BIO

David Lorimer - Project team and Scientific Committee

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David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a visionary polymath, spiritual activist and poet, who is Founder of Character Education Scotland, Global Ambassador of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net)  and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986.

He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org) and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences (www.mysticsandscientists.org) every year since the late 1980s. 

David is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the widen science beyond a materialistic world view. He hosts a podcast Imaginal Inspirations with key thinkers in consciousness studies. He is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest, a Member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. 

Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Death as Transition – Body, Mind and Death in the Light of Psychic Experience, Resonant Mind – the Near-Death Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness, and Thinking Beyond the Brain.