This live online event is sponsored by a partnership between:

Galileo Commission; Scientific and Medical Network; Division of Perceptual Studies; Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences; and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Consciousness Unbound:

Liberating the Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism

What if consciousness is fundamental and even primary?

Join some of the leading researchers in the sciences and humanities for a series of round table discussions to launch the landmark volume Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism, initiated under the auspices of Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research and University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies.

In this online event, the contributing authors in the SurSem Project convene remotely to discuss concepts outlined in the newest SurSem collaborative project:

Consciousness Unbound-Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism -edited by Edward F. Kelly and Paul Marshall

Friday 24th September • 4:00 – 8:30 pm (UK time, BST)

4.00 – 4.10 pm • Consciousness Unbound and the Sursem Project

 Edward F. Kelly – Introduction to the Sursem research project and the trilogy that came out of it: Irreducible Mind, Beyond Physicalism, and Consciousness Unbound.

4:10 – 6:00 pm • Expanding Empirical Research Horizons • Chair: Emily Williams Kelly

Bruce Greyson – Near-Death Experiences

Jim Tucker – Cases of the Reincarnation Type

 Bob Rosenberg – Precognition

6:30 – 8:30 pm • Mysticism and the Evolving Divine • Chair: Paul Marshall

Edward F. Kelly – Mystical Experience and Panentheism in the Sursem Project

 Glenn Alexander Magee – A Neo-Hegelian Theory of Mystical Experience and Other Extraordinary Phenomena

Roderick Main – Mystical Experience and the Scope of Jung’s Holism

Saturday 25th September • 4:00 – 8:45 pm (UK, BST)

 4:00 – 6:00 pm • Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism: Toward A New Metaphysic • Chair: Marjorie Woollacott

Max Velmans – Is the Universe Conscious? Reflexive Monism and the Ground of Being

Bernardo Kastrup – Analytic Idealism and Psi: How a More Tenable Metaphysics Neutralizes a Physicalist Taboo

Federico Faggin – Consciousness Comes First

 6:30 – 8:45 pm • The Emerging Vision of Consciousness and Why It Matters • Co-Chairs: Prof Edward F. Kelly and John Cleese

Paul Marshall – Mind Beyond Brain: Surveying the Metaphysical Landscape

David E. Presti – Expanding a Science of Consciousness

Jeffrey J. Kripal – The Future of the Human(ities): Mystical Literature, Paranormal Phenomena, and the Contemporary Politics of Knowledge

Pointing the Way Forward – David Lorimer