The Speakers

Dr. Peter Fenwick, MB, BChir, FRCPsych, DPM is Chairman of the Council of the Scientific and Medical Network. He is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, Consultant Neurophysiologist at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and Honorary Consultant in Neurophysiology to Broadmoor Special Hospital. He lectures widely all over the world on brain disorders and has made many appearances on radio and television.

Professor David Fontana, BA, MEd, PhD, CPsychol is currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and holds professorships at the universities of Alagarve and of Minho in Portugal. He is the author of numerous research publications and of 20 which have been translated into 22 languages. For many years he has studied the relationship between Western and Eastern psychological systems, together with methods for deepening and expanding consciousness, and has written widely on dreams, meditation and psycho-spirituality. Among his recent books are The Secret Power of Dreams, The Lotus in the City, and Know Who You Are: Be What You Want. He is a Chartered Psychologist, a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Dr. Michael Grosso, PhD is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and religion at New Jersey City University. He studied classics and received his Ph.D in philosophy from Columbia University. His chief interest lies in exploring the interface between psychical research and transpersonal psychology, with applications to counselling and studying the creative process. Books include The Final Choice, Frontiers of the Soul, Soulmaking, The Millennium Myth, and The forthcoming Consciousness and Life After Death.

Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson, PhD is professor of psychology at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, where he has been teaching since 1974. He has been an active researcher, written four books, published numerous articles in parapsychological and psychological journals, and been visiting professor at the Institute for Borderline Areas of Psychology in Freiburg and at the University of Virginia. His books are: Deathbed-Visions, with Karlis Osis (over 20 editions in many languages), Sai Baba or Miracles are My Visiting Cards (sixteen editions in several languages)

David Lorimer, MA CertEd. has been Director of the Scientific and medical Network since 1986. He is author of Survival? Body, Mind and Death in the Light of Psychic Experience (1984), and Whole in One (1990). He is also editor of The Circle of Sacred Dance - Peter Deunov's Paneurythmy (1991), Prophet for our Times (1991) Gems of Love (1994) and The Spirit of Science (1998). He was educated at Eton and the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge. After a spell in merchant banking, he spent a number of years teaching modern languages and philosophy at Winchester College before assuming his present position.

Diane O'Connell is a founder and Co-Principal of the College of Healing - the first organisation of its kind in the country to have its training nationally accredited by an educational body (the Open College Network) - and she has been channelling for the last twenty-five years. This grew out of her own spiritual development and meditation practice, and for the last nine years has been exclusively focussed on a Tibetan Lama, whose Eastern wisdom and teachings have been of profound help to both groups and individuals. She has a very busy healing and therapy practice at Runnings Park in West Malvern, and teaches here and abroad on a wide variety of subjects including healing, channelling and self-development.

Dr. Geshe Ngawang Sherap, PhD entered Sera Monastery at the age of seven and left Tibet when he was twelve. He obtained a Ph.D. in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy from Mey College in India and was for many years the Chief Librarian of the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies. Since 1996 he has been lecturing worldwide on Buddhism and Buddhist psychology at various centres in Asia, Europe, North and South America. He is coming over specially to the conference from South America.

Dr. Christine Page, MB, BS, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, MFHom, has over 20 years of experience in the caring professions both as a doctor and a homoeopath. Through her work she has become committed to finding ways to enhance a state of well-being through the expansion of consciousness and enabling the individual to follow their own inner truth. She is an international speaker on subjects which include Learning to Trust the Intuition, and her six month innovative training course for health practitioners is called the Spirit in Practice. She is the author of three books: Frontiers of Health, The Mirror of Existence and her latest Beyond the Obvious, which reveals the journey towards total intuitive integration. She appears regularly in the media both in Britain and abroad.

Dr. Andrew Powell, MA, MRCP, FRCPsych is a psychiatrist and consultant psychotherapist in the health service in Oxford. He has trained in individual analytical therapy, group analysis and psychodrama. He is an Associate of the College of Healing, reflecting his interest for a number of years in the spiritual aspect of consciousness. He is currently a council member of the Scientific and Medical Network.

Prof. Ravi Ravindra, BSc, MTech, MSc, MA, PhD is Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion, Professor of International Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Dalhousie University in Canada. Recipient of many fellowships, awards, visiting professorships and research grants, Ravi is the author of more than a hundred papers in physics, philosophy and religion and of a number of books including: The Yoga of Christ, Science and Spirit (ed.), Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree, and Yoga and the Teaching of Krishna.

Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, PhD. is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Trained in anthropology and parapsychology, she has published numerous articles on consciousness-related issues, including cross-cultural healing, psi research and sociolinguistics. Prior to joining the staff of IONS, she held the Thomas Welton Stanford Psychical Research Chair in the Department of Psychology, Stanford University.

Professor Charles Tart Ph.D, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and is internationally famous for research on altered states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology and parapsychology. His ten books include two classics, Altered States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychologies. His Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential synthesised Buddhist, Sufi and Gurdjieffian mindfulness training ideas with modern psychology and his more recent book, Open Mind, Discriminating Mind extends these explorations. His latest edited work Body, Mind, Spirit explores the parapsychology of spiritual experience.

Mark Woodhouse, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses in Metaphysics, Consciousness Studies, and the New Paradigm Literature. He is the author of A Preface of Philosophy (6th ed.) and the more recent Paradigm Wars, which offers an analysis of current transformational challenges and the worldviews in transition they fuel. He is also a practising healer.