Manjir to join the Hokkaido 7 symposium

What follows is an article by Yasuhiko Genku Kimura from his website Vision in Action
reproduced by kind permission of the author

In July 2008, an international group of seven eastern philosophers and western scientists will meet to reconsider these fundamental assumptions of western science and begin to propose more appropriate alternatives for our times, with a long range view toward bringing western science and eastern science formally into alignment as a global science.

The dialogues among the participants will focus on the reconsideration of foundational assumptions of western science: how each participant sees them, their implications for science and society, what changes in those assumptions are now in the air among ever increasing numbers of scientists trained in the western tradition, and what can be done to publicize this evolutionary trend among students and practitioners of science and to the international public at large, since the fundamental stories of science regarding the nature of the universe, our planet and humanity within that greater context affect worldviews inside and outside the practice of science as indicated above.

In a time of need to shift as quickly as possible from unsustainable lifestyles to sustainability around the globe, we recognize this issue, especially as concerns the relationship between consciousness and matter, to have key potential for facilitating that shift. Pending the success of this initial symposium for seven distinguished participants, there will be a larger, more inclusive symposium in 2009 and a continuing public relations campaign to ensure that the issue gets beyond inspiring conversations and into an effective campaign to enlist as many like-minded scientists and supporters as possible in the very near future.

Brian David Josephson

Physicist, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge; 1973 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Publications: Consciousness and the Physical World (co-editor);The Paranormal and the Platonic Worlds

Elisabet Sahtouris

Evolution Biologist, Futurist, Business Consultant

Publications: EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us; Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman)

Enoé Texier

Anthropologist, Doctor of Social Sciences

Publications: "Creadores por Tradición"; Ímpetu Sagrado; Redes de Comprensión; Educar en Valores es Educar para la Paz.

Manjir Samanta-Laughton

Holistic Medical Doctor

Publications: Punk Science: Inside the Mind of God

Osman Bakar

Philosopher of Islamic Thought, Philosopher of Science, Professor of Islamic Thought and Civilization, International Islamic University of Malaysia; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Malaya

Publications: Tawhid and Science: Islamic Perspectives on Religion and Science; The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science; Asian Islam in the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with John Esposito and John Voll); Environmental Wisdom for the Planet Earth: The Islamic Heritage.

William A. Tiller

Physicist, Material Scientist, Professor Emeritus, Department of M.S.E., Stanford University; Chairman and Chief Scientist, William A. Tiller Foundation for New Science

Publications: Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness; Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics; Some Science Adventures with Real Magic; Psychoenergetic Science: A Second Copernican-scale Revolution

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

Transhumanist Philosopher, Buddhist Priest, Scholar, and Translator, Corporate Consultant

Publications: Think Kosmically Act Globally; The Book of Balance (Tao Teh Ching), Alignment Beyond Agreement; The Third Enlightenment; Further Reaches of Human Consciousness

Scientific Research in Homeopathy conference

I feel absolutely honoured to have been invited as a VIP guest to the inaugral Scientific Research in Homeopathy conference organised by the Complementary Medical Association's Jayney Goddard. She is a huge fan of Punk Science so asked me to be present at this high calibre conference that detailed the scientific eploration of homeopathy both from the perspective of theoretical mechanisms and from the trial evidence which was more extensive than I had imagined.I came away more edcuated. An excellent conference. Read more here.

Black Holes all dine the same way.

At last reseacrhers have figured out that black holes behave in the same manner regardless of size. This for them, however should pose a problem because they rely on the physical world to give them the answers to the behaviours of the universe. Therefore, big objects should have big effects. However, when it comes to black holes, it has been found that big and large black holes have the same behaviours - predicted by the Black Holes Principle in Punk Science of course. Read more here.

