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Find here the anthology of in-depth interviews with Deepak Chopra, Shanti Mayi, Robert Burton, Donald Hoffman, Tony Parsons, Kaziaki Tanahashi, Stanislav Grof, Rupert Spira, Charles Eisenstein, Mystic Birinder, Karen Johnson, Jamie Pineda, Jac O’Keeffe, H. A. Almaas, Dave Pruet, Sue Blackmore, Paul Smit, Dean Radin, David Shannahoff-Khalsa, Chris Fields, Stephen LaBerge, Rudolph Tanzi, Catherine Pepin, Cassandra Vieten, Nukunu Larsen and Tahsin.

 

Details

Dates:
Oct 22–26, 2014
Location:
  • Hayes Mansion, San Jose California
  • 200 Edenvale Ave
  • San Jose, CA
  • 95136

Friday

Theme

Time

Event

Room

Plenary

9:00am – 9:20am

SAND Café – PAUL SMIT and MAURIZIO BENAZZO

Hayes Ballroom

Plenary

9:25am – 9:55am

JOHN HAGELIN – Consciousness: Down the Rabbit Hole, Just How Deep Do the Roots of Consciousness Go? “Entanglement, Space-Time Wormholes, and the Brain”

Hayes Ballroom

Plenary

10:00am – 10:30am

DEAN RADIN – Entangled Minds and Beyond

Hayes Ballroom

Break

10:30am – 11:00am

Break

Hayes Ballroom

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness

11:00am – 11:25am

CASSANDRA VIETEN – Are We In the Midst of A Scientific Revolution?

Hayes Ballroom

Entanglement and Self-Awareness

11:00am – 11:40am

JAC O’KEEFFE, Consciousness and the Phenomenon of Entanglement; How Are They Related?

San Martin Room

Biology and Self as Functions

11:00am – 11:40am

DAVID BARASH – Biology and Self as Functions

Monterey Room

Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence

11:00am – 11:20am

THOMAS J. MCFARLANE – Interdependence and Entanglement in Classical and Quantum Physics

Live Oak Room

Shifting Paradigms

11:00am – 11:20am

RICK ARCHER – Some Impressions on Having Interviewed Hundreds of Spiritually Awakening People

San Martin Room

Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions

11:00am – 11:20am

HIROKO SHIOTA – The Entanglement of Duality and Non-Duality through Kegon Buddhism

Madrone

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness

11:30am – 12:30pm

Panel: Exploring Non-local Consciousness with DEAN RADIN, NEIL THEISE, JULIA MOSSBRIDGE and RUDOLPH TANZI, moderated by CASSANDRA VIETEN

Hayes Ballroom

Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence

11:30am – 11:50am

NEWCOMB GREENLEAF – The Suppression of Nondual Mathematics: a Tragedy in Three Acts

Live Oak Room

Shifting Paradigms

11:30am – 11:50am

MARK ABADI – The Zen of Realizations: Chopping Wood Before, Chopping Wood After

San Martin Room

Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions

11:30am – 11:50am

NANCY BAKER – Wittgenstein and Zen on the Entanglement of Life

Madrone

Entanglement and Self-Awareness

11:50am – 12:30pm

SALLY KEMPTON – Shakti and Self-Awareness: The Way of the Non-Dual Feminine

San Martin Room

Biology and Self as Functions

11:50am – 12:30pm

STAN KLEIN – The Mistreatment of “Self” in Contemporary Psychological Empiricism: Evidence for a Multiplicity of Functions, Types and Metaphysical Commitments

Monterey Room

Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence

12:00pm – 12:20pm

KARLA GALDAMEZ – Macroscopic Entanglement Through Extended Version of Quantum Theory and Wave Function Collapse

Live Oak Room

Shifting Paradigms

12:00pm – 12:20pm

KURT JOHNSON – Entanglement: The Emerging Universal Spirituality and Global Policy Making

San Martin Room

Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions

12:00pm – 12:20pm

MARIA SYLDONA – All That’s Ancient’s New Again?

Madrone

Lunch

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

Experiential Sessions

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PURAN and SUSANNA BAIR – The Effect of Sound Currents on Higher Consciousness and Energetic States

Guadalupe Room

Entanglement and Our True Nature

2:00pm – 2:30pm

KAREN JOHNSON – Entanglement, Love and Union

Hayes Ballroom

Freedom and Living in Fullness

2:00pm – 2:40pm

BENTINHO MASSARO – Each Part contains All of Existence – Living in Fullness

Monterey Room

Entanglement and the Self-Organized Universe

2:00pm – 2:40pm

CHRIS FIELDS – What Is Entanglement, Anyway?

San Martin Room

Self, A Quantum Entangled Experience

2:00pm – 2:40pm

JUDITH ORLOFF – Vulnerability; The Disappearance of the Personal Self, A Connection with All that Is

Live Oak Room

Living Universe

2:00pm – 2:20pm

ATTILA GRANDPERRE – From Quantum Physics to the Living Universe

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues, On the Fringe of Perception

2:00pm – 3:00pm

FARIBA BOGZARAN – On the Fringe of Perception: Disentanglement-Unravelling Core Beliefs

San Jose Room

Living Universe

2:25pm – 2:45pm

BRENT BAKER and MANSOOR VAKILI – The Living Universe

Morgan Hill Room

Entanglement and Our True Nature

2:40pm – 3:10pm

JOHN PRENDERGAST – Secrets of the Heart

Hayes Ballroom

Freedom and Living in Fullness

2:45pm – 3:25pm

DOROTHY HUNT – Freedom From Notions of Birth and Death

Monterey Room

Entanglement and the Self-Organized Universe

2:45pm – 3:25pm

STANLEY KLEIN – The Duality and Non-Duality of Quantum Mechanics and the Entanglement of Life

San Martin Room

Self, A Quantum Entangled Experience

2:45pm – 3:25pm

ROBERT DITTLER – God, Love, Sex: Quantumly Entangled Experience

Live Oak Room

Living Universe

2:55pm – 3:15pm

LUKAS WOLFGANG – First- and Third-Person Perspective in Science and Contemplative Traditions

Morgan Hill Room

Experiential Sessions

3:15pm – 4:15pm

KELLYANN CONWAY – Sound Awake; The Frequency of Unity Consciousness

Guadalupe Room

Entanglement and Our True Nature

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Panel: How Psychotherapy Can Support the Realization of Our True Nature, with KAREN JOHNSON, JOHN PRENDERGAST, ELLEN EMMET, moderated by GAIL BRENNER

Hayes Ballroom

Living Realization

3:15pm – 4:15pm

KEN BURAK – From The Rim To The Spokes To The Center Of The Circle: An Experiential-Meditative Approach to Non-Duality

Hayes Ballroom

Living Universe

3:25pm – 3:45pm

ADAM HALL – The Polarity Paradox, Un- Entangling Being and Doing: Can the Rise in Mass Consciousness Shift the Course of Humanity from Destruction to Re-construction?

Morgan Hill Room

Freedom and Living in Fullness

3:30pm – 4:10pm

MYSTIC BIRINDER – Clarity About Seeking The Supreme Truth

Monterey Room

Entanglement and the Self-Organized Universe

3:30pm – 4:10pm

NEIL THEISE – Non-Dual Conscious Realism: Fundamental Principles of the Non-Material, Self-Organizing Universe

San Martin Room

Self, A Quantum Entangled Experience

3:30pm – 4:10pm

RICHARD LANG – Seeing Who You Really Are

Live Oak Room

Living Universe

3:45pm – 4:15pm

SHEIDA KOURANGI – How Do We Balance and Integrate the Being and Becoming Dimensions of Our Existence in a Holistic Response to the State of the World Today?

