Pre-conference Workshops

Pre-conference Workshops

Pre-conference Workshop with Adyashanti

Pre-conference Workshops

Pre-conference Workshops

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Dinner

PL1. The Nature of the Self

Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo - Opening remarks
Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) - "The Illusive Self"
Menas Kafatos - Fullness In Emptiness: From The Quantum Vacuum To The Infinite Self
Concert with Matthew Schoening

Meditation led by Florian Schlosser

C1. The Dance of Oneness

John Prendergast - The Bodily Sense of Self Knowing
Mokshananda - Inquiry on the Nature of Reality
Marlies Cocheret - How to Be Free in the Midst of Dis-ease An Exploration of Living the Liberated Life
Pamela Wilson - The Nature of the Self

Richard Lang - Seeing Who You Really Are

C2. The Myth of the Self

Emmanuel Drouet - Knowlingly aware about diversity and complexity in the nature: the case of the immunology
Robert Dittler - The Nature of Self
Shauna Shapiro - The Role of Context
Kurt Johnson - Can the Magic-Mythic Lens and the Rational/Integral Lens Ever Join in Transforming the World? Peter Russell - Letting Go of Nothing

C3. Self Dreaming the Self

Tom Crockett - The Misapprehension of the Self: The three myths that obscure the truth of our true nature.
Puran Bair - The Self and Non-Duality in Sufism
Beverly D'Urso - Expansion of Self, Consciousness, and Lucidity While Awake or Asleep
Kenny Johnson - There are Two; duality Exists
Chuck Hillig - Dreaming the Impossible Dream
Jeannie Zandi - From self to Self: The Breakdown of the Mythology of Me
Birinder Bhullar - Quest for The Supreme Truth: The Path of Love to Ultimate Self-Knowing

C4. The Story of the Self

Richard Strube - The Orientation of Self in Time
Jeremy Lent - Closing the gap between "I" and my "self"
Delicia Kamins - The Ship of Theseus and Hume's Bundle Theory of Self
Will Pye - Blessed with a Brain Tumour
Robert Atkinson - Living Within Our Infinite Nature
Greg Conrow - Deconstructing No-Self: Does No-Self equal No-Self?
Elizabeth Bader - The Self of Peace: Lessons on the Nature of the Self from Conflict Resolution

Experiential Room

Yoga with Ellen Emmet
Overtone Chanting and the Inner Vibration of OM, Peter Littlejohn Cook
Breema The Art Of Being Present with Yasmin Bar-Dor

Experiential Room

Self Beholding the Self - Prasanna

Lunch music

SPL1. Self Beyond Names

Sally Kempton - Shakti and Self-Awareness: The Way of the Non-Dual Feminine
Éric Baret - The Thinker is a Thought
Rupert Spira - I have no Name or Form but Appear as All Names and Forms

SPL 2. Selfless Knowing

James Austin - Meditating Selflessly

David Loy - What’s Wrong With Me? Why the sense of self is haunted by a sense of lack
Ecology and Social Justice with David Loy, Hozan Alan Senauke, Drew Dellinger

Break

Experiential Room

The Fusion of Opposites in the The Circular Portal: An Expressive Hoop-Dance Exploration with Stefana Serafina
Exploring the Voice with Joyce Todd McBride

PL 2. From Cosmic Consciousness to Non-dual Awareness

Mark Deutsch - Bazantar
Joel Primack - Consciousness of the Cosmos
Nancy Ellen Abrams - Cosmic Consciousness in the Real World
Cynthia Bourgeault - Centering Prayer and the Foundations of Non-dual Awareness
Another day in the SAND box with Puppetji

Dinner

Poster session:

Presenters: Freeman Brown, Amy Lansky, Laurie Schwartz, Syamala Hari, Dr. Jagdish Kohli, Jörn Kroll, Bill Duran, Nisha Manek, Kramer Gert, Padma Gordon, Mary Beth Moze, Lama Daniel, Walter Matreyek, Dana Lichtstrahl, Marina Ramos-Nelson, Lynne Hedrick Roff, Odd Eirik Ness, Connie Baxter Marlow, Andrew Cameron Bailey, Sky Nelson, Tracy Dyson, Thomas D. Abraham, Suzanne Lerner, Enza Vita, Suzy Adra, Alan E Shelton, Julia Bystrova, Austin Hill Shaw, Philip Kenney, Birinder Bhullar

