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Friday, October 23, 2009
Science and Nonduality Conference - At the Embassy Suites Hotel
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C1 - Various approaches to nonduality
Vijay Kapoor -The traditional teaching of Advaita Vedanta
Brant Cortright - Varieties of nonduality
Nick Yiangou - Unification: A dialog with non-duality
Jerry Katz - Stumbling into Nonduality
Rupert Spira - Contemplating the nature of experience
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C2 - Scientific approaches to nonduality
Giuseppe Castagnoli - The unity of time
Matti Bergström - Mathematical model of non-duality
Dean Radin - Entangled minds
Stanley Sobottka - Quantum theory of what?
Wolfgang Baer - An integrated mind-body model of consciousness
9:00am12:30pm
SAND C3 - "I" think, therefore I'm not "I": philosophy and nonduality
Peter Lloyd - The logical structure of consciousness
Stephen Deiss – The consciousness trail from Qualia to Quanta
Dmitry Ivanov - Phenomenology of sensations
Jonathan Shear - Taking non-dualism seriously
John Kineman - Existence and Non-existence as Relation in a Self-Similar
Space-Time Cosmology
9:00am12:30pm
SAND C4 - Cosmology and nondual inquiries
Sheiha Ayshegul Ashki: One seamless cosmic web
Kevin Krycka - Spaciousness and phenomenal enlightenment
Duane Elgin - The living universe
Tim Freke - Becoming Conscious of Our Essential Nature as the 'I' of Awareness
Stephen Kaplan - The Advaita Vedanta notion of consciousness
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND 5 - Mindfulness and well being
Cassandra Vieten - Spiritual practices and well being
Carol Agnessens - Dimensions of biodynamic craniosacral practice
Shauna Shapiro - How does mindfulness/meditation work?
Carol Marcy - Non-dualism in psychotherapy
Gail Brenner - Realization of oneness
Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference - At the Marin Center
9:10am-10.10am
NDWP Plenary 1
John Prendergast - When the bottom drops out: encounters with the groundless ground in psychotherapy
10:20am-12:30pm
NDWP C1
Stephan Bodian - Freeing the dark inside the light
Lama Palden - The relationship between experiencing our true nature and psychological healing processes
10:20am-12:30pm
NDWP C2
John Astin - Nondual awareness and the resolution of afflictive states
Susan McCarn - Oneness dancing
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Science and Nonduality Conference - At the Embassy Suites Hotel
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C6 - Western approaches to nonduality
Greg Goode - Moderator - stumbling block to nondual realization
James Corrigan - Can we talk? Understanding the nature of scientific and spiritual discourse
Jody Radzik - The folk-theory of enlightenment and its traps
Tomas Sander - Joyful irony and western emptiness teachings
James Swartz - An outline of traditional Vedanta
9:00am12:30pm
SAND 7 - Nonduality and the mind/matter split
Ralph Abraham - A digital solution to the mind/body problem
Scott Anderson - Scientific cosmology
Marcus Abundis – Toward a unified theory of human behavior
Thomas Schumann – Quantum physics and the nonduality of mind/matter
Casey Blood – Wave-particle duality is illusory
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C8 -Traditional wisdom, modern solutions
Pradheep Chhalliyil - Vedic approach in solving the mystery of consciousness
Lama Kali Ma - Not-duality is not the same as non-duality.
Anand Rangarajan - The duality of duality and non-duality
Avtar Singh - Non-duality resolves paradoxes of science
Jan Golembiewski - We are our architecture
9:00am12:30pm
SAND C9 - Nondual philosophy and knowledge
Robert Wallace - Non-duality in the platonist tradition
Edouard Asseo - Theory of consciousness theory of knowledge
Jesse Butler - On acquaintence with oneself
Gary Weber - Ramana Maharshi and Einstein on "Free Will"
Mila Makal - Heidegger and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C10 Correlates of nondual awareness
Zoran Josipovic - Influence of nondual awareness on anti-correlated networks in the brain
Charles Shang - A unified biological basis of two meditative traditions
Russell Hebert - EEG phase synchrony during Transcendental Meditation
John Louvitakis - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Science
David Scharf - Pseudoscience and Victor Stenger’s quantum gods
Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference - At the Marin Center
9:00am-10:15am
NDWP Plenary 2
Peter Fenner - Beyond the beyond: The question of suffering in nondual Therapies
10:30am-12:30pm
NDWP C3
Dorothy Hunt - Seeing and being seen through Love's single eye
10:30am-12:30pm
NDWP C4
Rudy Bauer - The natural unfolding of psychotherapy process into nonduality: An experiental demonstration. What Is the wonder of all wonders? Pure awareness: On becoming the field
Science and Nonduality Conference - At the Embassy Suites Hotel
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C11 - Shamanism, entheogens and nonduality
Daniel Pinchbeck - Revolutionary Nondualism
Frank Echenhofer - Spontaneous waking lucidity during the Ayahuasca shamanic journey
James Fadiman - Psychedelics as entheogens: How to create and guide succesfull sessions (psychedelics research!)
Keith Turausky - Visions of Nonduality and Quantum Consciousness in William James, Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide
Ol Doinyo Laetoli le Baaba - Tribal and aboriginal people's perspective on life
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C12 - Panel: "Nondualism by 'The Book': Perspectives from Judaism, Islam, and Christianity."
Andrew Dreitcer: moderator
Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman - Nondual Judaism
Sheik Kabir Helminksi - Living presence and the knowing heart
Frank Rogers Jr. - Christian contemplative path to non-dualism
Nahid Angha - Discovering the infinite reality within the heart of the finite world
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C13 - Nonduality: evolution or a return to the source?
Steve Bhaerman - Spontaneous evolution: Our Non-dualistic future
Emmanuel Karavousanos - Nonduality breakthrough
Cathryn Roberts - Return to the source
Vicky Suri - Divinity – Representation of supra mental patterns
Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi - Spirit and matter; A graded reality not duality
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C14 - The "real" world: nondual ideas in culture and society
Gino Yu - concurrent moderator
Hasmukh Taylor - The Science of the Source: Yoga with Quantum Physics
Alex Gordon-Brander - Non-Dual Economics
Kenny Johnson - Awakening in prison
Jeffery Martin - Empirically investigating nondual consciousness
Bem Le Hunte - Where do our ideas come from?
9:00am-12:30pm
SAND C15 - Where does the "I" come from?
And is it Art?
Alumit Ishai - Neural Correlates of Object Indeterminacy in Art Compositions
Robert Pepperell - Visual indeterminacy, art and non-dualistic perception
Paul Bush - Neural basis for I
Chuck Hillig - The meaning of life in 13 minutes
Jesse Bettinger - Whitehead on autopilot
Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference - At the Marin Center
9:00am-11:00am
NDWP C5
Ken Bradford - Authenticity and the play of unconditioned presence in psychotherapy.
9:00am-11:00am
NDWP C6
Prema Maja Rode - Expressing the Self: Creative inquiry and exploration from a nondual perspective.
Loch Kelly - The interface of neurological research and nondual teaching
11:15am-12:15pm
12:15pm-12:30pm













