Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00020)

HPB's prophesy almost fulfilled? Thought some of you might be interested in 
how far academic science has come toward approaching verification of the 
Secret Doctrine. Let us know if any theosophist might be attending this 
conference, Be interesting to hear a report. LHM

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13th Mind and Brain Symposium – The Science of Consciousness

Saturday, March 8th 2003, 8.45AM - 5.30PM, The Institute of Psychiatry,

London


Highly recommended for psychologists, medical professionals, physicists and

students, this year's conference is devoted to an examination of the current

state of consciousness research and how this can be expected to evolve in the

future.


KEY SPEAKER: PROFESSOR AMIT GOSWAMI, author of The Self-Aware Universe, will 
highlight evidence from recent research in cognitive psychology, biology,

parapsychology and quantum physics which demonstrates that the essential

spiritual unity underlying all of reality is a fact which can be

experimentally verified.


Since the first Mind Brain Symposia twelve years ago there has been both a

major shift in our understanding of consciousness, together with an

acceptance by the scientific community that research into conscious

experience is now well up the scientific agenda. Our understanding of brain

mechanisms is beginning to show in broad outline the structures which

underpin the formation of mind.


But nowhere is there any indication of how we should tackle, from a

scientific viewpoint, the difficulty that we have in translating neural codes

into subjective experience. Parapsychology is now much more accepted and mind

beyond the brain is now a subject of serious scientific study. Prayer and

distant healing are on the scientific agenda.


This conference will emphasise the likely way forward in our understanding of

consciousness.


FULL PROGRAMME DETAILS AND BOOKINGS:

Conference Secretary, 42 Herne Hill, London SE24 9QP Tel: ++44 (0)207 738

5188. Email: peter_fenwick@compuserve.com Web: www.scimednet.org

COST: £65 (including tea and coffee). Credits given for Continuing

Professional Development.


MEDIA ENQUIRIES, INTERVIEWS: Jayne Warren, ++44 (0) 1275 464 525 Email: <A

HREF="http://";>JWComms@aol.com


SPEAKERS

Professor Amit Goswami was professor of physics for 34 years at the

University of Oregon, USA. He is a pioneer of science within consciousness

and is the author of numerous research papers on the subject. He is the

author of nine books including Quantum Mechanics,The Self-Aware Universe,The

Visionary Window, and Physics of the

Soul.

Dr. Peter Fenwick is Emeritus Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital

and

Honorary Consultant Neurophysiologist, St.Thomas’s Hospital. He is a

Vice-President of

the Scientific and Medical Network and President of the Horizon Research

Foundation.

Dr. Geraint Rees is a research scientist at the Institute of Cognitive

Neuroscience at

University College, London.

Anthony Freeman has been managing editor of the Journal of Consciousness

Studies

since its launch in 1994. He lectures and writes on both theology and

consciousness studies.

Professor Max Velmans has a Personal Chair in Psychology at Goldsmiths,

University of London and has around 70 publications on consciousness.

Professor Robert Morris holds the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology in the

School

of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of

Edinburgh and

has held the Chair since 1985.

David Lorimer is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and

Vice-President of the Horizon Foundation and the Swedenborg Society.


-- 

Keith Sutherland


JKB SUTHERLAND, PUBLISHER

JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

CYBERNETICS AND HUMAN KNOWING POLIS

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