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Paradigm Explorer JOURNAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK ESTABLISHED 1973 Paradigm Explorer INSIDE PAGE 3 Consciousness and the Shifting Scientific Paradigm PAGE 9 Bernard Carr on Stephen Hawking PAGE 19 HRH the Prince of Wales Increasing Reef Resilience ISSN 1362-1211 | No 127 | 2018/2 Paradigm Explorer 2018/2 2018/19 NETWORK CALENDAR September 28-30, 2018 Continental Meeting in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, with Laszlo Institute, Catalysing a Paradigm Shift October 30, 2018 Evening launch of Galileo Commission Report – King’s London – leaflet enclosed November 3-4, 2018 Beyond the Brain 2018 – CentrEd at ExCel in East London – leaflet enclosed November 5, 2018 Sacred Acoustics Workshop with Dr Eben Alexander III and Karen Newell – leaflet enclosed November 17, 2018 The Quest for Harmony: A unifying principle in spirituality, science, sustainability and healthcare - 70th Birthday Celebration for HRH the Prince of Wales – leaflet enclosed January 19-20, 2019 The Heart of the Rose – Sacred Mathematics and the Liberal Arts – leaflet enclosed January 21-30, 2019 ​Jamaica seminar – see below April 6-8, 2019 Mystics and Scientists 42 – Technology, Spirituality and Well-Being, venue tbc – Save the Date! July 6-7, 2019 Annual Meeting, Horsley Park LONDON - CLAUDIA NIELSEN – 0207 431 1177 or preferably email [email protected] We meet at 38 Denning Rd NW3 1SU at 7 for a 7:30pm start. Nearest tube station is Hampstead (Northern Line) or Hampstead Heath (Overground). Cost is £10 for members and £12 for guests. Please confirm attendance so I can anticipate numbers. Friends and non-members are always welcome. For more comprehensive information on presentations (to include synopsis and biographies) plus summaries of past ones, go to the London Group page of the SMN site at www.scimednet.org. Please note that sometimes talks have to be rescheduled and information is sent via email so even if you are not in London but would like to be kept informed of changes, please send me an email and I will put your address on the circulation list. UPCOMING EVENTS SEPTEMBER Monday 10th DR OLIVER ROBINSON The Seven Harmonies of Science and Spirituality OCTOBER Monday 1st PROF FARANEH VARGHA-KHADEM What Makes us Humane NOVEMBER Monday 12th DR MARCO SCHORLEMMER Science, Technology and Contemplative Inquiry THE FRENCHMAN’S COVE EXPERIENCE is unlike any other. It is a unique setting for a remarkable combination of conference and recreation in an unspoilt area near Port Antonio Jamaica 22nd to 27th January 2019 Suggested travel from UK 21st and return 30th January Dr Oliver Robinson will present THE HARMONIES OF SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY The event will be chaired by David Lorimer and hosted by Diana Clift Further details from Diana Clift - [email protected] www.scimednet.org Paradigm Explorer 2018/2 Notice to Contributors All proposed contributions should be sent to the Editor by email as a Word CONTENTS and/or PDF file. For further guidelines please email: [email protected] PARADIGM EXPLORER is published EDITORIAL three times a year by the Scientific & Medical Network, generally in April, Returnings Paul Filmore, 2 August and December. Chairman Editor: David Lorimer 2 Chemin de la Chaussee, 11230 St Colombe sur l’Hers, ARTICLES France Consciousness and the Shifting Scientific Eben Alexander MD 3 E-mail: [email protected] Paradigm Web Site: www.scimednet.org Stephen Hawking: Recollections of a Bernard Carr 9 Singular Friend (Members may apply to the SMN Office for password to access the Members Health and Wholeness Neil May 14 Only area of the web site). Increasing Reef Resilience Through New HRH The Prince of Wales 19 Editorial Board: John Clarke, Paul Kieniewicz Collaborative Models Printed by: Palintonos Harmonia: Oliver Robinson 22 Kingfisher Print & Design Ltd, Devon The alchemy of opposites The opinions expressed in Network are those of individual authors and not necessarily statements of general PERSONAL REFLECTION Network views. The Network is in no Transmission within Meditation Rosalind Pearmain 24 way liable for views published herein. Paradigm Explorer REPORTS Registered office: 151 Talgarth Road, Frenchman’s Cove 2018 Roderick Dunnett 26 London W14 9DA Me and We: Self, Gaia and the Eve Hicks and Diana Clift Cosmic Hologram Tel: 0203 468 2034. Email: [email protected] Mystics and Scientists 41 John Clarke 29 Company limited by guarantee, registered No. 4544694 England NETWORK NEWS Registered charity No. 1101171 UK Network News 31 London Group Report 33 JOURNAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK ESTABLISHED 1973 Members’ Articles 35 Paradigm Explorer BOOK REVIEW SECTION Science/Philosophy of Science 37 INSIDE Medicine/Health 39 PAGE 3 Consciousness and the Shifting Scientifi c Paradigm Philosophy/Spirituality 