Orgasmic Birth

The Gnostics believed that our world was born from the ecstacy of beings who dwelled at the centre of the galaxy. Why shouldn't every birth be like that. I was privileged to be at the UK premier of the film Orgasmic Birth which should be a staple of every birthing unit in the world. As an ex Obs and Gynae SHO, I had to be re-educated by the likes of Christiane Northrup MD, just one of the experts in the film who say that birth does not have to be truamatic and painful, but in fact blissful and even orgasmic. Essential Viewing for everyone, not just parents to be.
Open minds visit here.

Long time no see- where have I been?

First up - the cruise with Connettivi. James and I went aboard the MSC Musica in Venice and did a tour of the Greek Islands and Croatia. It was a cruise with soul and we were taking part in a floating conference. I did a talk that got translated into French and Italian on the spot, and it was a very big success with many people telling me in Italian and French that it was the best talk at the conference! So I was very excited to find that the message of Punk Science translates so well across languages and cultures. Many thanks to Geppo the organiser. May 'travel with soul' continue. Find out more here.



An exciting interview
I was interviewed as soon as I got back by The Binary Research Institute - Geoff Patino and Walter Cruttenden. They do some amazing work including host an interesting conference callled CPAK. Find out more here.

An award for Punk Science



I am delighted to tell you that Punk Science, which was serialised in PlanetLightworker magazine has won their seal of excellence. Click on the logo to find out more about this magazine.

Science news

Film – journey to the centre of the galaxy

This is a youtube film made up actual telescope pictures of the centre of our galaxy. When the evidence is displayed like this, we can see the microwaves and the spiral X-rays being produced by the central black hole. However, the very last part of the film resorts to fiction by telling us that black holes have infinite gravitational pull that even light cannot escape. So why can we see so many things happily coming out of it and orbiting around it?

Find out more here.

After the airing of the interview by New Dimensions Radio, many new people have found this website and given me some excellent feedback for the book. I am also delighted to be joining some previous aquaintances Dan Winter and Valerie for 'Travel with Soul' cruise later this month.

Middleweight Black holes

Those of you who have read the book will know that I give evidence for black holes occurring at many different sizes. This is a fact that is only just reaching some of the scientific community, mainly because it causes the embarassing issue of trying to explain how black holes form, as they got it wrong in the first place. Read More.

Black holes produce mysterious antimatter fountains from Milky Way

It seems that astrophysics is just starting to catch up with Punk Science in wondering if the antimatter produced by the Milky Way currently defying their explanations might be due to black holes. Along the right lines. Read More.

Volcanic eruptions on moon

On the 28th March, New Scientist led with an article confirming that the Earth's moon undersgoes volcanic eruptions and emits light. These are observations that were not taken seriously for many years until someone has collated the sightings are realised that they correlate with each other. Since writing Punk Science, I have often wondered about this. We are told that 'moon shine' is just a reflection of the sun - which always seems so highly patriachal reflecting our society that a woman can only shine in the glow of a man. However these findings show that the moon has a light of its own, as predicted by the Black Hole Principle in Punk Science.

I have had a very busy few months during which I have been getting better acquainted with Macclesfield station en route to London and the College of Psychic Studies as well as others.

Conscious Media Network visit

The lovely Regina and Scott Meredith of the Conscious Media Network flew over and landed in Buxton to do some more filming potentially for future projects - keep you posted. A jolly time was had by all. The highlight for me was when Regina did the Argentian Tango in the lobby of the Buxton Opera House. The place will never be the same!

Masters in Consciousness Science

I am very excited to be involved with the early stages of a project that is going to be a step forward in making the frontiers of consciousness science an accredited academic subject. This is a Masters degree that potentially could take place in South Wales. Read the blurb below and go to www.masterscs.com for more information.


"The Masters of Science degree in ‘Consciousness Science’ provides an integrated, holistic and interdisciplinary approach to self-development.

The MSc is a pioneering and comprehensive program designed to prepare an individual to fulfill their potential in all arenas of life. Students graduating from this programme will be empowered to support individual, community, organizational and socioeconomic development.

