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David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a author, lecturer, poet, and editor who is a Founder of Character Schooling Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Professional medical Community, and former President of Wrekin Have confidence in and the Swedenborg Culture. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer considering that 1986 and finished his 100th concern in 2019. He was the instigator of the Past the Mind convention series and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every single calendar year because the late 1980s.

Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and fashionable languages at Winchester School, he is the writer and editor of in excess of a dozen textbooks like Radical Prince: The Practical Eyesight of the Prince of Wales. His new book of essays, A Quest for Knowledge will come out in March 2021.

David is the originator of the Inspiring Reason Values Poster Programmes, which has attained about 350,000 young people all about the globe.

David is also Chair of the Galileo Commission which seeks the widen the science of consciousness beyond a materialistic world see.

Textbooks:

Resonant Mind: Everyday living Evaluate in the Near-Death Experience
Radical Prince: The Practical Vision of the Prince of Wales
Quest for Knowledge: Inspiring Objective on the Path of Lifetime
Prophet for Our Moments: The Existence & Teachings of Peter Deunov

In this conversation, we focus on irrespective of whether consciousness fundamental or an epiphenomenon of mind working. If it is essential (our see), how can this grow to be the approved paradigm? If it did so, how would this modify the entire world?

Topics lined incorporate:

* Does the brain deliver consciousness or do the mind and anything else arise from consciousness? What does the research say?
* How do NDEs assistance response this problem?
* If consciousness is a basic subject, is it smart – a ‘transcendental common mind’?
* How did the scientific assumption that consciousness arises from subject turn into predominant?
* How did the Church retard scientific progress?
* The Galileo Commission – so named due to the fact just as Galileo’s critics refused to seem by his telescope, present day experts refuse to search at proof suggesting that consciousness is fundamental.
Researchers are normally unaware of the broader assumptions underpinning their work.
* Historic tension among religious mystics and directors.
* If the primacy of consciousness were broadly comprehended and expert, we would understand our vital oneness. This would change politics and all other fields of human endeavor. Missing this awareness and experience, people, companies, and politics are inclined to be ‘excessively individualistic’ – placing self-fascination right before the fantastic of the total. This involves small-sightedness, denying or disregarding gradual-shifting catastrophes these as local climate change.
* Quantum physics undermined materialism a century in the past, but other sciences this kind of as biology have maintained it.
* Mind and subject arise from a further truth – a coherent field that can be accessed by means of mystical experience.
* Discussion on the great importance of experiential comprehending of consciousness in training and opposition from religious fundamentalists.
* In most cases, paradigm shifts begin with a creative minority (5%) and step by step expand to become the norm.
* Humanity is now far too clever to survive with no wisdom.

Interview recorded December 19, 2020