PANEL

PANEL: Nothing Changes—Nothing Remains the same: Does awakening to one’s true nature affect one’s behavior in the world? - Jeff Foster, Scott Kiloby and Tom Crockett (Facilitator)

Film

"Kumare" - Q&A with the director Vikram Gandhi

Meditation led by Rupert Spira

C5. Life appearing as a Self

Peter Dziuban - The Softness of Life
Dorothy Hunt - Self or No Self?
Unmani - Are you willing to die to everything you think you know…
Rabbi David A. Cooper - The Practice of Selflessness: Who’s Practicing?
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - The Evolution Of The Soul And Our Present Ecological Crisis

C6.The Self As A Construct

Frank Echenhofer - Apparitions of the Self: Themes from the Secret Autobiographies of Spiritual Teachers
Catherine Pepin - The Singularity as a Sense of Self
Peggy La Cerra - Creating Humanity’s Character: ‘Self’, ‘Other’ and ‘Global Tribe’ as Dynamic Co-Creative Informational Systems
Gordon Cornwall - The Phantom Self: the Illusion of Survival
Laura Case - Dynamic Construction of Body and Self in the Brain: Insights from Phantom Limbs, Anesthesia, Transsexuality, and Anorexia

C7. Scientific insights into the Self

Erik D. Andrulis - Theoretical Proof of My Existence

Karla M. Galdamez - Conscious Observation and the Double Slit Experiment
Thomas McFarlane - The nonduality of observer and observed in physics and direct experience
Newcomb Greenleaf - Deflating Infinity by Inverting Set Theory
Leslie Combs - The Fractal “Self” In The Transcendent Experience
Gary Weber - Exploring the Self Scientifically - Magic Mushrooms or Meditation - The Same Route, The Same Result
Jon Lieff - Searching for the Mind: Exploring the relevance of recent scientific discoveries to the emerging view of mind as an integral aspect of nature

C8. The Self as a Creative, Embodied Process

Ken Stewart - Describing the Indescribable

Austin Hill Shaw - Creativity and Nonduality: How The Tension Between Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process.

Risa Kaparo - Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness
Michael W. Taft - The Self as a Sensual Process
Gert Kramer - The Nine Pointed Star – Revealer of Order in the Chaos
Anasuya Krishnaswamy - The Energy of Sound and Shamanic Practice
Judith Orloff - Defenseless In-To-Me-See - A Direct, Radical Experience of Self

Experiential Room

Yoga with Ellen Emmet
Workshop with Ayshegul Ashki and Dervishes
Mingtong Gu - Embody Your Wholeness as the Nature of the Self
TransDance® with Heather Munro Pierce

Experiential Room

Self Beholding the Self - Prasanna

Films

Lunch music

SPL 3. Spiritual Ecology, Cosmology and Social Justice

PANEL: Spiritual Ecology: A Spiritual Response To Our Present Ecological Crisis with David Loy and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Drew Dellinger - The Mountaintop Vision: Martin Luther King’s Cosmology of Connection
Roger Housden - Poetry Recital: Self Inside Self

SPL 4. Higher States

James Doty - Transformation and Transcendence
Antonella Vannini and Ulisse Di Corpo - Syntropy, the energy of love
John Hagelin- HIGHER STATES: The Neurophysiology of Enlightenment

Experiential Room

Why Draw? - an exploration into the nature of creativity through life drawing with Meriel Gold

Break

PL 3. The Nature of the Self

Gangaji - Nature of Self
Roland Griffiths - The Mystical Experience: Insights from Psilocybin Research
PANEL: The Physics of the Self with Menas Kafatos, John Hagelin, Lothar Schafer moderated by Nick Day

Another day in the SAND box with Puppetji

Dinner

PANEL MAPS: Discovering the Self in Psychedelic Research with Jessica Nielson, Virginia Wright and Tom Kingsley Brown