43 PAGE 9 Bernard Carr on Stephen Hawking PAGE 19 HRH the Prince Psychology/Consciousness Studies 47 of Wales Increasing Reef Resilience Ecology/Futures Studies 54 General 57 ISSN 1362-1211 | No 127 | 2018/2 Books in Brief 60 Cover: The living ocean www.scimednet.org 1 Paradigm Explorer 2018/2 A Ship in Harbour From Dr Paul Filmore, Chairman, [email protected] Forum: Editorial (Please comment via the members’ website) ‘A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for’. John A. Shedd. I am sure you have heard the quote this is a good thing, but particularly with dissatisfied with what life is offering. above, or variations, attributed to John IT allowing so readily virtual contact When not partying, they are looking Shedd, the American author. If you will between people, one wonders how far around for this something else. They humour me for a few minutes before this will go. I am reminded of an Asimov perceive dimly that they should not be returning to the quote, I would like to detective story of a murder on a planet ‘staying in the harbour’, and that extreme mention a radio programme I heard where no one meets except virtually! In sports are not the way forward. These perhaps over a year ago and still has me fact even the thought of being in a are the students to whom we as an concerned. The programme was about person’s company on this planet becomes educational charity should be offering the youth of Japan and how their an anathema. But I digress and need to an alternative. This is why, this year, the lifestyles are being affected by technology come back to this world and trends that Network has two embryonic projects: one and by this I mean 24/7 access to the are of concern. In particular the fact that looking at what we can offer to ‘students’ internet in its many forms. In the Japan as a leader in IT evolution with the and secondly to see if we can attract programme the presenters were talking to young, so will this happen elsewhere? academics to help further, in part with the youth and seeing a profound change My feelings are that this trend of the our youth. in their values associated with young becoming dislocated from life If you agree with these sentiments in any relationships. Paraphrased, the outcome is growing here in Europe. I can say way, could you consider how we as the of these was towards a lifestyle of staying this with some certainty through my Network can help, or you as an individual single, ‘enjoying the moment’, and playing experience of teaching the 18 to 24 year can contribute? Perhaps we all know games online. Officials in Tokyo and old age group. Alongside the ‘totally deep down that staying in the harbour is elsewhere were worried as they had switched off group’ who pay their £9k not what what life is about, and that by already seen a decline in marriages and tuition fees and then never appear in sailing out, we can help the world become therefore population. Now you might say classes, are a smaller group who feel a better place. SMN Annual Meeting From Nicholas Pilbrow, Treasurer The Annual Gathering of the company was held at Horsley Park, Leatherhead on Sunday July 8th 2018 and was attended by 40 members as well as members of the Board of Directors and Trustees of the Scientific and Medical Network Charitable Trust. The Chairman said that whilst the vision of the Network had not changed and still provided a forum and safe haven for those wishing to explore the frontiers of science outside the materialist limits imposed by the current scientific and medical mainstream, we wished to expand membership to include more younger members and those from academia. Task groups have now been set up for this purpose. He also said that the new rules on data protection had now come into force which required the company to limit the availability of information on members within the company to those who specifically confirmed their agreement to it. To cater for this, he proposed two categories of membership, “Members” who agreed to make their information available to other members and “Friends, who enjoyed all the other aspects of membership but whose personal information was not made available. He reported that the company’s finances were now in much better shape but we are still looking for other ways of balancing income and expenses without requiring the SMN Trust to fill the gap. The Chairman reported that Edi Bilimoria, a past member of the Board, had again been co-opted. Accordingly he, the Chairman, Paul Kieniewicz and Joan Walton had retired by rotation. All offered themselves for re-election and the assembled company voted to re-elect them. Janine Edge, the chair of the trustees, organised a Members’ Forum to discuss the key issues of concern among the members. The main issue proved to be that of bring in younger members and academics.
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