Halloween Pub Paranormal With Ghosts, Fireworks, Tarot, Cemetery, Music & Ouija

Countdown commencing - 0nly 5 more days to Halloween & here at the Institute we're ready - are you? Time is precious. Here we value non-boring chats and social interactions that are fully engaging, soulfully enriching, inspiring, and leave you a bit wiser than when you arrived.

In that spirit - join this Halloween night for a free fun filled but educational spooky social night out including a ghost tour comprising partly of a visit to a well known Cementry where the bodies of the rich and famous lay. We will also watch Firework displays during the evening and later have supernatural conversations about the sprituality topics (see below) in a haunted pub known for reports of ghostly sightings and other strange phenomena. There will fun and games with Tarot & I Ching readings and a Ouija Board to contact sprits as well as exploration of other practical divination/paranormal investigation techniques. Lastly I'll putting my DJ hat to provide music with the greatest ghostly tunes of Halloween!!!

Even if you don't enjoy Halloween - this event will offer a perfect haven for the inquisitive & curious - those drawn to the mysteries of the universe, life and the unexplained with an evening of thought-provoking causal chats exploring mystic spirituality/consciousness and related interconnected topics spanning the paranormal, philosophy, neuroscience, parapsychology, cosmology and noetic sciences over drinks

Hosted by me - a former Reuters journalist & published empirical researcher exploring supernatural topics in pursuant of the "truth" since a teenager, there'll be no strict structure - a relaxed friendly space to openly chat, exchange ideas & experiences without judgement

We’ll touch on everything from the limits of scientific understanding to exploring the unexplained using practical fun exploratory divination practices drawing on elements of psychology, metaphysics, epistemology and statistical probability of rare events as we do so.

Whether you're a practicing "spiritualist", a curious skeptic, or just someone who loves deep conversation on life’s big questions, you’ll hopefully walk away more enlightened with some practical tips you can start applying and inspired to explore more!

Sample of conversational threads might include: Are we mere organisms pursuing biological survival or does consciousness exist beyond neurons firing in our brains? What explains peoples' paranormal experiences? What would reality look like If our brains were limitless? Declassified CIA files show that as as well as mind control experiments, the US govt employed mediums and remote viewers. If all mumbo jumbo then why? Is Nirvana just a fantasy of deluded people? Does everything happen for a reason?

To clarify - we define spirituality here as an exploration of consciousness, Donald Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns and undiscovered aspects of reality, NOT religion. After all, as my philosophy professor once rightly postulated to me: "If God created Adam, who created God Lucas?" Yep - that inconvenient flaw debunks every fairytale religion out there including the oldest religion of them all - paganism - so why is witchcraft still practised outside of Hogwarts today?

I may also share the latest peer reviewed empirical evidence surrounding paranormal and consciousness phenomena.

As well as illuminating chats to guide self-reflection, there'll be FREE Tarot & I-Ching readings, ouija board, demonstrations of meditation method to activate super powerful gamma brain waves, and pyschic tests for a bit of fun, laughter & intrigue!

=== POTENTIAL CONVERSATION STARTERS ===

1. Does consciousness survive death or is Cambridge Astrophysics Professor Brian Cox right in asserting if ghosts existed then particle accelerators at CERN would have already detected ghost molecules making Ouija boards kids play? Are Poltergiests 100% hoax? Brain scans indicate thalamocortical circuits in our brain (pathways in the parietal cortex & central lateral thalamus) drive consciousness - so how can spirit/mind live on after brain death?
2. Is synchronicity/coincidence simply randomness disguised in the eye of the beholder or can what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance" (quantum entanglement) explain it?
3. Given neuroscience's infancy with much yet undiscovered - could mediation help access functions outside of our BAU alpha & beta brain wave states? Can Kundalini yoga really boost natural DMT (dimethyltryptamine) levels and if so by what mechanism? Do the artifically created neural signatures using magnetic stimulation observed during mystical experiences debunk them? Is the Maharishi Effect real?
4. Are clairvoyants and mediums just good people readers or are they really able to access time and space in non-linear ways? Is Tyler Henry the real deal or just faking it?
5. The laws of statistical probability, Drake Equation & common sense tells us there should be other non-microbial life out there. If so, then what explains the Fermi Paradox? Was that 1976 WOW signal aliens? How about the recent strange bahaviour of Boyajian's star or Oumuamua/Atlas interstella object that has just entered our solar system?
6. Could metaverse explain deja vu & reincarnation vs theories from the psychology literature (Mandela Effect?) or do we just live in a simulation as Elon Musk proposes?
7. Stephen Hawking once said: "The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities" If matter only manifests when observed as the double slit experiments shows, does that mean everything is consciousness? Does the discovery of quantum superposition / disappearing neutrons imply parallel universes?
8. Do NDEs result from neurochemical changes in the brain close to death or something beyond physicality?
9. Can photons omitted by our bodies explain auras that people see?
10. Could limits in our understanding of quantum physics, space and time explain paranormal experiences?
11. What existed before the big bang - how do you get something from "nothing"? I believe our reality is the product of a black hole. What you reckon?

So how do we get to the "truth"?
Both in my journalism days and applying the most advanced empirical research techniques in my client consulting work - it becomes clear the truth is often elusive. No matter how much we triangulate evidence - we can only provide part answers. "All models are wrong, but some are useful" George Box

What we think we know and reality diverge leading to that great paradox of knowledge. And as the boundary between knowns and unknown converge, we end up with cognitive dissonance and more questions.

In that spirit - every credible philosopher & scientist acknowledges - we'll never get to the complete truth but could experimental methods get us closer to it? A balanced approach guided by Immanuel Kant's pragmatism and Aristotle's deductive reasoning seems the most rationale framework here but are there any other methodologies? How about the "spirituality" toolkit?

=== RENDEZVOUS POINT ===
The meeting point will be outside Archway station in Islington zone 2 (northern line) which is about 12 minutes from central London (Leicester Square) and 6 mins from Kings Cross tube. We will commence with 15 min "hike" to top of the park to see Firework Display whilst sipping drinks and then on to Ghost Tour with cementry visit and then we'll go for drinks, chats and paranormal games at haunted pub!

Lucas - The Ghostbuster