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George B. Blaker ISSN 1362-1211 | No 77 | December 2001 The Scientific and Medical Network Review George B. Blaker 1912-2001 Co-Founder and President of the Scientific and Medical Network NETWORK CALENDAR Attention Members! Personal Numbers and Office and other events of interest Procedures 2002 Please help your administration office to run smoothly and so help you efficiently: March 2nd Religion and a New World View, King’s College, I when your details change (address, telephone number, email address etc.) London – flier enclosed. For other Templeton please make sure we know Foundation sponsored events see Network I use your membership number News whenever you contact us, and write it onto all correspondence, conference booking slips, subscription forms, April 5th-7th Silver Jubilee Mystics and Scientists direct debit forms and orders for books, Conference services etc. The Search for Unity: Mind and Heart in I book early for conferences - it helps you Science and Mysticism. 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This causes Office for password to access the administrative confusion in the office as Members Only area of the web site). Disks should be labelled with the file well as affecting the timely receipt of your name and author’s name; all other files copies of Network Review until your Editorial Board: David Lorimer, should be deleted. If you are sending subscription is received. SO PLEASE Max Payne, Julian Candy, Diana Clift a disk, please send hard copy as well. HELP US TO HELP YOU BY PAYING YOUR 2002 SUBSCRIPTION AS Printed by: Kingfisher Print & Design 3. By Typewritten copy, which should be CLOSE TO JANUARY AS POSSIBLE. Ltd, Devon clean - no overtyping or hand The opinions expressed in Network are those correction, any last-minute alterations of individual authors and not necessarily should be sent on a separate sheet. Cover picture: statements of general Network views. The Text should be printed in black on one George Blaker Network is in no way liable for views side of white paper. Laser, ink-jet or published herein. daisy-wheel out-put is preferred. CONTENTS GEORGE B. BLAKER - 1912-2001 32 Network Continental Meeting - Les Courmettes, near Nice, France - Diana Clift 2 A Wider Horizon - David Lorimer 33 The Spiritual Aspects of Life Group - George Blaker 3 Being Present - Peter Fenwick 4 Sagesse Oblige - Max Payne NEWS SECTION Apple Picking 34 NETWORK NEWS AND NOTICES 35 LOCAL GROUP NEWS ARTICLES 38 MEMBERS’ NEWS AND NOTICES 6 A Dangerous Opportunity: The Spiritual Challenges of the Events of September 11th 2001 39 MEMBERS’ ARTICLES - Serge Beddington-Behrens 41 NEWS AND NOTICES 8 That Peace May Prevail in this World: The Forgotten 42 FORTHCOMING EVENTS Human Factors - Ervin Laszlo 12 The Reality Inbetween: Toward an Epistemology for the Paranormal - Emilios Bouratinos REVIEW SECTION 17 Inspiration and Persecution – Messages from the Self 44 SCIENCE and Beyond’ - Andrew Powell 48 MEDICINE/HEALTH 21 The Potential of Emptiness: Vacuum States in Physics and Consciousness “Nothing in Common 52 PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION Conference” - Alan Wallace 57 PSYCHOLOGY/PARAPSYCHOLOGY 25 The Laying on of Hands - From ‘My Grandfather’s 62 ECOLOGY-ECONOMICS-FUTURES Blessings’ - Rachel Naomi Remen MD STUDIES 65 BOOKS IN BRIEF REPORTS 26 Beyond the Brain IV: Scientific and Spiritual Perspectives on Meditation - August 23rd – 26th 2001 at Ripon College,Yorkshire - Julian Candy 28 Psychosis and Spirituality: Exploring the New Frontier - University of Southampton Medical School, King Alfred’s College, Winchester 6-7 September, 2001 - Jennifer Elam 30 Science and the Challenge of Exceptional Experience: Drynachan Lodge, 18th –21st October 2001 - David Lorimer MISSION STATEMENT • Question your own assumptions • Balance kindness and To deepen understanding in science, and presuppositions. understanding with clarity and medicine and education by fostering • Maintain a broad frame of discernment. both rational analysis and intuitive reference. • Be willing to listen and learn from insights • Cultivate humility, honesty, others in the interests of trust and humour. openness. GUIDELINES OF NETWORK • Disagree sympathetically, APPROACH Rigour sensitively and constructively. • Recognize that our views of reality Meetings: Open-mindedness are models. Internal meetings provide a ‘safe • Bear in mind that good science is • Be prepared to test your ideas. house’ for explanation and debate in an open self-correcting system; no • Try to define your terms clearly. an interdisciplinary setting. This theory or set of insights is • Make it clear when you are voicing facilities the development of trust and complete or perfect. There is no opinions and beliefs. friendship. External meetings require Network consensus view. • Be able to state opposing a combination of rigorous • Be ready to consider constructive viewpoints in arguments. professional standards with sympathy, criticism and to submit your work understanding and support. to rigorous examination Care of Others • Be prepared to revise beliefs in the • Have respect and empathy for The above guidelines can be applied NETWORK GUIDLINES NETWORK light of evidence and experience. others and be aware of their needs to writing and lecturing. Network No. 77 December 2001 1 George B. Blaker 1912-2001 n the summer of 1983 I service there. In 1957 he became received a letter from George Financial Adviser to British High Blaker inviting me to join the Commissioners in India and Ceylon Scientific and Medical and H.M. Ambassador in Burma. He Network. I did not hesitate to A Wider was also the British Treasury Itake up his invitation and soon found Representative in South Asia from myself driving over from Winchester that year until 1962, which, to his to meet him for lunch. After a warm Horizon delight, involved residence in India welcome from George and his wife and extensive traveling throughout the Richenda, we set off for the Crown at David Lorimer sub-continent. He returned as Under Ockley. Half way through lunch Secretary at the Overseas Finance George said to me that I was just the Division of the Treasury in 1963, the sort of person he was looking for to someone had even been passed on the year in which he was appointed take over the Network. What did I strength of his study of barn owls! CMG. think? Well I did think and here we George’s career in the Foreign The following year he was are! Since first meeting him, my time Service was an eventful one. On the transferred to the office of the with George was always special – the first day of war in 1939 he was Minister of Science and subsequently stillness of his presence, his kind transferred to the Ministry of to the Department of Education and demeanour, his wise counsel.We often Economic Warfare where he was Science where he spent the rest of his spoke at length about the deeper Personal Assistant to the Head of the career until retirement in 1971. In aspects of life, and it was beautiful to Intelligence Department. Then, after 1964 George had been looking for a meditate with him and others in the a spell at the Overseas Trade house in Sussex, where he had grown Blue Room. Department and Middle East Office, up, but landed instead at Lake House George Blaker was born in 1912 in he worked in the Cabinet Office.
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