Morgan Hill Room

Living Realization

4:20pm – 4:45pm

Concert LAURA INSERRA

Hayes Ballroom

Living Realization

4:45pm – 6:30pm

Living Realization, A Conversation with ADYASHANTI and H.A. ALMAAS

Hayes Ballroom

Living Realization

6:30pm – 6:35pm

PUPPETJI – Performance

Hayes Ballroom

 

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Dinner

 

Evening program

8:00pm – 8:40pm

“This We Have Now” – Rumi poetry with COLEMAN BARKS, accompanied by DAVID DARLING

Hayes Ballroom

Evening program

8:50pm – 10:30pm

Film: All About Nothing – US Premiere; followed by Q&A with Directors PAUL SMIT and ROBERT VAN DEN BROEK

Hayes Ballroom

Panel Monterey Room

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Birthing Radiant Being into our Humanity – with SUSANNE MARIE, AMODA MAA JEEVAN, T. JONATHAN PROCTOR, moderated by RICK ARCHER

Monterey Room

 

Saturday

Theme

Time

Event

Room

Experiential Room

7:30am – 8:30am

Meditation led by RUPERT SPIRA

San Jose room

Experiential Room

8:30am – 9:30am

ELLEN EMMET – Yoga

Guadalupe Room

The Disentanglement of the Self

9:00am – 9:40am

GABOR MATE – When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection

Hayes Ballroom

The Disentanglement of the Self

9:25am – 9:55am

JOHN HAGELIN – Consciousness: Down the Rabbit Hole, Just How Deep Do the Roots of Consciousness Go? “Entanglement, Space-Time Wormholes, and the Brain”

Hayes Ballroom

Experiential Room

9:35am – 10:35am

PAUL TOLIUSZIS – The Yoga of Non-Duality

Guadalupe Room

The Disentanglement of the Self

9:50am – 10:30am

RUPERT SPIRA - The Disentanglement of the Self

Hayes Ballroom

The Disentanglement of the Self

10:30am – 11:00am

Music: PETER COHEN

Hayes Ballroom

Exploring Addiction

11:00am – 11:25am

SCOTT KILOBY – Let’s Get to the Point about Addiction

Hayes Ballroom

Oneness Beyond Entanglement

11:00am – 11:40am

PAUL SMIT – Enlightenment for Lazy People

San Martin Room

Evolution and How Past, Present, and Future Unite

11:00am – 11:40am

JULIA MOSSBRIDGE – What Is Time to the Unconscious Mind? How Past, Present and Future Unite Behind the Scenes

Monterey Room

The Biology of I Am

11:00am – 11:20am

MONICA GAGLIANO – This Is a Plant Revolution!

Live Oak Room

Co-Creative Entanglement

11:00am – 11:20am

THERESA BULLARD – Moving from Separation to Co-Creative Entanglement

Morgan Hill Room

Intimate Entanglement from the Buddha to Bohr

11:00am – 11:40am

JAY KUMAR – COGNITIVE ENTANGLEMENT: from the Buddha to Bohr

San Juan Bautista Room

Exploring Addiction

11:30am – 12:30pm

Conversation about Addiction with GABOR MATE and SCOTT KILOBY, moderated by AROLD LANGEVELD

Hayes Ballroom

The Biology of I Am

11:30am – 11:50am

MAURO ZAPPATERRA – The Cerebrospinal Fluid and the Appearance of “I Am”

Live Oak Room

Co-Creative Entanglement

11:30am – 11:50am

TAM HUNT – Cause, Effect and the Nature of Mind

Morgan Hill Room

Oneness Beyond Entanglement

11:50am – 12:30pm

UNMANI – Oneness Beyond Belief

San Martin Room

Evolution and How Past, Present, and Future Unite

11:50am – 12:30pm

PETER BAUMANN – An Evolutionary Take On Non-duality

Monterey Room

Intimate Entanglement from the Buddha to Bohr

11:50am – 12:30am

MARLIES COCHERET – Vast Intimacy: The Marriage of Pure Awareness and Love

San Juan Bautista Room

The Biology of I Am

12:00pm – 12:20pm

MICHAEL KOSOY – Entangled Life and Kabbalistic Biology

Live Oak Room

Co-Creative Entanglement

12:00pm – 12:20pm

WOLFGANG BAER – The Feeling of One-ness as an Illusion

Morgan Hill Room

Lunch

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

Quantum Theory of Consciousness

2:00pm – 2:30pm

HENRY STAPP – Quantum Theory of Consciousness: How Quantum Mechanics Works in Your Daily Life

