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Prof Virginia Dignum – The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future
The more powerful AI becomes, the less control we have over it, so what does that mean for the choices we make right now? Join… ...
Zen Benefiel – Love as Operational, Our Next Evolutionary Step
What if love isn’t something we bring to work—but the operating system we’ve forgotten how to use? Love as Operational: Our Next Evolutionary Step explores… ...
Dr Manuel Varela – The Frontier between the Map and the Territory: the Intertwining of Matter and Information
If there is no map without a territory, is there no territory without map? The Map/Territory (or Information/Matter) polarity may be another approach to… ...
Sandi Rufo – Mary Magdalene and the Transformation of Consciousness
What might we recover about our own capacity for transformation if we took Mary Magdalene’s spiritual authority seriously – and what might humanity have become… ...
Prof Avishai Bar Asher – Conceptual Transformations in the Emergence of Kabbalah: Rethinking God, World, and Human Cognition
This talk will explore a series of conceptual turns in medieval Kabbalah, treating it not only as a theological system but as a transformation of… ...
Arabella Thais – In Defence of Eternalism: Exploring Complex Causality and a New Physics of Time
Why are we content for the past to be fixed and unchangeable, yet recoil at the thought that the future might be too? We… ...
Dr Joan Borysenko – Gerotranscendence: Being an Elder as a Developmental Stage of Life
What if aging is not simply the diminishment of the person we have been, but an invitation to become someone we could not have become… ...
Dr Caroline Myss – The Spiritual Challenge of Confronting Evil
How should we think about evil these days? I’ve heard many people dismiss the existence of "evil", but I also realised immediately that the very… ...
Prof Ed Kelly – Overcoming the “Immovable Obstacle” to Postmortem Survival
Contemporary opinion elites worldwide generally hold that mind and consciousness are manufactured by neurophysiological processes occurring in our brains and must therefore vanish at death.… ...
Dr Harrie Salman – The Western World Order and Global Spiritual Transformation
How can we both individually and in our communities transform the totalitarian tendencies of our present time and become co-creators of a new world? The… ...
Dr Jorge Ferrer – The End of the Alpha Male: Why the Future of Masculinity may belong to the Omega Male
What if the most compelling man in the room is no longer the loudest, most dominant, or most sexually conquering, but the one secure enough… ...
Dr Steve Taylor – Across the Universe: the Magic and Mystery of the Beatles
What made the Beatles so extraordinary? Join psychologist and author Steve Taylor for a music-filled talk that dives into the Beatles’ history, exploring how the… ...
Webinar Programme
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Charmian Wylde | When Acupuncture meets Mainstream Healthcare: A Culture Clash? |
| Wednesday 11 | Dr Tina Maschi | Galileo’s Participatory Engagement with the Arts, Science and Spirituality |
| Wednesday 25 | Nicholas Colloff | Dom Bede Griffiths: A Universalist Christian Mystic |
| October 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 2 | Thomas Mayer | Living with the Deceased |
| Wednesday 9 | Helena Norberg-Hodge | Ancient Futures: Recovering our Sacred Connections |
| Wednesday 16 | Prof Massimo Pigliucci | How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life |
| Saturday 19, (2pm) | Prof Douglas Hodgson (Australia) | Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil: Life Lessons from Multiple NDEs |
| Wednesday 23 | Elizabeth Oldfield | Fully Alive: Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times |
| Wednesday 30 | Prof Leslie Combs | Synchronicity: In the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster |
| November 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 13 | Peter Russell | Forgiving Humanity: The Curse of Exponential Change |
| Wednesday 20 | Avigail Abarbanel | The Neuroscience of Self-Love and World Peace |
| Wednesday 27 | Monika Renz | Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Dying Process |
| December 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 4 | Nora Bateson | Combining: Living the Experience of Complexity |
Webinar Programme Archive
2023 Webinar Programme
2022 Webinar Programme
January 2022
Monday Dialogue
Giles Hutchins and Oonagh Harpur – Regenerative Leadership as a Transformational Journey
Monday Dialogue
Prof Sean Kelly – Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation
Monday Dialogue
Prof William Halal – Beyond Knowledge
Monday Dialogue
Prof Etzel Cardeña – Psi phenomena in non-representational visual art
Annalisa Burello – Creativity, Art and Spirituality: Expanding the Ontology of Spirituality to Non-Religious Contexts
Monday Dialogue
February 2022
Prof Alastair McIntosh – Climate Change and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature
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