David's guest this month is Dr Lorna Green. Lorna has been on the trail of metaphysics for a long time. She grew up in a household of a physicist, who could answer the kind of questions children ask. Her father's love was the stars, while hers was small animals and a fascination with life. What happened when a small wounded bird lying in her hands gradually stopped breathing and went stiff and cold? She wanted to understand life, and she followed my questions into the life sciences, first at McGill and then at Rockefeller University in New York in the 1960's--a heavy time to be in New York and in science (the code is cracked). In the heart of the life sciences, she discovered that science could not explain the universe, and she began the study of philosophy to find out the wider truth of things. By the time she was forty, she had picked up most of the learning of these times and went into a fourteen-year wilderness life to work the whole things out for herself. She made her first pass at a new metaphysics in her first book, Earth Age, a New Vision of God, the Human, and the Earth, in 1988, that came out in 1994. She has been working out a mystical vision ever since, something she now wants to share with you all, and will take it from there.

Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.

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scientificandmedical.net

galileocommission.org

beyondthebrain.org

Works and links mentioned:

https://lornagreen.ca/

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/earth-age-book-lorna-green-9780595279548?

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/plato-s-phaedo-literally-translated-classic-reprint-plato-plato/9c49251cd1a2faba?ean=9780266747871&next=t

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/Revolt-Against-Dualism-Inquiry-Concerning-Existence/30864969689/bd

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/seth-speaks-the-eternal-validity-of-the-soul-jane-roberts/eb95d37c746e27b2?ean=9781878424075&next=t

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/handbook-of-neardeath-experiences-9780313358654/

Production: Martin Redfern https://www.beaconhillbroadcast.com/

Artwork: Amber Haas

Music: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone