Can modern science join with spirituality to create new paths of understanding or are the disciplines like oil and vinegar?
Next week live on FORA.tv, October 20-23, the Science and Nonduality Conference will bring together a unique group of scientists, philosophers, spiritual gurus and mystics that will explore emerging paradigms in spirituality that are rooted in cutting-edge scientific thought. This year, in particular, the conference will focus on the concept and paradox of time, including linear, nonlinear, external and the infinite. Preeminent thinkers will explore these ideas within the context of nonduality—an ancient wisdom that seeks to understand the interconnectedness of life.
Over the course of several thousand years of human history, philosophers have pondered the concept that all human beings are made up of a singular, basic substance that forms the essence of the universe as we know it. Within the last 100 years, Western scientists have taken an alternate approach. They have tried to discover through research one basic particle that makes up the entire universe. This particle is commonly known as the “God particle” or in physics circles, the Higgs boson. As experiments start to unveil the make up of the God particle, philosophical questions still remain. How did our consciousness and sense of being arise from a single particle? Are we all simply fundamental expressions of the same material, or is there a larger force at work?
World-renowned quantum physicists, scientists and lecturers at the Science and Nonduality Conference will discuss this question from the perspective of modern science, ancient philosophical wisdom, phenomenonlogy (the study of conscious experience), and psychology, as well as from the direct experience of the speakers themselves. In addition, the conference will address what significant role time plays in our conscious moments, whether time is an arrow or is multidimensional, or if quantum physics and time are merely an illusion of our own mind.
Watch the Science and Nonduality Conference on-demand at FORA.tv.