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SAND 2011 program
Please note that this is a preliminary program, we are still working on some of the details so you might notice changes as the program develops.
PL- Plenary, approx. 40min; SPL - Semi Plenary, approx. 40min, C - Concurrent 20-30min, Panels - 1hr
View the Full Abstracts/Program SAND 2011 book below
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Thursday, October 20, 2011
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Thursday, October 20, 2011
4:30pm
Conference Registration Opens
6:00pm - 7:30pm
PLENARY SESSION - San Rafael Ballroom
San Rafael Ballroom
7:30pm - 7:45pm
7:45pm - 8:20pm
8:20pm - 8:55pm
9:00pm - 9:35pm
9:40pm - 10:00pm
10:00pm - 10:10pm
PL1. Time – a Mystery, an Illusion, a Portal to Timelessness
Maurizio Benazzo - Opening remarks
John Hagelin, PhD – Is Consciousness the Unified Field? A Field Theorist’s Perspective
Fred Alan Wolf, PhD - Is it all an illusion? Quantum physics, Time, and the Mind of God
Rupert Spira - Time Is Never Experienced
The plenary will be followed by a short conversation with the
presenters
Puppetji
10:05pm - 10:30pm
FILM - Nataraja by Filippo Carli
Friday, October 21, 2011
Novato room
8:00am - 9:00am
Meditation lead by Francis Lucille
Santa Rosa room
8:00am - 9:00am
9:00am - 10.30am
10:30am - 12:30pm
12:30pm - 2:00 pm
Experiential Room
Yoga with Ellen Emmet
Qi Gong Workshop with Master Mingtong Gu
Integral Visions of Science & Nonduality: Contributions from the California Institute of Integral Studies CIIS lead by Frank Echenhofer, PhD, Michal Fire,
Matt Spalding
TransDance® with Heather Munro Pierce
Belvedere Room
10:30am-12:30pm
Experiential Room
Self Beholding the Self, Prasanna
MORNING CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Sausalito room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:15am
11:25am - 12:30pm
C1. Time and Timelessness
Florian Schlosser - The Infinite Rhythm of Love & Freedom
Zoketsu Norman Fisher - Dongshan's five ranks: a zen teaching on nonduality
Peter Russell and Shauna Shapiro, PhD - Non-Dual Vipassana
This session is eligible for CE credit
Conversation with Unmani, Jeff Foster and Scott Kiloby – moderated by Robert Schwartz (East Bay Open Circle)
Corte Madera room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:00am
11:10am - 11:45am
11:55am - 12:30pm
C2. Timeless Freedom
Kurt Johnson, PhD - Can Science Ever Join Nondual Consciousness in Transforming the World?
Matt Kahn - Effortless Freedom - “Exploring Life’s Timeless Nature”
Joan Tolifson - The Ever-Changing, Ever-Present Here/ Now
Peggy La Cerra, PhD - Portals to Nonduality? Meditative Manipulations of Time Perception
Terry Patten - Free To Do What You Must
Novato room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05pm
12:10pm-12:30pm
C3. Consciousness and Time
Kumar Sharma, PhD -Time and Conscious Evolution
Frank Heile,Sc.D, MIT -Time, Non-duality and Symbolic versus Primary Consciousness
William Kautz - Time and Intuition: Transitioning to a Non-dual Consciousness
Jonathan Bricklin, Consciousness Already There, Waiting to be Uncovered
Break
Keith Tauravsky, Presentism, Eternalism, and Nonduality
Jerry Katz- Now Consciousness: Exploring the World Beyond Thought
Jorn Kroll - Existential Temporality in Heidegger’s Being and Time
Mila Makal - Radicalization of Understanding of the Concept of Time in Nisargadatta Maharaj and Martin Heidegger
Larkspur room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05am
12:10pm-12:30pm
C4. Approaches to Time from the Wisdom Traditions
Linda Fitch/ Anasuya Krishnaswamy, PhD - The Shamans Way of Life and Death: Mastery of Time
Pratibha Gramann - Ancient Sankhya Philosophy on Time, Timelessness, Consciousness, Matter, and Mind
Michael Kosoy, PhD - Kabbalah - Time - Biology of Epidemics
Oliver Benhaim - Adam & Eve: the Real Nondual Story
Break
Shaykha Ashegul Ashki - Whirling: The Portal to Timeless Open Space
Siegfred Bleher, PhD - The Nature of Time in Yoga
Pradeep Apte - 'I AM' on the Edge of Time
Gerard Strauss - SANNIDHI-Healing Power of Pure Being
Ross Room
2:00pm-3:00pm
3:00pm-4:00pm
Experiential Room
Video inquiry with A. H. Almaas on the subject of “Time” (22min)
