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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

Sunday, October 25, 2009

 

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

NDWP Plenary 3 - Dialogue of the One: The Nondual Therapeutic Relationship Panel

John Prendergast(moderator), Kaisa Puhakka, Judith Blackstone, and Rudy Bauer

12:15pm-12:30pm

NDWP Closing Remarks

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