Has Dan Brown Just Published the Most Widely Read Case for the Primacy of Consciousness?
Half the planet would like to have a conversation with Dan Brown, and we at the SMN are going to have one on Zoom on 6 June at 4pm (BST, UK).
✨ Tickets: Link in Bio
🔗 ScientificAndMedical.net/events
Ever since the monumental success of The Da Vinci Code (2003; 85 million copies sold; translated into 44 languages) Brown has been the epitome of the successful popular novelist.
But his latest novel in the Robert Langdon series, The Secret of Secrets, astonishingly, as well as being a highly-readable page-turner, is based on exactly the things the SMN investigates, proclaims and stands for, namely the ontological priority of consciousness and the existence of dimensions to the universe that are other than material.
David Lorimer and Lance Butler will be in dialogue with Dan Brown and will hope to find out how a firm scientific-materialist came to make another whiz-bang plot out of the ideas which we, along with all members of the SMN, espouse, and then found out for himself that, in truth, the great secret of the universe, hidden by so much of modern thought, may be that there is a lot more to heaven and earth than the physical.
This event will include a live Q&A.
✨ Tickets: Link in Bio
🔗 ScientificAndMedical.net/events
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The SMN was founded in 1973 by George Blaker. It has grown over 40 years into an educational charity delivering courses, events and publications on interdisciplinary ideas in science, medicine, philosophy and spirituality. The emerging interdisciplinary fields of noetic science and consciousness studies are key areas of interest. We are a membership organisation. Our members form part of a worldwi
13/05/2026
Today is the last day to join a discounted Season Ticket for the May-July webinar season: Healing the Human Story: From Crisis to Wholeness!
✨ Programme and tickets here:
https://scientificandmedical.net/healing-the-human-story
We start TONIGHT with the webinar on The Embodied Present: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body, with Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown.
P.S. If you're already a member of the SMN, please use this page. There is an even bigger discount for you: https://scientificandmedical.net/season-tickets/
25/04/2026
We're thrilled to have Ian McGilchrist with us next weekend!
This is an in-person and streamed event. Get your tickets here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/channelmcgilchrist/1935164?occurrence=2026-05-02
Correction in terms of guest speakers:
Dr Martin Shaw: writer, mythographer and Christian thinker Professor Angie Hobbs: philosopher and specialist in the ancient Greek world and author of Why Plato Matters Now
Dr Jude Currivan: cosmologist, healer, futurist and author David Lorimer: director of the Scientific and Medical Network
The Good, The Beautiful and The True – Dr Iain McGilchrist: two day in- person event at The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford - Saturday 2nd May and Sunday 3rd May 2026 In this two-day event at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, Dr Iain McGilchrist will explore "The Good, The Beautiful and The True" with guest speakers Dr Alex Gómez-Marín, Professor Angie Hobbs, and David Lorimer.
What if the answers you have been looking for were never outside of you?
This season, the Scientific and Medical Network brings together world-leading scientists, philosophers, healers and visionary thinkers for one of the most compelling webinar series of 2026.
Across ten live sessions, we explore the frontiers of consciousness, the intelligence of the body, the nature of love and emotion, and what it truly means to heal in the fullest sense of the word.
Featuring:
Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown on the embodied wisdom of the body
Dr Carol Richardson on love as a measurable, real phenomenon
Dr Robert Holden on becoming your most authentic self
Andrew Harvey on the return of the sacred feminine
Caroline Myss on confronting evil and the spiritual courage it demands
Sebastian Salicru on psychedelics, consciousness and the limits of materialism
..and more extraordinary voices across the full season
Every session is live on Zoom, Wednesdays from May through July 2026.
✨ Book your place: link in bio
🔗 scientificandmedical.net/healing-the-human-story
Can’t join live? Every recording is yours to keep and rewatch.
This is not passive viewing. Each webinar includes a live Q&A so you can bring your questions, your curiosity and your own experience into the room.
Tickets are available for individual sessions or the full season.
If these questions matter to you, your seat is waiting.
✨ Book your place: link in bio
🔗 scientificandmedical.net/healing-the-human-story
What if the answers you have been looking for were never outside of you?
This season, the Scientific and Medical Network brings together world-leading scientists, philosophers, healers and visionary thinkers for one of the most compelling webinar series of 2026.
Across ten live sessions, we explore the frontiers of consciousness, the intelligence of the body, the nature of love and emotion, and what it truly means to heal in the fullest sense of the word.
Featuring:
Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown on the embodied wisdom of the body
Dr Carol Richardson on love as a measurable, real phenomenon
Dr Robert Holden on becoming your most authentic self
Andrew Harvey on the return of the sacred feminine
Caroline Myss on confronting evil and the spiritual courage it demands
Sebastian Salicru on psychedelics, consciousness and the limits of materialism
..and more extraordinary voices across the full season
Every session is live on Zoom, Wednesdays from May through July 2026.
🔗 Book your place: scientificandmedical.net/healing-the-human-story
Can't join live? Every recording is yours to keep and rewatch.
This is not passive viewing. Each webinar includes a live Q&A so you can bring your questions, your curiosity and your own experience into the room.
Tickets are available for individual sessions or the full season.
If these questions matter to you, your seat is waiting.
🔗 Book your place: scientificandmedical.net/healing-the-human-story
Join us today and this weekend!
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
✨ Tickets: MysticsAndScientists.org
🔗 Link in bio
We are delighted to have Mary Sharpe as a featured presenter who brings a rare combination of legal, theological, and cultural insight to one of the most intriguing and controversial themes in early Christian history: the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber.
In this preview clip, Mary revisits a mystery preserved in the Gnostic Gospels – a teaching that suggests Jesus may have transmitted a transformative path centred on sacred union.
Join us tonight and this weekend!
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
We are delighted to have Mary Sharpe as a featured presenter who brings a rare combination of legal, theological, and cultural insight to one of the most intriguing and controversial themes in early Christian history: the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber.
In this preview clip, Mary revisits a mystery preserved in the Gnostic Gospels – a teaching that suggests Jesus may have transmitted a transformative path centred on sacred union.
There is still time to join us, we start tonight!
Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
What if the real question is not how we survive this moment but how we unleash love within it?
We are delighted to have Nicola Amadora, PhD. as a featured presenter at Mystics and Scientists 2026.
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
✨ Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
🔗 Link in bio
Nicola is a spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author of Love Unleashed, known for her grounded yet deeply mystical approach to transformation. For decades, she has guided individuals and groups to embody love as a lived force in the world.
In this preview clip, Nicola speaks directly to the intensity of our current cultural moment. But rather than asking how we cope or survive, she reframes the question entirely: how do we unleash love right in the midst of it? Nicola points to the heart as the meeting place where this transformation becomes real – not as an idea, but as action.
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
✨ Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
🔗 Link in bio
What if the real question is not how we survive this moment but how we unleash love within it?
We are delighted to have Dr Nicola Amadora as a featured presenter at Mystics and Scientists 2026.
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
✨ Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
Nicola is a spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author of Love Unleashed, known for her grounded yet deeply mystical approach to transformation. For decades, she has guided individuals and groups to embody love as a lived force in the world.
In this preview clip, Nicola speaks directly to the intensity of our current cultural moment. But rather than asking how we cope or survive, she reframes the question entirely: how do we unleash love right in the midst of it? Nicola points to the heart as the meeting place where this transformation becomes real – not as an idea, but as action.
Mystics and Scientists | Online
17-19 April 2026
✨ Tickets: www.mysticsandscientists.org
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