Hayes Ballroom

Tangled Up With What Is

2:00pm – 2:40pm

AMODA MAA JEEVAN – Deep Intimacy With What Is – Embracing the Mystery and Mess of the Human Experience

Monterey Room

Evolving Consciousness

2:00pm – 2:40pm

NEAL GOLDSMITH – Psycheology: Psychedelics and the Study of the Soul

San Martin Room

The Limitations of Knowing

2:00pm – 2:40pm

JOHN VEEN – When? Timelessness and the Impossibility of Words

Live Oak Room

Art, Science and the Entangled Universe

2:00pm – 2:20pm

RODOLFO A. FIORINI – Beauty and Science

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues

2:00pm – 3:00pm

GABOR MATE – Continued Dialogue on Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection

San Jose Room

Art, Science and the Entangled Universe

2:25pm – 2:45pm

BILL BAIRD – Advaita, Quantum Neurobiology and the Self-Aware Superfluid Universe

Morgan Hill Room

Quantum Theory of Consciousness

2:40pm – 3:10pm

FEDERICO FAGGIN – The Nature of Consciousness

Hayes Ballroom

Tangled Up With What Is

2:45pm – 3:25pm

CHUCK HILLIG – Tangled Up in “YOU”

Monterey Room

Evolving Consciousness

2:45pm – 3:25pm

JULIE YAU – Healing Trauma: Recovering our Soul as Embodied Aliveness and Authenticity

San Martin Room

The Limitations of Knowing

2:45pm – 3:25pm

PETER FRANCIS DZIUBAN – Entanglement or Entrapment?

Live Oak Room

Art, Science and the Entangled Universe

2:55pm – 3:15pm

MANDY SCOTT – EVE: Entanglement as the Vehicle for Enlightenment

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues

3:10pm – 4:15pm

LOTHAR SCHÄFER – Quantum Reality and the Spiritual Mind

San Jose Room

Quantum Theory of Consciousness

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Panel: Scientific Views and Meaning of Entanglement with HENRY STAPP, SUBHASH KAK, FEDERICO FAGGIN and NEIL THEISE, moderated by MENAS KAFATOS

Hayes Ballroom

Art, Science and the Entangled Universe

3:25pm – 3:45pm

ANYA KROTH – On Emptiness: Artists, Physicists and the Mystery of the Entangled Universe

Morgan Hill Room

Tangled Up With What Is

3:30pm – 4:10pm

IGOR KUFAYEV – The Heart of Shiva

Monterey Room

Evolving Consciousness

3:30pm – 4:10pm

SHAUNA SHAPIRO – Meditation and Intimacy

San Martin Room

The Limitations of Knowing

3:30pm – 4:10pm

GARY WEBER – Disentangling Your Outdated Mental Operating System

Live Oak Room

Art, Science and the Entangled Universe

3:55pm – 4:15pm

NICK DAY – Entangled Minds: How Movies and Storytelling Connect Us Across Time and Space

Morgan Hill Room

Break

4:15pm – 4:30pm

Break

 

Mathematics and Consciousness

4:30pm – 4:45pm

MINGTONG GU – Bring the Mind Back to Your Body

Hayes Ballroom

Mathematics and Consciousness

4:45pm – 5:30pm

RUDOLPH TANZI – What Can Alzheimer’s Disease Teach Us About The Brain, Mind, And Self?