David Ellzey - Alchemy of Being: Playing with The Invisible
"Beyond the Self" - live concert with YOUSSOUPHA SIDIBE
DJ Dragonfly

Meditation led by Rupert Spira

C9. The known, unknown and the unknowable

Phil Goldberg - The Maha Lineage: How Nonduality Transformed America
Mukti - The Origin of True Knowledge: Fundamental Reality Recognized & Known

Tami Simon - Let’s Get Personal: A Non-dual Celebration of Human Development and Individuality

The talk will be followed by a panel conversation with Jeff Foster and Shauna Shapiro
PANEL: The Three Simultaneously True Levels of Nondual Reality; Don't Mistake Understanding for Realization, Don't Mistake Realization for Liberation Igor Kufayev, and John Hagelin, Ph.D., moderated by Rick Archer

C10. Awareness as a Creative Process

Ayshegul Ashki - Actually, what is not the Self?

Geshe Chaphur - The Nature of Self Awareness from the Tibetan Bӧn Dzogchen View
Jack Petrenker - The Self in Question
Richard Wormstall - The Epic of Evolution: 13.7 billion years and the forging of the Self
Fariba Bogzaran - Lucid Dreaming and Creative Consciousness

C11. Paths of Exploration

Shiv Sengupta - The Subtle Art of the Question
Siegfried Bleher - The Emergence of True Self in the Dissolution of the Moment
Richard Dobrin - The Vedic Cycle Of Yugas, The Mayan Prophesies, And The Evolution Of Contemporary Physics, Technology And Medicine
Theresa Ibis Bullard - Revealing and Transforming the Self through Kabbalah & Alchemy
Paul Evans - The Epigenetics of Consciousness
Maria Syldona - Who says the Big Bang was Loud? Science Conundrums and Kashmir Shaivism Secrets
Denise Groves - Indigenous Cosmology

C12. The Biology, Psychology and Physics of the Self

Bob Benefield - Stand Back Awareness as a Tool in the Exploration of Personal Consciousness
Kim Sargent-Wishart - Embodying Differentiation and Wholeness: Lessons from Embryology
Meghan Roekle - Doing therapy with nobody
Bill Baird - A Neuropsychological View of Spiritual Development from Biological Self to Spiritual Self
Robert J. Newton - A Map to Healing and Your Essential Divinity Through Theta Consciosness 
Nisha Manek - Understanding Energy Medicine: Lessons from the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Gerhard Strauss - The Resonance-Field Of The Absorption In The Spiritual Heart

Experiential Room

Yoga with Ellen Emmet
David Ellzey - The Joy of The Infinite as Your Body
The Quantum Light Breath with Richard Bock, Osher, Mellissa Seaman, Jon Alevizakis
Dance with live music lead by "To Life"

Experiential Room

Self Beholding the Self - Prasanna

Lunch music

SPL5. The Unfolding of the Self

Alva Noë - Getting Out of Our Heads
Peter Baumann - Body Self, Conceptual Self and No Self
Mark Matousek - The Transformative Power of Telling the Truth

SPL6. Panel conversations

PANEL: Nonduality and Psychotherapy: a natural evolution? - John Prendergast, Ph.D, Judith Blackstone, Ph.D., Scott Kiloby, J.D., Jeannie Zandi, M.A. moderated by: Andrea Colombu organised by Nondual Wisdom and Psychology Institute
PANEL: Beauty, desire and death; the non- dual body with Pamela Wilson, Unmani, Marlies Cocheret moderated by Loren Eskenazi

Experiential Room

Laurie Schwartz - Sacred Activism: The Intersubjective Dance of Mindfulness with African Rhythm and Song
Karl Erb - The nature of “I”: What is the difference between the study of “I” and all other sciences and philosophies?

Break

PL 4. The Self as Consciousness

Laura Inserra - Hang Performance
Francis Lucille - The Nature of the Self
Lothar Schafer - How quantum physics shows us the non-dual foundation of the dualistic world

Closing

Closing Dinner