Upcoming Events

Pari Center Online Summer Series 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 an exploration of Bohm’s life and ideas. Join us online for a series of presentations by former colleagues of David Bohm and scholars of his work. Each session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue, discussion and…

with Paul Howard  July 12 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  Having just completed a film on David Bohm’s life, his incredible work in physics, philosophy and the nature of consciousness, the question that Paul asked himself was, how come I never before heard about this extraordinary man and his work? He was the man Einstein called his ‘spiritual son’ and the Dalai Lama his ‘science guru,’ so why is it that the world hardly knows his name? Paul…

with Olival Freire Jr.  July 18 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  When David Bohm arrived in California in the early 1940s for graduate studies he had already consolidated two intellectual trends which would characterize his whole life. He knew what kind of physics he enjoyed working on; while he was attracted to theoretical physics and had exhibited skills in mathematics, he had no patience for the solving problem style of physics he had found at Caltech. Instead…

with Chris Dewdney  July 19 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  Chris Dewdney will review a selection of the animations that he originated during the period from 1979, when the Two-Slit calculations were first published, up to the more recent field-matter interaction examples. The animations will be shown (many in the updated form seen in the documentary Infinite Potential) during his talk and he will explain in a non-technical way, how they were produced and exactly what they…

with Basil Hiley  July 25 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  Experimental evidence clearly shows classical physics is wrong.  Sure, it works at the classical level, but there is some deeper order necessary to understand the new physics. Nevertheless this deeper process must approximate to the macroscopic world we experience.  David Bohm suggested that the algebraic quantum formalism should be understood in terms of the implicate order. For him this was the order that we directly perceive and from…

with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini  July 26 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  Bohm's notion of implicate order resonates with the Eastern notion of Dao. Dao is the invisible current that brings the 'ten thousand things' to manifestation, but it is also described as the attractor that calls them back to return to their root, to no-thingness, to the unmanifest. And ultimately these two states, the manifest, the explicate, that which can be named, and the unmanifest, the implicate,…

with Glenn Parry  August 2 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  The main reason we are divided in politics is not only polarization between parties, or fragmentation within the parties, but because of how we think. We tend to think in partial fragments, not in contextual wholes. David Bohm was keenly aware of this. Bohm was also aware that this lack of coherency was not necessarily the case in Indigenous cultures that have a history of shared meaning…