The first regularly scheduled interfaith, international Faith and Science conference, transitioning between:

• Physics to Creation,
• Chemistry to Life,
• Biology to Consciousness,
• Psychology to Mysticism.

Culminating in research on Consciousness and Mysticism.

Our goal is to show those leaving their faith and the clergy, scientists, and medical professionals serving them, that current faith and science reinforce each other.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Friday, 11 December
Opening Prayer

• His Em. Peter Cardinal Turkson

Welcome Introduction

• David Lorimer, Moderator
• Deacon Dr. Robert Hesse

MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

• Rev. Laurence Freeman

Physics to Creation

• Dr. Jennifer Wiseman
• Dr. Bernard Carr
• Q&A and Dialogue

Chemistry to Life

• Dr. Kate Adamala
• Dr. Simon Conway Morris
• Q&A and Dialogue
  PANEL DISCUSSION OF DAY
  VATICAN OBSERVATORY: VIRTUAL TOUR
  VATICAN MUSEUM, SISTINE CHAPEL

Saturday, 12 December

POPE LEO XIV AUDIENCE, PENDING AVAILABILITY
KABBALA CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

• Rabbi Harvey Rosenstock
• Rabbi Laura Kaplan

Biology to Consciousness

• Dr. Federico Faggin
• Dr. Harold Koenig
• Q&A and Dialogue

Psychology to Mysticism

• Dr. James Finley
• Dr. Robert Hesse
• Q&A and Dialogue

Panel Discussion of Day Path Forward

• Dr. Christina Puchalski

SUFI CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

• Imam Jamal Rahman
• Seemi Ghazi

Sunday, 13 December
BORGHESE GALLERY
CHAPEL ST. MARIA DELLA VITTORIA

CONFERENCE VENUE
The hybrid conference will be both webinar and in-person attendance at the 120-seat Palazzo Cardinal Cesi, hotel conference center. It is conveniently located next to St. Peter’s Square.

INTERFAITH PRAYER
Each day will open with a brief instructed practicum of contemplative prayer, a silent prayer, which lends itself to interfaith teaching and practice, since in the silence there is no dogma. This will gently draw registrants into the experience of consciousness and potential mysticism, in preparation for the last presentations on these subjects.

ENHANCING OFFSITES

• Relevant offsites will reinforce the topics.
• Physics to Creation: Virtual video presentation on the Vatican Observatory.
• Chemistry to Life: Sacred music in the Sistine Chapel with the focus on Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam.
• Biology to Consciousness: Tour the Borghese Gallery with focus on Bernini’s sculpture, Apollo and Daphne, symbolic of the birth of the consciousness and free will.
• Psychology to Mysticism: Tour the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria with focus on Bernini’s sculpture, Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila, a mystical experience.