The course is structured around 6 week long modules over one year's taught curriculum and a second year of personal mentored research. The programme is currently progressing through a joint validation process in two institutes of higher education in South Wales, UK. It is hoped that the first cohort of students will commence their studies in September 2009

In addition to self-development, students will investigate the evolution of consciousness and it’s transformative and interconnective effects associated with the key areas of soceity including but not exclusively: Science, Education, Psychology, Ecology, Philosophy, Health Science, Business & Leadership, Economics & Politics, Spirituality and Computing."

Punk Science predicts galaxy cluster X-rays

Highly energetic X-rays have been clearly observed coming from a galactic cluster by the orbiting gamma ray observatory, Integral. Although the mechanism for the production of these high energy bursts is baffling physicists, this was a prediction made in Punk Science. According to the Black Hole Principle outlined in the book, each galactic cluster will have a central black hole as well as many other black holes which are periodically emitting high energy gamma rays and X-rays, powered by higher dimensions. Read more.

Discarded Old Timers surprise physicists

Like society's treatment of menopausal women, physicists see old stars as unable to be active and give birth. So a couple of old timers have shocked them, by behaving like young guns and giving off high energy jets. They believe only young stars, which can be identified by their chemical composition, are capable of such energetic activity. They even believe that they are showing signs of giving birth to planets. And so it is with a view of the world that is unequivocally wrong. The universe inconveniently just does not fit the theory. Could it be that a new theory is necessary?

Luckily, the Black Hole Principle, as explained in Punk Science completely agrees with this observation. Old stars as well as new would be expected to be releasing high energy jets and planetary formation has a totally different mechanism from that put forward by conventional physicists. So we no longer have to shove old ideas into new data, nor project societies prejudices on the workings of the universe. Read More.


Jupiter’s eruptions reveal one of the biggest lies in the solar system

We are led to believe that the sun drives all of the processes in the solar system including all of the Earth’s weather. Which is why scientists were so shocked when they observed very fast flumes shooting out from Jupiter at incredible speeds. Jupiter is too far away from the sun for solar power to have wholly driven these powerful eruptions; they are concluding that there must be an internal process in Jupiter which is driving it. What is more, the plumes always come in pairs, the distinctive bipolar pattern of the Black Hole Principle (BHP) as described in Punk Science. According to BHP, Jupiter is actually creating it’s weather patterns from internally driven processes.

Of course, the Earth is also partly responsible for its own weather patterns through BHP. This true mechanism behind Earth’s weather has huge implications of how we view global warming.
Read More.

We are closer than ever before to the centre of the Milky Way. And of course, what is coming out of there - unexplained radio waves. Physicists still barking up the wrong tree actually think that these waves are coming from stellar processes and will be gobbled up by the black hole.
If you like a laugh read this.

Black Hole flares baffle scientists

This article is a good example of the flummox you can get yourself in, if you really don't know what is going on with the universe, but guess anyway. Scientists are baffled by flares, sometimes of a high frequency oscillation that occur around black holes. The article describes a how photons could be generating these flares by dancing around a black hole like a roulette wheel. However, another scientist has to point out that this is a black hole and light is not supposed to escape from it!
A new physics is called for in this article to explain these mysterious effects. See the primer on Punk Science for an introduction to the ideas that could unwrap the twist in the knickers of astrophysics. Read More.


Black Holes spin at the speed of light

New observations from the Spitzer telescope confirm that black holes are spinning at the speed of light. According to the Black Hole Principle outlined in Punk Science, this is to be expected as black holes are the connection point between this world below the speed of light and the dimensions beyond. It has also been observed that super fast jets are being emitted from the black holes as would be expected from knowledge of the Black Hole Principle, but this is unexplained by scientists. Read More.


