Imaginal Inspirations

David's guest this month is James Finley, Ph.D. who is faculty member of the Center for Action and Contemplation founded by Fr. Richard Rohr. Fr. Thomas Merton was Finley’s novice master and spiritual director while he was a monk at the Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology and primarily works with people suffering from the long-term effects of internalized trauma and how contemplative prayer can increase their quality of life. He has written numerous books and currently hosts the podcast Turning to the Mystics.
 Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Do try  OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
 scientificandmedical.net 
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
 Works and links mentioned:
https://cac.org/about/cac-faculty/james-finley/
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/healing-path-book-james-finley-9781626985100?
https://cac.org/podcast/turning-to-the-mystics/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/selected-writings-meister-eckhart/14568?ean=9780140433432&next=t
 
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

Alex Gómez-Marín is a physicist turned neuroscientist investigating human consciousness in the real world. He holds a degree in physics, a masters in biophysics, and PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships as a neuroscientist at the EMBL Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. For the last decade Alex has been a principal investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, and director of the Behaviour of Organism Laboratory. He is currently a senior researcher there and an associate professor of the Spanish Research Council. He was director of the Pari Centre from 2022 to 2025. In 2023 he was awarded the Linda O'Bryant research prize by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is currently a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative and of the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative. He is also executive editor of Robert Kuhn's the Landscape of Consciousness Website. Alex has published over a hundred articles in science journals, including Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Science. He is also the author of The Science of the Last Threshold: a Journey to the Limits of Life, Death, and Consciousness, recently published in Spanish by Planeta.
 
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
 
Do listen to our podcast series 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
scientificandmedical.net 
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
 Works and links mentioned:
Alex Gomez-Marin websites:
https://alexgomezmarin.com/
https://behavior-of-organisms.org/read-us/
Alex's new book (in Spanish):
https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-la-ciencia-del-ultimo-umbral/426278
Conversations with Rupert Sheldrake:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQNvVzO_W4Ey7PMrmkMtyG1kiOfdTjSUn
Conversations with Iain McGilchrist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqBHk3itxyPBWvU7N2ZNCRXpjzMStjgm6
Conversations with Edi Bilimoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfTXnMCtFTg&list=PL4rGdOl4mCsLRxr-CNvzn4JDNkV9y6dk5
Conversations at the Pari Center:
https://paricenter.com/?s=Alex+Gomez-Marin
Conversation at the Essentia Foundation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w
Conversation at the Institute of Arts and Ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OHF4mJvKY

Recommended books:
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri:
https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/sriaurobindo/downloadpdf.php?id=43
Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory:
https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/matterandmemory00berguoft/matterandmemory00berguoft.pdf
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

David's guest this month is Professor Harald Walach,  a clinical psychologist, philosopher of science, and researcher at the interface between medicine, psychology and consciousness studies. He is a professorial research fellow with the Next Society Institute at Kazimieras Simonavicius University in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is founding director of the Change Health Science Institute in Basel, Switzerland, where he lives as a freelance scientist and author. He is author of more than 200 peer reviewed papers, 14 books, and 100 book chapters. He is one of the 100,000 most highly cited scientists worldwide. His recent work focuses on the role of spirituality and consciousness within science, for our health system and our culture. He is the author of the Galileo Commission Report and the recent GC Report on Transhumanism.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
Do try  OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
scientificandmedical.net 
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
 Works and links mentioned:
https://galileocommission.org/report
https://harald-walach.info/about-harald-walach/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-ever-present-origin-jean-gebser/4089059?ean=9780821407691&next=t
Harald with Michael Kapsner, singing Schumann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMU_GYFFlog&list=RDDMU_GYFFlog&start_radio=1
 
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

David's guest this month is  Dr Lorna Green. Lorna has been on the trail of metaphysics for a long time. She grew up in a household of a physicist, who could answer the kind of questions children ask. Her father's love was the stars, while hers was small animals and a fascination with life. What happened when a small wounded bird lying in her hands gradually stopped breathing and went stiff and cold? She wanted to understand life, and she followed my questions into the life sciences, first at McGill and then at Rockefeller University in New York in the 1960's--a heavy time to be in New York and in science (the code is cracked). In the heart of the life sciences, she discovered that science could not explain the universe, and she began the study of philosophy to find out the wider truth of things. By the time she was forty, she had picked up most of the learning of these times and went into a fourteen-year wilderness life to work the whole things out for herself. She made her first pass at a new metaphysics in her first book, Earth Age, a New Vision of God, the Human, and the Earth, in 1988, that came out in 1994. She has been working out a mystical vision ever since, something she now wants to share with you all, and will take it from there.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
 Do try  OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
scientificandmedical.net 
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
Works and links mentioned:
https://lornagreen.ca/
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/earth-age-book-lorna-green-9780595279548?
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/plato-s-phaedo-literally-translated-classic-reprint-plato-plato/9c49251cd1a2faba?ean=9780266747871&next=t
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/Revolt-Against-Dualism-Inquiry-Concerning-Existence/30864969689/bd
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/seth-speaks-the-eternal-validity-of-the-soul-jane-roberts/eb95d37c746e27b2?ean=9781878424075&next=t
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/handbook-of-neardeath-experiences-9780313358654/
 
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

David's guest this month is  Kyriacos C. Markides, a native of Cyprus who is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine and author of ten books. Six of his books, including “THE MOUNTAIN OF SILENCE,” “GIFTS OF THE DESERT” and  “INNER RIVER” are on Christian mystics spiritual guides and elders of Eastern Christianity. Professor Markides is the recipient in 2002 of the best professor award in Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine and the 2006 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award of the same university. His latest book “THE ACCIDENTAL IMMIGRANT: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age” (Hamilton Books, 2021) is his capstone work.  He lives in Stillwater Maine with his wife Emily J. Markides, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the University of Maine.
 Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.
 WATCH OUT FOR OUR NEW PODCAST SERIES, 'WISE SCIENTISTS' now available on this platform.
scientificandmedical.net 
galileocommission.org
beyondthebrain.org
 Works and links mentioned:
https://umaine.edu/sociology/faculty-and-staff/kyriacos-markides/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-accidental-immigrant-a-quest-for-spirit-in-a-skeptical-age-kyriacos-c-markides/77181ef925d13199?ean=9780761872870&next=t
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kyriacos-Markides/The-Magus-of-Strovolos--The-Extraordinary-World-of-a-Spiritual-Healer/345160
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780385500920/Mountain-Silence-Search-Orthodox-Spirituality-0385500920/plp
Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Saint Porphyrios
Sorokin: social and cultural dynamics
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-classic-editions-viktor-e-frankl/3000874?ean=9781846046384&next=t
https://biblio.co.uk/book/anatomy-human-destructiveness-erich-fromm/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saint-Silouan-Athonite-St-Sophrony-dp-0881416819/dp/0881416819/ref=dp_ob_image_bk
 
Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/
Artwork: Amber Haas
Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone