Conference Programme 2022

Near Death Experience, Extraordinary Perceptions, the Human Energy Field, Shamanic Dimensions, Meditative Experiences in States of Non-Duality, Bio-Photons, Organismic Reactions to Information from Beyond the Brain and the Holographic Universe.

Since his first conscious perception in life of greeting the sun at birth and his NDE when he drowned with 5 years old, and his commitment to come back to ‘bring light into people’s body’, Dr. Gerken lived with a knowing, that there is more than contemporary science could explain.

As a down-to-earth body-oriented, trauma-informed and Mindfulness-centred Psychotherapist he knows about the realm of interconnectedness between body and brain. However, his expanded practice of Transpersonal Psychology made him also clearly aware of the limitation of this realm. Besides that, life presented and still presents him with continuous Extraordinary Perceptions, Shamanic Dimensions and Meditative Experiences of Non-Duality that deeply motivates him to bridge spirituality and science with his research into the Human Energy Field and Bio-photons that he conducted with Acupuncturists, Medical Practitioners and the late world renown physicist and researcher on biological light, Prof. F. A. Popp.

Dr. Gerken will share some of his experiences and research in this comprehensive lecture, culminating in the exploration where does Mind and Awareness come in as participatory forces to connect to the larger field of Consciousness – the totality beyond space-time and with that also beyond the brain.

It’s time to get out of your logical mind and back into your body, time to re-energise, rest, and raise your vibration. Even if you have never meditated before or have found meditation challenging in the past – this is different, it’s an interactive session to shake off and reset before the next brain-led sessions. Sounding is not singing; there is no right or wrong note, and you will have your mic turned off so you won’t be heard by others. In this session Judith will guide you through breath and humming into sounding your voice – this might be challenging for you but if you go with it you will feel the benefits of this physical, mental, emotional and energetic release of any ‘stuckness’ – we then take a few minutes to rest in silence and stillness – and this is where the reset happens.

This presentation will cover highlights from Jeffrey Mishlove’s Bigelow Grand Prize essay. As most SMN members are likely to be familiar with the arguments for a post-materialist science, the presentation will largely focus on the strongest evidence for reincarnation, possession, near-death experience, after death communication and mediumship.

In the first half of the talk, Dr Robinson will present a definition and model of normal waking consciousness in human beings, based on three interdependent parts: the observer, the observed and the knower. This definition is influenced by the distinction between dreaming and lucid dreaming, with the latter being closer to normal waking consciousness than the former. He will also explain why identifying consciousness with subjective experience is problematic, arguing that the subjective/objective distinction is in fact a division within consciousness. In the second half of the talk, he will present a series of linked rational and empirical arguments to show that consciousness is definitively not in the brain. He will go on to provide an answer to where it is, on the basis that it is not in the brain.

PEN Award-winning historian and popular voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a full-circle perspective of the most compelling psychical research and lays to rest all controversies and rhetorical dramas: vetted and longstanding evidence abounds for the extra-physicality of thought. The question we face is: what to do with it? As Mitch explores, the philosophy of materialism is today a position of sentiment. Now that we possess gold-standard evidence for nonlocal cognition, it falls to our generation to construct a view of life that persuasively encompasses the extra-physical.

Dr. Helané Wahbeh will share about the IONS Channeling Research program and how the Noetic Signature concept arose for its studies. The Noetic Signature is the unique way that we tap into information and energy not limited by our conventional notions of time and space. Dr. Wahbeh will review the studies that went into developing the Noetic Signature Inventory that allows people to discover and explore their Noetic Signature. She will also review the 12 characteristics that make up the Noetic Signature.