- Les Lancaster: Circumnavigating the Soul
Les Lancaster is a Founding Director and Dean of the Alef Trust. He is Professor Emeritus of Transpersonal Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Honorary Research Fellow in Religions and Theology, University of Manchester, and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has previously served as Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, as President of the International Transpersonal Association, and as a Board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Les’ research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and the connections between this topic and mysticism, specifically focusing on kabbalistic psychology. His published works include The Essence of Kabbalah and Approaches to Consciousness: The Marriage of Science and Mysticism.
The Alef Trust https://www.aleftrust.org/
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
10m | Mar 31, 2023 - Joan Walton: Transformation as a Continuing Spiritual Experience
Joan writes: My first degree was in Social Theory and Institutions (University of Bangor, North Wales). Following University, I travelled for a year in India and South East Asia, including working in one of Mother Teresa’s children’s homes in Calcutta. My early professional career was in social work, mainly working with children and families in residential and community settings. In 1995 I established an independent centre for action research and education, which enabled me to be involved in a wide range of staff development and research projects in the public, private and not-for profit sectors. Following completion of my PhD in 2008, I had a career change, and entered the academic world, initially at Liverpool Hope University, and now at York St John University in the School of Education.
Links:
https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/staff-profiles/joan-walton.php
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
10m | Mar 24, 2023 - Arthur Koestler: Mystical Awakenings
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a scientifically educated writer, born in Budapest. He studied science and psychology at the University of Vienna. As a correspondent for a British newspaper, he covered the Spanish Civil War, during which he was imprisoned and sentenced to death. However, he was later freed as part of a prisoner exchange and returned to Great Britain. He wrote about science, including research on the paranormal, on the creative process, mysticism, and synchronicity. This essay is an excerpt from Arthur Koestler’s autobiography, The Invisible Writing, in which he relates his own mystical awakening under the severe conditions of imprisonment during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Koestler was an early Member of the Scientific and Medical Network and endowed the Chair of Parapsychology in the University of Edinburgh.
Books by Arthur Koestler: https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Arthur+Koestler
The Koestler Parapsychology unit, Edinburgh University: https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/research-overview/The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
13m | Mar 17, 2023 - Sarah S. Knox: The limitations of Science
Sarah Knox received her PhD and MS degrees from Stockholm University in Sweden; and began her career as a Principal Investigator at Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute, where she did epidemiologic research using the Swedish Twin Registry. She subsequently returned to the United States, to the National Institutes of Health, where she focused on cardiovascular research before assuming a leadership position to guide the implementation of the National Children’s Study. Dr. Knox is currently Professor Emerita at West Virginia University School of Public Health and a member of the WVU Cancer Institute and the Galileo Commission. Her current research interests focus on biophysical signaling in cancer and the integration of physics, consciousness, and spirituality in healing.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah-Knox
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
9m | Mar 10, 2023 - Anne Shumway-Cook Evolving Frameworks
Anne Shumway-Cook, PT, PhD, FAPTA is Professor Emerita in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Her research focused on understanding the physiologic basis for balance and mobility disorders in neurologic and geriatric populations, and the translation of this research into best clinical practices for assessing and treating balance in order to reduce falls and optimize mobility function. She has published extensively, and with Dr. Marjorie Woollacott co-authored the textbook Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice. She has practiced meditation for more than 50 years.
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Motor Control by Anne Shumway-Cook and Marjorie Woollacott https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/motor-control-translating-research-into-clinical-practice-anne-shumway-cook/
Producer: Martin Redfern
10m | Mar 3, 2023 - Part 3 and Janice Holden Light of Love
After 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counselling Program faculty, Jan Holden retired in 2019 as Professor Emerita of Counselling. Beginning in 1988 with her doctoral dissertation, her primary research focus has been counselling implications of near-death and related experiences. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications; several chapter and book publications, including lead editorship of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences; and over 100 national and international presentations. Among Jan’s numerous recognitions is the 2019 UNT Eminent Faculty Award, one of the university’s highest honours. Since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of the International Association for Near-Death Studies’ scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies, and she serves currently as that association’s President.
Links:
International Association for Near-Death Studies https://iands.org/
Jan Holden's website: www.janholden.com
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
12m | Feb 24, 2023 - Puerto Angel by Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini is a physicist, philosopher and a scholar of Chinese classics. As a physicist he worked at the University of Milan on the foundations of quantum physics and at the University of California on the first identification of a black hole. In the 1990s he was scientific advisor of the Eranos Foundation, an East-West research center founded by C.G. Jung and Olga Froebe-Kapteyn in 1933. Presently he directs the Pari Center, an international institute located in the small medieval village of Pari, Tuscany. He is the author of Pilgrimages to Emptiness, Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics, Tao Te Ching: a guide to the interpretation of the foundational book of Taoism and The Original I Ching or Book of Changes: The Eranos I Ching Project.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
15m | Feb 17, 2023 - Strange Dreams and Spiritual Surges by Bernard Carr
Bernard Carr writes: my professional area of research is cosmology and includes such topics as the early universe, dark matter, black holes and the anthropic principle. For my PhD I studied the first second of the Universe, working with Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. I was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary in 1985. I am the author of around three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. I am also developing an expanded paradigm of physics which accommodates mind and spirit. I was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and am currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/750509.Bernard_Carr
Producer: Martin Redfern
11m | Feb 10, 2023 - Awakening by Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin received a Laurea degree in Physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965, and moved to Silicon Valley in 1968. He developed the MOS Silicon Gate Technology in 1968; the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, and several highly successful microprocessors, like the Intel 8080 and the Z80 produced by Zilog, his first startup company. Faggin was CEO of several high-tech startup companies he founded and directed since 1974. He is currently president of Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, dedicated to the science of consciousness. Faggin has received many international awards, including the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, from President Barack Obama. In 2021 he published his autobiography Silicon.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
http://www.fagginfoundation.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
12m | Feb 3, 2023 - No More Searching by Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, religion, philosophy, and science. He studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and received his MA and PhD in religious studies from Lancaster University. He is author of The Living Mirror: Images of Reality in Science and Mysticism (1992), Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations (2005), The Shape of the Soul: What Mystical Experience Tells Us About Ourselves and Reality (2019), and co-editor of Beyond Physicalism (2015) and Consciousness Unbound (2021).
