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Held July 31st, 2022.
Youtube videos of ICR's 2022 Spiritual Conference can now be viewed here.

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If you missed ICR's 2020 or 2021 Zoom Conferences, you can now see all the presentations on Youtube.

The 2020 Conference features "The Importance of Kundalini in Today's World", by Myrna Filman, "Our Expectations for the Results of Research on Kundalini" by Chuck Robison, "Who Are We to Judge" by Leah den Bok, "The Exploration of Consciousness" by Matt Presti, and "Out of India: The Storyteller's Quest for the Unbounded" by Rakesh Kaul.

The presentation for 2021 include: "Gopi Krishna and Kundalini: His Awakening and Yours" by Teri Degler, "Reflections on my Kundalini Awakenings" by Archna Sahni, "Kundalini: The Lived Experience, Psychology and Eastern Metaphysics" by Ann Mathie, "Stepping up to Co-Create - Left Handed Tantra Leading us into a Co-Creational Future" by Frances Morgana Stephens, "Kundalini and Sacred Poetry" by Neil Bethell Sinclair, and "Transforming Difficult Emotions as a Gateway to Health and Wholeness" by Dani Antman.

To view the playlists of the two conferences, click here.

In dealing with mystical ecstasy we deal with a fundamental impulse in the human mind. Modern science has absolutely no awareness of the fact that the average human brain, as the result of continued evolution, is now ripe for the manifestation of another mode of cognition superior to the intellect. It is only through this channel that Consciousness can be perceived as an independent Reality existing in a boundless universe of its own. It is the emergence of this cognitive faculty which the ancient Indian adepts designated as the opening of the “Third Eye,” or the “Tenth Door,” and the Egyptians represented by the symbol of the Serpent on the headdress of Pharaohs, by the “Eye of Horus” and other emblems. The whole occult, esoteric, hermetic and alchemic literature of mankind revolves round this amazing possibility in the human brain. Read more.

In general, there are three states of consciousness in the average, normal person – waking, dream sleep and dreamless sleep. Historically there have been claims of a fourth state of consciousness attainable for human beings. It is known by different names in various cultures – such as cosmic consciousness, enlightenment, Turiya. 
Although glimpses of this state have been experienced occasionally, this fourth state has been permanently reached by relatively few individuals overtime. Some observers of our current condition maintain that the only way to solve humanity’s pressing problems – or crises if you like - is the transformation or evolution of consciousness. Read More

How does one share an experience with those who were not present?

I shall do my best by starting off to say that this year’s conference was pure magic from the beginning to the end and being one of the early recipients of this magic was well,  just ‘magical’.

Once the call for presentations was sent out to everyone the energy came back as if we had just offered the biggest gift and all they had to do was say yes.  In all our 34 years of organizing this spiritual conference we have never seen such synchronistic events happen.  Gratitude’s joyful resonance blended into every moment, giving us renewed and vibrant energy to move through the organizing of this special weekend for all the friends new and old who come together to share our unity with one another in this amazing adventure we call life.Read More

By now it seems fairly obvious—even to an uninterested observer—that we are living in ever changing turbulent times. For most people, the hectic pace of life, along with economic uncertainty, social unrest, concern for the environment and the need for affordable food supply and health care, creates a stressful and difficult to cope with lifestyle. And it appears that the situation will continue to erode—at least for the foreseeable future. There are many ideas about how to "improve" our lifestyle on both a local and global level. Unfortunately there always seems to be competing ideas from the "experts" in each field leading to confusion about the best line of action to follow—resulting in lack of a long term solution. So what can a person do to live a more balanced lifestyle under the present circumstances and have a positive effect on the situation? Read More

This short offering contains some thoughts of Gopi Krishna's about the "free will vs destiny" conundrum.
At the present stage of our knowledge our discussions on determinism or free will are futile. We still do not know what the relationship is between our mind and the neuron structure of the brain. How do they react and influence each other? How do we reason, calculate, imagine or dream? The basic facts about the mind are still an unsolved riddle to science.Read More

The following is an excerpt from Higher Consciousness and Kundalini by Gopi Krishna

How can the average person achieve higher consciousness and help in the evolution of the race?

The surest way should be to voluntarily develop the characteristics of higher consciousness. For instance, to always keep in mind that there is no barrier, no distinction, no wall between man and man. Whenever we see another person, though we may act in the normal way towards him, at the back of our minds should be the thought that the same consciousness, the same Divine substance, that is talking, hearing and listening in me, is also talking, hearing and listening in him; that it is one substance, one cosmic medium, that is expressing itself in all human beings.
This will be in accordance even with the saying of the Christ, “Treat thy neighbors as thyself.” And it is also the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, to treat all fellow human beings as your own self. This would be, perhaps, the most effective way to melt the barriers which are created by the ego—to always put oneself in the shoes of another.
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In November, the Emerging Sciences Foundation held an online symposium entitled Kundalini and the Global Shift of Consciousness. The six presenters emphasized in different ways that Kundalini is the biological mechanism behind evolution, and that understanding it can help us address the most urgent problems of our time. This same knowledge can also give us guidance for accelerating our own process of spiritual growth.

Speakers included Michael Bradford, Teri Degler, Michael Molina, Carl Johan Calleman, Corinne Lebrun, and J. J. Semple, Several of the presentations, including Michael’s are now available on Youtube. Teri’s will be released in the next few weeks. For more information, and to be notified of presentation releases, you can visit the ESF 2016 Symposium page.