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How can synchronicities exist in a world that is dominated by causality? At first sight the Newtonian vision of nature determines all events in the universe and therefore leaves no room for meaningful patterns of coincidence. While quantum theory has successfully challenged the exclusive nature of this worldview, the loophole it offers is simply not…

Online Pari Dialogue What Breakthroughs in Science Can We Reasonably Predict? with Olival Freire Jr.  Saturday January 16 at 9:00 PST  | 12:00 EST  |  18:00 CET     What paradigm shifts can we expect in the 21st century? The experts have predicted they will include:  ‘The genetic engineering of children,’ says Prof Lee Silver…

Now we stand on the threshold of a pause. Each one of us is going to look out at the world and into his or her heart. Out of this creative suspension will come a new impulse. Each one of us will be responsible for that impulse, for that which is going to carry us…

Flickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television Exploring Alex Garland’s “Devs” Sunday December 13 at 9:00 PST  |  12:00 EST  |  18:00 CET   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…

Will physics dance again? I suggest that physics has to be more than an intellectual puzzle, more than an objective investigation of the laws of nature. At its deepest, it touches the numinous, that area that had been sensed by both Kepler and Fludd. If it is to fly again, if we are to watch…

What is “I”? with Yuriko Sato Sunday November 8 at 9:00 PST  | 12:00 EST  | 18:00 CET The Jungian analyst, James Hillman, wrote, ‘There is only one core issue for all psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin?’ In other words, ‘What is I?’ When…

We are now part of a community of some 250 people in a village that has been around for at least 800 years. By tradition it was a place of peasant farming, a community in which the land provided everything, and commerce was based on a system of barter. It is a community in which…

Don’t miss our upcoming event! Only 4 days left!   Entering Bohm’s Holoflux with Lee Nichol and special guest Leroy Little Bear   Four Sundays in October – 4, 11, 18, 25 10:00 am PST, 7:00 pm CEST   Each Sunday session will be followed by a one-hour Wednesday discussion group 11:00 am PST, 8:00 pm…

Don’t miss our upcoming events:   Entering Bohm’s Holoflux with Lee Nichol and special guest Leroy Little Bear   Four Sundays in October – 4, 11, 18, 25 10:00 am PST, 7:00 pm CEST Each Sunday session will be followed by a one-hour Wednesday discussion group 11:00 am PST, 8:00 pm CEST      …

For all that has been—Thanks For all that shall be—Yes. Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General 1953-61   Infinite Potential: Exploring the Life and Work of David Bohm Pari Center Online Summer Series Our grand finale of the David Bohm summer series ‘Moving Forward with David Bohm’ took place on September 6 with a panel moderated by…

Pari Online Summer Series Infinite Potential: Exploring the Life and Work of David Bohm   Register Today   Join us for one or all of our two-hour sessions Saturday and Sunday from July 12 – August 23 at 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST   This summer we are offering a unique opportunity to take part in…

I’ve had dreams of all sorts from time to time, but I don’t remember them too well. There was one dream that had a sort of philosophical content. I dreamt I was in a place that had a cat. I came into the room where this cat was talking to another cat, making a date…

Pari Dialogues: The Great Re-Think The Agrarian Renaissance with Colin Tudge Saturday June 6, 2020 at 16:00 (CEST)   You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller Although the world is in a terrible state on every front—Covid-19 is…

The artist, the musical composer, the architect, the scientist all feel a fundamental need to discover and create something new that is whole and total, harmonious and beautiful. Few ever get a chance to try to do this, and even fewer actually manage to do it. Yet, deep down, it is probably what very large…

The world is flux, things pass away, contexts change, people grow and age, organizations flourish or atrophy. To remain healthy means being able to accept change. It means supporting change in others—one’s children, a partner, the profession in which one is engaged. It means facing the fear inside, coming to terms with the shadow. Not…

Pari Dialogues: What Is Reality Really Like? with Shantena Sabbadini Saturday May 9, 2020 at 16:00 – 17:30 Central European Summer Time (GMT+2)   We ordinarily assume that we know what is real. I assume the computer I am typing these words on is a real solid object here in front of me, set on…

What our planet requires are not violent revolutions, or vast government programs imposed from above but a new action that is sensitive and highly intelligent. This action must grow out of our sense of harmony and relationship to nature and each other. It has its source in very gentle but coordinated activity that sweeps inwards…

Past actions have tended to be fragmentary, strong, reactive, and imposed within limited domains which lead to unpredictable results. When applied to sensitive systems they may overwhelm the system’s inherent dynamics; when applied to rigid systems they may have little effect. Gentle action is the intelligent, co-ordinated application of very small effects that apply to…

We are finite creatures. Total knowledge and predictive power will always be beyond us. We have to accept that we can never know the universe fully and totally. We must learn to live with a measure of uncertainty, paradox and ambiguity. We must acknowledge that vital pieces of information may always be missing. That is…