The Science of Wholeness

Perspectives from Physics, Ecology, Psychology, and Philosophy

with Jonathan Allday, John Briggs, Chamkaur Ghag, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Roger Nelson, Malcolm Rushton and Robert Toth

Curated by Jonathan Allday

Pari Center Online Series

November 4 – 19, 2023
9:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET

6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday

All sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING.

Across the broad span of wisdom traditions, one encounter is of key significance: some direct access or contact with the ground of being.

Even in this secular age, dominated as we are by the materialistic, reductionist paradigm of western science, these transcendent experiences still occur, even amongst members of the scientific community.

While this experience is always inexpressible in detail, it commonly involves an overwhelming feeling of wholeness, a blurring of the line between subject and object, a melting away of divisions and an immersion in a state of participatory  consciousness.

If the underlying ground of reality is an inexpressible whole, beyond aspects and distinctions, we might expect some echo of this to emerge in our scientific investigations. David Bohm certainly had this intuition, which coloured his approach to quantum theory especially and science and philosophy more generally.

In this series of workshops, we will investigate the extent to which modern science has encountered aspects of wholeness, non-local consciousness and the subject-object distinction. We will also consider what a post-reductionist science might look like, drawing on the experiences of indigenous cultures.

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Program of Event

Saturday November 4
Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?
with Jonathan Allday

Sunday November 5
Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data
with Roger Nelson

Saturday November 11
Rebirth Experiences in Jungian Analysis
with Malcolm Rushton

Sunday November 12
Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)
with Àlex Gómez-Marin

Saturday November 18
Holocentric Indigenous Consciousness
with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Robert Toth and John Briggs

Sunday November 19
Universe as Process
with Chamkaur Ghag