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Free Pari Community Event   The Screen And The Soul: Virtual Reality, Real Reality And How It Is with Christopher Hauke Saturday July 3 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST The Covid pandemic has required us to keep a broader social distance from one another; for psychotherapists this should be less…

STARTING IN 10 DAYS EXPLORING BEYOND BOHM Each year the Pari Center offers its community an in-depth look at various aspects of David Bohm’s work and ideas. This year we are inviting you to Beyond Bohm, a two-part exploration covering the multi-faceted David Bohm and the implications of his legacy for the future. Beyond Bohm: Science, Order…

Bohm felt that science didn’t have to be separate from everyday life, something abstract or having only to do with mechanisms. Rather, he felt that the universe itself was, in a sense, a mirror of our basic structure as human beings and of our relationship to the transcendent. That was the key that was present…

Free Pari Community Call The Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning   with Melanie Rein Wednesday June 16 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST If the number of thriving ancestry websites is anything to go by, there can be little doubt that exploring one’s heritage has become a very popular…

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN “WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?” STARTING THIS SATURDAY What Is Consciousness?   with Richard Baker Roshi, Valerie Hardcastle, Basil Hiley, Bernardo Kastrup, Gary Lachman, Iain McGilchrist, Roderick Main, Paavo Pylkkänen and Beverley Zabriskie   Last chance to join our team of experts and the Pari Center community for “What is Consciousness?” Starting this Saturday – Register…

People engaged in the arts undergo a long training to refine their skills. Most of them engage in their work with a great degree of passion. It is for these reasons that I find that their sensibilities about the consciousness of the entire body are sometimes more developed that the average. This ability to touch…

Join us at Pari Center to Explore the Mystery What Is Consciousness? with Richard Baker Roshi, Valerie Hardcastle, Basil Hiley, Bernardo Kastrup, Gary Lachman, Iain McGilchrist, Roderick Main, Paavo Pylkkänenand Beverley Zabriskie Chaired by Shantena Sabbadini 8 two-hour online sessions, one every Saturday and Sunday June 5 – 27, 2021 9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT |…

Don’t Miss This Sunday Free Community Event   Online Free Pari Community Event Hope And Delusion: Critical Storytelling For Difficult Times with Robert Norris Sunday May 16  9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST Robert Norris will open our May Community Call with the presentation ‘Hope and Delusion: Critical Storytelling for Difficult Times.’ When we realise just how…

Epistemic Justice Reflections on Past, Present and Future From an African Perspective With Dr. Baba Buntu (PhD) May: The Physical Wednesday May 12, 19 and 26 – 1 hour sessions 10:00 am PDT  |  1:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm BST  |  7:00 pm CEST   Rooted in African worldviews, each session will explore aspects…

We invite you to join us for Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow with Gavin Andersson, Rutendo Ngara and Godelieve Spaas and special guests Ela Manga and Keith Mparana 4-part series: Saturday May 8, 15, 22, 29 9:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  |   6:00pm SAS Last Tickets Remaining! We find…

Don’t Miss Upcoming Free Community Events   Flickering Reality Monthly Film Get-Together Join us for the next free session in this series Persona: Masks that Conceal, Masks that Reveal with Kevin Lu Sunday May 2, 2021 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00pm BST, 6:00pm CEST Dr Lu will use three films as the springboard to exploring Jung’s notion of…

In the last analysis the tension between science and religion can be a healthy one, for it encourages a debate in which both sides are invited to question their positions. Yet we should never forget that both have their resting place in the sacred, that womb in which both the child-scientist and the mystic are…

The Great Re-Think With Colin Tudge With special guests Andrew Fellows, Denise Walton, Ian Rappel and Ruby Reed 2 Sessions each Saturday –  April 17 and 24, 2021 10:00 – 12:00  BST and 15:00 – 17:00  BST 11:00 – 13:00 CEST and 16:00 – 18:00 CEST How can we co-create a Grassroots Renaissance? A final…

The Great Re-Think With Colin Tudge With special guests Andrew Fellows, Denise Walton, Ian Rappel and Ruby Reed 2 Sessions each Saturday –  April 17 and 24, 2021 10:00 – 12:00  BST and 15:00 – 17:00  BST 11:00 – 13:00 CEST and 16:00 – 18:00 CEST How can we co-create a Grassroots Renaissance? For more…

Don’t miss our Free Online Pari Dialogue The Practice of the I Ching with Shantena Sabbadini and Cruz Manas Sabbadini Saturday March 27 10:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET   The practice of the I Ching oracle is a form of introspection bridging different dimensions, unconscious and conscious, imaginal and rational, heart and mind.…

Visual art has always been of key importance for human civilizations. Painting and sculpture provide the symbols whereby a society contains and focuses its most powerful psychic forces, forces that involve our relationship to the cosmic and spiritual. Music, poetry and drama merge into ritual, renewal and worship. Together with the visual arts they bind…

Flickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television   Flickering Reality is a free monthly get-together for the Pari Community to explore films, documentaries and TV series that are thought-provoking, philosophical, and take risks. Join us for presentations followed by discussion. All ideas and suggestions for future get-togethers are welcome.   May the Force Be with Us:  The Archetype of the Hieros Gamos…

From their respective disciplines, Bohm and Jung discovered underlying and hidden orders that structure the world around us. In Jung’s case, the archetypes or structuring principles of the collective unconscious can never be touched directly. They appear only through their manifestations in the consciousness and personal unconscious. In Bohm’s care, one infers the implicate through…

Don’t miss our exciting new series Synchronicity, Mind and Matter 8 two-hour online sessions, every Saturday and Sunday February 13 – March 7 at 9:00 PST | 12:00 EST  | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET  All sessions are live, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend.   Do you remember an occasion in your life in which…

Flickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television   Flickering Reality is a free monthly get-together for the Pari Community to explore films, documentaries and TV series that are thought-provoking, philosophical, and take risks. Join us for presentations followed by discussion. All ideas and suggestions for future get-togethers are welcome. Horror and the Role of Terror: The Antithesis of Being Glad to Be…