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SUMMARY:What Is Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Click here to watch the recordings \n\n\n\n\n\nwith Richard Baker Roshi\, Valerie Hardcastle\, Basil Hiley\, Bernardo Kastrup\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkänen and Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n8 two-hour online sessions\, one every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nJune 5 – 27\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nConsciousness is the primary and most immediate experience we all have. Before knowing our name or who we are\, before being able to recognize any specific experience we are undergoing\, the immediate realization that “I am” is always there. \n\n\n\nYet this fundamental first person experience sits uneasily within the context of our scientific third person description of the world. No doubt consciousness has somehow to do with the brain\, since physical or chemical changes in the brain affect the contents of consciousness. But the contents of consciousness\, e.g. the experience of the color red\, are qualitatively different from and irreducible to patterns of excitation in the brain. This irreducible difference has been dubbed “the hard problem of consciousness.” \n\n\n\nWhat has been dubbed ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ is much deeper than mere neurophysiology. It involves the sense we have of ourselves and our destiny\, the issue of life after death and the distinction between animate and inanimate. What are the boundaries (if any) of consciousness? Is consciousness everywhere (as mystical traditions teach) or nowhere (as materialists claim)? \n\n\n\nEach session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue\, discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nAnalytic Idealism with Bernardo KastrupSaturday June 5 \n\n\n\nCan Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?with Basil Hiley and Paavo PylkkänenSunday June 6 \n\n\n\nMundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung’s Late Thoughts About Consciousness\, Ego\, and Selfwith Roderick MainSaturday June 12 \n\n\n\nEmotion\, Synchronicity and Surprisewith Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 13 \n\n\n\nBeyond the Robot: Consciousness and Existentialismwith Gary LachmanSaturday June 19 \n\n\n\nWhat Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness?with Valerie Gray HardcastleSunday June 20 \n\n\n\nThe Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousnesswith Richard Baker RoshiSaturday June 26 \n\n\n\nClosing Panel: What is Consciousnesswith Valerie Hardcastle\, Gary Lachman\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 27
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SUMMARY:The Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1Gv_2NN70\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Richard Baker Roshi \n\n\n\nSaturday June 269:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nTo practice Zen means to observe the fact and process of knowing. Consciousness is the most visible face of our mutualized knowing\, a knowing through others and within the proximal spectrum of phenomenality. To closely and dispassionately observe the activity and functioning of consciousness\, it is necessary\, additionally\, to actualize a transformational ‘awareness-observing-consciousness.’ This is a shift in kind: a shift from a self- referencing\, comparative consciousness to a non-self- referencing\, non-comparative awareness. This ‘non-self-referencing\, non-comparative awareness\,’ allows us to attentionally notice and study\, to deconstruct and reconstruct\, the perceptual and organizational processes of consciousness. This process of deconstructing and reconstructing consciousness is called the Teaching of the Five Skandhas. The five attentional categories for the analysis of consciousness are: ‘Form\,’ ‘Non-Graspable-Feelings\,’ ‘Perception\,’ ‘Associative Consciousness\,’ and ‘Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZentatsu Richard Baker is the Founder and Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha Centers in the United States and Europe. In the United States he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany\, at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald in the Black Forest. He has been teaching Zen-Buddhism for 45 years.  \n\n\n\nBaker Roshi is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of the book Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind).  In 1966\, with and for Suzuki Roshi\, he co-founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California. \n\n\n\nBaker Roshi subsequently founded the Green Gulch Zen Practice Community and Farm in Marin County\, California in 1972. During the ’70s\, he pioneered a number of businesses related to Zen practice. In 1983\, he founded the Dharma Sangha. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
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