Source of Mysterious Antimatter Found

Antimatter, which annihilates matter upon contact, seems to be rare in the universe. Still, for decades, scientists had clues that a vast cloud of antimatter lurked in space, but they did not know where it came from.
The mysterious source of this antimatter has now been discovered — stars getting ripped apart by neutron stars and black holes. Read More.


Hope of solving some of Mercury’s mysteries

NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft is currently flying by Mercury and scientists hope to answer some of their questions about this understudied planet. One of these questions is how is it possible for Mercury to have such a strong magnetic field. The field is similar to that of the Earth’s, only smaller, yet Mercury should not have one at all. The answer to this can be found by examining totally new and maverick theories in science as outlined in Punk Science (see Primer)
This states that Mercury creates its own field from a dynamic process similar to that found in a black hole and not from the movement of an iron core, as is the current orthodox theory of planetary magnetic fields. Read More.

The Time of my Life in San Francisco

Have you ever just been blown away by something? Every second of my trip to San Francisco in October was just utterly fabulous.

James and I stayed with his friend ( and now mine) Sergio Lub who has founded a website called Friendly favors. www.favors.org
We spent 10 days doing interviews, giving talks and meeting loads of amazing people like Dean Radin, Justine and Michael Toms of New Dimensions radio, all the students and staff and San Fransisco State University including Kenn Burrows who asked me over, Marylin Schlitz of IONS, Regina and Scott Meredith of Conscious Medica Network, JFK Holistic Studies director Marilyn Fowler, everyone at the Gateways and Open Scret Bookstores and many more.

The intereviews will be posted up as they are finalised. Sergio took some photos of the last talk I did at the Institute of Noetic Sciences which was orgnaised by himself and James. You can see the photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157602814720372/

The day that I did a talk in Santa Cruz at Gateway books, we also had lunch with Bruce Lipton, which was a lovely surprise.



Strange how things happen, but there again, aren't we getting used to it. James and I were in down town San Francisco looking for a suitcase when I noticed that the music in the shop was the Sex Pistols. After another great track, I commented on the musics and the lady in the shop said that it was her radio show that was playing. So James suggests she interviewed me on the show. What a great idea! Aisha was a blast and a big fan of the Slits. Here I am with Aisha at San Francisco State University studios. http://ksfs.sfsu.edu./
In case you want to check out some good music, her show is called Face the music.
This is her myspace. http://www.myspace.com/bowalsh
Just goes to show, go with the flow - it might turn out great!



And who says young people don't want to know about science? They just aren't taught anything they want to know most of the time. When I did the open conference at San Francisco State University, the students chose which group they wanted to be in. As you can see the response was huge. James, Jenna and I had to take a group each in the end as we couldn't hear each other! You can just see me pontficating on the right.



I have to thank James, for driving me around and supporting me and also Jenna for setting up so many amazing meetings as well as Sergio and his wife Gaye for being so generous.

David Icke website

I have started writing for David Icke's website as part of his move away from conspiracies to exploring the nature of reality. There is a summary of Punk Science on the website as well as regular input fromt he science world and how it is relevant to Punk Science. So if you want to get the latest update on Punk Science check out the site. I will start to post this content up here soon.

http://www.davidicke.com/content/section/6/83/

Scientific and Medical Network

I did a talk for the scientific and medical network Yorkshire group with Max Payne as chair. Got some great questions and comments from physicists and doctors present. Seems I know a bit more physics than I thought according to people's kind words afterwords.

Alternatives, St James

This month, it has been confirmed that I will be speaking at Alternatives at St James' Church Picadilly, London next April.

Bay Area Tour

Had a fantastic time in San Francisco where the Punk Science message was really taken on board. Here is a link to some pictures of a lecture I did at the Institute of Noetic sciences in Petaluma. More pics to come.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157602814720372

Strictly speaking this happened in August, but let's kick off with this. I went down to the main BBC studios in Wood Lane for an interview with the lovely Nihal. And boy did he give me a roasting. To his surprise the phones started buzzing and there was a furore on his hands. People started ringing up to complain and fight with me. A lot were also intrigued by the black hole theories I was talking about. Very good fun!

Harry Oldfield

Professor Harry Oldfield met up with James and myself in Buxton to investigate the PIP scanning system he has invented. We took some very interesting photographs. He is able to do this because he has devleoped a program that slows down light speed so that the information of higher dimensions can be captured by a camera. For more information see
http://www.electrocrystal.com/index.html

Dr John Demartini

Had a quick trip to London and back to see a talk by Dr John Demartini who was speaking on Business. Very inspiring. He has endorsed Punk Science and was one of the inspirations for it after I had seen a brilliant talk he did in 2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he outlined the quantum physics of emotions.
http://drdemartini.com/

Photoshoot

I have some new photos on my website thanks to a genius I kept bumping into around Buxton called Nick Tansley who did the most fabulous shoot. He used to be a celebrity photographer in the 90s and is very talented. The photo on this page was taken by him. I sympathise with models now. Standing on one leg in Vivienne Westwood shoes ain't easy.

Yeva and David Icke

James and I had a wonderful meeting with my good friend Yeva and her friend David in Brighton. David is well known for his conspiracy knowledge, a little less known for his cracking sense of humour and getting to be known for exploring the nature of reality. We did a lot of the latter and had some marathon conversations. As a result we may be working together to bring this work out to a wider public.

Here I am with James, Yeva and David.



More Reviews

This is a great review from San Diego Magazine The Light Connection (except they think I am a man) http://www.lightconnection.us/books.html

September 2007 Books

Punk Science, Inside the Mind of God; Big Mind • Big Heart, Finding Your Way

Punk Science Inside the Mind of God By: Dr. Manjir Samanta-Laughton; O Books; 2006; 324 pages; $22.95 (pbk); ISBN-13: 978-1-90504-793-2 (pbk); www.o-books.net When was the last time you sat under a tree and let your mind go, marveling at the wonder of it all? Punk Science was born of such an experience, in which the author sat in an oak tree and attempted to feel the rotation of the earth. “Suddenly,” he says, “I was thrust into an infinity of spinning orbs. In a moment that seemed to transcend space and time,“… I understood what I now call the Black Hole Principle. All the pieces of information I had been studying suddenly fitted together into a framework that is elegant and simple, but also allows for infinite, emergent complexity. This vision has formed the basis for this book and is nothing less than a new view of the cosmos.”

Pretty powerful claim, that. And all this from a medical doctor with a passion for putting his vision to work to offer physicists a framework big enough to hold the all-too-familiar details they wrestle with on a daily basis.

The early pages launch the conversation on which the book hinges: is consciousness a result of chemical (and perhaps other) processes, or is it the other way around? Moving right into string theory and M-theory, he lays a layman-friendly foundation for seeing things in the latter light.

“We have gone as far as we can with the material paradigm,” he asserts. And then he asks, “Is anybody making those giant leaps of consciousness that have always taken us forward in science? … We need people who firmly understand that consciousness is fundamental to the universe: people who know that the universe is intelligent, because they experience it as such. Like Pythagoras, Newton and Faraday, they have the skill of merging their consciousness with the universe in order to gain insights into its workings.”

Let me not give the impression he favors throwing the scientific method overboard. No, it has its place. But that place, he argues, is after-the-fact—once we have the vision, we must, as Einstein and others did, use mathematics and experimentation to support or disprove it.

I found the book an enjoyable and stimulating read. Of course, it probably helped that I agreed with him from the outset. I learned a few wonderful things and found that the book left me more able to converse about what's going on in physics, which in turn brought its own share of enjoyment. If you like to feel'“in the know” without having to puzzle things out too much, you may enjoy it too.

