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Craig Hamilton is an important new voice for enlightenment, awakening, and a revolution in consciousness that has the genuine possibility of transforming our world. With the wry humor, incisiveness, clarity, and wisdom of an emerging master, Hamilton speaks with equal power to both the searching mind and the questing heart.
Rabbi Marc Gafni
Author of Soul Prints and The Mystery of Love
As a member of the organizing committee for Delaware Dialogues on Science, Ethics, and Religion, I want to thank you for creating our best event for 2005-06 in terms of attendance, subject matter, and audience response. Your delivery, complete with plenty of visuals, kept the audience interested, alert, and educated. Your thoughtful pauses allowed us to reflect upon what you had just said or the question you had just posed. It was a talk that gave us a chance to really think about the material you presented. I would certainly recommend you as a speaker to other churches (Unitarian and other denominations), other Metanexus LSIs, and similar organizations. Let’s hope our paths cross again.
Parry M. Norling
Delaware Dialogues on Science, Ethics, and Religion
First Unitarian Church of Wilmington
Craig Hamilton is an important, articulate voice helping to illuminate the contours of the thrilling frontier where science and religion meet. He is an insightful and engaging speaker whose artful blend of spiritual insight, scientific data, and personal experience all delivered with a disarming warmth and humor will leave you challenged to question and inspired to act. I highly recommend his program.
Reverend Michael Dowd
author of Earthspirit Rising
www.TheGreatStory.org
I am the outside speaker coordinator for West Hills UU Fellowship in Portland, Oregon. In the more than five years I have held this position, I have selected the speakers for close to a hundred Sunday services. Craig Hamilton was one of our recent presenters and I am delighted to say he was one of the best speakers we've had. He tackled an ambitious topic, delivering a presentation which was clear, succinct, articulate, informative and entertaining. He drew on an extensive background of both scientific knowledge and spiritual traditions, offering insights from both worlds. He was very well received—I had several requests to invite him to return. I certainly plan to do just that.
Tom Needham
West Hills UU Fellowship, Portland, Oregon
I wanted to catch you after your talk on Saturday, but there were so many people waiting to talk to you! It was an honor to be able to introduce you to the audience. You were such a big hit—I think we could have kept you another 2 hours with questions! Thanks again for sharing your wisdom and research with us!
Heather Wandell
Columbia Church of Religious Science
Thank you again for a stimulating afternoon. You handled a complicated subject with good humor and personal illustrations to which we could all relate. Your fair and balanced presentation of the two main theories of the seat of consciousness allowed us to dig a little deeper, both into our own spiritual experience as well as our rational search. In an indirect way, what you were inviting us to consider supports my belief that the more we learn about quantum physics and other contemporary theories of the interconnected nature of all beings, the more attractive and persuasive our vision of spirituality becomes. I thank you for that!
Reverend Harry Brunett
Journeys Community, Columbia, MD
Craig Hamilton is an original thinker and a skilled communicator who sees broadly and reflects deeply. He holds the unique ability of imparting great insights and presenting these so clearly that hearing and knowing are outcomes. His writing opens one to that contemplation of knowing which shines brightly on the paths to creating meaning. His work with our graduate students has been brilliant, their rapt attention confirming his impact.
A. Harris Stone
The Graduate Institute, Milford Ct.,
The Standing Conference on Educational Research at Yale
At a recent conference, I was fortunate to attend a talk offered by Craig Hamilton. I was not only impressed with his knowledge of the subject matter, but with his presentation style which demonstrated an ability to understand and communicate with rather than at an audience. Craig draws from his extensive hands-on experience in media and consciousness-based community in a way that takes the conceptual out of the abstract and into a more felt sense of reality which encourages original thinking and deeper self-inquiry.
Alan Sasha Lithman
author of An Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millennium
The group was spellbound by your talk, as demonstrated by the fact that everyone wanted to stay and continue the discussion, which then inspired more comments and conversation after the service. We would be delighted to have you come back and delve into this or any of the other topics on your list the next time you are on the East Coast.
Sheila McPharlin
Co-Chair of the Program Committee
Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough
Thank you again for speaking at our Church. I loved your thoughts on Evolutionary Spirituality. It was refreshing to hear these ideas presented so thoughtfully and in clear, understandable language. It was clear to us you were speaking from a place of deep contemplation and introspection. I think one of the best things about your talk was that you spoke to both the mystics and the rational thinkers among us. When you spoke of the sense of wonder you had pondering evolution, a sense of wonder that brought you to your knees in awe, you gave us a new spiritual framework for thinking about our origins and the origins of our world. We'd love to have you come again.
Dan Arnow
UU Church of Ogden, Board of Trustees
Craig Hamilton is an engaging speaker, who, despite his obvious command of research on the Science of Consciousness, acknowledges the elusiveness of definitive answers regarding the mysteries of the mind and the spiritual. His balance of hard science, humor and that which is inexplicable satisfied both the secular humanists and the spiritual questers within our Unitarian Universalist congregation. We welcome Craig to visit us again on his next trip East and plan to schedule an afternoon workshop as well as another Sunday service.
Angela Pineiro
Vice President – Program, The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ
Drawing from research into serious spiritual practice, a wide range of spiritual traditions, and the junction of science and spirituality, Craig Hamilton brought an in-depth perspective to the 2006 AUM Conference. He delivered significant and relevant content, communicated well with the audience, and interspersed his comments with appropriate humor. We gave him a standing ovation . . . and hope to see him again!
Lynda Lester
AUM Conference Continuity Team
Former president, Sri Aurobindo Association,
and past editor of Collaboration, the journal of Integral Yoga
Craig Hamilton brought a stimulating and thought provoking presentation to our congregation with his talk on 'The Quest for a Science of Consciousness". Informal follow-up discussions carried over into the coffee hour. In addition to excellence of content, his presentation itself was relaxed and sprinkled with enjoyable humor. He's definitely on our list for future speakers.
Lynn O’Keefe
Co-chair of the Sunday Service Committee
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Los Gatos
I am a member of the worship committee for Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Mission Viejo, CA. Mr. Hamilton spoke at one of our Sunday morning worship services this summer on the topic of "The Quest for a Science of Consciousness." The response was very positive, as he wove together the elements of science and spirituality. His language was intelligent and poetic. We look forward to hearing him again.
Susan Jagielko
worship committee
Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Mission Viejo, CA
Craig's presentation was engaging, informative, and provocative. Unitarian Universalists tend to have high standards regarding their Sunday service, and Craig Hamilton was well received.
Rev. Ann Schranz
Interim Minister
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County