Dear SMN members and friends,

At our recent meeting (on Sunday June 24th) consensus was for the next meeting to be held on Sunday 5th August, 2007.

Alex Reichel offered to host the meeting at The Academy of the Word, and he also offered to provide a talk "Science and Culture." Prior to retirement from academic life, Alex was an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney (further details below)

Meeting details.

Sunday 5th August, 2007
2.00 pm - 5.00 pm
The Academy of the Word
Level UB, 133 Liverpool St,
Sydney NSW [ Google map ]
Phone (02) 9268 0635

Parking is available in the building (advisable, due to limited street parking). Please email me via the contact form (if you're not on the SMN email list) to obtain security details for gaining entry. He'll need your car registration details.

The Academy is close to Museum Station and a couple of blocks from Town Hall. Come to the door of 133 Liverpool St and call Security (wall installation). Take either of the first two lifts in the foyer to level UB.

See you there.

Best regards,
Steaphen Pirie
Sydney Coordinator,
Scientific and Medical Network
(Mob. 0415 637 532)

Brief background: 

Alex Reichel M.Sc., Ph.D., Dip.Ed., FRAS.

Retired in 1992 after 38 years in academic life - Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney

Foundation Director of the Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology, University of Sydney.

Founder of St. Francis Community for work amongst the mentally ill and marginalised in the inner city of Sydney.

The Academy of the Word was conceived as a University for marginalised people but is now of interest to many others.

Member of SMN since 1990 and has addressed three Annual General Meeings in England and Sweden.

** Update** 9th July, 2007

At the next meeting (Sunday August 5th) I hope to have a fairly complete draft of the first part in my forthcoming book. The working title (of Part One of the book, not the book's title) is "The Detailed Rationale for a supportive, interconnecting, interpenetrating (‘Holographic’) Spiritual Reality." It'll be a fairly full-on technical rationale based on quantum physics principles that are congruent with some easy observations we may make about everyday life.

Those who are interested in critiquing the work, please email me or contact me and I'll arrange a copy to be given you at the meeting.