Film: "Do You Know What Time It Is?" (BBC) Directed by Paul Olding (59min)
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch music – Musical Art Quintet
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Sausalito room
2:00pm-2:35pm
2:45pm-4:00pm
SPL1. Timeless Evolution
Thomas Hübl - Timelessness in Time, and Time in Timelessness
Dialogue: Ken Wilber (live audio) & Andrew Cohen – The Evolution of Enlightenment
Corte Madera room
2:00pm-2:35pm
2:40pm - 3:15pm
3:20pm -3:55pm
SPL 2. Freedom in Timeless Presence
Rabbi David A. Cooper - The Kabbalah of God-ing; Time and Timelessness
Peter Russell - Timeless Essence, Infinite Being
Peter Fenner, PhD - Timeless Presence: moment-by-moment buddhamind This session is eligible for CE credit
Larkspur Room
2:00pm - 2:35pm
2:40pm - 3:15pm
3:20pm-4:00pm
SPL 3. Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness and Quantum Theory
Stephen LaBerge, PhD - In Dreams Awake
This session is eligible for CE credit
Zoran Josipovic, PhD - A time for caution? Immanence, Transcendence and Nonduality
This session is eligible for CE credit
Conciousness, Time and Nonduality - a Conversation with Menas Kafatos, Zoran Josipovic and Catherine Pépin moderated by Nick Day
4:00:pm-4:30pm
Break
Santa Rosa room
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Experiential Room
Sufi Whirling workshop
San Rafael Ballroom
4:30pm-5:05pm
5:10pm - 5:45pm
5:50pm - 6:20pm
6:25pm-6:35pm
PL 2. Beyond Space and Time
Lynne McTaggart - The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us
Francis Lucille
Michael Harner, PhD - The Transcendence of Time in Shamanic Practice
This session is eligible for CE credit
Another day in the SAND box with Puppetji
Larkspur room
7:30pm-10:30pm
7:30pm-10:30pm
8:00pm-9:00pm
9:00pm-10:30pm
9:40pm-11:00pm
Evening Program
Poster Session: Gregory Conrow, Richard Gobeille, Suzy Adra, Lauren Palmateer, Gene Pascucci, Lynne Roff, Mark Scorelle, Donna Trousdale, Paul Hague, Daniel Sleeth, Julia Bystrova
GeoDome Panorama
Lucia N°03
Matthew Schoening - Electric Cello
Transformational Entertainment with David Ellzey - The Sound of One Hand Laughing. Humor Beyond Time.
Open Mic
Santa Rosa room
8:30pm to 10:30pm
Saturday, October 22, 2011
8:00am - 9:00am
Tiburon room
Meditation led by Rupert Spira
Santa Rosa room
8:00am - 9:00am
9:00am -10:30am
10:30am -12:00pm
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Experiential Room
Yoga with Ellen Emmet
Quantum Light Breath - Richard Bock, Osher, Mellissa Seaman, Jon Alevizakis
Contact Improvisation
with
Vitali Kononov
Dance with live music lead by "To Life"
Belvedere Room
10:30am-12:30pm
Experiential Room
Self Beholding the Self, Prasanna
MORNING CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Sausalito room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:00am
11:10am - 11:45am
11:55am - 12:40pm
C5. The Timeless Moment
Jeannie Zandi - The Eternal Moment: Nobody Going Nowhere
Jeff Foster - Duality, Nonduality, and the Deepest Acceptance of Life
Scott Kiloby - Beyond the Addiction to Temporal Objects
Peter Dziuban - How Old Is Awareness?
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - The significance of this moment in time
Corte Madera room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:00am
11:10am - 11:45am
11:55am - 12:30pm
C6. Dimensions of Time
Newcomb Greenleaf - How to Talk Nondually About Mathematics Without Appearing Ludicrous
Stanley Sobotka, PhD - The Arrow of Subjective Time
Sam Avery - Mass The Second Time Dimension: Physics Without Matter
David McConville - Visualizing Cosmic Models: A Situated Approach
Ashok Narasimhan - Not-Time
Novato room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05am
12:10pm-12:30pm
C7. Ways of Seeing the Dream
James Traverse - The Art of Nonduality
Jordan Camp, Ways of Knowing: Perspectives of a Scientist Meditator
Maribel Barreto, PHD - The Emergency Of Consciousness On Education
Andrew Spira, THE I-THOUGHT: the Art and Culture of a Dream
Break
Gary Pritchard, PhD - Ways of Seeing – Ourselves
Jonathan Shear, PhD - "State-Enlivening" and "Practice-Makes-Perfect" Approaches to Meditation
Rick Broadaway - Japanese: a Nondualistic Language?