—Chiwah

and another on the Mystic Living Ezine via Planetstarz.com

Punk Science Inside the Mind of God
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton


Punk Science Inside the Mind of God Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton

Now this little gem really got me thinking. Within it's 324 pages were the most interesting concepts I have come across in a long time. The format is very unique and because of the laid back yet direct style of the writer I was able to see things in a whole new light. I saw phrases like "three dimensional reality", and "the black hole principle", that really got my head to spinning. Thank God for the diagrams and charts throughout that brought much needed clarity at just the right time. I would recommend this wise and eye-opening find to anyone serious about expanding their spiritual horizons. Thanks Dr. for a wonderful and very intense read.

Riki Frahmann

http://mysticlivingtoday.com/index.php?year=2007&month=09&pg=28

Meeting Diana Cooper

I also did a TV show with Diana Cooper for Iranian based International channel Press TV. We were discussing angels and I chatted about my experiences with her and she commented that they were pretty strong.

Matara Centre and Out of the Ordinary Festival

James and I did a talk together at the Matara Centre near Stroud which is a fabulous place for spiritual meetings. It is beautifully decorated with sacred objects from around the world.
well worth looking at for a venue. http://www.matara.co.uk

I also did a talk the previous weekend at Stuart Mason's Out of the Ordinary Festival which was filmed for the Holistic Channel. So a tent one week, a beautiful centre the next. You never know what is next with Punk Science.

BBC Radio Leeds

James and I went up to Leeds to the BBC studios for an interview with Shourjo Sarkar which was great fun. The show was not recorded unfortunately.
Afterwards Shourjo gave us a tour of the Look North newsroom and we even got to sit ont he big red sofa!

The House of Lords

As I am an advisor to the Institute of Complementary Medicine http://www.i-c-m.org.uk/
I got invited to a Strawberry Tea at the House of Lords this month. This was to attend a presentation on The Village Well, a new social enterprise for London. http://www.i-c-m.org.uk/about/village.
After clotted cream and scones, we mingled with champagne by the Thames. Great fun! James and I went on the London Eye afterwards.

Cherie Booth QC

In the dying days of Tony Blair's stint as Prime Minister, James and I got to meet Cherie Booth, his wife in one of her many roles as an all-round decent person! Not only is this woman a humanitarian lawyer, she is a mother of 4 children and a supporter of many causes. We met her at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards at the Hyde Park Hilton. We had a chat about Punk Science - she is really interested in spiritual things.

This is a picture taken with her at the event.

The LBC radio Psychic show appearance on 4th May was great fun! If you missed it, it is available as a podcast, but you will have to sign up to subscribe to it.
http://lbc.audioagain.com

Nicking craze grips nation

Had a great start to the month with an interview with LBC radio on 4th May. The nicking Punk science craze continues with Psychic show presenter Becky Walsh's copy being nicked by her friend who would not give it back. Co-presenter Chris's copy was now her only life line.
In case you missed the show, scroll back up the page to media and click the link to the podcast section.

Odyssey magazine editor's choice

Punk Science had a wonderful review in Odyssey magazine, a leading Mind-Body-Spirit publication in South Africa. This is the link to the magazine and the review is below.
http://www.odysseymagazine.co.za/reviews/april07_book01.html

EDITOR’S CHOICE

Punk Science: Inside The Mind Of God

Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton

O Books ISBN 978 1 90504 793 2

This is nothing less than an amazing book, bringing together all the latest research and theories of quantum mechanics, relativity, string theory and consciousness investigations to paint a picture of the universe which some of us have an inner knowing exists, but which many 'old school' scientists – and our culture in general – resist. With an ease of style that does not require years of post-graduate research to master – actually, the author has a charmingly simple and clear turn of phrase – Samanta-Laughton describes a universe that is connected at its most fundamental level, rich with awareness and pulsating with energy, even in the deepest depths of the cold spaces between the galaxies, and seamlessly joined by the underlying unifying force behind everything we know, are, or have experienced: consciousness. This book will be unsettling and troubling for those who need an old fashioned, mechanical-reductionist view of things and people as being separate; but for those of us who know or suspect that everything is really joined and that all really are one, this is a book that confirms and underpins that awareness. And it is not 'New Age' at all, but a work of popular science – only, the science is telling us things known by ancients and modern mystics, and now being rediscovered by the latest research and theoretical work at the cutting edge of physics, cosmology, brain and neuroscience explorations, and consciousness investigations. This one brings together everything from mediumship to black holes. Outstanding and a must-read.

