Is Humanism Dead?
What can humanism say about the problems we face today? It’s been claimed often enough that humanism is so locked into 19th century patterns of thinking it’s now hopelessly irrelevant. All this talk of progress, believing in ‘man’, and confidence in science and reason? Please! We can at this point either just deny claims of this […]
Psychedelics and Nonduality
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the journal, Science Magazine published a list of the 125 greatest unsolved questions in science. Top of the list were: 1. What is the Universe made of? 2. What is the biological basis of consciousness? (How does the brain generate consciousness?) Whilst these questions may seem baffling under the […]
Amanda Palmer on Motherhood
In her mid-thirties, singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Amanda Palmer approached a conflicted baby conundrum. She’d always had a hard time shaking the belief that suffering and isolation were important to making art. If she had kids, would she turn into a boring, irrelevant, ignorable artist? Would she suddenly start writing songs about […]
Is London dying?
Novelist and London psychogeographer Iain Sinclair is joined by Katharine Hibbert, founder of affordable housing enterprise Dot Dot Dot and author of Free: Adventures in the Margins of a Wasteful Society, Angus Hanton of Intergenerational Foundation and Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson for a discussion of the social and cultural significance of London’s property price boom. In […]
Love Factually
A fun evening of learning all about love, hosted by CFI UK’s Stephen Law. Find out about God’s secret sex life, exactly what turtles get up to when the lights are out, and a whole lot more. There will be a licensed bar to provide lush libations, and opportunities to buy books by Law, Stavrakopoulou, and Ince, […]
The story of Europe’s refugee crisis
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of the second world war. The number of people seeking asylum in Europe doubled in 2015, reaching a record 1.26 million. Patrick Kingsley, the Guardian’s migration correspondent, spent a year visiting 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making often perilous […]
The Shamanic Lands
The Shamanic Lands is a two day ceremony and waking shamanic journey uniting the ancient knowledge of the British Isles and Ireland with global shamanic wisdom. We are in a time of great change in the world and shamanism is becoming ever more popular as a way to navigate through the turmoil. The call for us […]
ProductTank
The ProductTank on Wednesday 30 March will look at the role of psychology in product design. This ProductTank has been curated by Alison Austin. You’ll find Alison here on LinkedIn and Twitter. This month’s speakers: Joe Leech: Joe is a UX consultant & author of the book Psychology for Designers. He sometimes writes for Smashing Magazine & Net Magazine about how to use psychology […]
Film screening: Iran’s Sex Change Solution
Ali Hamedani, BBC World service reporter, visits Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ali Hamedani. Bar opens at 7. Film starts at 7.30. Donations to cover costs accepted. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE.