IRAS Webinar Series
Science, Religion & Society: An Online Series

November 14, 2022, at ​5:00 PM Eastern time

 Spiritual Experience: For REAL — For YOU — For the FUTURE  with Dr.  Calvin Chatlos

Register for November 14 Webinar

https://www.iras.org/webinar-series.html

Presentation Overview:
Spiritual experience is for REAL. A science-based explanation of our capacity for real spiritual experience will be explained along with a specific process for its promotion. The important role of experiences of worth and dignity will be highlighted. It is for YOU. The capacity for spiritual experience is wired into our brains and available to all open to it. Details about the personal process available for its access, a description of its characteristics and opportunities, and an explanation for why it cannot be experienced initially by reason and understanding will be reviewed. It is critical for our FUTURE. Einstein’s quote, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” now has a response. The creativity that opens with spiritual experience provides an incredibly powerful new way of thinking. This is a webinar not to be missed!

​About the November 14th presenter:
Dr. Chatlos is a Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Board Certified in Child & Adolescent and Addiction Psychiatry, where he incorporates spiritual principles in recovery from addiction and trauma. He graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received specialty training at Montefiore Hospital, New York University-Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He is a graduate of the Humanist Institute, NYC, a long-time member of the Society for Ethical Culture, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County (UUCMC), and a board member of the United Religions Initiative (URI) Cooperation Circle of the Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought (MCWRET), and a Council member of IRAS. He is the developer of the “Human Faith Project,” focused on the role of self-worth and dignity in opening a universal core of religious/spiritual experience and its empowerment of creativity. He is now engaged explicitly in research exploring the nature of spiritual experience.
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