Links:
Details of his publications can be found at https://mystical-encounters.com
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://neurology.arizona.edu/gary-e-schwartz-phd
Producer: Martin Redfern
8m | Jan 27, 2023 - From Oneness to the Divine by Gary E. Schwartz
Dr. Gary E. Schwartz has been a Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona for more than thirty years. He was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and a tenured Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University. His integrative research bridging mind-body medicine, energy medicine, and spiritual medicine has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and numerous private foundations. He has published more than 500 scientific articles and chapters and authored or edited 25 books. He directs the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona (www.lach.arizona.edu) and served as the founding president of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (www.AAPSglobal.com).
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://neurology.arizona.edu/gary-e-schwartz-phd
Producer: Martin Redfern
9m | Jan 20, 2023 - A Process of Uncovering by Steve Taylor
Dr. Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and a past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. He is the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, including Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light, Out of the Darkness and Spiritual Science. His books have been published in 20 languages, and he writes blog articles for Scientific American and Psychology Today. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/extraordinary-awakenings-from-trauma-to-transformation/9781608687671
Producer: Martin Redfern
7m | Jan 13, 2023 - Coming Home by Jessica Corneille
Jessica Corneille, MSc is a research psychologist specialised in spontaneous spiritual awakening experiences. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on altered states of consciousness. Her mission is to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience. Jessica has presented at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She works for the Scientific and Medical Network, is part of the Galileo Commission steering committee, is a collaborator of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and Spiritual Crisis Network, and a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-p-azTuT_U
Producer: Martin Redfern
9m | Jan 10, 2023 - Part 2 Introduction + Jeffrey Kripal
Part 2 Introduction by Marjorie Woollacott: STEs Occurring During or Awakening from Sleep
That Night by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought and the Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rice University. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he also chairs the Board of Trustees. Jeff is the author of eight monographs, including, most recently, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (Bellevue Literary Press, 2019). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of science and esoteric literature for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-flip-who-you-really-are-and-why-it-matters/9780141992563
Producer: Martin Redfern
8m | Dec 30, 2022 - Awakening and Transformation by Duane Elgin
Duane Elgin, MBA Wharton Business School, MA Economic History University of Pennsylvania is Co-Director of the Choosing Earth project: www.ChoosingEarth.Org and author of the book, Choosing Earth: Humanity's Journey of Initiation Through Breakdown and Collapse to Mature Planetary Community. Other books include: Voluntary Simplicity, Awakening Earth, and The Living Universe. In the early 1970s, Duane was a senior social scientist on the “Presidential Commission on the American Future” and then a senior researcher in the futures group of the think-tank, SRI International. This description of awakening was taken from the second appendix of Awakening Earth originally published by William Morrow and Company in 1993 (ISBN 0-688-11621-3) and is available as a free download from Duane's website: www.DuaneElgin.com.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Books by Duane Elgin https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Duane+Elgin
Producer: Martin Redfern
12m | Dec 23, 2022 - A Flash of Recognition
The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, received his PhD in South Asian Studies at a major East Coast university. His training is in the history of Indian religions and intellectual history. He is currently an assistant professor at a university in the West.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
11m | Dec 16, 2022 - Swimming in the Blissful Ocean of Myself
The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, has an early background in art history and architecture, and then received his PhD in religious studies from a major university on the west coast of the United States. He is currently a faculty member in religious studies at a university in the eastern United States. His research is in South Asian studies.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
13m | Dec 9, 2022 - The Awakening of Energy Flow through an Eastern Body-Mind Practice
The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, was born in China and received a Doctoral degree in Neuroscience from a university in China. He is currently a professor at a University in the United States and has published extensively in the area of neuroscience and mind-body research. He has also received grant funding for this research from both NIH and private foundations.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Producer: Martin Redfern
11m | Dec 2, 2022 - Openings and Promptings by Edward F. Kelly
Edward F. Kelly is a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, UVA. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in experimental parapsychology, followed by a similar stint with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill where he carried out EEG and fMRI studies of human cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007), Beyond Physicalism (2015), and Consciousness Unbound (2021), all produced under the auspices of Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research. He is now returning to his central research interest – functional neuroimaging studies of psi and altered states in exceptional subjects.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/dops-staff/ed-kellys-bio/
Books by Ed Kelly: https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=Edward+F+Kelly
Producer: Martin Redfern
12m | Nov 25, 2022 - A Few Stops on a Path with Heart by Bo Ahrenfelt
Bo Ahrenfelt, BA, MD. Former psychiatrist at St. Sigfrid’s mental hospital in Växjö and visiting consultant in private institution in Hovmantorp, Sweden. Radio producer at the Swedish national network within his fields of competence. Founder of Institutet för Liv och Arbete (Inst for Life and Work), which he led for twenty-five years, a network of professionals working with change and development on individual, group and system level in the private and public sectors. Author of Conflict Management Handbook (1993), Territories and Leadership (2012) and Change as Being State (3rd edition 2013). Currently partner of Sustain Change AB, with a focus on human sustainability. Writing a new book on adult personal development and how adults cope with change and development in life and work.
Links:
The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/
The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/
The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/
Sustain Change AB, www.sustainchange.se
Producer: Martin Redfern
10m | Nov 18, 2022
