the Earth; Beyond Chance and Necessity: The Limits of Science and the Nature of the Real; Guiding Principles for the Planet: The New Paradigms, Meditations on Cartesian Themes, and The Rei...2023-06-0210 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Scientific Awakening by Brenda J. DunneBrenda Dunne holds a Master’s degree in Human Development from the University of Chicago and an honorary PhD from Ubiquity University. She is President and Treasurer of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and served as Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its founding in 1979 through its closing in 2007. Links:Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/consciousness-and-the-source-of-reality-robert-g-jahn/4528256?ean=9781936033034The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/Th...2023-05-2608 minSpiritual AwakeningsStephan Harding: ChinsembweStephan Harding holds a doctorate in behavioural ecology from the University of Oxford. He is Deep Ecology Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Holistic Science at Schumacher College in Dartington, UK, which he helped to found and where coordinated the MSc in Holistic Science for almost 20 years. He is the author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia and editor of Grow Small Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable Planet from Schumacher College. His most recent book is Gaia Alchemy, published by Bear and Co for release in February 2022.Links:https://humansandnature.org/stephan-harding/2023-05-1906 minSpiritual AwakeningsEtzel Cardeña: Epiphanies - Extraordinary and EverydayDr. Etzel Cardeña received his PhD at UC Davis and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and faculty at various places including Georgetown University. He holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His areas of research include alterations of consciousness and anomalous experiences, dissociative processes and acute posttraumatic reactions, and the neurophenomenology of conscious states. He has around 400 publications, some in top journals, and his work has been covered by various media including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the B...2023-05-1508 minSpiritual AwakeningsAlan Rayner: Including the IntangibleAlan Rayner is an evolutionary ecologist, writer and artist. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya and gained BA and PhD degrees at King’s College, Cambridge in 1972 and 1975. He was a Reader in Biological Sciences at the University of Bath from 1985 to 2011 and has published numerous papers and books, the latter including, most recently, The Origin of Life Patterns in the Natural Inclusion of Space in Flux. He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1998 and President of Bath Natural History Society from 2012 to 2018. Since 2000, he has been exploring ‘natural inclusion’, the co-creative evolutionary flow of all forms of lif...2023-05-0511 minSpiritual AwakeningsRavi Ravindra: Wondering what I amRavi Ravindra obtained an MTech from Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur; MSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Toronto, and MA in Philosophy at Dalhousie University. At different times he has held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics (University of Toronto), History and Philosophy of Science (Princeton University) and in Religion (Columbia University). He is now Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Canada) where he had taught courses in the departments of Physics, Philosophy and Comparative Religion. Ravi was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in...2023-04-2810 minSpiritual AwakeningsFrom Proof to Purpose by Chris RoeChris Roe, PhD, holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK, and is Director of their Centre for the Psychology and Social Sciences. He is the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation and a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research, and served terms as President of the Parapsychological Association and as Chair of the British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Parapsychology and is on the editorial board for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research and the Transpersonal Psychology Review. His research interests...2023-04-2109 minSpiritual AwakeningsBelonging to more than Myself by Andrew PowellDr Andrew Powell MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych. Formerly: Consultant Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, St. George’s Hospital and University of London; and Consultant Psychotherapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, the Warneford Hospital and University of Oxford. Founding Chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. Co-editor of Spirituality and Psychiatry (2009) and Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul (2016). Author of two volumes: The Ways of the Soul. A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond (2017), and Conversations with the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on...2023-04-1409 minSpiritual AwakeningsToward Panpsychic Experience by Peter ReasonPeter Reason was Director of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice at the University of Bath, England, and an international leader in the development of participative approaches to inquiry. He co-edited the Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice (2006, 2008) and co-founded the journal Action Research. Since retiring from full time academic work, Peter’s two books Spindrift: A wilderness pilgrimage at sea (2014) and In Search of Grace: An ecological pilgrimage (2017) weave explorations of the human place in the ecology of the planet into the stories of sailing voyages. His most recent publications (with artist Sarah Gillespie) are...2023-04-0714 minSpiritual AwakeningsLes Lancaster: Circumnavigating the SoulLes Lancaster is a Founding Director and Dean of the Alef Trust. He is Professor Emeritus of Transpersonal Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Honorary Research Fellow in Religions and Theology, University of Manchester, and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has previously served as Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, as President of the International Transpersonal Association, and as a Board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Les’ research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and the connections be...2023-03-3110 minSpiritual AwakeningsJoan Walton: Transformation as a Continuing Spiritual ExperienceJoan writes: My first degree was in Social Theory and Institutions (University of Bangor, North Wales). Following University, I travelled for a year in India and South East Asia, including working in one of Mother Teresa’s children’s homes in Calcutta. My early professional career was in social work, mainly working with children and families in residential and community settings. In 1995 I established an independent centre for action research and education, which enabled me to be involved in a wide range of staff development and research projects in the public, private and not-for profit sectors. Following completion of my Ph...2023-03-2410 minSpiritual AwakeningsArthur Koestler: Mystical AwakeningsArthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a scientifically educated writer, born in Budapest. He studied science and psychology at the University of Vienna. As a correspondent for a British newspaper, he covered the Spanish Civil War, during which he was imprisoned and sentenced to death. However, he was later freed as part of a prisoner exchange and returned to Great Britain. He wrote about science, including research on the paranormal, on the creative process, mysticism, and synchronicity. This essay is an excerpt from Arthur Koestler’s autobiography, The Invisible Writing, in which he relates his own mystical awakening under the severe co...2023-03-1713 minSpiritual AwakeningsSarah S. Knox: The limitations of ScienceSarah Knox received her PhD and MS degrees from Stockholm University in Sweden; and began her career as a Principal Investigator at Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute, where she did epidemiologic research using the Swedish Twin Registry. She subsequently returned to the United States, to the National Institutes of Health, where she focused on cardiovascular research before assuming a leadership position to guide the implementation of the National Children’s Study. Dr. Knox is currently Professor Emerita at West Virginia University School of Public Health and a member of the WVU Cancer Institute and the Galileo Commission. Her cu...2023-03-1009 minSpiritual AwakeningsAnne Shumway-Cook Evolving FrameworksAnne Shumway-Cook, PT, PhD, FAPTA is Professor Emerita in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Her research focused on understanding the physiologic basis for balance and mobility disorders in neurologic and geriatric populations, and the translation of this research into best clinical practices for assessing and treating balance in order to reduce falls and optimize mobility function. She has published extensively, and with Dr. Marjorie Woollacott co-authored the textbook Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice. She has practiced meditation for more than 50 years. The Academy for the Advancement of P...2023-03-0310 minSpiritual AwakeningsPart 3 and Janice Holden Light of LoveAfter 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counselling Program faculty, Jan Holden retired in 2019 as Professor Emerita of Counselling. Beginning in 1988 with her doctoral dissertation, her primary research focus has been counselling implications of near-death and related experiences. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications; several chapter and book publications, including lead editorship of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences; and over 100 national and international presentations. Among Jan’s numerous recognitions is the 2019 UNT Eminent Faculty Award, one of the university’s highest honours. Since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of the International Association for Near...2023-02-2412 minSpiritual AwakeningsPuerto Angel by Shantena Augusto SabbadiniShantena Augusto Sabbadini is a physicist, philosopher and a scholar of Chinese classics. As a physicist he worked at the University of Milan on the foundations of quantum physics and at the University of California on the first identification of a black hole. In the 1990s he was scientific advisor of the Eranos Foundation, an East-West research center founded by C.G. Jung and Olga Froebe-Kapteyn in 1933. Presently he directs the Pari Center, an international institute located in the small medieval village of Pari, Tuscany. He is the author of Pilgrimages to Emptiness, Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics, Tao...2023-02-1715 minSpiritual AwakeningsStrange Dreams and Spiritual Surges by Bernard CarrBernard Carr writes: my professional area of research is cosmology and includes such topics as the early universe, dark matter, black holes and the anthropic principle. For my PhD I studied the first second of the Universe, working with Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. I was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary in 1985. I am the author of around three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. I am also developing an expanded paradigm of p...2023-02-1011 minSpiritual AwakeningsAwakening by Federico FagginFederico Faggin received a Laurea degree in Physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965, and moved to Silicon Valley in 1968. He developed the MOS Silicon Gate Technology in 1968; the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, and several highly successful microprocessors, like the Intel 8080 and the Z80 produced by Zilog, his first startup company. Faggin was CEO of several high-tech startup companies he founded and directed since 1974. He is currently president of Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, dedicated to the science of consciousness. Faggin has received many international awards, including the 2009 National Medal of Technology an...2023-02-0312 minSpiritual AwakeningsNo More Searching by Paul MarshallPaul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, religion, philosophy, and science. He studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and received his MA and PhD in religious studies from Lancaster University. He is author of The Living Mirror: Images of Reality in Science and Mysticism (1992), Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations (2005), The Shape of the Soul: What Mystical Experience Tells Us About Ourselves and Reality (2019), and co-editor of Beyond Physicalism (2015) and Consciousness Unbound (2021). Links:Details of his publications can be found at https://mystical-encounters.comThe A...2023-01-2708 minSpiritual AwakeningsFrom Oneness to the Divine by Gary E. SchwartzDr. Gary E. Schwartz has been a Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona for more than thirty years. He was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and a tenured Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University. His integrative research bridging mind-body medicine, energy medicine, and spiritual medicine has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and numerous private foundations. He has published more than 500 scientific articles and chapters and authored or edited 25 books. He directs...2023-01-2009 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Process of Uncovering by Steve TaylorDr. Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and a past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. He is the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, including Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light, Out of the Darkness and Spiritual Science. His books have been published in 20 languages, and he writes blog articles for Scientific American and Psychology Today. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ Links:The A...2023-01-1307 minSpiritual AwakeningsComing Home by Jessica CorneilleJessica Corneille, MSc is a research psychologist specialised in spontaneous spiritual awakening experiences. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on altered states of consciousness. Her mission is to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience. Jessica has presented at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She works for the Scientific and Medic...2023-01-1009 minSpiritual AwakeningsPart 2 Introduction + Jeffrey KripalPart 2 Introduction by Marjorie Woollacott: STEs Occurring During or Awakening from SleepThat Night by Jeffrey J. Kripal Dr. Jeffrey Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought and the Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rice University. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he also chairs the Board of Trustees. Jeff is the author of eight monographs, including, most recently, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (Bellevue Literary Press, 2019). He i...2022-12-3008 minSpiritual AwakeningsAwakening and Transformation by Duane ElginDuane Elgin, MBA Wharton Business School, MA Economic History University of Pennsylvania is Co-Director of the Choosing Earth project: www.ChoosingEarth.Org and author of the book, Choosing Earth: Humanity's Journey of Initiation Through Breakdown and Collapse to Mature Planetary Community. Other books include: Voluntary Simplicity, Awakening Earth, and The Living Universe. In the early 1970s, Duane was a senior social scientist on the “Presidential Commission on the American Future” and then a senior researcher in the futures group of the think-tank, SRI International. This description of awakening was taken from the second appendix of Awakening Earth originally published by W...2022-12-2312 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Flash of RecognitionThe author, who wishes to remain anonymous, received his PhD in South Asian Studies at a major East Coast university. His training is in the history of Indian religions and intellectual history. He is currently an assistant professor at a university in the West.Links:The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/ Producer: Martin Redfern2022-12-1611 minSpiritual AwakeningsSwimming in the Blissful Ocean of MyselfThe author, who wishes to remain anonymous, has an early background in art history and architecture, and then received his PhD in religious studies from a major university on the west coast of the United States. He is currently a faculty member in religious studies at a university in the eastern United States. His research is in South Asian studies. Links:The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/The Ga...2022-12-0913 minSpiritual AwakeningsThe Awakening of Energy Flow through an Eastern Body-Mind PracticeThe author, who wishes to remain anonymous, was born in China and received a Doctoral degree in Neuroscience from a university in China. He is currently a professor at a University in the United States and has published extensively in the area of neuroscience and mind-body research. He has also received grant funding for this research from both NIH and private foundations. Links:The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/...2022-12-0211 minSpiritual AwakeningsOpenings and Promptings by Edward F. KellyEdward F. Kelly is a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, UVA. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in experimental parapsychology, followed by a similar stint with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill where he carried out EEG and fMRI studies of human cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007), Beyond Physicalism (2015), and Consciousness Unbound (2021), all produced under the auspices of Esalen Institute’s...2022-11-2512 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Few Stops on a Path with Heart by Bo AhrenfeltBo Ahrenfelt, BA, MD. Former psychiatrist at St. Sigfrid’s mental hospital in Växjö and visiting consultant in private institution in Hovmantorp, Sweden. Radio producer at the Swedish national network within his fields of competence. Founder of Institutet för Liv och Arbete (Inst for Life and Work), which he led for twenty-five years, a network of professionals working with change and development on individual, group and system level in the private and public sectors. Author of Conflict Management Handbook (1993), Territories and Leadership (2012) and Change as Being State (3rd edition 2013). Currently partner of Sustain Change AB, with a focus...2022-11-1810 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Day in April by Hardin TibbsHardin Tibbs is a UK-based strategic analyst, futures thinker, adviser and innovator with over 30 years’ experience of future-oriented strategic thinking. His consulting work has spanned product design and innovation, industrial ecology, environmental sustainability, strategy development and