Imaginal Inspirations: Recent Episodes
David Lorimer
Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
In the podcast series Imaginal Inspirations, David Lorimer talks to transformational authors and scientists about the experiences, people and books that have shaped their life and work.
David's guest this month is Susan Plunket, who is a writer and Jungian psychologist in private practice in New York City. She received her doctorate from The New School for Social Research in 1989. She works with dreams as a form of transcendent consciousness. From 2006 to 2009 she served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jung Foundation. Currently, she is on the Advisory Board of Quadrant, the Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. Her office is in Greenwich Village. Her most recent work is A Jungian Understanding of Transcendent
Experiences
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
WATCH OUT FOR OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
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galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.susanplunket.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/paranormal-perspectives-the-paranormal-experiences-of-a-jungian-psychologist-susan-plunket/f3e1f2a781465d50?ean=9781803415239&next=t&next=t
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/memories-dreams-reflections-an-autobiography-carl-jung/13866?ean=9780006540274&next=t
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/C-G-Jung/The-Red-Book--A-Readers-Edition/12780387?utm_source=webgains&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=196673&wgu=10671_196673_17581476055599_86aab37e13&wgexpiry=1789683605
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dgz83bhijM
Irina Tweedie Daughter of Fire
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month is. is Max Vermans, Emeritus Professor (BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS FAcSS) of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, currently focusing on Consciousness Studies, His main book Understanding Consciousness was short listed for the BPS book prize in 2001 and 2002 and he has over 130 publications in this area (over 100 on-line at Research Gate and Academia.edu). Max has given over 120 keynote addresses or plenary papers at conferences,
In 1997 Max co-founded the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the BPS and has organised or helped to organise many conferences, workshops and symposia on consciousness, including international ones sponsored by the CIBA foundation (London), the Fetzer Institute (USA) and the Templeton Foundation (USA). From 2006 onwards he also founded Totnes Consciousness Café with visiting speakers at monthly meetings in Totnes, where he now lives. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of a number of journals including the Journal of Consciousness Studies, The Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice (American Psychological Association), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, NeuroPsychoanalysis, and Journal of Parapsychology.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
WATCH OUT FOR OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' coming soon on this platform.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/velmans/
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/understanding-consciousness-book-max-velmans-9780415224925?sku
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-outsider-colin-wilson/1278674?ean=9780753814321
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-book-on-the-taboo-against-knowing-who-you-are-alan-watts/2435208?ean=9780285638532
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sceptical-essays-bertrand-russell/3298077?ean=9780415325080
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month is. is Peter Merry. Peter is passionate about helping humanity evolve at this time of profound global change. His work bridges emerging consciousness and practical innovation — combining wisdom, systems thinking, and entrepreneurial action to create real-world impact. Through Wyrd Technologies, he is pioneering consciousness-interactive technologies that enable us to remember our interconnectedness and engage with intelligence beyond the individual mind to address pressing challenges. He draws on decades of experience in societal transformation, Integral frameworks, and Spiral Dynamics to help organizations and governments navigate complexity and unlock evolutionary potential.
Alongside my entrepreneurial work, he has authored four books — Evolutionary Leadership, Why Work?, Leading from the Field, and Volution — offering clarity and practical pathways for leaders and changemakers who want to navigate this era with deeper awareness. He also designs transformative educational experiences, such as the programmes offered through Ubiquity University that he co-founded. His personal expertise is in supporting leaders seeking deeper personal development and systemic impact.
His passion is to act as a bridge between mainstream structures and frontier consciousness, translating pioneering ideas into grounded, actionable, life-enhancing solutions. He does what he can to walk the talk — purpose-driven, co-creative, ecologically engaged, committed to the never-ending personal development journey — and to inspire others to do the same.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://petermerry.org/
https://gowyrd.org/
https://www.ubiquityuniversity.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/small-is-beautiful-a-study-of-economics-as-if-people-mattered-e-f-schumacher/14044?ean=9780099225614
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-brief-history-of-everything-20th-anniversary-edition-ken-wilber/3666852?ean=9781611804522
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-field-the-quest-for-the-secret-force-of-the-universe-lynne-mctaggart/3166647?ean=9780007145102
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/spiral-dynamics-mastering-values-leadership-and-change-de-beck/4345897?ean=9781405133562
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Advances are made by answering questions.
Discoveries are made by questioning answers.
Bernie Heisch
David's guest this month is. is Marsha Sims, MM, which is Master of Music. She has a multidisciplinary background and years of experience interfacing with businesses, scientists and their projects. Her experience includes administrator and departmental secretary at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, where she organized PhD scientists, helped with presentations, did budget planning, etc. This is where she met her husband, Dr. Bernard Heisch, an astrophysicist. They've been a team ever since. She was executive director for the Journal of Scientific Exploration for 10 years. She was administrator at the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics under the direction of Dr. Bernard Heisch. There she assisted a small group of scientists who were doing cutting edge research on the zero point field, ZPF. She's currently the CEO of Jovian Corporation, which is a company started by Dr. Heisch that is continuing research on the ZPF and has some revolutionary ideas about extracting energy from this field. She and Dr. Heisch recently wrote The Miracle of Our Universe, A New View of Consciousness, God, Science and Reality, published by Newpage Books in 2023. In addition, She immerses herself in the music world, teaching music and singing opera. She's a member of the board and often performs for Verismo Opera.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.marshasimsmusic.com/
https://www.verismoopera.org/about
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Miracle-of-Our-Universe-by-Bernard-Haisch-Marsha-Sims/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Science-Behind-Miracles/dp/1617202797/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/proof-of-heaven-a-neurosurgeon-s-journey-into-the-afterlife-iii-alexander-dr-eben/4237539?ean=9780749958794
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-biology-of-belief-unleashing-the-power-of-consciousness-matter-miracles-bruce-h-lipton/3428386?ean=9781781805473
https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/conversations-with-god-neale-donald-walsch/121807?ean=9780340693254
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month isMattias Desmet who is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism explaining the nature of mass formation. His work has been discussed widely in the media, and his interviews have been viewed by millions of people around the world. His previous books include The Pursuit of Objectivity in Psychology and Lacan’s Logic of Subjectivity: A Walk on the Graph of Desire. Desmet is the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed academic papers. In 2018 he received the Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Case Study Prize of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and in 2019 he received the Wim Trijsburg Prize of the Dutch Association of Psychotherapy.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-psychopathology-of-everyday-life-sigmund-freud/567640?ean=9781609420192
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-mattias-desmet/6808436?ean=9781645022756
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beyond-good-and-evil-friedrich-nietzsche/541688?ean=9781513266732
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-origins-of-totalitarianism-hannah-arendt/1266259?ean=9780241316757
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-new-science-of-life-rupert-sheldrake/922041?ean=9781848310421
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month isRobin Rose Saltonstall. Robin holds a PhD from the University of California San Francisco Medical School. She is an integrative health practitioner in Boulder, Colorado, USA, who focuses on the unique physical challenges and psychological developmental tasks facing individuals in the second half of life. She is an ecopsychologist, a Polyvagal-Informed therapist, and a professor of Climate Crisis and Ecopsychological Applications as well as Ecotoxicology for Viridis Graduate Institute (www.viridis.edu). Robin integrates neuroscience, Nature-based learning, depth psychology, art, and movement for living the second half of life.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://robinrosesaltonstall.com/about-me/
https://www.40plusfitnessandhealth.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=The+Little+Engine+That+Could
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/objectivity-lorraine-daston/3560686?ean=9781890951795
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/enlivenment-toward-a-poetics-for-the-anthropocene-andreas-weber/857124?ean=9780262536660
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581526.In_My_Own_Way
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month isChris M. Bache, Ph.D, 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 - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy; The Living Classroom - an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe - the story of his 20-year journey with LSD.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://chrisbache.com/
https://chrisbache.com/BOOKS-1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twenty-Cases-Suggestive-Reincarnation-Stevenson/dp/0813908728
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Stanislav-Grof/Realms-of-the-Human-Unconscious--Observations-from-LSD-Research/24081519
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Science-Life-Hypothesis-Resonance/dp/0892815353/
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month is Wendy Ellyatt, a Global Thinker and Change Agent who is actively promoting regenerative systems transformation across sectors. A long-term member of the Scientific and Medical Network, she is co-author of the Unitive Narrative, founder of the Flourish Project, co-founder of Living Cities Earth, a member of the SDG Thought Leaders Synergy Circle, development lead for the Unitive Wisdom and Unitive Education Collaborations, a Global Council member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), project lead for the Spirituality in Education Alliance UK (SIEUK) and an awardee of the Brahma Kumaris ‘100 Women of Spirit’.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.wendyellyatt.com/
www.flourishproject.net
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/15/4/42
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maria-Montessoris-Pedagogical-Anthropology-Montessori/dp/1528720741
https://www.patternlanguage.com/bookstore/nature-of-order.html
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
William Keepin, PhD, is a mathematical physicist with extensive training in contemplative meditation and transpersonal psychology. His research on sustainable energy to mitigate climate change influenced international environmental policy, and he was a whistleblower in nuclear science policy. Will co-founded Gender Equity and Reconciliation International which has conducted 300 trainings in 14 countries on gender equality, and also Satyana Institute which organizes conferences to bring contemplative mystics together across the religions and science. His books include Belonging to God: Science, Spirituality, and a Universal Path of Divine Love (2016), and Gender Equity and Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family (2023).
.Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/william-keepin
https://www.permanentpublications.co.uk/william-keepin/
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/think-on-these-things-book-j-krishnamurti-9780060916091?
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/emerson-s-essays-the-first-and-second-series-complete-nature-self-reliance-friendship-compensation-oversoul-and-other-gre-ralph-waldo-emerson/2796945?ean=9781387780525
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-art-of-loving-erich-fromm/302574?ean=9780062138927
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Douglas Grunther is the creator/host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a rollicking--and multi award-winning--radio talk show spiced with humor and informed by his love of philosophy, depth psychology, and spiritual insight. His guests have been among the most original visionaries of our time. Grunther graduated from Columbia University where he was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. He has been the featured speaker in front of national audiences, and is a dreamwork facilitator certified by Dr. Jeremy Taylor, Co-Founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Douglas is author of The Quantum and the Dream – Visionary Consciousness, AI and the New Renaissance.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://douglasgrunther.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/memories-dreams-reflections-an-autobiography-carl-jung/13866?ean=9780006540274
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-interpretation-of-dreams-the-psychology-classic-sigmund-freud/2440955?ean=9780857088444
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-tao-of-physics-fritjof-capra/13879?ean=9780006544890
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-master-and-his-emissary-the-divided-brain-and-the-making-of-the-western-world-iain-mcgilchrist/2956961?ean=9780300245929
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-medium-is-the-massage-an-inventory-of-effects-marshall-mcluhan/3963302?ean=9780141035826
Mozart Requiem - Sergiu Celibidache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moc4d4hR_uo
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month isDr. Laleh Quinn, who has been a research faculty member in the Cognitive Science department at the University of California San Diego for 25 years specializing in Behavioural Neuroscience. She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Arizona where her emphasis was on discovering whether there is a scientific explanation for consciousness. Her neuroscience research has ranged from neurophysiological recordings of brain activity in awake behaving animals to understanding the roots of empathy and compassion.
After learning to meditate through being prescribed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction by her doctor, in addition to becoming much less stressed, she began to become more spiritually awakened. This led her to begin teaching mindfulness and meditation to students and faculty at UCSD in hopes of helping with the extreme stress found in academia. Her spiritual awakening also led her to understand that there is much more to this world than what her materialist academic colleagues were dictating. In 2019 her close friend of 20 years and fellow neuroscientist died and she began experiencing signs and synchronicities and messages indicating that he still existed and was communicating with her. Thus began a dedicated and impassioned quest to discover whether consciousness can survive death and whether after-death communication is real. Through rigorous researching, through personal experimentation, and through a close personal relationship with a professional evidential medium, she found answers and she is currently devoting much of her time to writing and speaking about her experiences of an expanded reality beyond the confines of materialism.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://profiles.ucsd.edu/laleh.quinn
lalehquinn@gmail.com
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/how-a-neuroscientist-came-to-embrace-the-reality-of-acausal-synchronicities/reading/
https://www.feedyourhead.blog/p/the-peace-of-no-time-69f
https://independent.academia.edu/LalehQuinn
https://suzannegiesemann.com/
psychicmediumreading.org
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month is Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and honorary visiting Prof at the University of Queensland. Until his retirement from the NHS in 2016 he was Clinical Psychologist for over 40 years and a consultant for 30. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology with a special focus on mood, shame and self-criticism in various mental health difficulties. Given that many of these mental health difficulties are linked to difficulties in being compassionate towards others, being recipients of compassionate care, especially in childhood, and being compassionate and supportive to oneself, cultivating compassion and its psychophysiological mediators became a target development. A recent meta-analysis from studies from over 17 countries have shown compassion-focused therapy to be highly effective.
Paul was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1993, president of the BABCP 2002-2004, and was a member of the first British Government’s NICE guidelines for depression. He has written/edited 23 books and over 330 papers and book chapters. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation as an international charity with the mission statement To promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.compassionatemind.co.uk/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-compassionate-mind-prof-paul-gilbert/3366863?ean=9781849010986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2skAMI8c-4
Anthony Stevens video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqqNOH4mX4
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/archetype-a-natural-history-of-the-self-anthony-stevens/702618?ean=9780415052207
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-discovery-of-the-unconscious-the-history-and-evolution-of-dynamic-psychiatry-henri-f-ellenberger/3739261?ean=9780465016730
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest this month is Jan Pilotti MD, who studied mathematics and theoretical physics and earned a B.Sc. at Stockholm’s University Sweden. As a young student he discovered a possibility of mathematically extending Einstein’s theory of relativity to include superluminal Lorentz transformations in a six-dimensional Minkowskian spacetime, with three space and three “timelike” dimensions. This was 1971 and long before string theory assumed more space dimensions. So, he didn’t get any support for the idea of more dimensions and left theoretical physics without finishing any Ph.D. dissertation.
Ironically a mystical experience at a summer camp with a communist group opened him up to the Soul of the Universe. He started to meditate and then studied at medical school. Soon he found Raymond Moody’s book Life after Life and thought that NDE perhaps was related to the extra spacetime dimensions. He has edited and written about NDEs and OBEs in a Swedish book of readings in 1982 and in 1987 in another Swedish book he started to present the idea of Conscious spacetime. He is also M.D. and has worked as a child- and adolescent psychiatrist, mainly with family and trauma therapy.
After retirement he returned to studying physics and consciousness. In English he has published Conscious Spacetime. An outline to experiential monism in The Mystery of Consciousness. Essays on spacetime, Evolution and Well-being. Ed. I. Fredriksson. McFarland 2014. And in a conference book on physics 2020 published a chapter How Minkowski Could Have Discovered Superluminal Lorentz Transformations and six Dimensional Spacetime. where, in mathematical detail, he shows how Einstein, Minkowski, Pauli and many others missed superluminal Lorentz transformations and six dimensions and a possible connection to both quantum theory and consciousness. He is currently an affiliated member of Institute for Foundational Studies
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.drpilotti.info/eng/
https://www.academia.edu/114149181
https://www.academia.edu/109869489
https://www.minkowskiinstitute.com/mip/books/2019conf.html
https://galileocommission.org/jan-pilotti-conscious-experiences-everywhere-besides-in-the-brain/
Raymond Moody Life after Life https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/life-after-life-dr-raymond-moody/1465195?ean=9780712602730
The Soul of the Universe by Gustaf Stromberg https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31944716880
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Peter Russell is a leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He coined the term "global brain" with his 1980's bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the Internet and the impact it would have on humanity. He is the author of twelve other books, including Waking Up in Time, From Science to God, and most recently Letting Go of Nothing and Forgiving Humanity.
He studied theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge, and meditation and Eastern Philosophy in India. In the 1980s pioneered the introduction of personal growth programs to corporations.
