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About the 2010 Conference Theme
The ISSSEEM 2010 conference theme “Evidence-based Spirituality for the 21st Century” will bring together the fascinating, the technical, the studies, the applications and the search for meaning and value in human life. Thought and action will be stimulated around the development of evidence-based, or at least evidence enriched spirituality that is effective and compatible with modern science. This calls for essential science (not scientism) to refine and integrate spiritual practices with scientific knowledge for the advancung human happiness, psychological and bodily health, spiritual growth and beneficial life styles for oneself and others.
It is time to move on from seeking the scientific basis for humans as spiritual beings to practical applications of what is already known. For example, how can prayer healing and psychic healing be taught more widely and effectively? What’s the best way to integrate these into the best of regular medicine? Do we survive bodily death in some form, as some mediumistic communications and reincarnation research suggest? How can we get better evidence for or against this idea, and if the evidence keeps piling up for it, what are implications for how we live our lives?
Detailed evidence of human spiritual qualities is presented in ISSSEEM President, Charles Tart’s just published book, The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 2009).
2010 Program Planning Committee
Charles Tart, ISSSEEM President and the 2010 Program Committee: Scott Anderson, Chair; Melinda Connor, Research Review Committee Chair, Kate Hastings, Chair of the ISSSEEM Board, Christine Hibbard, ISSSEEM Director, Oliver London, 2009 Program Chair, James Oschman, ISSSEEM Past-President, Denise Lewis Premschak, CEO, Susan Russell, Darin Stahl, Berney Williams, SEEM Journal Editor
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