ITP to Co-sponsor the Science and Nonduality Conference
Science and Nonduality Conference
October 20-24, 2010
San Rafael, CA
BEYOND THE "I"… the end of the seeker
SAND10 Keynote Speakers Include:
- Adyashanti
- A. H. Almaas
- Nassim Haramein
- Rupert Spira
- Kaisa Puhakka
- Peter Fenner
- Elisabet Sahtouris
- Jeff Foster
- Stuart Hameroff
- Ravi Ravindra
- Francis Lucille
Many of us have been "seeking" for most of our adult life. We have gone through many practices, spiritual paths and teachers only to discover that our pain and suffering did not disappear or even diminish.
Seeking, by definition, implies the presence of a seeker and something to be sought and therefore a condition of non-fulfillment, incompleteness and consequentially dissatisfaction and suffering. When I will get "there" I will be richer, better, smarter, or even, one day, enlightened.
It seems agreed upon by spiritual masters of all traditions that the main reason for our suffering is the identification with the "I" and the way to dissipate this pain is to merge beyond the "I", merging the seeker with the sought, the observer with the observed.
Science, on the other hand, can help us understand how we construct and experience the "I", as well as the states beyond it.
For thousand of years, through deep inner inquiry, philosophers and sages have come to the realization that there is only one substance and we are therefore all part of it. This substance can be called Awareness, Consciousness, Spirit, Advaita, Brahman, Tao, Nirvana or even God. It is constant, ever present, unchangeable and is the essence of all existence.
In the last century Western scientists are arriving at the same conclusion: The universe does indeed comprise of a single substance, presumably created during the Big Bang, and all sense of being - consciousness - subsequently arises from it. This realization has ontological implications for humanity: fundamentally we are individual expressions of a single entity, inextricably connected to one another, we are all drops of the same ocean.
Science and Nonduality is a journey, an exploration of the nature of awareness, the essence of life from which all arises and subsides.
At the SAND10 conference we will explore what moves us towards nondual awareness through science, music, movement, talks and more.
Some of the topics we will explore are:
- Observing and experiencing how the "I" arises (Neuroscience, Psychology)
- Looking at the Macro (Cosmology) and the Micro (Biology, Quantum Theory) to reframe the "I" and give a different perspective and bring it "beyond"
- The collapse of concepts, identifications and models (Experiential)
- Glimpses of nondual awareness, no-state states beyond words and ideas (Satsang, Poetry, Art, Music and more...)
Join us for the journey!
For more information, to submit an abstract or register for the conference, please visit: www.scienceandnonduality.com
20% Student discount for full registration!
10% ITP discount for full registration!
Please inquire with salina@scienceandnonduality.com to find out how to register using these discounts.
