Friday Theme Plenary Plenary Plenary Break Exploring the Nature of Consciousness Entanglement and SelfAwareness Biology and Self as Functions Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence Shifting Paradigms Time 9:00am – 9:20am 9:25am – 9:55am 10:00am – 10:30am 10:30am – 11:00am 11:00am – 11:25am 11:00am – 11:40am 11:00am – 11:40am 11:00am – 11:20am Event SAND Café – PAUL SMIT and MAURIZIO BENAZZO JOHN HAGELIN – Consciousness: Down the Rabbit Hole, Just How Deep Do the Roots of Consciousness Go? “Entanglement, Space-Time Wormholes, and the Brain” DEAN RADIN – Entangled Minds and Beyond Break CASSANDRA VIETEN – Are We In the Midst of A Scientific Revolution? JAC O’KEEFFE, Consciousness and the Phenomenon of Entanglement; How Are They Related? DAVID BARASH – Biology and Self as Functions THOMAS J. MCFARLANE – Interdependence and Entanglement in Classical and Quantum Physics Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions 11:00am – 11:20am 11:00am – 11:20am RICK ARCHER – Some Impressions on Having Interviewed Hundreds of Spiritually Awakening People HIROKO SHIOTA – The Entanglement of Duality and NonDuality through Kegon Buddhism Exploring the Nature of Consciousness 11:30am – 12:30pm Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence Shifting Paradigms 11:30am – 11:50am Panel: Exploring Non-local Consciousness with DEAN RADIN, NEIL THEISE, JULIA MOSSBRIDGE and RUDOLPH TANZI, moderated by CASSANDRA VIETEN NEWCOMB GREENLEAF – The Suppression of Nondual Mathematics: a Tragedy in Three Acts Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions 11:30am – 11:50am 11:30am – 11:50am MARK ABADI – The Zen of Realizations: Chopping Wood Before, Chopping Wood After NANCY BAKER – Wittgenstein and Zen on the Entanglement of Life Entanglement and SelfAwareness Biology and Self as Functions 11:50am – 12:30pm 11:50am – 12:30pm Nondual Mathematics and Macroscopic Interdependence Shifting Paradigms 12:00pm – 12:20pm SALLY KEMPTON – Shakti and Self-Awareness: The Way of the Non-Dual Feminine STAN KLEIN – The Mistreatment of “Self” in Contemporary Psychological Empiricism: Evidence for a Multiplicity of Functions, Types and Metaphysical Commitments KARLA GALDAMEZ – Macroscopic Entanglement Through Extended Version of Quantum Theory and Wave Function Collapse KURT JOHNSON – Entanglement: The Emerging Universal Spirituality and Global Policy Making MARIA SYLDONA – All That’s Ancient’s New Again? Entanglement and the Wisdom Traditions 12:00pm – 12:20pm 12:00pm – 12:20pm Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom San Martin Room Monterey Room Live Oak Room San Martin Room San Juan Bauptista Room Hayes Ballroom Live Oak Room San Martin Room San Juan Bauptista Room San Martin Room Monterey Room Live Oak Room San Martin Room San Juan Bauptista Room Lunch 12:30pm – 2:00pm Entanglement and Our 2:00pm – True Nature 2:30pm Freedom and Living in 2:00pm – Fullness 2:40pm Entanglement and the Self- 2:00pm – Organized Universe 2:40pm Self, A Quantum Entangled 2:00pm – Experience 2:40pm Living Universe 2:00pm – 2:20pm Explorations and Dialogues, 2:00pm – On the Fringe of 3:00pm Perception Living Universe 2:25pm – 2:45pm Entanglement and Our 2:40pm – True Nature 3:10pm Freedom and Living in 2:45pm – Fullness 3:25pm Entanglement and the Self- 2:45pm – Organized Universe 3:25pm Self, A Quantum Entangled 2:45pm – Experience 3:25pm Living Universe 2:55pm – 3:15pm Entanglement and Our 3:15pm – True Nature 4:15pm Living Realization 3:15pm – 4:15pm Living Universe 3:25pm – 3:45pm Freedom and Living in Fullness Entanglement and the SelfOrganized Universe Self, A Quantum Entangled Experience Living Universe 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:45pm – 4:15pm Living Realization 4:20pm – 4:45pm 4:45pm – 6:30pm Living Realization Lunch KAREN JOHNSON – Entanglement, Love and Union BENTINHO MASSARO – Each Part contains All of Existence – Living in Fullness CHRIS FIELDS – What Is Entanglement, Anyway? JUDITH ORLOFF – Vulnerability; The Disappearance of the Personal Self, A Connection with All that Is ATTILA GRANDPERRE – From Quantum Physics to the Living Universe FARIBA BOGZARAN – On the Fringe of Perception: Disentanglement-Unravelling Core Beliefs BRENT BAKER and MANSOOR VAKILI – The Living Universe JOHN PRENDERGAST – Secrets of the Heart DOROTHY HUNT – Freedom From Notions of Birth and Death STANLEY KLEIN – The Duality and Non-Duality of Quantum Mechanics and the Entanglement of Life ROBERT DITTLER – God, Love, Sex: Quantumly Entangled Experience LUKAS WOLFGANG – First- and Third-Person Perspective in Science and Contemplative Traditions Panel: How Psychotherapy Can Support the Realization of Our True Nature, with KAREN JOHNSON, JOHN PRENDERGAST, ELLEN EMMET, moderated by GAIL BRENNER KEN BURAK – From The Rim To The Spokes To The Center Of The Circle: An Experiential-Meditative Approach to Non-Duality ADAM HALL – The Polarity Paradox, Un- Entangling Being and Doing: Can the Rise in Mass Consciousness Shift the Course of Humanity from Destruction to Reconstruction? MYSTIC BIRINDER – Clarity About Seeking The Supreme Truth NEIL THEISE – Non-Dual Conscious Realism: Fundamental Principles of the Non-Material, Self-Organizing Universe RICHARD LANG – Seeing Who You Really Are SHEIDA KOURANGI – How Do We Balance and Integrate the Being and Becoming Dimensions of Our Existence in a Holistic Response to the State of the World Today? Concert LAURA INSERRA Living Realization, A Conversation with ADYASHANTI and H.A. ALMAAS Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Jose Room Morgan Hill Room Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Morgan Hill Room Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Living Realization Evening program Evening program Panel Monterey Room 6:30pm – 6:35pm 6:30pm – 8:00pm 8:00pm – 8:40pm 8:50pm – 10:30pm 9:00pm – 10:00pm PUPPETJI – Performance Hayes Ballroom Dinner “This We Have Now” – Rumi poetry with COLEMAN BARKS, accompanied by DAVID DARLING Film: All About Nothing – US Premiere; followed by Q&A with Directors PAUL SMIT and ROBERT VAN DEN BROEK Birthing Radiant Being into our Humanity – with SUSANNE MARIE, AMODA MAA JEEVAN, T. JONATHAN PROCTOR, moderated by RICK ARCHER Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room Saturday Theme The Disentanglement of the Self The Disentanglement of the Self Time 9:00am – 9:40am 9:25am – 9:55am The Disentanglement of the Self The Disentanglement of the Self Exploring Addiction 9:50am – 10:30am 10:30am – 11:00am 11:00am – 11:25am 11:00am – 11:40am 11:00am – 11:40am Oneness Beyond Entanglement Evolution and How Past, Present, and Future Unite The Biology of I Am Co-Creative Entanglement Intimate Entanglement from the Buddha to Bohr Exploring Addiction The Biology of I Am Co-Creative Entanglement Oneness Beyond Entanglement Evolution and How Past, Present, and Future Unite 11:00am – 11:20am 11:00am – 11:20am 11:00am – 11:40am 11:30am – 12:30pm 11:30am – 11:50am 11:30am – 11:50am 