Seminar TopicsModern Science and Traditional Faith: Friends or Foes?
The Conscious Universe: Science at the Edge
Evolution Myths and Facts
Ecology in the Light of Kabbalah
Neurology, Medicine and the Soul
Metamedicine Goes Mainstream: The Faith Factor
Quantum Kabbalah
Does Science Have a Soul?
Eureka! How Atheistic Science Discovered G-d, the Soul, and the Significance of Human Life.
Types of EventsLecture, Discussion, Seminar, Panel, Crash Course, Broadcast, Shabbaton, Retreat
Audiences:Adults, students, or children. Professional, academic, or lay. Serious or light.
SAMPLE TALKS: Here are a few possible topics I can present for any age or level.
What’s a Nice G-d Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
There is growing recognition in mainstream academia and in society at large that modern science permits and even requires the existence of something beyond, call it what you may. Whatever it is, it is beyond time, space, matter, and energy and is more than the sum of the parts. Whatever happened to good old materialistic science?
Tools for Dealing with Nature and the Supernatural
Faith and reason are both integral to human nature and both are indispensable to science. For example, faith is needed for the assumptions and axioms on which to base the rational study of nature. Religion and Science are not trains in collision but rather like trains in series. One picks up where the other leaves off.
Why Scientists Can't Ask Why
Big questions like why is nature intelligible and little questions like
why are leaves green are equally inaccesible to scientific inquiry.
Science excels at describing how the mechanisms of nature work
but cannot effectively explain why things exist and behave as they do.
Now why is that so? And who do we ask?
The Self and its Brain
Barry walked into Dan’s room to find him pacing back and forth, calling out, “Dan, where are you? Dan, where are you?” “But you ARE Dan!” interrupted Barry. “After I die, you’ll walk in and find every atom in place and yet you will moan, ‘Dan is gone’. The Dan that you will be looking for then, I’m looking for now.” A Hasidic tale. Neurology and kabbalah provide insight into the mysteries underlying perception, mind-based medicine and near-death experiences.
Evolution Myths and Facts
The wars over Darwin vs. Intelligent Design have polarized society but left the big questions begging: Can evolution account for the diversity of life? What about fossils and carbon dating? Hard facts and straight talk cut through the rhetoric on both sides
of the issue.
Are You as Old as You Look?
The Age of the Universe is far from a done deal as hundreds of cosmologists lay siege to the Big Bang Theory itself. Dark matter, dark energy and stars older than the galaxies they are in are leading physicists back to square one. Meanwhile, quantum physics proposes a continuous creation process where an age-old world is forever young.
The Cosmic Importance of an Insignificant Speck Like You
Why do quantum physicists think that conscious, perceptive beings were actively planned for and sought out before there ever was a universe? How has science come to believe that our existence is necessary to nature and its laws just as much as we need them? And how has Relativity shifted science away from a sun-centered solar system?
The Conscious Universe: How Here and Now Touches Everywhere Always
Strange as it seems, replicated experiments clearly show that space-time separations are illusory and all physical entities are an expression of a holistic, non-physical Being. As secular physicists Kafatos and Nadeau put it: "The indivisible wholeness of reality disclosed by these experiments exists beyond space-time, has no parts, is constantly present within the physical world while being imperceptible, and is conscious." Now what might that be?
Proof for the Existence of the Creator:
Is He or Isn’t He? Is That the Question?
Using the basic criteria of perception, independent confirmation, and simple logic, science has come to ascertain entities which are unobserved, unobservable, and even irrational. Can one drop the criteria if they similarly yield G-d?
Distinguishing Divine Providence From Dumb Luck
The argument for intelligent design is not very scientific, or is it? A simple analysis anyone can do reveals a powerful concept which puts the burden of proof on just one side. Can you guess which one? Also available: ancient rabbinic sources replete with statistics, frequency distributions, inverse probabilities, sampling, and paradoxes.
Metamedicine goes Mainstream – The Faith Factor.
The placebo effect; homeopathy and the chemical memory of water; mind over matter; psycho-neuro-immunology; faith healing; double blind studies on the efficacy of prayer; prescription prayers; what doctors believe; what the public believes.
Prediction and Prophecy: Expert Extrapolation vs. Inside Information
Is it possible to put prophecy under a microscope? The truth is that both
prophetic claims and scientific ones should be equally testable. Conversely,
how much trust can we put it scientific futurizing? What can we bank on and
what not?
The Ecosphere: Little Stones and Big Ripples
"Think global, act local" is the clarion call of both environmentalists
and students of Maimonides, but does it work? See how chaos theory
reveals hidden order behind the turbulence of everyday events. It
provides a conceptual framework for divine providence, and illustrates
how one small action can tip the scales and change the world...
for good.
Megatrend: What’s This World Coming To?
The modern synergy of science and spirit is but one of many ancient prophecies being fulfilled in our time. According to kabbalah, we are now in the early stages of a new world order characterized by globalism, the information age, and the confluence of religious and scientific views of reality. A unifying concept - Moshiach
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