Jeremy Lent - The human Construction of Time: a Historical Analysis
Larkspur room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05am
12:10pm-12:30pm
C8. Thought, Aging, Evolution and Time
Franz Jansen, PhD - Oscillation Between Time And Timelessness
Gary Weber, PhD - Stopping Thought, Stopping Time
Charles Webb, Method Aging and The Infinite Game
Dr. Engelbert Winkler&Dr. Dirk Proeckl - Hypnagogic Light Experience (HLE) and Nonduality
Break
Leslie Davenport, Exploring the Liminal Between Space and Time
Leanne Whitney, Perfect Timing: The Role of the Personal Unconscious in the Unfolding of Human Evolution
Tom Crockett, Saying “Not Yet” to God: Dream States and the Illusory Nature of Form and Time
Marceil DeLacy – Healing Without Time and Process
Ross Room
2:00pm-3:00pm
Films: Nataraja (25min) and NetiNeti (21min) by Filippo Carli
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Sausalito room
2:00pm-2:55pm
3:05pm-4:00pm
SPL 4. Connecting the Dots
PANEL Beyond Religion – the rise of a new spirituality with Rabbi David A. Cooper, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Father Richard Rohr moderated by Tami Simon
PANEL- Non-duality and Social Change with David Loy, Peter Baumann, John Hagelin, moderated by Terry Patten
Corte Madera room
2:00pm-2:40pm
2:40pm - 3:20pm
3:20pm -3:55pm
SPL 5. Seeing the Play of Life
Cassandra Vieten, PhD - Nondual Practice in Everyday Life: Results of a Year-Long Study This session is eligible for CE credit
Robert Dittler, PhD - The Perception of Time
Pamela Wilson – Clear Seeing and Deep Relaxation at Play
Larkspur room
2:00pm - 2:55pm
3:05pm - 4:00pm
SPL 6. Exploration of Timelessness
PANEL with: Bentinho Massaro and Jeannie Zandi, Benjamin Smythe moderated by Jerry Katz
John Prendergast, PhD & Kaisa Puhakka, PhD (NDWPI) - Discovering a Timeless Spaciousness in Psychotherapy
This session is eligible for CE credit
Santa Rossa Room
2:00pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Experiential Room
Authentic Movement with Ellen Emmet
Exploring the Voice with Joyce Todd McBride
4:00pm-4:30pm
Break
San Rafael Ballroom
4:30pm-5:05pm
5:10pm - 5:45pm
5:50pm - 6:30pm
6:30pm - 6:40pm
PL 3. Where Quantum Theory, Poetry and Christianity Meet
Menas Kafatos, PhD - Underlying Principles in Quantum Theory and Metaphysics and the Role of Consciousness in the Universe This session is eligible for CE credit
Drew Dellinger - A Cosmology of Connection: Poetry, Justice and Nonduality
Richard Rohr - The Christian Meaning Of Enlightenment
In the SAND box with - Puppetji
6:30pm-8:00pm
7:30pm-10:00pm
Novato Room
Visualizing the Transcalar Imaginary with David McConville
8:00pm-11:30pm
San Rafael Ballroom
"On the Edge of Time" live performance and party
Non Stop Bhangra and DJ Dragonfly
8:30pm-10:00pm
Santa Ross Room
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Ross room
8:00am - 9:00am
Meditation: The bliss-field of pure awareness Peter Fenner
Santa Rosa room
8:00am - 9:00am
9:00am - 10:00am
10:00am - 11:00am
11:00am-12.30pm
Experiential Room
Yoga with Ellen
Gregory Sipp - “Riding The Timeless Wave”
Breema with Yasmin Bardor
Open Space Technology led by Jeff Aitken
Belvedere Room
10:30am-12:30pm
Experiential Room
Self Beholding the Self, Prasanna
MORNING CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Sausalito room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:00am
11:10am - 11:45am
11:55am - 12:30pm
C9. Language, Art and Entheogens as a Portals
Fariba Bogzaran, PhD - Lucid Art: From Form to Formless
Joshua Marker - Time in Language and Mind
Catherine Pépin - Is Time an Arrow?
