GUEST OF HONOUR: His Holiness the XIV. Dalai Lama
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Dr. phil. Tarab Tulku
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LECTURES
Lene Handberg
S.T.R., psychotherapist, has been studying psychology and tibetology at Copenhagen University. In addition, she has studied analytical psychology/psychotherapy and bioenergetics; and worked with Ronald D. Laing. She holds a Semrig Thablam Rabjam Degree (S.T.R., Master in Unity in Duality philosophy / psychology, personal development and psychotherapy), and together with Tarab Rinpoche, she has developed the UNITY IN DUALITY personal development and the framework for a Indo-Tibetan psychotherapy. Lene Handberg assists Tarab Rinpoche in teaching the UNITY IN DUALITY program, of which she is the Educational Director and the principal therapist. She has been giving workshops in Europe, Australia and the U.S. for the last 15 years, and has a psychotherapeutic practice in Denmark.
Implications of "Unity in Duality" in Regard to Personal Development
In accordance with the Unity in Duality view there is a basic inseparability between body and mind, subject and object as well as energy and matter. Based on these interrelationships the different types of our perceptual / cognitive abilities each have their respective perceptual / cognitive field, implying that these abilities give access to reality in different ways, supplementing each other. However, in modern culture the cognitive subject-object-field has a tendency to dominate and thereby block the other ways of accessing reality, the implications of which will be looked at more closely. The understanding of the clear distinctions, as well as the dynamics between the fields of conceptual-, feeling- and image-perception / cognition leave us with the self-reference as the core around which our reality unfolds, and at the same time lays open the means for transformation in regard to personal development.
Rupert Sheldrake
is a biologist and author. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University and philosophy at Harvard. He took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Clare College in Cambridge University, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As a Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research at Cambridge on the development of plants and the aging of cells. From 1974 to 1978 he was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he worked on the physiology of tropical legume crops, and remained Consultant Physiologist until 1985. He lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in South India, where he wrote 'A New Science of Life' (Blond and Briggs, 1981). He is also the author of 'The Presence of the Past' (Collins 1988), 'The Rebirth of Nature' (Century, 1990), Seven Experiments that Could Change the World (Fourth Estate, 1994) and, with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna, 'Trialogues at the Edge of the West' (Bear and Co., 1992) and 'The Evolutionary Mind' (Dakota Press, Santa Cruz). He has co-authored two books with Matthew Fox, 'Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality' (Bloomsbury, 1996) and 'The Physics of Angels' (Harper, 1996). His most recent book 'Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home' (Hutchinson, 1999) is a bestseller and was voted "Scientific Book of the Year" by the British Scientific and Medical Network. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco. He is married, has two sons, and lives in London.
Unity in Duality in Nature
Science has progressively revealed an astonishing interconnectedness of things, starting with Newton's principle of universal gravitation, whereby all bodies in the universe influence all others. Through the development of field theories, evolutionary theory, quantum physics, Gaia theory and modern cosmology, new principles of interconnectedness have been recognized at all levels of nature, linking seemingly separate systems into larger wholes. Moreover, a revolution is currently under way, which is revealing previously unsuspected links between the realms of the subjective and the objective. Minds may not be confined to the insides of brains, but rather extend into the world around them, and also connect the present with the past. Apparent dualities are embedded in higher unities at all levels of nature.
Hans-Peter Dürr
was born in Stuttgart in 1929, obtained his master's in physics at the University of Stuttgart in 1953 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1956 at the University of California, Berkeley under Edward Teller. He habilitated at the University of Munich in 1962. From 1958-1976 he was Werner Heisenberg's research assistant. In 1962 he held guest professorships at the Universities of California and Madras, India. In 1963 he became Research Member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. In 1969 he received a non-tenured professorship at the University of Munich. From 1978-1980 he was Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics and of the Werner Heisenberg Institute for Physics in the years 1971, 1978-80, 1987-92. He was Deputy Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute (Heisenberg Institute) in the years 1972-77, 1981-86, and 1993-95. He retired in 1997.
Research areas: Nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, gravitation and epistemology (more than 100 publications), as well as questions of social policy regarding the responsibility of the scientist, disarmament and peacekeeping, energy, ecology and economy, development and justice (more than 200 publications).
According to the insights of modern physics (Quantum physics), reality is basically no longer the seemingly familiar reality, which we can "touch" and comprehend, but a different and more open one: it is an immaterial wholeness "Gestalt", pure interconnectedness, inseparable potentiality, comparable to the mental sphere. It corresponds to a holistic and unified process of action, a continuous becoming and ceasing, bearing the possibility of complementary dualistic expression and further energetic/material differentiation. The world is no longer ontologically comprehensible. Its development in time no longer follows strictly determined laws, but rather just certain tendencies ("expectations"), characterized by probabilities for potential realizations, which, in the statistic medium, lead to our habitual idea of the world as an objectifiable reality, governed by strict laws.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
M.D., is a Jungian analyst, psychiatrist, and an internationally known lecturer and workshop leader, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, and author of the best-selling 'Godesses in Everywoman', 'The Tao of Psychology', 'Crossing to Avalon', 'Ring of Power', 'Close to the bone' and 'The Millionth Circle'. Her latest book 'Godesses in Older Women' was published in march 2001. She has been an advocate for women, women`s issues and ethics in psychiatry, and a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women.
The Psycho-spiritual aspects of 'Unity in Duality'
Liminal moments imbue our lives with mystery and meaning. These are the inexplicable experiences, in which the visible and invisible worlds overlap. This is the intersection of timelessness with time, expressed through metaphor and poetry. These are soul level perceptions, subjectively significant, understood in the heart. They provide intimations of a divinity in ourselves and the universe, are the basis of the perception of an underlying oneness, and of after-death communication. They are called synchronistic, psychic or mystical experiences. Here, the psycho-spiritual aspects of 'Unity in Duality', are the focus.
Candace B. Pert
was awarded her Ph.D. in pharmacology, with distinction, in 1974, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pert conducted a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974-1975. After 1975, Dr. Pert held a variety of research positions with the National Institutes of Health, and until 1987, served as Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the NIMH. She then founded and directed a private biotech laboratory. Dr. Pert currently holds a Research Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. Dr. Pert is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. Her earliest work as a researcher involved the discovery of opiate receptors and the actions of receptors. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology, and chemical neuroanatomy. Dr. Pert has also lectured worldwide on these, and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mind-body communication. Her recent popular book, 'Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Feel', (Scribner, 1997) expounds on her research and theories. She holds a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. One of these, peptide T, is currently in Phase II trial, in the United States, for the treatment of AIDS and neuroAIDS.
Molecules of Emotion
The brain, glands, immune system, gastrointestinal tract, etc contain at least two hundred "neuropeptides", "hormones", or "immunopeptides"----many, such as the endorphins--the brain and body's own morphine-- are identical in chemical structure but are considered in different categories, depending on where they were first discovered and described. They communicate at a distance via cell surface receptors, forming a "psychosomatic network" throughout the bodymind. Based upon their distribution patterns in the brain, their known phylogenetic distribution and other facts, we have evolved a theory of emotions that suggests that the body is the subconscious mind. This holistic theory, which has profound implications for psychosomatic aspects of disease, offers scientific explanations for rapid remarkable recoveries of life-threatening illnesses and provides a scientific rationale for many "alternative" and mind-body therapies, will be discussed with the attendees.
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H.H. the Dalai Lama together with Tarab Tulku
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