FOUNDING MEMBERS
Dr. Joan Walton
In her external world, Joan is an academic at York St John University, UK, a member of the Galileo Commission Steering Group, and former chair of the Scientific & Medical Network's Board of Directors. She is also a mother, grandmother, and cares deeply about the future of younger generations. Both her personal and professional lives have been influenced by early encounters with the suffering of young children, and a realisation that the knowledge needed to resolve that suffering did not yet exist within either science or religion. Unwilling to accept explanations that did not resonate with her own lived experience, she began a lifelong inquiry into how knowledge is formed.
Dr. Laurel Waterman
Dr. Laurel Waterman holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, Wellbeing Emphasis, from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Laurel's research focuses on consciousness education, which explores perspectives on the source and nature of consciousness and their implications for ways of being, knowing, teaching, and learning. Laurel is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto Mississauga's Department of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and in the Alef Trust's MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology.
Dr. Marjorie Woollacott
Dr. Marjorie Woollacott is a professor and member of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She has received extensive funding for her research in rehabilitation medicine, consciousness, meditation, spiritual awakening and end-of-life experiences. She has published over 200 scientific articles and written or edited nine books, including Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind and Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences. She is past chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology of the U. of Oregon, President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences, and Co-Director of the Galileo Commission.
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