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13.  “What he can teach us about the brain,” Times Higher Education Supplement, September 15, 2006, pp. 18-19. A feature article on science, education and the Dalai Lama.

14.   “Contemplative and Transformative Education” Kosmos vol. 6, number 1, pp. 42-44,  2006.

 

 

 

Selected lectures and other activities:

·        Co-moderator for Mind and Life Dialogue with Dalai Lama on Universe in a Single Atom, Dharamsala, India, April 9-13, 2007.

·        Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education conference, San Francisco. Organizer and presenter, February 22-25, 2007.

·        “Science and Spirituality: Seeking Common Cognitive Ground,” Colorado College, February 1, 2007.

·        “Experiential Ethics: Reconnecting Ethical Judgments to Moral Agents.” Yale University Bioethics Center, January 24, 2007.

·        Advisor to UCLA Higher Education Research Institute’s project on Spirituality in Higher Education, Nov 14-16, 2006

·        “Contemplative Pedagogy” keynote, University of Michigan conference, Sept 29, 2006

·        Oxford College of Emory University, keynote talk at conference on cognitive and affective learning, March 24, 2006.

·        Dutch COMPASS meeting on sustainable development, invited participant and presenter, November 27-30, 2005

·        “The Idea of the Photon, What recent research tells us” invited talk at the New York Section of the American Physical Society, October 14, 2005.

·        Richland College, Dallas, TX, commencement speaker, August 26, 2005.

·        Contemplative Pedagogy director of summer session August 15-19, at Smith College.

·        Lectures and workshops in Europe, July 2005.

·        Keynote speaker at Philosophy, Science and Theology Festival, Australia June 20-25, 2005, and other talks in Sydney and Canberra.

·        “Facts as Theory: Goethe’s Philosophy and Practice of Science. Lecture at EHESS (école de hautes études en sciences socials) Paris, April 15, 2005.

·        Visitor and lecture at CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, March 28- April 15, 2005.

·        “Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning Through Contemplation”, lecture at Columbia University conference on Peace in Ourselves and Peace in the World, Feb. 13, 2005.

·        Visitor, Interdisciplinary Program, Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, November 2-4, 2004 and Jan 31 – February 18, 2005.

·        “Eros and Insight” lecture, Dusseldorf, Germany, October 17, 2004 and at Emerson College, England, October 20, 2004.

·        “Modern physics, Goethean science and contemplative knowing,” Schumacher College, Devon, England, course, October 11-15, 2004.

·        “Contemplative Knowing” course/retreat, Jarna, Sweden September 26-Ocober 1, 2004.

·        European lecture tour with talks on science and spirituality in Sweden and Germany (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hanover), May 14-June 6, 2004.

·        “What is a Photon”, lecture at University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 5, 2004.

·        Visitor, Interdisciplinary Program at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, February 6-8, 2004.

·        Native American Science Academy, symposium presenter, January 29- February 1, 2004, California.

·        Harvard invitational dialogue on science and religion, November 7-9, 2003.

·        Moderator,  MIT – Mind and Life conference with the Dalai Lama, “Investigating the Mind” September 13-14, 2003

·        “Concerning the Problem of the Observer: Learning the Lessons of Physics,” Prague, Towards a Science of Consciousness, plenary lecture, July 8, 2003.Invited plenary lecture.

·        “Pictures and crucial experiments in quantum mechanics,” and  “Goethe’s theory of color and the dualist theory of knowledge.” Two lectures at CREA Paris, June 3, 2003

·        “Holism and reductionism in light and mind,” Reconciling Holism and Reductionism conference, Zeist, Holand, May 14, 2003, plenary lecture.

·        National Symposium on “Contemplative Practice in Higher Education,” co-organizer, host, and presenter, Amherst College, May 9-11, 2003.

·        Visitor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, February 6-10, 2003, Interdisciplinary Studies.

·        University of Colorado, Boulder, lecture on “Entwined History of Light and Mind,” November 25, 2002, NEH project on science and humanities.

·        University of Connecticut lecture on “The Invisible Agency of Light in Physics and Perception,” November 4, 2002 at the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action.

·        Scientific organizer and presenter at the 2002 Mind and Life Dialogue with H.H. the Dalai Lama, October 2002, Dharamsala, India, on “The Nature of Matter, The Nature of Life.” Presented on “The Sciences of Complexity.”

·        MIT lecture, “Falling Light: a History of Light, Space, and Human Perception,” October 21, 2002, School of Architecture and Planning.

·        Pan American conference, Anthroposophical Societies of the Americas, lectures on “Deeds of Courage, Acts of Love and our Common Future,” July 15-16, 2002.

·        St. Olaf’s College, Minnesota, lectures on “Vocation: it Spiritual Dimensions,” and “Spirituality in Higher Education.” June 29, 2002.

·        Louis Bolk Institute lecture, “Future of Higher Education” Zeist, Holland, June 25, 2002.

·        Gordon Conference, lecture “Quantum Challenges as Pedagogical Strategy,” South Hadley, MA, June 10, 2002.

·        University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sustainability conference, lecture on “Towards a Humane Technology,” May 3, 2002.

·        Sunbridge College, NY, lecture on “The Evolution of Higher Education,” May 3 2002.

·        Association of American Colleges and Universities conference, San Francisco, plenary lecture “Integrating Learning and Action: Spirituality in Higher Education.” April 19, 2002

·        St. Lawrence College, NY, lecture on “Finding Common Ground: Science and Religion” April 9, 2002.

·        Smith College, Kahn Institute, lecture on “Intolerance in Science: Goethe and his late 18th century reception,” April 1, 2002, Massachusetts.

·        Harvard lecture on “Light in scientific and religious imagination” February 25, 2002, Center for the Study of World Religions.

·        Kira Institute Summer School for graduate students in the sciences and science study area. Presenter and co-organizer, Each summer for 5 years. 1998-99 on “Values in a World of Facts” and 2000-2002 on “Ways of Knowing,” at Amherst College.

·        Presenter, State of the World Forum, San Francisco, CA