This latest Galileo Commission Summit will feature a series of roundtables with contributors to Consciousness Unbound , the third volume to emerge from one of Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research projects. Building on the groundbreaking research presented in Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015), Edward F. Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to consider the significance of extraordinary experiences for our understanding of reality. Currently emerging as a middle ground between warring fundamentalisms of religion and science, an expanded science-based understanding of nature finally accommodates empirical realities of parapsychological and spiritual sorts while also rejecting rationally untenable overbeliefs.
Program
Friday 24th September • 4:00 – 8:30 pm (UK, BST)
4.00 – 4.10 pm • Consciousness Unbound and the Sursem Project
Prof Edward F. Kelly – Introduction to the Sursem research project and the trilogy that came out of it: Irreducible Mind , Beyond Physicalism , and Consciousness Unbound.
4:10 – 6:00 pm • Expanding Empirical Research Horizons • Chair: Emily Williams Kelly
Prof Bruce Greyson – Near-Death Experiences
Prof Jim Tucker – Cases of the Reincarnation Type
Dr Bob Rosenberg – Precognition
6:30 – 8:30 pm • Mysticism and the Evolving Divine • Chair: Paul Marshall
Prof Edward F. Kelly – Mystical Experience and Panentheism in the Sursem Project
Dr Glenn Alexander Magee – A Neo-Hegelian Theory of Mystical Experience and Other Extraordinary Phenomena
Prof Roderick Main – Mystical Experience and the Scope of Jung’s Holism
Saturday 25th September • 4:00 – 8:45 pm (UK, BST)
4:00 – 6:00 pm • Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism: Toward A New Metaphysic • Chair: Marjorie Woollacott
Prof Max Velmans – Is the Universe Conscious? Reflexive Monism and the Ground of Being
Dr Bernardo Kastrup – Analytic Idealism and Psi: How a More Tenable Metaphysics Neutralizes a Physicalist Taboo
Federico Faggin – Consciousness Comes First
6:30 – 8:45 pm • The Emerging Vision of Consciousness and Why It Matters • Co-Chairs: Prof Edward F. Kelly and John Cleese
Dr Paul Marshall – Mind Beyond Brain: Surveying the Metaphysical Landscape
Prof David E. Presti – Expanding a Science of Consciousness
Prof Jeffrey J. Kripal – The Future of the Human(ities): Mystical Literature, Paranormal Phenomena, and the Contemporary Politics of Knowledge
Pointing the Way Forward – David Lorimer
Note: It is mentioned that, upon sign-up, the recording will be available for those not in attendance. You may sign-up by clicking the link above.