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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:Connecting the Actuality of Things in Space-Time to the Reality of Possibility in QuantumLand
DESCRIPTION:Connecting the Actuality of Things in Space-Time to the Reality of Possibility in QuantumLand \n\n\n\nConvergences in Quantum Physics\, Brain Science\, Philosophy and Mystical Thought \n\n\n\nwith Ruth E. Kastner and Gary Goldberg \n\n\n\nSaturday February 19\, 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\nIn their joint presentation\, Ruth and Gary will examine convergent trends across multiple disciplines indicating a fundamental paradigm shift is necessary and underway.  The dominant Nominalistic perspective focuses only on phenomena that are detectable through empirical observation of discrete ‘things’ and ‘events’ situated in space-time\, and sees reality as exclusively constituted as such\, maintaining that potentiality is not real.  There is a fundamental ‘threat’ inherent in such a worldview. What is ignored—to our peril—is the underlying matrix of relational reality\, an ‘Implicate Order’ that sculpts out the possibilities that are offered for actualization out of a primordial flowing continuum\, a hidden potent realm of streaming quantum process that we will call ‘QuantumLand’ for reasons that will be explained. \n\n\n\nAs Hans Reichenbach insightfully remarked\, ‘the flow of time is a real becoming in which potentiality is transformed into actuality.’   Through time-dependent process\, the possibilities generated in the hidden relational quantum realm presage the physical actuality of our manifest phenomenal world.  Billions of years of biological evolution have conferred an ‘Actuality Instrument Panel’—ie. our physical senses\, that allow us to function—to ‘fly on instruments’\, so to speak\, through this veiled reality—as  embodied\, but fundamentally relational creatures.   \n\n\n\nA further assumption of the Western modern worldview is the notion that all action occurs via ‘billiard-ball’ mechanism\,  with isolated entities (ie. lone ‘monads’ without communicative capacity) traveling unilaterally through space-time\, thus precluding the possibility of any real\, two-way communication—ie. ‘trans-action’—between constituents.  According to this ‘modern’ perspective\, there is no mediating factor in between entities and the only logic applicable is classical and binary.  The Laws of Non-contradiction and Excluded Middle are in full force\, dictating intolerance for uncertainty.  Charles Sanders Peirce\, over 100 years ago warned of the dire deficiencies of this rigid perspective which he called ‘Necessitarianism‘\, with its championing of ‘hard determinism’\, and the denial of so-called ‘generals\,’  ‘potentiality’ and ‘free will.’   Necessitarianism is a ‘Yang-only’ understanding limited to the proliferative processes of generation\, initiation\, and creation.  Precluded are Yin-type selective processes: reception\, response\, growth and dissolution.   Yang involves an exclusive focus on ‘things’\, ‘relata’ that then come into ordering relationship.  Yin involves the ordering relations themselves. \n\n\n\nModern Western science continues to be dominated by ‘Yang-only’ prioritizing of relata over relations\, placing ‘things’ over the ‘connections’—the importance of which is minimized in the Yang mindset as being ‘mind-dependent’ and thus NOT real.   One important consequence is that an approach to field propagation that could shed new light on the physical meaning of quantum theory has been\, for many years\, overlooked.  What exactly is quantum theory trying to tell us about where we ‘moderns’ have gone wrong in our understanding of how the cosmos operates?   A viable alternative understanding places Yang and Yin processes into a configuration ofbalanced mutual complementarity rather than conflictual opposing polarities\, best understood by recognizing negotiated ‘transaction’\, of communicative interaction and informational exchange via relation\, as real and of fundamental significance.   Drawing on emerging concepts in brain science (the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres in accordance with the divided brain theory of Iain McGilchrist)\, in philosophy (the turn toward ‘panpsychism’—implying that everything is conscious) and in mystical thought (the referenced yinyang concept of Chinese origin\, Kabbalistic principles\, beliefs of indigenous cultures\, etc)\, we develop the hypothesis implying that: \n\n\n\n\nEverything is conscious and has ‘free will’ to some extent (consistent with the Born Rule and ‘nomic grounding’)\,\n\n\n\nConsciousness is linked to agency\n\n\n\nAgency is linked to transaction understood as bidirectionally negotiated communicative interaction in which there is an actualenergetic exchange consistent with the principle of mass-energy-information equivalence ( see https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794 ) between an ‘emitter’ and an ‘absorber’\, with the Possibilist/Relativistic version of the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Physics implying that the available phenomenal level of our actual experience rests upon a vast oceanic continuum of possibility out of which the creative\, the unanticipated\, and the whole of physical actuality arises through a process occurring in QuantumLand involving an exchange of ‘active information’ via a hidden interaction involving an ‘offer wave’ from an ‘emitter’ entity traveling forward in time connecting with a ‘confirmation wave’ from an ‘absorber’ entity traveling backward in time to the originating ‘emitter.’\n\n\n\n\nThis\, we believe\, is the ultimate message that quantum theory is attempting to drive home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Dualities Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth E. Kastner earned her M.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Maryland. Since that time\, she has taught widely and conducted research in Foundations of Physics\, particularly in interpretations of quantum theory. She is the author of 3 books: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Reality of Possibility (Cambridge University Press\, 2012; 2nd edition forthcoming in Fall 2021)\, Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (Imperial College Press\, 2015); and Adventures In Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality (World Scientific\, 2019).  She has presented talks and interviews throughout the world and in video recordings on the interpretational challenges of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary Goldberg obtained a B.A.Sc. (bachelor of applied science) in electrical engineering science at the University of Toronto and his M.D. at McMaster University.  He completed specialty training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and subsequently sub-specialized in Brain Injury Medicine.  He has worked and taught at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Toronto\, Pittsburgh and Richmond\, Virginia during the course of a nearly 40-year career in brain injury rehabilitation. He retired from active clinical participation in September\, 2020 to turn to other personal activities.  He has sustained an abiding interest in how neuroscience\, physical science\, as well as interpersonal experience and systems of belief examined through a semiotic relational lens have informed his work as well as his understanding of the human condition.  He currently serves as a Scientific Advisor to the Pari Center for New Learning.
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