His mission is to distill the essential wisdom on human consciousness found in the world’s various spiritual traditions, and to disseminate their teachings on self-liberation in contemporary and compelling ways.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
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galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.peterrussell.com/index.php
Books by Peter Russell
https://www.peterrussell.com/forgivinghumanity/index.php
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/letting-go-of-nothing-relax-your-mind-and-discover-the-wonder-of-your-true-nature-peter-russell/6005459?ean=9781608687657
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-global-brain-the-awakening-earth-in-a-new-century-peter-russell/4793001?ean=9780863156168
https://www.waterstones.com/book/from-science-to-god/peter-russell/9781577314943
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Systems-James-Grier-Miller/dp/0070420157
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gaia-a-new-look-at-life-on-earth-james-lovelock/2091134?ean=9780198784883
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-upanishads-juan-mascaro/2467576?ean=9780140441635
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's Guest today is Dr Harrie Salman, a philosopher of culture and a traveller who speaks nine European languages and who has lectured at a number of universities. In September 1986, he founded the Rembrandt Foundation for the study of Central European Culture, for which he organised about 30 conferences at the University of Leiden (until 1993). Between 1989 and 2003 he spent about 18 months in the countries of the former Soviet Union, doing research on Russian culture and giving lectures and seminars. Between 1990 and 2001, he taught courses on ‘Science and Culture in Central Europe’ at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Prague, Czech Republic. From 1993 to 2019 he taught courses on Anthroposophy at the department of Art Therapy at the State University of professional education in Leiden, Holland.
His 26 books and numerous articles, published in many languages, deal with aspects of cultural history, social development and Dutch regional history. His books include publications on European culture (Die Heilung Europas), Russian culture (De onzichtbare stad), Anthroposophy and the White Brotherhood (The Social World as Mystery Center, The Rising of the Inner Sun, Peter Deunov, Valentin Tomberg, and Rudolf Steiner), global economy (Stolen Wealth) and social issues (De Corona Epidemie, The Great Reset).Since 1981, he has been giving lectures, seminars and workshops internationally on questions of social and cultural development, psychology and spirituality, the cultures of Central Europe and Russia, and economic systems.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Books by Harrie Salman https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword?keyword=Harrie%20Salman&productType=1
Ivan Illich: Medical Nemesis https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ivan-Illich/Limits-to-Medicine--Medical-Nemesis---The-Expropriation-of-Health/20896819
Steiner: Christianity as Mystical Fact https://archive.org/details/christianityasmy00stei/page/n5/mode/2up
Deunov: The Wellspring of Good https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9789544743161/Wellspring-Good-Words-Master-Peter-9544743162/plp
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's Guest today is Dr Annine E.G. van der Meer, a Dutch historian of religion who holds a PhD in theology from the University of Utrecht. She was the seventh, last and only female student to write her doctoral thesis under the guidance of the late Prof. Dr. Gilles Quispel. He was an internationally known scholar of apocryphal Christian texts, famous for his translation of the so called fifth Gospel, The Gospel of Thomas and other texts from the Nag Hammadi Library, rediscovered in Upper-Egypt in 1945.
Annine has written several authoritative books about the hidden history of the sacred feminine and of women and their forgotten contribution to evolution and civilization. This involves digging Her-Story out from under His-Story in order to write Our-Story. Where necessary, she integrates the established images of woman and man for the purpose of achieving equality, harmony, balance and peace in the world. In 2008, she founded Pansophia Foundation, a school of Wisdom in the 21st century, which she led until 2018. Its mission was to combine the raising of consciousness with spirituality and empowerment of women.
Annine is the author of 19 books in Dutch, English, French and German. In English and French, she has published, The Black Madonna from Primal to Final Times and Mary Magdalene Unveiled Hidden sources restore her broken image, which isa commentary about The Gospel of the Beloved Companion, the complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and only released in 2010.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.anninevandermeer.nl and www.pansophia-press.nl
https://www.annine-pansophia.nl/annine_van_der_meer/wp-content/uploads/Engels-CV-Annine-2021-DEF2.pdf
Magdalene’s Ascension https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Annine-van-der-Meer/224858681
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-Magdalene-Unveiled-Including-commentary/dp/9083318907/
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Annine-E-G-Van-Der-Meer/The-Black-Madonna-from-Primal-to-Final-Times--The-Mother-/29882082
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jehanne-De-Quillan/The-Gospel-of-the-Beloved-Companion--The-Complete-Gospel-of-Mary-Magdalene/26818047
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's Guest today is Rev. Prof. Stephen G Wright FRCN MBE. In his own words, "starting out with the curse-blessing of the original dysfunctional family, Stephen emerged from his Manchester working class background to grow his hair long and wander around Europe like a lot of his generation did in the 60s. He drifted into nursing, and by conventional measures made a success of it, following the first Masters programme at Manchester University and eventually becoming the first consultant nurse in the NHS in 1986. He got into conference speaking and course-leading internationally, shuffled around in academia, made TV programmes, wrote lots of books and research papers about nursing, advised governments and WHO and the Royal College of Nursing, and matured his craft in the nursing practice of older people culminating in leading a radical nursing development unit that influenced nursing far and wide. He gathered lots of glittering prizes along the way to add letters before and after his name, which appealed greatly to the Enneatype 3 personality he carries around with him. Thus all the usual trappings of an acclaimed career were in place.
A hand-break turn in self-perception and a reawakening of the mysticism long suppressed since childhood took him in a different direction in the 90’s – exploring spirituality as it related to himself, health care and as service to others. He trained with some eminent teachers, including at the Interfaith Seminary, and was mentored most deeply by Ram Dass and Jean Sayre-Adams. He is a member of the Iona Community, finds a kinship in the deep silent worship of Quaker meetings and is just about hanging on, like many others, to his bit part in the Anglican tradition.
His latest work published by Wild Goose focuses on the life of Kentigern/Mungo and offers a pilgrimage route around the Northern Fells of Cumbria. Other books have explored spirituality and health, pilgrimage, poetry and the quartet of spiritual guidance, Coming Home, Contemplation, Burnout and, more recently, Heartfullness. His latest work, recently published is Fugue. It is an exploration of the connection between the spiritual life and the polycrisis. He’s a Fellow and visiting professor at the University of Cumbria which offers a degree of input still to the academic world, as well as conferring some vague respectability to his work. He lives with his partner in the English Lake District, enjoys grandfatherhood, beekeeping and his organic garden and at 74 still finds working as a trustee and spiritual director for the Sacred Space Foundation a joy.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
The Sacred Space Foundation https://www.sacredspace.org.uk/
Books by Stephen: https://www.sacredspace.org.uk/products
Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31827290186&dest
Books by Ram Dass https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=Ram+Dass
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's Guest today is Sperry Andrews. To further the evolution of a socially altruistic heart-centered intelligence and two-way telepathic awareness, Sperry Andrews founded the Human Connection Institute in 1990, facilitating hundreds of groups internationally for over thirty years. He has taught anyone interested how to recreate these experiences effectively in-person, as well as online via webcam. He has published and given invited presentations on human interconnectedness and the Human Connection Project in many international forums. He collaborated for five years with Dr. William Braud, Senior Research Associate of the Mind Science Foundation, to pioneer the field of Distant Mental Interactions with Living Systems (DMILS) and direct a multinational, scientifically based, social action media research project to demonstrate our indivisibility on instrument under double-blind conditions with Aikido masters, Buddhist monks, and well know celebrities stationed at multiple scientific laboratories in widely separated geographic locations. For six years, he has been collaborating with Dr. James E. Beichler, a theoretical physicist and scientific historian. They agree: “Our single field theory goes well beyond the simple notion of mind and consciousness as mere human bound perceivers and interpreters of the external material/physical world, by placing the physical origin of consciousness within every geometrical point in the universe itself.”
Their model enables Western science to unite classical and quantum theories while validating long-standing contemplative Hindu and Buddhist insights that a non-physical Void is spiritually manifesting a "dream of form" through cause and effect.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/BIO.pdf
The Human Connection Institute https://www.connectioninstitute.org/
Art by Sperry Andrews https://sperry-andrews.pixels.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dzogchen-the-self-perfected-state-chogyal-namkhai-norbu/3439702?ean=9781559390576
J. Krishnamurti/David Bohm dialogues https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1n30s-LKus4oQ5fCd6MJ17waAMCsgumf
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-sense-of-being-stared-at-and-other-aspects-of-the-extended-mind-rupert-sheldrake/1906742?ean=9780099441533
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
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) from a devastating “superquarry” plan. He then served, unpaid to avoid conflicts of interest, on the company’s Sustainability Stakeholders Panel for 10 years to help further corporate social and environmental responsibility.