David Presti, PhD - Psychedelic Medicines and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
This session is eligible for CE credit
James Fadiman, PhD - Altered States of Time
This session is eligible for CE credit
Corte Madera room
9:00am - 9:35am
9:40am - 10:15am
10:25am - 11:00am
11:10am - 11:45am
11:55am - 12:30pm
C10. The Dance of Time
Allan Combs, PhD - Bohmian Type Dialogue on Deep Ecology and Thomas Berry
Tom Zelle, Music as Timelessness – The Absence of Duration
Chuck Hillig – Time is Consciousness…Living Dangerously
Michael Taft - History of Nonduality
Richard Linchitz, M.D. - No You and No Me. Just the Loving Awareness in Which All Appears
Novato room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05am
12:10pm-12:30pm
C11. Quantum, Neurons and Consciousness on the Edge of Time
Sky Nelson - Macroscopic Quantum Superposition
Scott Anderson - The Time Spectrum Unlocks the Spiritual Psychophysics
Delorme Arnaud - Cross-cultural Comparison of Neural Correlate of Meditation
Stephen Deiss - Beautiful Minds: Time and Consciousness in Nondual Physics
Break
Bill Baird, PhD - Neurological Openness in Psychological/Spiritual Development
Peter Bruza, PhD - Entangling Words and Meaning
Gerard Blommestijn - The Quantum Reduction Process is on the Edge of Time
Kerri Welch - How Consciousness Arises within a Cosmological Context
Larkspur room
9:00am - 9:20am
9:25am - 9:45am
9:50am - 10:10am
10:15am - 10:35am
10:35am - 10:55am
10:55am - 11:15am
11:20am - 11:40am
11:45am-12:05am
12:10pm-12:30pm
C12. Time Perspectives
Thomas McFarlane, Experiential Integration of Scientific and Nondual Perspectives of Time
Johann JeMoll, M.D. -Temporal waves and Thought waves
James Waite, Fading In The Light, Nonduality Insights on the timeless in living and dying
Robert Waggoneer - Bushwhacking One’s Way to Nonduality: A Lucid Dreamer’s Experience
Break
Stephen Kiesling - Water Time: Lessons from Rowing and White-Water Kayaking
Salim Ismail - Thermodynamics, Time & the Economy
Fairlamb Horace, PhD - Felix Culpa: Falling Into and Growing Out of Matter
Murali Sreenivasan - The Path To Non-Dualistic Awareness
12:30pm-2:00pm
Lunch music La Guinguette - French & Italian Music trio offering popular songs from mid 20th century
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Sausalito room
2:00pm-2:40pm
2:40pm - 3:20pm
3:20pm -3:55pm
SPL7. Freedom in Not-Knowing
Bentinho Massaro - Non-Duality and Freedom in Every-Day Life
Unmani - Are you willing to die to everything you think you know?
Kenny Johnson - Creating a Sacred Relationship
Corte Madera room
2:00pm-2:55pm
3:05pm - 4:00pm
SPL8 Panel conversations
PANEL: Psychotherapy and Nonduality two paths or one? moderated by Mariana Caplan
PANEL: with Peter Baumann and Michael Taft authors of the book "Ego" moderated by Laura Maguire
Larkspur room
2:00pm-2:40pm
2:40pm - 3:20pm
3:20pm -3:55pm
SPL9. The Timeless Dance of Time
Sean O’Laoire - Dancing on the Edge of Time This session is eligible for CE credit
Judith Orloff - Radical Love -Living the Future Now
This session is eligible for CE credit
Dorothy Hunt, L.C.S.W. – Living Now: The Collapse of Time and the Timeless This session is eligible for CE credit
Santa Rosa
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Experiential Room
Open Space Technology led by Jeff Aitken (part 2)
Ross Room
2:00pm-3:00pm
3:00pm -4:15pm
Experiential Room
Video inquiry with A. H. Almaas on the subject of “Time” (22min)
FILM: The Love Play Of The Gods, Director/Producer: Vimlan (K.Bundschuh)
4:00pm-4:30pm
Break
San Rafael Ballroom
4:30pm - 5:10pm
5:10pm - 5:50pm
5:50pm - 6:30pm
PL 4. Ecology, Time and the Self
David Loy, PhD - Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-crisis
Dean Radin, PhD - Predicting the Unpredictable: 75 Years of Experimental Evidence
Gangaji - Self-Inquiry: Discovering the Non-Duality in Duality
Monday, October 24, 2011
10:00am - 4:30pm
Santa Rosa room
10:00am - 6:00pm
Sausalito room
Continuing Education (CE) hours INFORMATION
CE hours are provided by The Spiritual Competency Resource Center which is co-sponsoring this conference and is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SCRC maintains responsibility for the program and content. The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology is a California Board of Registered Nursing Provider (BRN) and a Board of Behavioral Sciences Provider (BBS). For questions about CE visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at (707) 763-3576.
ITP will award 20 CE units to LCSWs, MFTs, RNs, through its approval by the BBS and BRN by attending the full conference from Thursday the 20th beginning at 7:30pm until 6:30pm on Sunday the 23rd. No CE units for LCSWs, MFTs, and RNs will be given for attendance of pre and post workshops. $60 payable by cash or check only.
SCRC awards 1 CE unit per 1 hour of eligible workshops for psychologists. $15 per eligible pre-conference workshop or $25 for all CE eligible sessions as noted in the program above. Important: to receive credit for each day, all the eligible sessions noted for the day MUST be attended, no exceptions. Payable by cash or check only.
