While the medical definition of consciousness can be defined as self awareness or that of the cognitive state of a sensate being it fails to describe the full range of phenomena that is observed when we review all the evidence. When we reflect on the nature of our mental processes we can sense elements in our thought that appear not come out of our past experiences or memories. Paranormal phenomena such as Telekinesis and Clairvoyance have causal links with our mental processes but lay outside of our bodies. There is also the unexplained relationship between our thoughts and emotions and REG or Random Event Generators. All this is at the core of Dean Radin's talk on The Mind at Large and Field Consciousness. Dean was one of the earliest researchers on this subject and remains at the cutting edge of his field. The fact that this talk was given fifteen years ago and is as relevant today as it was then testifies to his early lead.
The original filming of this talk took place on September 25th 1998 and represents an FMBR Archival Restoration.

Dean Radin, PhD, is senior scientist at IONS and the author of several best-selling books and most recently "Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities". Dean Radin joined the IONS research team in 2001. Before that he conducted research on consciousness at Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He earned his doctorate in psychology and his master's in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His earlier bestsellers were The "Conscious Universe" and "Entangled Minds".

Sperry Andrews facilitates a group practice he has evolved and hosted internationally for thirty years. The awakened awareness that mystics and sages have spoken of since the beginning of recorded history is shared by everyone present. Participants describe melting into a life changing experience of Oneness, feeling bliss and causeless joy, as one´s whole being is liberated from the illusions of separation and limitation. By being awake together, it is unmistakably known how "The world can live as one".
In his talk he will share what he has seen happen as participants have experienced this Oneness.

Sperry Andrews B.S.F.A. has been the Executive Director of the Human Connection Project since 1990. He founded the Human Connection Institute in 1996 to further the use of experiential group consciousness for healing, community building, sports and business. Sperry has collaborated with eminent scientists and educators conducting both objective and experiential research, into the emergence of a commonly sensed consciousness.

We now have proof of ESP "so strong it would be statistically unreasonable to deny," writes physicist Russell Targ. "If facts alone can convince a skeptical investigator of the reality of ESP, this book should do it." In The Reality of ESP, Targ presents evidence from the $20 million research program he co-founded at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), together with their Buddhist and Hindu origins. These amazing psychic feats include:

• While remote viewing for the CIA and Army Intelligence, SRI psychics found a downed Russian bomber in Africa, reported on the health of American hostages in Iran, described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia, and forecasted a Chinese atomic bomb test three days before it occurred.

• When San Francisco heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a psychic with the SRI team was the first to identify the kidnapper and then accurately describe and locate the kidnap car.

• After leaving SRI, Targ's group made $120,000 by psychically forecasting for nine weeks in a row the direction and amount of changes in the silver commodity futures market - without error! Since most of us have psychic abilities we haven't tapped, Targ describes how we can learn to develop our own ESP, working at home using the SRI techniques with a friend.

Russell Targ is a pioneering laser physicist, a well-known author, and co-founder of Stanford Research Institute's program to explore psychic abilities He is author or coauthor of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities and Buddhist approaches to the transformation of consciousness, He lives in Palo Alto, California and teaches remote-viewing workshops worldwide.

We live in a world of entangled fields. Certain fields hold the raw potential to unlock our fortunes. Others predispose us to repeat the unwanted patterns of our pasts. Dawn delivers a new vocabulary and mental frame- work to free us from negative entanglements, ultimately empowering us to reshape our future. An international best-selling author, Dawn Clark has spent her life creating works that empower others to reshape their future and the future of the planet. Standing at the nexus of science and spirituality, she delivers insights and tools that help people repair core fractures, clear toxic emotions, and re-pattern themselves for longevity and success.

Her knowledge was deepened by a profound near-death experience, and her work incorporates the research of notable physicists, such as William Tiller, Russell Targ, and Brian Greene, and biochemist Rupert Sheldrake. A visionary, an entrepreneur and an inspirational teacher, Dawn Clark has counseled and advised people from all walks of life, including Nobel Prize, Emmy Award winners, Fortune 100 executives, psychologists, entertainers, teachers, parents and teens. Her new novel, The Forbidden Text, is a transformational thriller that spans the world of espionage, and the equally fascinating territory of her own direct experiences in the subtle realms.

Dawn Clark is a visionary, an entrepreneur and an inspirational teacher, she has counseled and advised people from all walks of life, including Nobel Prize, Emmy Award winners, Fortune 100 executives, psychologists, entertainers, teachers, parents and teens. Her new novel, The Forbidden Text, is a transformational thriller that spans the world of espionage, and the equally fascinating territory of her own direct experiences in the subtle realms. DawnClark.net

The April FMBR program will be a panel discussion. The panel consisted of four people who have had Near-Death Experiences, (NDE). The panel consists of Alan Hugenot, PMH Atwater, Nadia McCaffrey, and Sharon Lund, and was hosted by Bill Virga.
Alan Hugenot graduated from college with an engineering degree after being trained to view the world through the perspective of Newtonian materialist science, But, in 1970, he survived a Near-Death experience which changed his perspective on everything. Since then, he has spent over 40 years collating all then scientific research on consciousness survival and the afterlife, including Near-Death experiences, reincarnation and past life regression therapy, After-Death communications and the supporting theories of quantum mechanics

PMH Atwater is an international authority on near-death states, Dr. Atwater uses the culmination of her research to establish that the Near-Death phenomenon is not some kind of anomaly, but is rather part of the larger genre of transformations of consciousness. She combines her 33 years of near-death research with what she was doing in the 60s and 70s, experiencing, experimenting with, and researching altered states of consciousness, mysticism, psychic phenomena, and the transformational process, to reveal what transformations of consciousness really are, why we have them, and where they lead us.

Sharon Lund, has danced with life and dance throughout her life, overcoming nine years of sexual abuse as a child, anorexia, suicide attempts, HIV/AIDS and two near-death experiences. She has embraced all of her challenges because they brought her to self-discovery, wholeness, and living her life purpose.

Nadia McCaffrey, a three-time near death experiencer had her first NDE at age seven while spending the summer with her grandparents on their estate in central France . She was bitten by a red asp, a deadly snake. Floating above her body, Nadia suddenly became aware of a feminine presence -- a being of light who introduced herself to Nadia as: "Je suis ta petite Maman du ciel," (I am your little mother of the sky). Nadia recalls: "She was so beautiful. She was everything ... you just can't really ... describe the peace, the love, the well being ... She opened her arms ... and I just wanted to curl up and touch her. She made me understand that I couldn't do that, I couldn't come any closer, that she had things to communicate to me, so I stopped. I stayed there floating in mid-air.

The host of the panel is Bill Virga, M.A. Transpersonal Psychology and FMBR member.