Things That Go Bump in the Night
The Central London Humanist Group present; Please come and join us if you dare and have survived Halloween for a special spooky CLHG talk. Skeptics Chris French and Deborah Hyde will be discussing all things that go bump in the night but will mainly concentrate on two of our favourite supernatural beings ghosts and vampires. […]
Sunday Lecture: Spirits on the Brain
Spirits on the brain: Insights from psychology and neuroscience; Belief in spirits can be found in all human societies and a substantial proportion of the population claim to have had direct contact with a spiritual realm beyond ordinary experience. This talk presents an overview of scientific research into sleep paralysis near-death/out-of-body experiences and reincarnation claims […]
Believing in Free Will – Do We Have Any Choice?
The Central London Humanist Group presents; Believing in Free Will – Do We Have Any Choice?; CLHG members Jeffrey Herrmann and Alice Fuller will present two short presentations exploring these classic questions of philosophy and science. There will then be an opportunity for questions and discussion.; Door at 6.30 pm for talk at 7.00 p.m.; […]
Sunday Lecture – ‘Just Suppose’
Just Suppose’; A film written and presented by Michael Lawrence.; The soul intention of ‘Just Suppose’ is to provoke: serious thought; soul searching; questioning of the Christian wisdom passed down to us by our ancestors and promoted as viable by our authority figures – teachers parents clergy – and hopefully; extremely lively debate.; ‘Just Suppose’ […]
The Shaw Society: T.F Evans Award
The Shaw Society presents The T.F Evans Award 2013 An evening to celebrate the results of the Shaw Society / T F Evans Award 2013, with a presentation to the winner of the award and a performance of the winning entry. Tickets: £2 members £4 guests. On the door Doors: 7pm for 7.30pm – ends […]
The Evil Hallucination – Phantom of Brain or Mind?
The Adlerian Society UK presents.; ‘The Evil Hallucination – Phantom of Brain or Mind?’ presented by Albyn Leah Hall; “I awoke surrounded by brown and black cats who tried to suffocate me. Fortunately the pope appeared to shoo them away. He sat by my bedside and told me that my husband was being unfaithful.’ This […]
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
All Yesterdays present; Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals; The speakers will be signing copies of their new book “All Yesterdays: Speculation & Science at the Frontiers of Reconstructing Extinct Animals” which will be available on the night.; Doors open at 6:30 and the talks start at 7. Ticket price is […]
Sunday Lecture: One Law for All
Anne Marie Waters is spokesperson for the One Law for All Campaign. She campaigns against Sharia and religious Laws as she believes they represent a sacrifice of the rights of women in the name of legal and cultural relativism. She is a law graduate with a strong interest in family law and human rights and […]
Stefan Dickers on George Jacob Holyoake
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; George Jacob Holyoake was a leader of the Victorian Secular movement imprisoned for Blasphemy in 1842 for an off the cuff reply at a lecture. Holyoake was also a Chartist campaigner for Co-operation Free Speech and a Free and Untaxed Press he was also an early feminist but he fell […]