Saturday, November 1, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT
What if the universe is far stranger—and more unified—than we ever imagined?
"The Physics of Mystics” is about the very nature of reality as One and weird. More specifically, we will consider the mind-matter relationship; our usual solutions do not really explain the nature of consciousness and cosmos nor the history of science itself.
We will move through these paths, always relating them, much as the founding quantum physicists themselves did, to the comparative history of mystical literature.
- The history of cosmology
- The fundamental, and still inexplicable, effectiveness of mathematics
- The anthropic principle
- The multiverse
- The identity of matter and energy
- Relativity theory
- The physics of consciousness
- Multiple dimensions
- Time travel
Along the way we will come to see that the beliefs and concepts of our religions and sciences fail to explain the extraordinary phenomena we observe. We will learn “to think impossibly” and stretch to new worldviews.
There will be time for Q&A, and participants are welcome to share their stories of extraordinary experiences.
Registrants will receive on-demand access to recording(s) that can be viewed for four weeks following the conclusion of the program.
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D., holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. He is presently serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His full body of work can be seen at jeffreyjkripal.com.
Program Format
This is a live, interactive online program that will also be recorded. Registrants will receive on-demand access to recording(s) that can be viewed for four weeks following the conclusion of the program.
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