11:50am – 12:30pm 11:50am – 12:30pm Event GABOR MATE – When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection JOHN HAGELIN – Consciousness: Down the Rabbit Hole, Just How Deep Do the Roots of Consciousness Go? “Entanglement, Space-Time Wormholes, and the Brain” RUPERT SPIRA - The Disentanglement of the Self Music: PETER COHEN SCOTT KILOBY – Let’s Get to the Point about Addiction PAUL SMIT – Enlightenment for Lazy People JULIA MOSSBRIDGE – What Is Time to the Unconscious Mind? How Past, Present and Future Unite Behind the Scenes MONICA GAGLIANO – This Is a Plant Revolution! THERESA BULLARD – Moving from Separation to CoCreative Entanglement JAY KUMAR – COGNITIVE ENTANGLEMENT: from the Buddha to Bohr Conversation about Addiction with GABOR MATE and SCOTT KILOBY, moderated by AROLD LANGEVELD MAURO ZAPPATERRA – The Cerebrospinal Fluid and the Appearance of “I Am” TAM HUNT – Cause, Effect and the Nature of Mind UNMANI – Oneness Beyond Belief PETER BAUMANN – An Evolutionary Take On Non-duality Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom San Martin Room Monterey Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Juan Bautista Room Hayes Ballroom Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Martin Room Monterey Room Intimate Entanglement from the Buddha to Bohr 11:50am – 12:30am MARLIES COCHERET – Vast Intimacy: The Marriage of Pure Awareness and Love The Biology of I Am 12:00pm – 12:20pm 12:00pm – 12:20pm 12:00pm – 2:00pm 2:00pm – 2:30pm 2:00pm – 2:40pm MICHAEL KOSOY – Entangled Life and Kabbalistic Biology Co-Creative Entanglement Lunch Quantum Theory of Consciousness Tangled Up With What Is Evolving Consciousness The Limitations of Knowing Art, Science and the Entangled Universe Explorations and Dialogues Art, Science and the Entangled Universe Quantum Theory of Consciousness Tangled Up With What Is Evolving Consciousness The Limitations of Knowing Art, Science and the Entangled Universe Explorations and Dialogues Quantum Theory of Consciousness Art, Science and the Entangled Universe Tangled Up With What Is Evolving Consciousness The Limitations of Knowing Art, Science and the Entangled Universe Break 2:00pm – 2:40pm 2:00pm – 2:40pm 2:00pm – 2:20pm 2:00pm – 3:00pm 2:25pm – 2:45pm 2:40pm – 3:10pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:55pm – 3:15pm 3:10pm – 4:15pm 3:15pm – 4:15pm 3:25pm – 3:45pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:55pm – 4:15pm 4:15pm – 4:30pm WOLFGANG BAER – The Feeling of One-ness as an Illusion San Juan Bautista Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room Lunch HENRY STAPP – Quantum Theory of Consciousness: How Quantum Mechanics Works in Your Daily Life AMODA MAA JEEVAN – Deep Intimacy With What Is – Embracing the Mystery and Mess of the Human Experience NEAL GOLDSMITH – Psycheology: Psychedelics and the Study of the Soul JOHN VEEN – When? Timelessness and the Impossibility of Words RODOLFO A. FIORINI – Beauty and Science GABOR MATE – Continued Dialogue on Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection BILL BAIRD – Advaita, Quantum Neurobiology and the Self-Aware Superfluid Universe FEDERICO FAGGIN – The Nature of Consciousness CHUCK HILLIG – Tangled Up in “YOU” JULIE YAU – Healing Trauma: Recovering our Soul as Embodied Aliveness and Authenticity PETER FRANCIS DZIUBAN – Entanglement or Entrapment? MANDY SCOTT – EVE: Entanglement as the Vehicle for Enlightenment LOTHAR SCHÄFER – Quantum Reality and the Spiritual Mind Panel: Scientific