Hayes Ballroom

Mathematics and Consciousness

5:35pm – 6:20pm

EDWARD FRENKEL – Mathematics as Hidden Reality

Hayes Ballroom

 

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Dinner

 

Evening Program and Party

8:00pm – 8:30pm

FILM: Slomo and Q&A with the director JOSH IZENBERG

Hayes Ballroom

Evening Program and Party

8:30pm – 9:30pm

DAVID ELLZEY, ARUPA GOLD, DONNALOU STEVENS

Hayes Ballroom

Evening Program and Party

9:30pm – 11:30pm

The Entanglement Dance, with DJ DRAGONFLY

Hayes Ballroom

 

Sunday

Theme

Time

Event

Room

Experiential Sessions

7:30am – 8:30am

Meditation led by RUPERT SPIRA

San Jose room

Experiential Sessions

8:30am – 9:30am

ELLEN EMMET – Yoga

Morgan Hill Room

Inter-Spiritual Nature and Conscious Agents

9:00am – 9:40am

Session introduced by SWAMI BEYONDENANDA

MIRABAI STARR – BEES IN THE GARDEN: Cultivating Your Inter-spiritual Nature

Hayes Ballroom

Experiential Sessions

9:35am – 10:35am

KARUNA – Experiential: Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness

Morgan Hill Room

Experiential Sessions

11:00am – 12:30pm

MINGTONG GU – Energy and Wisdom

Morgan Hill Room

The Primacy of Consciousness

11:00am – 11:15am

EDGAR MITCHELL (introduced by GREG HAMMER): Skype Conversation – The Future of a Science of Consciousness

Hayes Ballroom

Transformative Technology

11:00am – 12:30pm

Panel with panelists ROBIN ARNOTT, LINDA STONE, DR. NEEMA MORAVEJI & DR. JULIA MOSSBRIDGE moderated by MIKEY SIEGEL

San Martin Room

Christianity and Nonduality

11:00am – 11:40am

MATTHEW WRIGHT – Second Axial Bodies

Monterey Room

Quantum Mechanics, Wisdom Traditions and Consciousness

11:00am – 11:40am

SKY NELSON – Deriving Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics from Consciousness

Live Oak Room

Into Life as Life

11:00am – 11:20am

KRISTIN KIRK – Dissolving the Substance of the Conditioned Self

Morgan Hill Room

Entangled Evolution

11:00am – 11:20am

SUSAN EIRICH – Entanglement Across Species? Seeing Wildlife with New Eyes

San Juan Bautista Room

Explorations and Dialogues

11:00am – 12:30pm

FRANCIS LUCILLE – An Open Dialogue

San Jose Room

The Primacy of Consciousness

11:20am – 11:50am

RUSSELL TARG – Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities

Hayes Ballroom

Into Life as Life

11:30am – 11:50am

SUSANNE MARIE – Awakening into Life as Life Itself

Morgan Hill Room

Entangled Evolution

11:30am – 11:50am

ARNOLD THERNER and STEEN LOETH – The X-Structure; the Basic Nature of Existence including the Structure of Entanglement

San Juan Bautista Room

Christianity and Nonduality

11:50am – 12:30pm

BRIAN MCLAREN – The World’s Biggest Religion, the World’s Biggest Problems, and Three Powerful Images of Non-Duality

Monterey Room

Quantum Mechanics, Wisdom Traditions and Consciousness

11:50am – 12:30Pm

FRANK ECKANOFER – Local & Non-Local Selves: In Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism & Ayahuasca Shamanism

Live Oak Room

The Primacy of Consciousness

11:55am – 12:25pm

PETER RUSSELL – The Primacy of Consciousness

Hayes Ballroom

Into Life as Life

12:00pm – 12:20pm

ANNETTE KNOPP – Beyond Entanglement: Mystical Love in Intimate Relationship

Morgan Hill Room

Entangled Evolution

12:00pm – 12:30pm

EMMANUEL DROUET – Major Entanglement In Life During Evolution : What The Viruses « Good » And « Bad » Are Doing?

