Date:
Monday, October 25th

6:30 - 7:00 Reception
7:00 - 8:00 Lecture
8:00 - 8:30 Q&A

Admission:
MSF members - free
Non-members - $15
Students - $5

Continuing Education is Available for Psychologists, LPC's and Social Workers.

Program approved for 1.5 hours continuing education credit by the Mind Science Foundation (MSF). Continuing education hours provided by MSF are designed to meet the CE requirements for psychologists, licensed psychological associates, licensed professional counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists in the State of Texas.

Program is approved for 0.15 CEU for social workers by MSF, Sponsor #CS3834, Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.

Internationally-renowned psychoanalyst, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D. will address the importance of the unconscious in mind-body medicine, everyday life, extraordinary knowledge and coincidence. Her work on "Coincidence Theory", with physicist Robert Jahn of Princeton, was featured in the New York Times Magazine's "67 great ideas for 2003".

Dr. Mayer is traveling to San Antonio at the invitation of the Mind Science Foundation to address the intriguing questions raised by occurrences in life that seem to involve more than coincidence. Joseph Dial, MSF Executive Director, comments: "These anomalous occurrences are sometimes referred to as serendipity, synchronicity, or coincidence. Dr. Mayer has taken a scientific approach to how the unconscious influences our daily lives."

Dr. Mayer has spent over a decade investigating the overlap between the physics of intangible dynamics and anomalous occurrences in the physical world. It is believed that over 50% of Americans believe in 'anomalous phenomena'.

Dr. Mayer believes that conventional science has much to gain from investigating these little understood phenomena. She is currently working on a model that will meld the realms of anomalous experience and the world of traditional science so that they may benefit from one another's knowledge.

Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer holds an Associate Clinical Professorship at the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley and the Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco and serves on the editorial boards of several distinguished journals in psychoanalysis, psychology and gender issues. Her research draws on current developments in mind-body medicine and cognitive science.

She is currently working on a book titled, "Extraordinary Ways of Knowing: Making Sense of the Inexplicable in Everyday Life" due out in 2005 by Bantam Books, a division of Random House. She is the recipient of a "Tom Slick Research Award in Consciousness 2004" from the Mind Science Foundation.

Dr. Mayer believes that extraordinary knowledge may be a part of the ordinary process of learning in everyday life. But it is a part of human learning that we have yet to fully understand in a scientific fashion. "If we can bridge this gap of understanding we may be able to inhabit our world with a radically more optimistic outlook for the future," says Mayer.