Views and Meaning of Entanglement with HENRY STAPP, SUBHASH KAK, FEDERICO FAGGIN and NEIL THEISE, moderated by MENAS KAFATOS ANYA KROTH – On Emptiness: Artists, Physicists and the Mystery of the Entangled Universe IGOR KUFAYEV – The Heart of Shiva SHAUNA SHAPIRO – Meditation and Intimacy GARY WEBER – Disentangling Your Outdated Mental Operating System NICK DAY – Entangled Minds: How Movies and Storytelling Connect Us Across Time and Space Break Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Jose Room Morgan Hill Room Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Jose Room Hayes Ballroom Morgan Hill Room Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room Mathematics and Consciousness Mathematics and Consciousness Mathematics and Consciousness Evening Program and Party Evening Program and Party Evening Program and Party 4:30pm – 4:45pm 4:45pm – 5:30pm 5:35pm – 6:20pm 6:30pm – 8:00pm 8:00pm – 8:30pm 8:30pm – 9:30pm 9:30pm – 11:30pm MINGTONG GU – Bring the Mind Back to Your Body RUDOLPH TANZI – What Can Alzheimer’s Disease Teach Us About The Brain, Mind, And Self? EDWARD FRENKEL – Mathematics as Hidden Reality Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Dinner FILM: Slomo and Q&A with the director JOSH IZENBERG DAVID ELLZEY, ARUPA GOLD, DONNALOU STEVENS The Entanglement Dance, with DJ DRAGONFLY Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Sunday Theme Time 9:00am – 9:40am The Primacy of Consciousness 11:00am – 11:15am Transformative Technology 11:00am – 12:30pm Christianity and Nonduality 11:00am – 11:40am 11:00am – 11:40am Quantum Mechanics, Wisdom Traditions and Consciousness Into Life as Life Entangled Evolution 11:00am – 11:20am 11:00am – 11:20am Explorations and Dialogues 11:00am – 12:30pm The Primacy of Consciousness 11:20am – 11:50am Into Life as Life 11:30am – 11:50am Entangled Evolution 11:30am – 11:50am Christianity and Nonduality 11:50am – 12:30pm Event Session introduced by SWAMI BEYONDENANDA MIRABAI STARR – BEES IN THE GARDEN: Cultivating Your Inter-spiritual Nature EDGAR MITCHELL (introduced by GREG HAMMER): Skype Conversation – The Future of a Science of Consciousness Panel with panelists ROBIN ARNOTT, LINDA STONE, DR. NEEMA MORAVEJI & DR. JULIA MOSSBRIDGE moderated by MIKEY SIEGEL MATTHEW WRIGHT – Second Axial Bodies SKY NELSON – Deriving Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics from Consciousness KRISTIN KIRK – Dissolving the Substance of the Conditioned Self SUSAN EIRICH – Entanglement Across Species? Seeing Wildlife with New Eyes FRANCIS LUCILLE – An Open Dialogue RUSSELL TARG – Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities SUSANNE MARIE – Awakening into Life as Life Itself ARNOLD THERNER and STEEN LOETH – The XStructure; the Basic Nature of Existence including the Structure of Entanglement BRIAN MCLAREN – The World’s Biggest Religion, the World’s Biggest Problems, and Three Powerful Images of Non-Duality Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom San Martin Room Monterey Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Juan Bautista Room San Jose Room Hayes Ballroom Morgan Hill Room San Juan Bautista Room Monterey Room Quantum Mechanics, 11:50am – Wisdom Traditions and 12:30Pm Consciousness The Primacy of Consciousness 11:55am – 12:25pm Into Life as Life 12:00pm – 12:20pm Entangled Evolution 12:00pm – 12:30pm Lunch Expanding Consciousness, The Science Revolution The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation Perspectives and