Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate programme in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he currently teaches. His two books - The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View - are the result of decades of deep thinking, thorough research and original connections across religion, history, philosophy and cosmology.

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.

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Works mentioned:

Realms of the Human Unconscious, Stanislav Grof

The Hero with a Thousands Faces, Joseph Campbell

Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson

The World's Religions, Huston Smith

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Khun

Be Here Now, Ram Dass

Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman

Answer to Job, Carl Jung

Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor

From a Broken Web, Catherine Keller

Reflections on Gender and Science, Evelyn Fox Keller

The Myth of the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford

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Kim Penberthy is a professor of research in psychiatric medicine at the University of Virginia. Her key interests include consciousness and psychology at the end of life and research on how mindfulness can enhance the abilities and performance of humans. She is also a founding member of Be Wise, an organisation dedicated to promoting wisdom, compassion and mindfulness in medicine.

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.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Emmanuel Swedenborg

William James

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Ravi Ravindra is a professor of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Physics. He is the author of many books, including The Spiritual Roots of Yoga, The Gospel of St John in light of Indian Mysticism, and The Yoga of the Christ. As an international speaker, he often illuminates the common ground between Eastern and Western religions.

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.

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Gospel of St John

J. Krishnamurti

Basho

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Marilyn Monk is a molecular biologist. Studies include the mechanisms of replication and repair of DNA, cell signalling and intercellular communication, regulation of gene expression in development, deprogramming and formation of totipotent stem cells and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. She also has a longstanding interest in philosophy, psychology, religion and spirituality and is qualified as a Psychosynthesis Counsellor and Alexander Technique Teacher.

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.

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Works mentioned:

The Fall, Albert Camus

Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

The Immoralist, André Gide

The Second Sex, Simone du Beavoir

The Book of Secrets, Osho

Corrine, Madame de Stael

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Jeffrey Kripal is an author and Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. His latest book, The Flip, synthesises neuroscience, ecology, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, philosophy of mind and comparative mysticism with his own personal experiences. Its aim is to bring humanity back into the humanities.

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.

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Works mentioned:

The Principles of Pyschology, William James

Irreducible Mind, Edward F Kelly

Beyond Physicalism, Edward F Kelly

Consciousness Unbound, Edward F Kelly

The Malay Archipelago, Alfred Russell Wallace

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Anne Baring is a Jungian analyst and author. Her most recent book, The Dream Of The Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, is a poetic, heartfelt and spiritual quest to understand the causes of human suffering and reconnect with a deeper reality. It builds on her work on the divine feminine and dream analysis.

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.

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Works mentioned:

The Gnostic Gospels, Including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls

Modern Man in Search for a Soul, C G Jung

Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell

A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough

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Larry Dossey is a physician and author of nine books. He has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare.

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Works mentioned:

The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley

The Art of Dying, Peter Fenwick

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Marilyn Schlitz is a social scientist, author, and speaker. Her clinical, laboratory and field-based research centres on consciousness, human transformation, and healing. Her latest book Death Makes Life Possible was accompanied by a film of the same title and explores the idea that facing our mortality inspires us to live our lives more fully.

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.

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Works mentioned:

Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell

The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker

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Iain McGilchrist is writer, lecturer and former Consultant Psychiatrist. He is committed to the idea that the whole of our physical and spiritual existence and wider human culture helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains. His latest work, The Matter With Things, a book of epistemology and metaphysics, will be published by Penguin/Random House. You can read written pieces by Iain and watch videos of him on Channel McGilchrist.

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Works mentioned:

Against Criticism, Iain McGilchrist

Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth

Awakenings, Oliver Sacks

An Introduction to Mathematics, A N Whitehead

The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity, Alan Watts

Principles of Pyschopathology, J Cutting

A Pluralistic Universe, William James

Creative Mind, Ernest Holmes

History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

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Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, professor and author. Her latest book Gaia's Dance: The Story of Earth & Us explores the earth not as a machine, but as a living being. She tells the story of its evolution over billions of years and includes research on bacterial cooperatives and maturation cycles. She has also written and spoken about the significance of imaginal cells and their transformative power.

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.

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Works mentioned:

The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler

Seth Speaks, Jane Roberts

The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher; The View of William James, Jane Roberts

Music of Life, the Inner Nature & Effects of Sounds, Hazrat Inayat Khan

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, Jacob Needleman

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, D T Suzuki

The Poems of Rumi, Deepak Chopra

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