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SUMMARY:Dualities
DESCRIPTION:Dualities: The Marriage of Opposites\n\n\n\nwith Jena Axelrod\, Mauro Bergonzi\, Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows\, Gary Goldberg\, Basil Hiley\, Ruth Kastner\, Shantena Sabbadini\, Mark Saban and David Schrum \n\n\n\nand 4 Sunday sessions with Mark Vernon onDualities on Spiritual Paths: Oppositions and Contraries in Plato\, Dante\, William Blake and Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nFebruary 5 – 6\, 12 – 13\, 19 – 20\, 26 – 27\, March 5 – 6 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 CET \n\n\n\n10 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 5A Conversation about Duality and Non-duality in East and Westwith Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSunday February 6The Way of Love: Plato and Participation in the Good\, Beautiful and Truewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 12Duo Duels on Non-duality\, the Quantum Potential\, and the Nature of Consciousnesswith Jena Axelrod and Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday February 13The Way Up and the Way Down: Dante and the One Path from Hell to Paradisewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 19Connecting the Actuality of Things in Space-Time to the Reality of Possibility in QuantumLand: Convergences in Quantum Physics\, Brain Science\, Philosophy and Mystical Thoughtwith Gary Goldberg and Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nSunday February 20Contraries and Human Existence: William Blake and Cleansing the Doors of Perceptionswith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 26Beyond Dualistic Mind: Journeying Together on David Bohm’s ‘No Road’with David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday February 27The Master and the Emissary: Dualities in the Philosophy of Iain McGilchristwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday March 5Jung’s Two Personalities: Psychological Implicationswith Mark Saban \n\n\n\nSunday March 6Dualities and Non-Dualitywith Mauro Bergonzi and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us online at the Pari Center to explore the fascinating and seemingly endless topic of dualities where together with experts and scholars we will examine the meaning of dualities in physics\, philosophy\, spirituality\, literature\, psychology and reality. \n\n\n\nThe opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels BohrAs quoted by his son Hans Bohr in ‘My Father\,’ published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work. \n\n\n\nBeauty is the harmony of opposing things.Sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife is full of dualities. Things coexist\, oppose\, contrast and parallel every day. Duality teaches us that every aspect of life is created from a balanced interaction of opposite and competing forces. Yet these forces are not just opposites; they are complementary. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Cambridge Dictionary the word dual means ‘with two parts’ and duality ‘the state of combining two things.’ In philosophy ‘mind-body dualism’ was first formulated by the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes who stated that there exists a clear distinction between physical and mental phenomena.. \n\n\n\nIn many of the theologies and religions of the world we also find the pervasive idea that the forces of good and evil are equally balanced in the universe. Another common idea is that of the dual nature of human beings\, existing in both body and spirit. Christian dualism refers to the belief that God and creation are distinct and also a belief in the dual personality of Christ (human and divine). Traditional Chinese philosophy similarly believes that there is both an active male and passive female principle in the universe\, which is embodied in the symmetric yin-yang. \n\n\n\nIn 1933\, C.G. Jung wrote that duality is a fact of human nature and that we cannot achieve wholeness without integrating the dark or shadow side of the self. According to Jung it is the lack of awareness of our duality and inner contrasts that may lead to uncontrolled outbursts of the shadow\, as in the time of the Nazis. \n\n\n\nSeveral political theories also show evidence of a kind of dualistic thinking. In Marxism\, for example\, we find a dialectical view of the relationship between the theory and empirical practice (praxis) of society and political systems\, the thesis and anti-thesis\, a continual tension between capitalism and socialism\, as well as between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA key notion of quantum mechanics is the complementarity of incompatible observables\, which are both needed to fully describe a quantum system\, but cannot be measured simultaneously. An example is the complementarity of position and momentum of a particle and more generally of ‘particle’ and ‘wave’ behaviour of quantum systems. \n\n\n\nDuality is explored in such fictional writings as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\, Romeo and Juliet\, The Picture of Dorian Grayand even in the contrasting characters of Harry Potter and Voldemort. Films such as Black Swan and Fight Club explore the dualism of human nature. Batman and Joker are the polar opposites of order and chaos\, light and darkness. And it is the two-sided nature of the Force that propels the storyline in Star Wars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the visual arts\, The Kiss\, by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) depicts a nearly indistinguishable man and woman as two figures become one as they emerge from a single block of material. Dutch artist M.C. Escher was fascinated by duality and symmetry. \n\n\n\nIn Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching we read: \n\n\n\nWhen in the world all appreciate beauty as beauty\,then ugliness is already there;when all appreciate good as good\,then bad is already there. \n\n\n\n Therefore being and non-being generate each other\,difficult and easy complete each other\,long and short define each other\,high and low lean towards each other\,voice and music harmonise with each other\,before and after follow each other.
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SUMMARY:The Way of Love: Plato and Participation in the Good\, Beautiful and True
DESCRIPTION:The Way of Love: Plato and Participation in the Good\, Beautiful and True \n\n\n\nwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSunday February 6\, 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThough Plato is often accused of dualism\, the word itself didn’t exist in his time\, which points to a subtler and crucial reassessment of what the Ancient Greek philosopher was driving at. He recognised that the body and death are sites of experience within which we can know of their seeming opposites\, namely life itself. This realisation is gained by fostering the capacity to love. We will also consider how early Platonic thought developed with Neoplatonic and theistic perceptions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Dualities Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
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