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)