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BTC Institute/promega corpORaTION
5445 East Cheryl parkway
fitchburg, wi 53711
  • 7:30 am - 8:00 pm

    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

  • 7:30 am - 8:30 am

    REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

  • 8:30 am - 8:45 am

    WELCOME & FORUM INTRODUCTION

    William Linton

  • 8:45 am - 9:05 am

    Opening Ceremony

    Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig

  • 9:05 am - 10:05 am

    The Galileo Project: In Search for Technological Interstellar Objects

    Avi Loeb

  • 10:05 am - 10:30 am

    BREAK

  • 10:30 am - 11:30 am

    Altered States of Consciousness and Sound: The Auditory Pathways of Binaural Beats

    Elizabeth Krasnoff

  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

    LUNCH

  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Traditional Knowledge, Perspectives and Consciousness

    Sutton King

  • 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Opening the Archives of the Impossible: Some Thoughts on Consciousness, the Paranormal, and the Further Reaches of the Imagination

    Jeffrey Kripal

  • 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

    BREAK

  • 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm

    PANEL DISCUSSION

    Panelists: S. King, E. Krasnoff, J. Kripal, A. Loeb; Moderator: Steve Paulson

  • 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

    RECEPTION

  • 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    HOSTED DINNER CONVERSATIONS (pre-registration required)

  • 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

  • 7:45 am - 8:30 am

    REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

  • 8:30 am - 8:45 am

    DAY TWO OVERVIEW

    William Linton

  • 8:45 am - 9:45 am

    Medicinal and Spiritual Use of Ayahuasca

    Paulo Roberto Silva de Souza

  • 9:45 am - 10:45 am

    Nondual Awareness and Epistemic Freedom

    John Dunne

  • 10:45 am - 11:00 am

    BREAK

  • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    As below, so above: the deeper the roots, the stronger the branches

    Rosalind Watts

  • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

    LUNCH

  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Concepts of Space and Concepts of Self

    Margaret Wertheim

  • 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm

    BREAK

  • 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

    PANEL DISCUSSION

    Panelists: J. Dunne, P, R. Silva de Souza, R. Watts, M. Wertheim; Moderator: Steve Paulson

  • 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

    CLOSING CEREMONY

    William Linton; Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig

  • 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

    RECEPTION (desserts)