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Paradigm Explorer JOURNAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK ESTABLISHED 1973 Paradigm Explorer INSIDE PAGE 4 Pandemic as Opportunity PAGE 12 The Light of Hellenism PAGE 20 The Eco-Philosophy Mandala ISSN 1362-1211 | No 132 | 2020/1 Paradigm Explorer 2020/1 NETWORK CALENDAR 2020 May 12 Webinar, 6-8 pm – Barbie Dossey PhD and Deva-Marie Beck PhD - In Florence Nightingale’s Footsteps—Individual to Global: Nurses and Midwives in the COVID-19 Crisis and for the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) May 16 Webinar – Anaiya Sophia (10-12) and Christine Page MD (4-6) - The Power of the Sacred Feminine June 9, 6-8 pm Webinar with Jules Evans and Dr Tim Read – Breaking Open – Finding a Way through Spiritual Emergency July 4, 10am – 1 pm Webinar with Dr Andrew Fellows on Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology Dates for your diary: August 25, 6-8 pm Webinar with Sir Jonathon Porritt, CBE – Hope in Hell September (tbc), 6-8 pm Webinar with Dr Merlin Sheldrake and his new book, Entangled Lives October (tbc), 6-8 pm Webinar with Dr Anne Baring – Awakening to a New Story – The Evolutionary Imperative of our Time October 17-18 Rescheduled Synchronicity and the I Ching, Oxford and Cambridge Club, limited to 30 people – fully booked. November 6-8 Beyond the Brain, University of Westminster. Speakers: Prof Kim Penberthy, Prof Ed Kelly, Prof Janice Miner Holden, Noelle St Germain-Sehr and Amanda St Germain-Sehr, Dr Oliver Robinson, Dr Tamara Russell, Prof Harald Atmanspacher, Tim Freke, Analaura Trivellat, Dr Peter Fenwick LONDON - CLAUDIA NIELSEN 0207 431 1177 or preferably email [email protected] Until further notice our talks will be online. Bookings are made on the London Group page of the SMN website and the Zoom link will be sent out 30 minutes before the talk. Cost is £10 for a regular ticket and £5 for concessions. Information is circulated to the London Group as well as a wider list. 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 - 2020 M AY Monday 18th Dr. PHILIP GOFF Is Consciousness Everywhere? Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness JUNE Monday 1st Prof JERRY KROTH Can you be sure that all Crop Circles are Fakes? JULY Monday 6th LAURENCE FREEMAN OSB The Contemplative Path in a Time of Crisis AUGUST Monday 10th Prof JOHN CLARKE Beyond Nihilism: what can we learn from Nietzsche SEPTEMBER Monday 21st Dr. MICHAEL BROOKS Cardano, the Quantum and the Cosmos www.scimednet.org Paradigm Explorer 2020/1 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] EDITORIAL PARADIGM EXPLORER is published Material Crisis as a Spiritual Opportunity Dr Peter Fenwick, President 2 three times a year by the Scientific & Medical Network, generally in April, ARTICLES August and December. Editor: David Lorimer Pandemic as Opportunity Ervin Laszlo 4 2 Chemin de la Chaussee, Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C Richard Z Cheng, MD, PhD; 6 11230 St Colombe sur l’Hers, is the Treatment of Choice for Hanping Shi, MD, PhD; Atsuo France 2019-nCov Pneumonia Yanagisawa, MD, PhD; Thomas E-mail: [email protected] Levy, MD, JD; Andrew Saul, PhD. Web Site: www.scimednet.org Ideas Arising from an Exchange with John Reed 9 William Ophuls (Members may apply to the SMN Office for password to access the Members The Light of Hellenism Athena Despoina Potari 12 Only area of the web site). What’s Wrong with the Perennial Philosophy? Jules Evans 16 Editorial Board: John Clarke, Paul Kieniewicz The Eco-Philosophy Mandala – Henryk Skolimowski 20 Printed by: A new world view and Paul Kieniewicz Kingfisher Print & Design Ltd, Devon The 5 Living Generations’ Call to Protect Joan Skolimowski 23 The opinions expressed in Network the Earth and all Beings are those of individual authors and not necessarily statements of general Visioneers International Network Desmond Berghofer and 24 Network views. The Network is in no Geraldine Schwartz way liable for views published herein. