Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness and Quantum Theory

Another lecture from the Science and Nonduality Conference hosted by FORA.tv - this is actually more of a discussion among the three participants, which includes Stephen LaBerge, the first person to look at lucid dreaming through the eye of empiricism.

At the bottom I have included a video of LaBerge from the 2010 Science and Nonduality Conference.




Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness and Quantum Theory from Science and Nonduality on FORA.tv

Speakers:

Zoran Josipovic Ph.D.

Zoran Josipovic, Ph.D. is a research scientist and an adjunct professor at and Psychology Dept. and Center for Neural Science, New York University. His main interests are the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain, global versus local theories of consciousness, and the functioning of anti-correlated neural networks. Zoran is a long-term practitioner of meditation in the nondual traditions of Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Advaita Vedanta. He has also worked as a psychotherapist and a bodyworker and has taught meditation at Esalen Institute for many years.

Menas Kafatos Ph.D.

Physicist, Founding Dean, Schmid College of Science, Vice Chancellor for Special Projects Dr. Menas Kafatos is Vice Chancellor for Special Projects and also Dean of the Schmid College of Science, Director of the Center for Excellence in Applied, Computational, and Fundamental Science, and The Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics at Chapman University. He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. After postdoctoral work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he joined George Mason University and was University Professor of Interdisciplinary Sciences there from 1984-2008. He also served as Dean of the School of Computational Sciences and was Director of the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research. He has 34 years experience in undergraduate and graduate Earth systems science, natural hazards and climate change, remote sensing and data information systems, physics, computational and theoretical astrophysics, astronomy, and foundations in quantum theory. He has published numerous books including The Conscious Universe, the Non-local Universe (with Robert Nadeau, Springer-Verlag), Principles of Integrative Science (with Mihai Draganescu, Romanian Academy of Sciences Press), and more than 250 articles on computational science, astrophysics, Earth systems science, hazards and global change, general relativity, cosmology, foundations of quantum theory, and consciousness. http://chapman.edu/CS/pcse/faculty/kafatos.asp

Stephen LaBerge Ph.D.

Founder of The Lucidity Institute Stephen LaBerge is the first scientist to empirically prove the existence of the phenomena of lucid dreaming. His work has developed this technique into a powerful tool for studying mind-body relationships in the dream state and he has demonstrated the considerable potential for lucid dreaming in the fields of psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. His book on the subject, Lucid Dreaming, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and his more academic Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain have received enormous popular interest. He is the founder of The Lucidity Institute, an organization that promotes research into lucid dreaming, as well as running courses for the general public on how to achieve a lucid dream.

IN DREAMS AWAKE: An Overview of Lucid Dreaming, West and East a presentation by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. (Founder of The Lucidity Institute) at the Science and Nondaulity Conference in 2010.