Chris Erasmus

Healing DVD

I get asked a lot about my healing training with the European Institute of Plexus Bio-energy. Although huge in Ireland, Plexus has not been focused in the UK for a few years. Now teamed with the originators of the system, The Domancic Method, Michael visited the UK to train therapists recently and I met up with him.

As a resut, I watched the latest DVD on the therapy called Think about it. It is very good as an introduction to Bio-energy and contains scientists discussing such principles, including Dean Radin of What the Bleep- down the rabbit hole fame.

For more information visit

http://www.healingmotionpictures.com/home.html

Almost missed this month due to the amount of general hecticness. The book has been getting into the hands of the very scientists who inspired some sections which is very weird. They are now emailing me with comments. It is like some international, open peer review. Also I am now getting recognised in the street with people waving yellow and pink books at me!

The Punk Science nicking craze

The Nicakable factor is on the rise. People keep nicking copies from friends/family.
I do advise if this affliction happens to you then you must shout, 'Oi! Get your own, you scummy handbag!' If this does not work then, tough. You will just have to wait to get your copy back. <sup>*

*</sup>(All advice from the author must not be used in legal disputes between parties in court regarding ownership of Punk Science. If you are having a party in court, why am I not invited?)

That Indigo article!

Somewhere around the globe is showing the documentary I helped TV company, World of Wonder to make called "My kid's psychic". It follows some kids and their parents as they discover the world of indigo children. Although the world of these new kids is very real, I am still not sure about the value of lugging the subject around the media. I got involved with this a while back when I put together a series of conferences on Indigo and Crystal children with artist, Kim Major. I am really proud of these conferences. They were aimed at a certain segment of people and children. To the general public it can all seem a bit hooey. As a result I also got a bit of a ragging from writer Jon Ronson who reported me as saying a child did not have ADHD before I'd even seen him. Like I would!! Anyway, this Guardian article is creating a stir on a few websites due to the popularity of the this subject and this author.
The conference website receives over 25,000 hits a month even though there are no more events. Go figure! http://www.childrenofthenewworld.org.uk
I did get a really good write up in the Sunday Express on this subject which led to me interviewed by.....

Richard Dawkins

I was interviewed for a C4 documentary by Professor Richard Dawkins of Oxford University last September. It was for a series that supposedly follows Dawkins as he goes on a trail to find some substance behind New Age topics such as healing.
The whole thing was so weird because I was such a fan when I was younger, before my kundalini experience at 18 years old. I thought he was the hero and people like me were bananas! The experience of being a teenage skeptic puts me in good stead now as I know how skeptics think.

Anyway, I had a great time. They could cut the whole thing to try and make me look daft, but I really enjoyed our chat. The show is called something like 'Enemies of Reason'. Apparently that includes me! It might be shown in April although I haven't been told final dates.

Update- It seems this may be shown late summer.



Spring is in the air!

Hello from sunny Buxton! A lot of people are feeling movement happening in their lives at the moment and I am no exception. I have literally been moving up and down the country for lots of exciting projects on the go right now with my partner James.

Top scientists get punked!

There has been really good news on the book front too with it getting into the hands of some top scientists.

Cosmology news

The latest edition of Scientific American has a good article on the current status of confusion over black holes. Astrophysicists have no idea why the emissions are so strong from the centre of galaxy clusters. The interesting thing is that the central black hole of a galaxy cluster emits sound. This really is the true Big Bang - the sound of creation.