Practices Beyond The Limits of Science Born to be Unborn Explorations and Dialogues Born to be Unborn The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation Perspectives and Practices Beyond The Limits of Science Born to be Unborn Explorations and Dialogues Expanding Consciousness, The Science Revolution Born to be Unborn The Entanglement of Tension and Relaxation Perspectives and Practices Beyond The Limits of Science Born to be Unborn 12:30pm – 2:00pm 2:00pm – 3:05pm 2:00pm – 2:40pm 2:00pm – 2:40pm 2:00pm – 2:40pm 2:00pm – 2:20pm 2:00pm – 3:00pm 2:25pm – 2:45pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:45pm – 3:25pm 2:55pm – 3:15pm 3:05pm – 4:00pm 3:15pm – 4:15pm 3:25pm – 3:45pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:30pm – 4:10pm 3:55pm – 4:15pm FRANK ECKANOFER – Local & Non-Local Selves: In Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism & Ayahuasca Shamanism Live Oak Room PETER RUSSELL – The Primacy of Consciousness Hayes Ballroom Morgan Hill Room San Juan Bautista Room ANNETTE KNOPP – Beyond Entanglement: Mystical Love in Intimate Relationship EMMANUEL DROUET – Major Entanglement In Life During Evolution : What The Viruses « Good » And « Bad » Are Doing? Lunch Panel: Quantum Theory and Free Will, with CHRIS FIELDS, DONALD HOFFMAN and HENRY STAPP PAMELA WILSON – The Warp and Weft of Life is Tension animated by Relaxation RABBI FELDMAN – Gender And The Non-Binary In Jewish Mystical Imagery Linda Stone – Essential Self Technologies: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body WILL PYE – Tingling Moments of Enlightening Entanglement – Synchronicity as Purposeful ‘Glitches in the Matrix’ CAMERON MCCOLL – Panel: Is Christianity Worth Saving? PRADEEP APTE – Born to be Unborn TIM VAN DER VLIET – Entanglement and Business – the Art of Zen Investing GESHE CHAPUR RINPOCHE – The Five Elements Practices STEVE POLLAINE – Consciousness and Modern Physics: The Limits of Science NICOLE MILLER – Entanglements With Self: The Nature of Conflict Resolution Without and Within GAIL BRENNER – When Emotions Arise: An Open Conversation about Living Nonduality Panel: Using Entheogens on the Spiritual Path with BOB JESSIE, TOM PINKSON, MERRILL WARD with LYN HUNSTAD as moderator JUAN ACOSTA – Entangled with sacred plant medicine technology FRANCIS BENNETT – Atma Vichara and Contemplative Prayer in the Christian Mystical Tradition, Compared and Contrasted RABBI OLIVER BENHAIM – The Universe According to Kabbalah ED SARATH – Improvisation, Intersubjective Consciousness, and Integral Nonduality: Jazz and Cosmos HENRY VYNER – Non Duality and the Healthy Human Mind Hayes Ballroom Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Jose Room Morgan Hill Room Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room San Jose Room Hayes Ballroom Morgan Hill Room Monterey Room San Martin Room Live Oak Room Morgan Hill Room Explorations and Dialogues Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing Veiling of Consciousness and Not Knowing Closing Dinner 4:00pm – 4:20pm 4:20pm – 4:45pm 4:45pm – 5:10pm 5:15pm – 6:00pm 6:05pm – 6:30pm 6:30pm – 8:00pm 8:30pm – 10:00pm 9:50pm – 10:30pm Break Music: KAVI JEZZIE HOCKADAY SUBHASH KAK – Veiling of Consciousness by the Mind FRANCIS LUCILLE – Innocence and Spontaneity Not Knowing Closing Ceremony San Jose Room Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom Closing Dinner FILM: All About Nothing DONALD HOFFMAN – Entangling Conscious Agents Hayes Ballroom Hayes Ballroom