futures thinking. His futures work is focused on gaining insight into issues on the horizon that will drive an enduring shift in strategic agendas. Hardin helped to develop the executive education scenarios programme at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. He has taught futures and strategy related topics at the Cambridge University Judge Business School and the Møller Institute; the University of Ba...2022-11-1109 minSpiritual AwakeningsA Spiritual Awakening and Turning-Point in 1965 by Nicholas HaggerNicholas Hagger has lectured at universities in Iraq, Libya and Japan, where he was a Professor of English Literature. He is the author of nearly 60 books that include a substantial literary output and innovatory works within history, philosophy, literature and international politics and statecraft. As a man of letters he has written over 2,000 poems, two poetic epics, five verse plays, 1,200 short stories, two travelogues and three masques. He has pioneered a cross-disciplinary Universalism, a philosophy of the oneness of the universe and humankind, in seven disciplines. In 2016 he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the...2022-11-0413 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakenings 5: Marilyn MonkScientist, Poet and Mystic – Complementary Ways of Knowing and Being. By Marilyn Monk, PhDMarilyn Monk is Professor Emerita at University College London Institute of Child Health. She has been a research scientist for 60 years, university lecturer, head of UCL Molecular Embryology Unit, and has published over 200 scholarly papers. She is known for her work on DNA replication and repair, amoeboid cell signalling, regulation of differential gene expression in development, discovery and establishment of epigenetics, discovery of deprogramming to stem cells and, technically, the miniaturization of molecular analyses to the sensitivity of the single cell. Her pioneering work...2022-10-2809 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakenings 4: Amit GoswamiMy Most Important Spiritual Experience by Amit GoswamiAmit Goswami PhD is a theoretical quantum physicist and retired professor from the University of Oregon’s Department of Physics. He is the author of The Self-Aware Universe, in which he pioneered the idea of “science within consciousness” and elucidated the famous observer effect in quantum physics. Amit was featured in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?, and is the author of nine other books based on his research in quantum physics and consciousness. Amit started the quantum activism movement, establishing a transformative education institution, Quantum Activism Vishwal...2022-10-2110 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakenings 3 Marjorie Woollacott - I'm Home.This new episode includes the introduction to the first section of personal accounts of spiritual awakenings by scientists and academics, namely spiritually transformative experiences resulting from spiritual practices. They can be read in a new book published by The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences and edited by Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer.Today's essay is by co-editor Marjorie Woollacott. It's title is "I’m Home: Awakening to a Deeper Connection with my Heart, my Mind, and the World". Dr. Marjorie Woollacott has been a Professor and Chair in the Dept. of Human Physiology and a memb...2022-10-1412 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakenings 1: Awake Presence by Athena PotariThis is the first of a landmark 60-part series of essays on personal, life-changing spiritual experiences shared by leading scientists and academics. Together, they comprise an audio book of the volume of the same name, published by The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences and edited by Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer..Todays essay is by Dr Athena D. Potari is Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2022/23). She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, specializing in Political Philosophy, and holds an MA in Political Theory summa cum laude from the...2022-10-0822 minSpiritual AwakeningsSpiritual Awakenings - IntroductionThis is the introductory episode of a landmark 60-part series of essays on personal, life-changing spiritual experiences shared by leading scientists and academics. Together, they comprise an audio book of the volume of the same name, published by The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences and edited by Marjorie Woollacott and David Lorimer..Tom McLeish, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York comments:"This collection of personal testimonies of scientists’ transcendent experiences provides a unique and polychromatic insight of human experience. Woollacott’s and Lorimer’s volume is unusual within...2022-10-0816 min
Interviews with changemakers by Gayle KimballVisionary Scientists Describe a New Worldview. Who are these brave thinkers?A free webinar on May 15, 2021, features some of the scientists. https://scientificandmedical.net/events/gayle-kimball/
Gayle Kimball interviewed 65 visionary scientists, leaders in the Consciousness Movement, to learn what their research findings reveal about reality. She also asked about their personal development to discover why they’re so brave as they challenge the dominant materialist paradigm.
The three books in the Mysteries Trilogy explore how consciousness shapes reality, enables healing and provides access to knowledge from beyond the physical senses. The visionary scientists conclude that we are more than our physical bodies with more potential than we...2021-05-1220 min
Imaginal InspirationsMarjorie Woollacott on The Awakening of a Scientific MindMarjorie Woollacott, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Human Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and includes both rehabilitation medicine and alternative forms of therapy such as tai chi and meditation. She is president of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS) – one of the key partners of the Galileo Commission, the Research Director of the International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS), and has written more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles—several of which were on spiritual awakening and meditation, which was the topic that...2021-03-1721 min