Sunday Lecture – Our Public Relations their Propaganda: Engineering Consent in a Democratic Society
Although propaganda is at least as old as civilisation its modern political and corporate forms were only systematically developed in the United States around the time of World War One. This lecture will explore the reasons for its promotion there at that time and will give a historical account of some of the techniques elaborated […]
Sunday Lecture – Human rights: are women human enough to have human rights?
All too often women’s rights are ghettoised delayed or characterised as not exactly vital for human existence. Rights such as the right to education and health are “feminised” and many in the UK deny that these are fundamental human rights at all but merely aspirational policies. Women’s rights activists expose the outdated Cold War dichotomony […]
Sunday Lecture – What Every Parent Needs to Know about Steiner Schools
Andy Lewis covers the education debate with an introduction to Steiner Waldorf Schools and Academies.; With Michael Gove and the coalition approving new Steiner Schools to open under the Free School Programme it is timely to look closely at the origins and beliefs of Rudolf Steiner the founder of the occult movement of Anthroposophy. Steiner […]
Reflections On Loneliness – The Malaise of Our Time
Adlerian Society UK presents; Presented by Dr Chris Maddox; A basic postulate of Adlerian psychology is our interconnectedness our ’embeddedness’ and as H.S. Sullivan said “We are all more simply human than otherwise”. Yet a key problem at the heart of psychological problems is feelings of loneliness feeling ‘disconnected’. Concentrated in cities and towns human […]
Sunday Lecture: University Shambles
University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best University System in the World; Chris Rhodes talks about the policy and ethics of the current educational system in the UK and what the possible future will be for coming generations.; Government cuts rising tuition fees graduates debt-ridden and unemployed FE colleges becoming the new “new universities” the […]
When Prophecy Fails… Again!
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Dr David V Barrett takes a look at prophecies of the end of the world – from Jesus’ expected return to the coming Maitreya to Nostradamus to flying saucers – and at how prophets cover their embarrassment when nothing happens… again.; A former teacher intelligence officer and journalist Dr David […]
Sunday Lecture: Oh! Scientology! Church Of Fear
John Sweeney recounts his personal experiences and discoveries while investigating the Church of Scientology.; Why can disconnecting grannies from grandsons be good? Who is Lord Xenu? Which MP says ‘Scientology is not a cult?’ What kind of Church hires private eyes?; Tom Cruise and John Travolta say the Church of Scientology is a force for […]
Vedanta: Public Lecture
Vednata World London Presents a public lecture on “Life is to Give” by Swami Parthasarathy.
Sunday Lecture: What happens when the Oil Runs Out?
Chris Rhodes will give an overall view of the peak oil problem and the lack of any technological fix to the consequent liquid fuels crisis. After discussing resource supply problems in general he will move onto the media hype over fracking etc. compared to true levels of gas and oil that might be exhumed and […]