Alastair guest lectures on nonviolence at military staff colleges including, for over two decades, on some of the UK Defence Academy's most senior courses. His books include Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power, Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service, Poacher’s Pilgrimage: an Island Journey, and Riders on the Storm (Birlinn 2020) which was long-listed for the Wainwright Prize in Global Conservation 2021. A Quaker with an interfaith outlook, focusing much of his work around spirituality, he lives in Glasgow with his wife, Véréne Nicolas. There he is a founding trustee of the GalGael Trust which works with poverty, community and human potential, and an honorary professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.AlastairMcIntosh.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/states-of-consciousness-charles-t-tart/1831348?ean=9780595151967
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/siddharta-an-indian-tale-herman-hesse/3317174?ean=9789386538208
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/memories-dreams-reflections-an-autobiography-carl-jung/13866?ean=9780006540274
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-color-purple-a-special-40th-anniversary-edition-of-the-pulitzer-prize-winning-novel-alice-walker/5980159?ean=9781474625586
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Anna Bacchia, who describes herself as an Aesthete Innovator Researcher Teacher & Writer. She has conducted more than 40 years of Research in Human Sciences and Cognitive Sciences, where she has focused on unexplored aspects and qualities of the Cognitive, Creative and Intuitive processes. She is Founder of the ‘Consciousness Institute’ Lugano, Switzerland, and of the LIFE Leaders .international® Project, and she holds Educational Trainings and Programs on ‘Consciousness, Self, Life’ dedicated to an unexplored intuitive communicating and understanding, in syntony with the nature of Life.
She is a life member of the World Peace Forum, a laureate of the ‘Luxembourg World Peace Prize’, a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest and a Research Fellow of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. Her most recent is ‘A.I. and the Living Intelligence’. And her most recent book is entitled ‘ÌNIN, our Intuition which transforms and creates’.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.AnnaBacchia.net
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/MD-Deepak-Chopra/Quantum-Healing-Revised-and-Updated/18301212
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-tao-of-physics-fritjof-capra/13879?ean=9780006544890
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/web-of-life-fritjof-capra/193213?ean=9780006547518
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/zen-in-the-art-of-archery-herrigel-eugen/3886899?ean=9781941129944
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-bhagavad-gita-laurie-l-patton/2012316?ean=9780140447903
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Physical-Analogical-Foundations-Conscious-Reality/dp/8898497091/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706289929&sr=1-3-catcorr
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Professor Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, who is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College. She founded the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian High Amazon in 2009 where she works with indigenous communities as well as several High Schools in the province, regenerating the most sustainable and climate reducing pre-Columbian anthropogenic soil known as Terra Preta do Indio (black earth of the Indians). Her more recent books are: Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (2011); Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth with Robert Tindall and David Shearer, (2017); Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi edited with Stefano Varese, (2020). Her latest book is written with Randy Chung Gonzales who has worked in SCBR for decades: Initiated by the Spirits: Healing Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power of the Sacred (2022).
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://asociacionsachamama.org/
https://sophia.smith.edu/anthro/Marglin.html
Books by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9rique+Apffel-Marglin
The Death of Nature Carolyn Merchant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Nature-Ecology-Scientific-Revolution/dp/0062505955
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cosmogenesis-an-unveiling-of-the-expanding-universe-brian-thomas-swimme/7534509?ean=9781640096172
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Lisa Miller, the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and her new book, The Awakened Brain. She is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. She is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. She earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. She speaks and consults for the US Military, businesses, personal development, faith-based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.lisamillerphd.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-awakened-brain-the-psychology-of-spirituality-lisa-miller/6627661?ean=9780141991030
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Lisa-J-Miller/The-Spiritual-Child--The-New-Science-on-Parenting-for-Hea/17317019
Ram Das - The only dance there is. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30366475868&ref_=ps_ggl_10939332144&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Textbookstandard-_-product_id=UK9780385084130NEW
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Better-Light-Candle-David-Lorimer/dp/B0BR9GP78N
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Mona Sobhani, PhD who is a cognitive neuroscientist, author, and entrepreneur. A former research scientist at the University of Southern California, she holds a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Southern California and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University with the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. She is the author of Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe (Park City Press/Inner Traditions), which details her transformation from a diehard scientific materialist to an open-minded spiritual seeker. In the Brave New World of Psychedelic Science substack, she writes about the psychedelic renaissance, altered states of consciousness, and the transpersonal. She is co-founder of Exploring Consciousness, a community of curious scientists who are seeking to understand consciousness, spirituality, and the nature of our reality.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.monasobhaniphd.com
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Mona-Sobhani/Proof-of-Spiritual-Phenomena--A-Neuroscientists-Discovery/26975623
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dr-Brian-Weiss/Many-Lives-Many-Masters--The-true-story-of-a-prominent-ps/1931400
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jeffrey-J-Kripal/The-Flip--Who-You-Really-Are-and-Why-It-Matters/24240720
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, a futurist, entrepreneur, systems scientist, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change. She is the founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre, co-founder of the EARTHwise DAO, initiator and architect of the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization, and lead architect of the EARTHwise Game for Civilizational Transformation. She received a degree of Doctor from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, for her pioneering research on systemic transformation. She is the co-author with Dr. Jean Houston of the bestsellers The Quest of Rose, which won the 2022 Silver Nautilus Book award, and Return of the Avatars, which won the 2023 Gold Nautilus Book award. For more information, visit website:
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.earthwisecentre.org/anneloes-smitsman
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anneloes-Smitsman/The-Quest-of-Rose--The-Cosmic-Keys-of-Our-Future-Becoming/26373194
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anneloes-Smitsman/Return-of-the-Avatars--The-Cosmic-Architect-Tools-of-Our-Future-Becoming/27098197
Dancing the Dream The Seven Sacred Paths to Human Transformation by Jamie Sams https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780062515148?gC
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Paramahansa-Paramahansa-Yogananda-Yogananda/Autobiography-of-a-Yogi--Mass-Market-Paperback-New-Cover/2634038
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-prince-niccolo-machiavelli/37898?ean=9781513269061
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Thomas R. Verny, psychiatrist, academic, writer, poet, blogger (Psychology Today), contributing columnist (The Stratford Times) and podcaster (Pushing Boundaries with Dr. Thomas R Verny). He isthe author of eight books, including The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, published in 27 countries and the Embodied Mind, 2021, also available in Spanish, Greek, Russian and Czech, as well as 47 scientific papers. He has previously taught at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University (Toronto), St. Mary’s University (Minneapolis) and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.trvernymd.com/
https://pushingboundarieswithdrthomasrverny.buzzsprout.com/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-interpretation-of-dreams-sigmund-freud/2333?ean=9780008646769
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/grimms-fairy-tales-brothers-grimm/716797?ean=9780008195632
Jerzy Kosinsky: The Painted Bird
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Facts-Life-R-D-Laing/dp/0394714741
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Prof Keith Ward, DD, FBA graduated in philosophy from Cardiff University, and in theology from Oxford. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, and King’s College, London. He was Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, then Professor of Moral and Social Theology and subsequently of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s, London, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. He is the author of nearly 50 books and most recently his engaging autobiography, Adventures in Belief humorously subtitled How I Discovered the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (Possibly)
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.keithward.org.uk/
https://wipfandstock.com/9781666756234/adventures-in-belief/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/critique-of-pure-reason-kant-critique-of-pure-reason-immanuel-kant/3955858?ean=9780460873581 /
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David’s guest today is Dr Joan Walton, a researcher in the School of Education, Psychology and Language at York St John University, UK. Joan has had an interest in consciousness studies from her early 20s, influenced initially by the work of Carl Jung, which led her to the work of other transpersonal psychologists, philosophers, scientists and writers about religions and spiritual traditions. Her focus has always been on the relevance of intellectual exploration for how we live our lives on a daily basis, and her working life in social work and education has reflected this. Passionate about the importance of early years, Joan’s current research focuses on how to enhance the quality of intergenerational relating, with the aim of creating inclusive communities which encourage connection and compassion through the nurturing of mutually caring relationships across generations. Central to this is the idea of a participatory consciousness, in which everything and everyone is interconnected. Joan is a member of the Board of Directors in the SMN, a member of the Galileo Commission Steering Group, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientificandmedical.net
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Publications by Joan Walton: https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/view/author_id/1840.html
https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/p-w-martin/experiment-in-depth/9780710083937
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-psychology-of-consciousness/robert-ornstein/9781949358988
https://spiritual-awakenings.net/ also available as a podcast https://redcircle.com/shows/spiritual-awakenings
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest today is Prof Ervin Laszlo. He spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the international music competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an international concert career, first in Europe and then in America.
Shifting to the life of a philosopher and systems scientist, he has lectured at various U.S. Universities including Yale and Princeton. He is the Founder and President of both the Club of Budapest and the Laszlo Institute for New Paradigm Research.
He is the author, co-author or editor of 106 different books that have appeared in a total of 25 languages, Ervin Laszlo has also written several hundred papers and articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. He is a member of numerous scientific bodies, including the International Academy of Science, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and the International Medici Academy. He was elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010.
Ervin Laszlo was awarded the Laszlo the Sorbonne’s highest degree, the Doctorat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1970, and received honorary Ph.D’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. He was the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in 2001, of the International Mandir of Peace Prize of Assisi in 2005, and of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize in 2017. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
https://thelaszloinstitute.com/about/ervin-laszlo/
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/creative-evolution-henri-louis-bergson/3182006?ean=9781515423928
https://spiritual-awakenings.net/ also available as a podcast https://redcircle.com/shows/spiritual-awakenings
Laszlo playing Chopin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo\_192IYGjU
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD he studied the first second of the universe with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University and Caltech. He then held Research Fellowships at Trinity College and the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge before moving to Queen Mary in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at various institutes in America, Canada and Japan. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter and the anthropic principle. He is the author of around 300 papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. He is very interested in the role of consciousness, regarding this as a fundamental rather than incidental feature of the Universe, and he is developing a new physical paradigm, which accommodates normal, paranormal and mystical experiences. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion and views psychical research as forming a bridge between them. He is President of the Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution – Albert Einstein
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/abc-of-relativity-bertrand-russell/2247330?ean=9780415473828
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-experiment-with-time-j-w-dunne/7122584?ean=9780486849942
The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa https://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/137492/
https://spiritual-awakenings.net/ also available as a podcast https://redcircle.com/shows/spiritual-awakenings
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
AARON KHERIATY, MD is a psychiatrist, and the director of the program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and the director of the Health and Human Flourishing program at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, California. He taught psychiatry previously at the UCI School of Medicine where he was the director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, and the chairman of the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals. Dr. Kheriaty’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Atlantis, Arc Digital, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things. He blogs at AaronKheriaty.Substack.com. He is author of The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.aaronkheriaty.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Abnormal-Biomedical-Security-State/dp/1684513855
Viktor Frankl: Man's Search For Meaning https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-classic-editions-viktor-e-frankl/3000874?ean=9781846046384
Etty Hillesum: An interrupted life. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31434381738&ref
Confessions of St. Augustine https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-confessions-of-st-augustine-saint-augustine/1200112?ean=9781640322622
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest today is Dr. Lotte Valentin, a naturopathic physician, author, evidential psychic and medical medium, ancestral healer and international keynote speaker. She is the author of Med School after Menopause, The Journey of my Soul, an inspirational story about transformation, healing and spirituality and she is also the creator of Healing Your Ancestral Mother Wound, which she produced in collaboration with Hemi-Sync. Dr. Lotte also leads workshops on Ancestral Healing for The Theosophical Society as well as other organizations and is a regular guest on The Shift Network.
Dr. Lotte has had two Near-Death out-of-body experiences which resulted in her becoming clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient and activating her life path. She was then guided to attend medical school as well as become an author and evidential medium. Dr. Lotte completed her medical school pre-requisites and was accepted into medical school at the age of 54! Dr. Lotte is also the host of her own podcast Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, which is currently ranked in the top 10% GLOBALLY out of 2.8 million podcasts. She developed this podcast to help people create a path to healing their own life physically, emotionally and spiritually, and bridge the gap between science and soul.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
https://drlotte.com/podcast-dr-lotte-science-with-soul
Med School after Menopause https://www.abebooks.co.uk/MED-SCHOOL-after-MENOPAUSE-Journey-Soul/30597385746/bd
Healing Your Ancestral Mother Wound https://drlotte.com/hemisync
Infinite Mind by Valerie Hunt
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David's guest today is Dr Monica Gagliano who is Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, Southern Cross University in Perth, Australia. Her main research is broadly focusing on key aspects of the ecological processes by which organisms are able to gather information on the variable conditions of their surrounding environment in order to thrive. In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, her research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, she has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.
“Not all who wander are lost” - Goethe
“The soul has an absolute and unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment” - Thomas Moore
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
The Mind of Plants https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780907791874
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-green-thread/patricia-vieira/monica-gagliano/9781498510615
Thomas Berry - The Dream of the Earth https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-dream-of-the-earth/9781619025325
Tao Te Ching https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-divine-feminine-tao-te-ching-a-new-translation-and-commentary/9781644112465
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr. Howard Eisenberg He is a ‘Psychonaut’ – what Jean Houston termed an explorer of ‘inner space’. On the ‘left brain’ side, he’s a Physician with post-graduate training in both Psychology and Psychiatry, and is one of the international pioneers in both the clinical & organizational aspects of Stress Management. He was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is currently in Private Practice of Psychotherapy and Mind/Body Medicine in Newmarket, Ontario. He also heads up the international Fortune 100 consulting firm, Syntrekâ Inc.
On the ‘right brain’ side – Dr. Eisenberg earned his medical degree and master’s degree in Psychology simultaneously! Howard’s master’s thesis was on Telepathy & he was subsequently awarded the first postgraduate University degree in Canada for research in Parapsychology - from McGill U. At the University of Vermont, he helped establish an inter-disciplinary Study Group on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He is the author of, Inner Spaces: Parapsychological Explorations of the Mind, (which became the textbook for his pioneering credit course in Parapsychology at the University of Toronto). He also hosted the CBC Radio national mini-series, Odyssey. And he is the Producer of the unique guided-meditation recording – The Tranquility Experienceã. His latest book is Dream it to Do It.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Works and links mentioned:
Dream it to do it: The science and the magic by Howard Eisenberg: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Do-Science-Howard-Eisenberg/dp/1737916924
Fundamentals of New Individualism by Robert Dolling Wells (Out of print)
Plato's Republic https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-republic-9780008480080/9780008480080
Become What you Are by Alan Watts https://uk.bookshop.org/books/become-what-you-are-9781611805796/
Spencer Johnson The Present https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-present-the-gift-that-makes-you-happy-and-successful-at-work-and-in-life-9780553817959
Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/aldous-huxley/perennial-philosophy/
Dr Howard Eisenberg coaching: https://drhowardeisenberg.com/executive-coach-in-aurora/
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
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. She is also a founder of the field of Social Artistry, “Human development in the light of social change.” She was awarded the Synergy Superstar Award 2020 by the Source of Synergy Foundation for her exemplary work inspiring us to source our highest human capacities, and the Visioneers Heroine of Humanity Award. Jean is renowned for her gifts as a mythic storyteller, and she holds conferences, seminars, and mentoring programs with leaders and change agents worldwide. She has worked intensively in over 40 cultures, lectured in over 100 countries, and worked with major organizations such as UNICEF, UNDP, and NASA, as well as helping global state leaders, leading educational institutions, business organizations, and millions of people to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness. She is the co-author with Dr. Anneloes Smitsman of the award-winning Future Humans Trilogy, as well as an author of over 36 published books and a great many unpublished books, plays, and manuscripts.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
A Mythic Life by Jean Houston https://uk.bookshop.org/books/mythic-life/9780062502827
The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Rose-Cosmic-Becoming-Trilogy/dp/1990093116/
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) https://uk.bookshop.org/books/twelfth-night-or-what-you-will-the-oxford-shakespeare/9780199536092
Arnold Toynbee - A Study of History https://uk.bookshop.org/books/a-study-of-history-volume-i-abridgement-of-volumes-i-vi/9780195050806
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. by Robert Masters and Jean Houston https://www.amazon.co.uk/Varieties-Psychedelic-Experience-Classic-Effects-ebook/dp/B072NDF4DD
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
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 humanity, as well as the interface between such experiences, spirituality and Indigenous knowledges.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Articles by Natasha Tassell-Matamua https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=Natasha+Tassell-Matamua&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/19822/
Books mentioned:
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-tibetan-book-of-living-and-dying-25th-anniversary-edition/9781846045387
Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock https://uk.bookshop.org/books/fingerprints-of-the-gods/9780712679060
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake https://uk.bookshop.org/books/entangled-life-the-smash-hit-sunday-times-bestseller-that-will-transform-your-understanding-of-our-planet-and-life-itself/9781784708276
Real Magic by Dean Radin https://uk.bookshop.org/books/real-magic-unlocking-your-natural-psychic-abilities-to-create-everyday-miracles/9781524758820
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
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 from many scientists around the world who study the mind-body question and the nature of consciousness. His earlier books, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife and The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, have collectively spent more than two years atop the New York Times and international bestseller lists.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.ebenalexander.com
https://www.sacredacoustics.com/
Books by Eben Alexander; https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Eben+Alexander
One Mind by Larry Dossey https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Larry-MD-Dossey/One-Mind--How-Our-Individual-Mind-Is-Part-of-a-Greater-Co/15127706
Consciousness beyond life by Pim van Lommel https://uk.bookshop.org/books/consciousness-beyond-life-the-science-of-the-near-death-experience/9780061777264
Real Magic by Dean Radin https://uk.bookshop.org/books/real-magic-unlocking-your-natural-psychic-abilities-to-create-everyday-miracles/9781524758820
Books by Ed Kelly https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Edward+F.+Kelly
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today isCynthia 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. She is a faculty member emeritus of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the founding director of an international network of Wisdom schools, uniting classic Christian mystical and monastic teaching with contemporary practices of mindfulness and embodied presence.
Cynthia’s signature contribution to the Christian contemplative reawakening has focused in four main areas: Centering Prayer; the Christian Wisdom Tradition; the Christian Inner and Fourth Way Traditions; and The Path of Conscious Love.Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Cynthia Bourgeault https://cynthiabourgeault.org/
Books by Cynthia Bourgeault: https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Cynthia+Bourgeault
The Future of Wisdom by Bruno Barnhart: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-future-of-wisdom-toward-a-rebirth-of-sapiential-christianity/9781939681829
In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky https://uk.bookshop.org/books/in-search-of-the-miraculous/9781874250760
The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebster: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-ever-present-origin/9780821407691
What Happens in Mindfulness by John Teasdale: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/what-happens-in-mindfulness-inner-awakening-and-embodied-cognition/9781462549450
Jacob Boehme: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/jacob-boehme-9781556433573/9781556433573
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's Guest today isMark Gober who is an award-winning author of four books: "An End to Upside Down Thinking" (2018), "An End to Upside Down Living" (2020), "An End to Upside Down Liberty" (2021), and "An End to Upside Down Contact" (2022). He is also the host of the podcast "Where Is My Mind?" Gober serves on the Board of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Previously, he was a partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM’s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he was elected a captain of its Division I tennis team.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Books by Mark Gober https://markgober.com/
An End to Upside Down Thinking" (2018), https://uk.bookshop.org/books/an-end-to-upside-down-thinking-dispelling-the-myth-that-the-brain-produces-consciousness-and-the-implications-for-everyday-lif/9781947637856
"An End to Upside Down Living" (2020), https://uk.bookshop.org/books/an-end-to-upside-down-living-reorienting-our-consciousness-to-live-better-and-save-the-human-species/9781949001044
"An End to Upside Down Liberty" (2021), https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Upside-Down-Liberty-Traditional-ebook/dp/B09HL83BY1/ref
"An End to Upside Down Contact" (2022). https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Upside-Down-Contact-Spirits-ebook/dp/B0B43TH5JZ/
Your Soul's Plan by Robert Schwartz https://uk.bookshop.org/books/your-soul-s-plan-discovering-the-real-meaning-of-the-life-you-planned-before-you-were-born/9781583942727
"Where Is My Mind?" podcast https://markgober.com/podcast/
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's Guest today isDrDean Radin who is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India (an institution of higher learning accredited by the Indian government and specializing in yoga practice and research). Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 650 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is author or co-author of some 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and nine books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Books by Dean Radin:
The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins), https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-conscious-universe-the-scientific-truth-of-psychic-phenomena/9780061778995
Entangled Minds (2006, Simon & Schuster), https://uk.bookshop.org/books/entangled-minds-extrasensory-experiences-in-a-quantum-reality/9781416516774
Supernormal (2013, RandomHouse), https://uk.bookshop.org/books/supernormal-science-yoga-and-the-evidence-for-extraordinary-psychic-abilities/9780307986900
Real Magic (2018, PenguinRandomHouse). https://uk.bookshop.org/books/real-magic-unlocking-your-natural-psychic-abilities-to-create-everyday-miracles/9781524758820
ESP: A Scientific Evaluation by CEM Hansel https://www.biblio.com/book/esp-scientific-evaluation-cem-hansel/d/1276130291
C P Broad: Lectures on Psychical Research https://www.routledge.com/Lectures-on-Psychical-Research-Routledge-Revivals-Incorporating-the-Perrott/Broad/p/book/9780415610865
Ram Das: Be Hesre Now https://www.bookdepository.com/Be-Here-Now-Ram-Dass/9780517543054
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Athena D. Potari, 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 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2020, she was the youngest female scholar to receive the prestigious Academy of Athens Award of Philosophy. She has previously taught at the Universities of Oxford, University of Patras and University of Toulouse 1-Capitol (Athens branch). In 2019 she founded Atheonoa - a school of philosophy based in Greece devoted to the study of Ancient Hellenic Philosophy as an experiential path to the lived realization of non-dual awareness (gnosis) and eudaimonia, combining rigorous textual study with meditation and other embodied practices inspired by the ancient scriptures. She is a Member of the Galileo Commission Steering Group and the author of “A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities” published by the Galileo Commission.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Papers by Athena Potari https://harvard.academia.edu/DespoinaAthenaPotari
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605839924_shining-light-on-transcendence-the-unconventional-journey-of-a-neuroscientist/9781786771070
Plato: The Republic https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-republic-9780008480080/9780008480080
Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-prophet/9781513263229
Yogananda Paramahansa: Autobiography of a Yogi https://uk.bookshop.org/books/autobiography-of-a-yogi-9788189535513/9788189535513
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's Guest today is his old friend and long-time colleague Dr Peter Fenwick who is Emeritus Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital and Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. His other appointments included Consultant Neurophysiologist at St. Thomas’s, Westminster and Broadmoor Hospitals. For ten years he was a Trustee of the Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health. He is Emeritus President of the Scientific and Medical Network and former Chair of the Board of The Study Society. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the dying process and is the author, with his wife Elizabeth, of many books on consciousness and death, including The Art of Dying and his autobiography Shining Light on Transcendence.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
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www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-art-of-dying/dr-peter-fenwick/elizabeth-fenwick/9780826499233
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605839924_shining-light-on-transcendence-the-unconventional-journey-of-a-neuroscientist/9781786771070
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/ESP-Enigma-Scientific-Case-Psychic-Phenomena/30938224156/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9780802716064USED
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-outsider-9780753814321/9780753814321
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-doors-of-perception-and-heaven-and-hell/9780099458203
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605841226_the-rise-of-the-new-physics-vol-i/9781406749755 By A. D'Abro
https://www.studysociety.org/
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Diane Hennacy Powell, who is a Johns Hopkins-trained neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist, former Harvard faculty member, and an award-winning author and clinician. She began studying autism in 1987, when she spent six months with Sir Michael Rutter at the Institute for Psychiatry in London. She has served as a member of a think tank on the evolution of human consciousness at the Salk Institute, and as the Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. Her experimental research focuses on investigating reports of telepathy in autistic children and has been presented at international science conferences in the US and abroad. She is a polymath whose theoretical work bridges multiple scientific disciplines in its analysis of case studies in neuropsychiatry that challenge materialism’s neuro-centric model. Her 2008 book, The ESP Enigma: A Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, presents a rational argument for a new paradigm, which is elaborated upon further in her chapter entitled Beyond Materialism and Madness in the first volume published by the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences: Is Consciousness Primary?
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
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www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.DrDianeHennacy.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions/9781907523632
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/dibs-in-search-of-self-personality-development-in-play-therapy/9780140134599
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/ESP-Enigma-Scientific-Case-Psychic-Phenomena/30938224156/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9780802716064USED
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr. Mario Beauregard, a neuroscientist currently affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He received a bachelor degree in psychology and a doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of Montreal. Dr. Beauregard is the author of more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. He was the first neuroscientist to use neuroimaging to investigate the neural underpinnings of voluntary control in relation to emotion. 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 groundbreaking 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 new postmaterialist scientific paradigm. Moreover, he is one of the founders of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS).
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Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://drmariobeauregard.com/en/home/
Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
https://drmariobeauregard.com/en/expanding-reality-emergence-postmaterialist-science/
https://drmariobeauregard.com/en/the-spiritual-brain/
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Cristof Koch
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Jeffrey Mishlove, who is host and producer of the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube. He is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series that was shown throughout North America. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited, American university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
He is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.newthinkingallowed.com
Jeffrey Mishlove: The Roots of Consciousness
Pitirim Sorokin The Ways and Power of Love
Pitirim Sorokin The Crisis of Our Age
Robert Monroe: Journeys out of the Body
Holmes Institute Centers for Spiritual Living
Bigelow Essay Contest
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Natalie Dyer, PhD who spoke at the 2021 Beyond the Brain conference on universal love and who is a research scientist studying the therapeutic effects of integrative medicine and spiritual practices, including yoga, meditation, Reiki, psychedelics, and universal love. She completed her doctorate in neuroscience at Queen’s University Ontario and postdoctoral fellowships in psychology at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. She currently works as a research scientist with Connor Integrative Health Network, and as President of the non-profit organization the Center for Reiki Research. She has published many scientific papers and presented her research to diverse audiences throughout North America and Europe. Together with over 300 other scientists and physicians, Natalie was the first signee of the Manifesto for a Postmaterialist Science, a declaration for science to move beyond the outdated materialist paradigm. Natalie is also an energy medicine practitioner specializing in Reiki and North American, European, and Tibetan shamanic practices.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
www.drnataliedyer.com
Center for Reiki Research
The Manifesto for a Postmaterialist Science
The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Sense of Being Stared at by Rupert Sheldrake
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is his dear friend Satish Kumar, who was the Editor-in-Chief of Resurgence (now with the Ecologist) Magazine for 43 years and was the Founder of Schumacher College in Dartington. At nine years of age, Satish renounced the world and joined the brotherhood of Jain monks. At the age of eighteen, he left the monastic order and became a campaigner working to turn Gandhi’s vision of a peaceful world into reality. He undertook an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking without any money, to deliver packets of ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. Satish is the author of six books, including his most recent one Pilgrimage for Peace, which describes this remarkable pilgrimage. His autobiography, No Destination, first published by Green Books in 1978, has sold over 50,000 copies.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
scientficandmedical.net
www.galileocommission.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/
Pilgrimage for Peace: The Long Walk from India to Washington by Satish Kumar
The Intimate and the Ultimate. By Vinoba Bhave
Talks on the Gita by Vinoba Bhave (Kindle edition)
Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King
Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Felicity Warner, founder of the global Soul Midwives Movement, who lectures both nationally and internationally and runs The Soul Midwives’ School, based in Dorset. She has won many awards for her work with the dying and created the idea of soul midwifery after sitting with many hundreds of people at the end of life. Her pioneering work has brought a new dimension to holistic and spiritual palliative care. She was named “End of Life Care champion” by the National Council for Palliative Care and also in “End of Life Doula”in 2017. She is author of four acclaimed books – Gentle Dying and A Safe Journey Home, The Soul Midwives’ Handbook and Sacred Oils - 20 Precious Oils to heal Spirit and Soul Her website: www.soulmidwives.co.uk
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
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www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Felicity Warner's website
A Safe Journey Home : A Simple Guide to Achieving a Peaceful Death byFelicity Warner
Sacred Oils : Working with 20 Precious Oils to Heal Spirit and Soul by Felicity Warner
The Soul Midwives' Handbook : The Holistic and Spiritual Care of the Dying by Felicity Warner
The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene by Claire Nahmad, Margaret Bailey
Books by Lucy Boston
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Steve Taylor PhD, the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, and a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is the current chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. His books include Waking From Sleep, The Fall, The Leap, Spiritual Science, The Clear Light (poetry) and his new book Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation. His books have been published in 20 languages and Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ His website is http://www.stevenmtaylor.com
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
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www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Steve Taylor's website
Books by Steve Taylor
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Mysticism by F C Happold
MSc course in Transpersonal Psychology
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer's guest today is Dr. Yvonne Kason MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP, who is the President and Co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International, and is the Co-Leader and Co-Founder of Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group. She has had five Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), two in her childhood and three in her adult life, as well as multiple Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs). She is the Past-President of IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. Yvonne is a retired family physician and transpersonal MD-psychotherapist, previously on faculty at the University of Toronto, and an internationally renowned medical expert on NDEs and other STEs.
In 1990, Yvonne was the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize her medical practice in the research and counselling of patients with diverse types of STEs. She has 40 years of experience counselling STE Experiencers. She co-founded the Kundalini Research Network in 1990, and later co-founded the Spirituality in Health-Care Network in 2000. Dr. Kason is the person who first coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experiences” or “STEs” in 1994.
Dr. Kason has five published books, her most recent, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences (2019). Yvonne lives in Toronto, Canada, and enjoys “snowbirding” during the winter months, in Encinitas, CA.
The Prayer of Saint Francis:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences. By Yvonne Kason
The awakening of Kundalini. By Gopi Krishna
Living with Kundalini - The Autobiography of Gopi Krishna
Autobiography of the Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
The Secret of the Golden Flower. Thomas Cleary
Spiritual Awakenings International
Kundalini Research Network
Spirituality in Health-Care Network
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Dr Rosy Daniel is a holistic doctor, health coach, workplace wellness consultant, broadcaster, speaker, teacher and author specialising in new paradigms for proactive health creation. She practices at her Bath clinic where she guides the regeneration of positive health for those with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, overweight, arthritis and stress-related illness. Her healthcare approach combines sensitive, compassionate warmth in her own style of highly personalised holistic medicine.
She was Medical Director of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre (now Penny Brohn Cancer Care) whose patron is the Prince of Wales. After leaving the Bristol Centre she set up Health Creation, offering motivational health coaching and consultancy for individuals and in the workplace. Rosy has developed a unique coaching approach known as ‘Life Energy Management’ for individuals and organisations that wish to achieve peak performance and fulfilment in life to live and work with high vitality health and wellbeing.
In 2007 Rosy became Project Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Trust charity to train doctors and nurses in Integrative Medicine. In 2021, the charity opened its Health-e-Leaning platform, taking its educational work digital, thereby increasing access to people worldwide to some of the world’s finest holistic health teachers; opening with in the charity the International College of Regenerative Health. She is inviting subscription, support and engagement via www.healthelearning.online
Rosy is a passionate advocate for positive health and environmental protection through the promotion of full potential conscious living based upon developing our emotional, physical, spiritual and ecological intelligence. Her own health and wellbeing stems from a life-long practice of yoga. She is a dedicated health activist, working determinedly to promote healthy change for the sustainability of people and planet. She is Patron of the British Wheel of Yoga and the Healing Trust, placing highest value on ancient meta-physical wisdom and the power of spiritual healing.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Dr Rosy Daniel
The Cancer Directory by Rosy Daniel
Eat to Beat Cancer by Rosy Daniel and Jane Sen
Emmanuel's Book: A guide for living comfortably in the cosmos. By Pat Rodegast
Health e-learning online
Penny Brohn Cancer Care
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Federico Faggin has led what he calls four lives: as a physicist, engineer and inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He developed the MOS silicon gate technology at Fairchild (1968) and designed the world's first microprocessor at Intel (1971). Faggin also founded and led Zilog, Synaptics, and other high-tech companies. The Zilog Z80 microprocessor (1976), and the Z8 microcontroller (1978) are still in volume production in 2021. At Synaptics he pioneered the Touchpad (1994) and the Touchscreen (1999), - solutions that have revolutionized the way we interface with mobile devices.
