Pamela Jaye Smith: The Future of Consciousness Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Pamela Jaye Smith THE FUTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS What Myth and Metaphysics Foresee. What Science Observes. What Media Shapes. What Imagination Creates.

Stephen Larsen: The Mything Side of the Mind: (The Perilous Rapture of Fundamentalistic Thinking) Futurehealth WinterBrain 20 minute plenary presentation by Stephen Larsen The thesis of this paper is based on Dr. Larsen?s forthcoming book entitled: Perilous Rapture: On the Dangers of Fundamentalistic Thinking. Larsen takes the position that some kinds of myths are extremely dangerous, and polarize our duality-prone nervous systems still further, into dysfunctional and even pathological patterns. The thesis dates from an idea of Joseph Campbell?s that our brains are the hardware, and culture the software, of human functioning.

Stephen Larsen: The Power of Myth:Joseph Campbell's approach to Archetypes as Patterns of Psychic Energy Futurehealth WinterBrain 2 hour workshop by Steve Larsen