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SUMMARY:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Shared Experience
DESCRIPTION:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Shared Experience \n\n\n\nDates: June 13 – 20\, 2024 \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 950.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee served with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Thursday June 13 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Thursday June 20 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nJoin us for a week of living moment by moment\, in Pari\, Italy surrounded by the peaceful hills of the Tuscan landscape. With its beautiful palazzo\, rustic bar\, and numerous quiet places\, the medieval village of Pari acts as an alchemical vessel for transformations to take place. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week you will have ample opportunities to connect with Nature\, others\, and—perhaps most importantly—yourself. Experience the power of dialogue and active listening in an atmosphere that cultivates intimacy in everyday interactions. \n\n\n\nEmbracing the present and choosing to act more gently\, allows insights and interconnections to emerge and bubble up in a natural and playful manner. Such moments are often accompanied by experiences of openness\, trust\, joy\, and a childlike sense of wonder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Story\n\n\n\nSeveral years ago\, a small group of us were sitting outside the bar in Pari\, Italy when the idea came up to bring a group of very open-minded people together for a gathering without any agenda\, topic\, intention\, or specific purpose.  \n\n\n\nAfter leaving Pari\, we continued to meet monthly through an online Zoom dialogue\, where our small group of three individuals gradually grew in a most organic manner. More than a year of online meetings led to our first Gentle Action Gathering back at Pari in September of 2022.  \n\n\n\nOur original group of Jena\, Manfred\, and Tom\, who hail from New York\, Germany\, and Ireland has gradually grown into a thriving community. Members of our online community have traveled from throughout the world to meet one another in person. Similarly\, new participants who meet during our in-person Gentle Action Gatherings\, frequently wish to stay in touch through our online dialogues.  \n\n\n\nOver the course of time we have come to discover that we have much to share with one another. Somewhat paradoxically\, many of us believe that this is due to—rather than despite—our differing backgrounds. Throughout our interactions\, we have also found that we have much in common. Perhaps most importantly\, we all share a genuine interest in one another’s perspectives on the world\, quite reminiscent of Rumi’s quote:  \n\n\n\nOut beyond the ideas of right and wrong\, there is a field. I will meet you there. \n\n\n\nThis June we have chosen to meet once again in Pari\, Italy. The medieval village of Pari\, nestled in the Tuscan landscape\, provides the perfect backdrop for new insights and explorations. During our Gentle Action Gatherings\, participants are largely free to roam around as they please. They can meet in the newly renovated palazzo\, take part in a yoga class\, explore the area’s hot springs\, or just sit down to have an espresso at the charming and peaceful square. Many find that leaving their daily routine behind and setting aside the expectations of the outer world allows them to reconnect with their innermost nature.  \n\n\n\nTaking the time to communicate and interact in the moment\, for the moment\, provides a unique opportunity to engage with the world in a much more playful manner—deepening participants relationships with themselves\, others\, and the world around them.  \n\n\n\nMany participants notice that an almost childlike curiosity tends to emerge\, unforced and unbidden\, ‘beyond the ideas of right and wrong’ allowing them to experience the innate beauty of the present moment.  \n\n\n\nMore than anything\, our gatherings have given us a deep sense of connection and friendships that endure beyond the limits of time and space.  \n\n\n\nThis June we get to come home again. It would be wonderful if you could join us. \n\n\n\nJena\, Lisa\, Manfred\, Michael\, Todd\, and Tom  \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about this Event (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions for this course (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:The Future Mind – A Conversation with Patrick Harpur
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Patrick Harpur and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday\, June 199:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Harpur grew up in Surrey\, attended Cranleigh School and travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge\, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research which he would eventually use in his books\, and wrote poetry\, stories and plays by way of practice\, while supporting himself with part-time jobs\, such as teaching\, market research\, gardening\, computer personnel etc. For five years he worked in London as a researcher and then as an editor for a book-packaging company. His first book was a ‘theological thriller’ entitled The Serpent’s Circle (UK Macmillan\, 1985; Coronet\, 1986\, and US St Martin’s Press\, 1985; Warner\, 1986). His second was a novel about an autistic child\, The Rapture (Macmillan\, 1986; Coronet\, 1986). Mercurius; or\, the Marriage of Heaven and Earth\, a partly fictional account of the Great Work of alchemy\, was published by Macmillan in 1990 and re-issued by The Squeeze Press in 2008. His first attempt at complete non-fiction was Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (UK Viking\, 1995; Penguin\, 1996 and US Penguin\, 1995\, 1996; re-issued by Pine Winds Press\, Idyll Arbor\, 2003) which attempted to make sense of visions and apparitions by recourse to Platonic philosophy\, Jungian psychology\, and the Romantic notion of imagination. The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination (UK Penguin\, 2002 and US Ivan R. Dee\, 2003; re-issued by The Squeeze Press\, 2009) outlined an esoteric Western way of seeing the world which has been largely neglected. In 2010\, Rider published the rather ambitiously titled A Complete Guide to the Soul which appeared a year later in the US as The Secret Tradition of the Soul (Evolver Editions\, an imprint of North Atlantic Books). The Savoy Truffle (Skylight Press\, 2013) is a highly autobiographical\, blackish comedy set in the Home Counties of the 1960s.  The Good People (Strange Attractor Press\, 2017) is a modern fairytale and a sort of fictional companion-volume to Daimonic Reality. The Stormy Petrel (The Squeeze Press\, 2017) is a novel based on the life and work of the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard whose writings have gripped Patrick for years. His four non-fiction books have been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Atalanta. At the same time as he was writing these\, Patrick was commissioned by BBC television to write an adaptation of The Rapture; plus\, he has written pieces for such publications as The Guardian\, Fortean Times\, Gnosis\, Resurgence\, the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday. He’s often invited to give talks in the UK\, in Spain and in America; he’s taught post-graduate students at Schumacher College (Dartington). Patrick lives in West Dorset. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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