Federico has received many prizes and awards in the United States, Europe, and Japan. These include the Marconi Prize (1988), the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology (1997), and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009), from President Barack Obama. In 1996, Faggin was inducted in the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has also received many honorary degrees in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Federico is currently president of the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the scientific study of consciousness, an interest that has become a passionate full-time activity. In 2019, Federico published his autobiography SILICON, through Mondadori, Italy’s premier book publisher, where it has been a bestseller.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation
Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness by Federico Faggin.
Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
The Enniads by Plotinus
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Dr. Vasilieios Basios is a senior researcher at the Physics of Complex Systems Department of the University of Brussels, where he conducts interdisciplinary research on self-organisation and emergence in complex matter as well as on aspects of the foundations of complex systems. We first met in the early 1990s in Greece where a number of pioneering meetings on a science of consciousness were arranged by his mentor and our mutual friend Emilios Bouratinos, author of the seminal work Science, Objectivity and Consciousness. During his formative years Vasili worked within the team of Ilya Prigogine (Nobel laureate and honorary SMN Member) at the Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry in Brussels. He is interested in the history of ideas in science and their role in the transformation of science beyond the prevailing mechanistic world-view. As a board member of the Scientific & Medical Network, he also maintains a keen interest in contemporary research avenues that have started to lead us to a new renaissance, concerned with the renewal of a “re-enchanted” nature. Vasili is also a Member of the Steering Group of the Galileo Commission.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
Science, Objectivity and Consciousness by Emilios Bouratinos
Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games: The Legacy of John Nicolis. By Gregoire Nicolis and Vasilieios Basios
Exploring Complexity by Gregoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine
The Passion Of The Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Order Out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Nature by Ilya Prigogine,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Sleepwalkers : A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was the immediate successor to the Carlsson Chair after the legendary Ian Stevenson, who founded the Department of Perceptual Studies in the University of Virginia in 1967. Ian is famous for his meticulous studies of children who remember previous lives but he also researched near-death experiences in India. Bruce was a co-founder and President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies for many years and author of The Handbook of Near-Death Studies.
Bruce’s research for the past four decades has focused on near-death experiences and particularly their after-effects and implications. He established the standard and widely used Greyson Scale on NDEs. His academic work has been translated into twenty languages and used in hundreds of studies worldwide. He has published more than a hundred scholarly articles about near-death experiences and gives regular addresses at international conferences on the matter. After is Bruce’s first book to bring his ground-breaking research to general readers and has been widely reviewed. He will be a keynote speaker at the 2021 Beyond the Brain conference in November and is speaking on his book at a meeting on Friday April 23rd 2021.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
After by Bruce Greyson
Life After Life by Raymond Moody
The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody
Children Who Remember Previous Lives by Ian Stevenson
Science, the Self, and Survival after Death : Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson
Production: Martin Redfern
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
Marjorie 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 motivated her to write her latest book, Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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Works mentioned:
Marjorie Woollacott
Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind by Marjorie Woollacott
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Irreducible Mind: Towards a Psychology for the 21sr Century by Edward Kelly
The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Merton's Palace of Nowhere by James Finley
James Finley Centre for Action and Contemplation
Bach B Minor Mass. See 1:33:20 for flute obbligato (Benedictus)
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone
David Lorimer is a writer, poet, lecturer, editor and host of Imaginal Inspirations. He is also the Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
His new book A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life is a collection of essays covering philosophy, consciousness and ethics. It is published on 25th March 2020 by Aeon Books.
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Works mentioned:
Selected Poems, Charles Baudelaire
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
The Outsider, Colin Wilson
Life After Life, Dr Raymond Moody
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Apela Colorado is the founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network (WISN). The organisation fosters the revitalisation, growth, and worldwide exchange of traditional knowledge and safeguards the lives and work of the world’s endangered traditional cultural practitioners. She has Oneida-Gaul ancestry and deep roots in Chartres in France, where she revived the Mystery School.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate programme in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he currently teaches. His two books - The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View - are the result of decades of deep thinking, thorough research and original connections across religion, history, philosophy and cosmology.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
Realms of the Human Unconscious, Stanislav Grof
The Hero with a Thousands Faces, Joseph Campbell
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson
The World's Religions, Huston Smith
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Khun
Be Here Now, Ram Dass
Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman
Answer to Job, Carl Jung
Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor
From a Broken Web, Catherine Keller
Reflections on Gender and Science, Evelyn Fox Keller
The Myth of the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Kim Penberthy is a professor of research in psychiatric medicine at the University of Virginia. Her key interests include consciousness and psychology at the end of life and research on how mindfulness can enhance the abilities and performance of humans. She is also a founding member of Be Wise, an organisation dedicated to promoting wisdom, compassion and mindfulness in medicine.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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People mentioned:
Kurt Vonnegut
Emmanuel Swedenborg
William James
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Ravi Ravindra is a professor of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Physics. He is the author of many books, including The Spiritual Roots of Yoga, The Gospel of St John in light of Indian Mysticism, and The Yoga of the Christ. As an international speaker, he often illuminates the common ground between Eastern and Western religions.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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Works mentioned:
Gospel of St John
J. Krishnamurti
Basho
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Marilyn Monk is a molecular biologist. Studies include the mechanisms of replication and repair of DNA, cell signalling and intercellular communication, regulation of gene expression in development, deprogramming and formation of totipotent stem cells and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. She also has a longstanding interest in philosophy, psychology, religion and spirituality and is qualified as a Psychosynthesis Counsellor and Alexander Technique Teacher.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
www.scimednet.org
www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
The Fall, Albert Camus
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
The Immoralist, André Gide
The Second Sex, Simone du Beavoir
The Book of Secrets, Osho
Corrine, Madame de Stael
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Jeffrey Kripal is an author and Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. His latest book, The Flip, synthesises neuroscience, ecology, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, philosophy of mind and comparative mysticism with his own personal experiences. Its aim is to bring humanity back into the humanities.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
The Principles of Pyschology, William James
Irreducible Mind, Edward F Kelly
Beyond Physicalism, Edward F Kelly
Consciousness Unbound, Edward F Kelly
The Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russell Wallace
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Anne Baring is a Jungian analyst and author. Her most recent book, The Dream Of The Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, is a poetic, heartfelt and spiritual quest to understand the causes of human suffering and reconnect with a deeper reality. It builds on her work on the divine feminine and dream analysis.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
www.scimednet.org
www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
The Gnostic Gospels, Including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
Modern Man in Search for a Soul, C G Jung
Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell
A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Larry Dossey is a physician and author of nine books. He has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley
The Art of Dying, Peter Fenwick
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Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Marilyn Schlitz is a social scientist, author, and speaker. Her clinical, laboratory and field-based research centres on consciousness, human transformation, and healing. Her latest book Death Makes Life Possible was accompanied by a film of the same title and explores the idea that facing our mortality inspires us to live our lives more fully.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
www.scimednet.org
www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell
The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Iain McGilchrist is writer, lecturer and former Consultant Psychiatrist. He is committed to the idea that the whole of our physical and spiritual existence and wider human culture helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains. His latest work, The Matter With Things, a book of epistemology and metaphysics, will be published by Penguin/Random House. You can read written pieces by Iain and watch videos of him on Channel McGilchrist.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
Against Criticism, Iain McGilchrist
Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
An Introduction to Mathematics, A N Whitehead
The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity, Alan Watts
Principles of Pyschopathology, J Cutting
A Pluralistic Universe, William James
Creative Mind, Ernest Holmes
History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall
Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, professor and author. Her latest book Gaia's Dance: The Story of Earth & Us explores the earth not as a machine, but as a living being. She tells the story of its evolution over billions of years and includes research on bacterial cooperatives and maturation cycles. She has also written and spoken about the significance of imaginal cells and their transformative power.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
www.scimednet.org
www.galileocommission.org
www.mysticsandscientists.org
www.beyondthebrain.org
Works mentioned:
The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler
Seth Speaks, Jane Roberts
The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher; The View of William James, Jane Roberts
Music of Life, the Inner Nature & Effects of Sounds, Hazrat Inayat Khan
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, Jacob Needleman
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, D T Suzuki
The Poems of Rumi, Deepak Chopra
Production: Charlotte Lorimer
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Mary McDougall