Finding Joy with Guest: David Lorimer

Fr. Nathan speaks with David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA, a visionary polymath, spiritual activist, and poet. 

David 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.

David, originally a merchant banker, then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Radical Prince on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III). His most recent publications are his essays, A Quest for Wisdom (2021), his collection of poems Better Light a Candle (2022),
Spiritual Awakenings (2022, edited with Marjorie Woollacott)

David is the originator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes,
which has reached over 350,000 young people all over the world, and has
edited fifteen magazines and five books in this connection. He was a Senior
Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre in the University of Birmingham from
2015-2018 and in 2022 he was appointed an Ambassador of Character
Education. See www.inspiringpurpose.org.uk