Language Matters

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Pari Center journal Pari Perspectives, Ideas in Science, the Arts, Spirit and Community.

In this issue we explore language, communication and dialogue with a special section on Bohmian dialogue. Fragmentation versus wholeness…that, according to theoretical physicist, David Bohm, was the greatest challenge to today’s human beings. Not the conquering of space or the finding of even more minute units of matter, but our ability to get along together and to think together is the greatest frontier. And surely, unless we ‘think together,’ we are not properly communicating.

Table of Contents

Coronation
CHARLES EISENTEIN

Poetry in the Time of Covid-19
RICHARD HENDRICK and DAVID LORIMER

‘Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City’: Creativity in the Time of Quarantine.

Mathematics and the Language of Nature
F. DAVID PEAT

Three poems
RICHARD BERENGARTEN

David Bohm Dialogue

Develop Your True Thinking Skills by Embracing Giegerich’s Living Thought
ROBERT DOMMETT

Contexting: A Challenging Perspective and the Underexplored Art of Coherent Contexting
SKY HOORNE

Emma Willard’s Maps of Time
SUSAN SCHULTEN

Language Games for an Autistic Age
DAVID DUNCAN

Danilo Dolci and the Transformative Power of Communication
ANTONIO VIGILANTE

Inside the ‘Bubble’: The World of Social Media
JAMES PEAT BARBIERI

Meditations on Representationalism
DAVID POWELL