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Paradigm Explorer Registered office: Not an Obituary – a voyage around Stephen G. Wright 25 Scientific & Medical Network, Ram Dass (1931-2019) c/o Dawe, Hawken & Dodd, 52 Fore Street, Callington, REPORTS Cornwall PL17 7AJ Tel: 0203 468 2034. Beyond the Brain 2019 John Clarke 27 Email: [email protected] 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Spirituality Larry Culliford 30 and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SSIG) Company limited by guarantee, registered No. 4544694 England Registered charity No. 1101171 UK NETWORK NEWS Network News 33 JOURNAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK ESTABLISHED 1973 News and Notices 34 Paradigm Members’ Articles 36 Explorer News Items 37 BOOK REVIEW SECTION Science/Philosophy of Science 38 Medicine/Health 41 INSIDE PAGE 4 Pandemic as Philosophy/Spirituality 45 Opportunity PAGE 12 Psychology/Consciousness Studies 52 The Light of Hellenism PAGES 20 The Eco-Philosophy Mandala Ecology/Futures Studies 56 ISSN 1362-1211 | No 132 | 2020/1 General 59 Cover: Pear Blossom in Campsaurine Books in Brief 60 David Lorimer www.scimednet.org 1 Paradigm Explorer 2020/1 Message from the President Material Crisis as a Spiritual Opportunity Dr Peter Fenwick From a scientific point of view, it is all materialistic view of science (which the Greetings! I hope you are too easy to see that the genesis of the Network’s Galileo report highlights) and all keeping safe and are virus is at least partly due to the way our exploitation of nature. we handle our food and the system that The Network has been set up always to we use to feed people on this planet, reasonably well fed! be at the cutting edge and to query the overcrowded as it is. Our business materialistic view that science has today. Elizabeth and I are holed model, extended by Ayn Rand in the We have had great success in this with early part of the 20th Century - that we the setting up of the Spirituality Special up in our house in the can do anything as long as it is in our Interest Group in the Royal College of own interests - is now outdated. This Scottish Highlands, Psychiatrists, carried out by Dr. Andrew Western capitalist system with its two Powell and colleagues. David Fontana looking out of the window aims of plunder and profit contains the with his colleagues was also successful seeds of its own destruction. Farming in establishing a trans-personal at the wonderful snow- is essentially driven by profit measures Special Interest Group for the British rather than the care and health of the capped mountains, and the Psychological Society. Both show how animals we eat. Battery farming has we have managed to change, in my view been largely given up in Europe, but wild life which is simply in a very important way, the academic not in other countries, and in these view of spirituality in these subjects. superb. It’s not too easy circumstances the crossing over of This is continuing with the publication pathogens from one species to another to find something either of the Network’s Galileo Report, is very likely. Indeed, there have been which puts forward a strong case that a several such crosses in the last few years. positive or cheerful to say materialistic science is far too limited. It only took more aggressive viruses at the moment, but I do like Ebola, Mers or Sars to move from There is a huge change in the way we local infection and to spread widely and understand consciousness. We have hope that none of you rapidly around the world. The planet now begun to learn about non-duality. have lost loved ones or is overcrowded and society is set up in There are methods on this planet and a way that favours transmission. Those courses which we can attend which will been taken ill yourself. But scientists with the sensitivity to see have make some of us non-dual. In the non- predicted that another pandemic must dual experience, ‘you’ and ‘the thing let’s start by looking at the follow, which indeed it has. out there’ are one, just one. And that of course means that we will lose a lot Corona virus from one or The climate emergency is only one of the difficulties which have brought factor pointing out the downside of about the situation that we see both in two different angles. And our abuse. Systems designed to exploit our science and in the way we behave the planet are plentiful - plastic in the doing it this way, I have to each other. Of course, if one is part sea, the annihilation of species - are of everybody, then we have to change called this talk all symptomatic of the fact that we and the aims that we have, have to don’t feel sensitivity to the planet or be modified, so that we look after the ‘Opportunity’. life on it and these lead to a continuous whole and not just ourselves. degradation of our physical resources. A simple remedy is difficult without The Network can be a positive influence a major change in the way we behave in the process of change.
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