San Juan Bautista Room

Lunch

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

Expanding Consciousness, The Science Revolution

2:00pm – 3:05pm

Panel: Quantum Theory and Free Will, with CHRIS FIELDS, DONALD HOFFMAN and HENRY STAPP

Hayes Ballroom

The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation

2:00pm – 2:40pm

PAMELA WILSON – The Warp and Weft of Life is Tension animated by Relaxation

Monterey Room

Perspectives and Practices

2:00pm – 2:40pm

RABBI FELDMAN – Gender And The Non-Binary In Jewish Mystical Imagery

San Martin Room

Beyond The Limits of Science

2:00pm – 2:40pm

Linda Stone – Essential Self Technologies: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body

Live Oak Room

Born to be Unborn

2:00pm – 2:20pm

WILL PYE – Tingling Moments of Enlightening Entanglement – Synchronicity as Purposeful ‘Glitches in the Matrix’

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues

2:00pm – 3:00pm

CAMERON MCCOLL – Panel: Is Christianity Worth Saving?

San Jose Room

Born to be Unborn

2:25pm – 2:45pm

PRADEEP APTE – Born to be Unborn

Morgan Hill Room

The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation

2:45pm – 3:25pm

TIM VAN DER VLIET – Entanglement and Business – the Art of Zen Investing

Monterey Room

Perspectives and Practices

2:45pm – 3:25pm

GESHE CHAPUR RINPOCHE – The Five Elements Practices

San Martin Room

Beyond The Limits of Science

2:45pm – 3:25pm

STEVE POLLAINE – Consciousness and Modern Physics: The Limits of Science

Live Oak Room

Born to be Unborn

2:55pm – 3:15pm

NICOLE MILLER – Entanglements With Self: The Nature of Conflict Resolution Without and Within

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues

3:05pm – 4:00pm

GAIL BRENNER – When Emotions Arise: An Open Conversation about Living Nonduality

San Jose Room

Expanding Consciousness, The Science Revolution

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Panel: Using Entheogens on the Spiritual Path with BOB JESSIE, TOM PINKSON, MERRILL WARD with LYN HUNSTAD as moderator

Hayes Ballroom

Born to be Unborn

3:25pm – 3:45pm

JUAN ACOSTA – Entangled with sacred plant medicine technology

Morgan Hill Room

The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation

3:30pm – 4:10pm

FRANCIS BENNETT – Atma Vichara and Contemplative Prayer in the Christian Mystical Tradition, Compared and Contrasted

Monterey Room

Perspectives and Practices

3:30pm – 4:10pm

RABBI OLIVER BENHAIM – The Universe According to Kabbalah

San Martin Room

Beyond The Limits of Science

3:30pm – 4:10pm

ED SARATH – Improvisation, Intersubjective Consciousness, and Integral Nonduality: Jazz and Cosmos

Live Oak Room

Born to be Unborn

3:55pm – 4:15pm

HENRY VYNER – Non Duality and the Healthy Human Mind

Morgan Hill Room

Explorations and Dialogues

4:00pm – 4:20pm

Break

San Jose Room

Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing

4:20pm – 4:45pm

Music: KAVI JEZZIE HOCKADAY

Hayes Ballroom

Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing

4:45pm – 5:10pm

SUBHASH KAK – Veiling of Consciousness by the Mind

Hayes Ballroom

Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing

5:15pm – 6:00pm

FRANCIS LUCILLE – Innocence and Spontaneity Not Knowing

Hayes Ballroom

Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing

6:05pm – 6:30pm

Closing Ceremony

Hayes Ballroom

Closing Dinner

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Closing Dinner

 

 

8:30pm – 10:00pm

FILM: All About Nothing

Hayes Ballroom

 

9:50pm – 10:30pm

DONALD HOFFMAN – Entangling Conscious Agents

Hayes Ballroom

 

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