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SUMMARY:Bringing Meaning Back to Life
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience\, Arts\, and the Sacred Series \n\n\n\n\nBringing Meaning Back to Life \n\n\n\nPari\, ItalySeptember 2-9\, 2025 \n\n\n\n25 years at the Pari Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience has largely displaced religious accounts of our existence. But it can make both life and death seem virtually meaningless. Religion does not\, suggesting there is a necessary opposition between them. We will move beyond that to look at how spiritual traditions\, the sciences and the arts provide complementary ways of celebrating life and accepting death as parts of living authentically. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nBernard Carr\, Ya’Acov Darling-Khan\, Jeff Dunne\, Suzanne Gieser\, Parul Jani\, Shoaib Malik\, Therese Schroeder-Sheker (virtually)\, Nick Spencer.List of the presentations. \n\n\n\nChaired and curated by: John Pickering \n\n\n\nTicket Prices\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nPrices include: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\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 are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe event starts on Tuesday September 2 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Tuesday September 9. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nIf the time it took for life to evolve on earth were a day\, human beings wouldn’t appear until fifty seconds before midnight. Evolutionarily speaking we’re instantaneous. \n\n\n\nBut in that instant science has achieved a deep understanding of the world and the technology it has made possible has greatly enhanced our lives. So much so that in last few centuries science has replaced religion as the framework for our existence. \n\n\n\nBut that understanding comes with costs. One is the ecological damage that is the darker side-effect of technology. Another\, less apparent but just as damaging\, is that with the loss of a religious framework\, life\, and therefore death as well\, may have come to seem virtually meaningless. \n\n\n\nC.G. Jung said: ‘Man cannot stand a meaningless life.’ Iain McGilchrist seems to agree: ‘Death is not the opposite of life but its fulfilment. The opposite of life is the machine.’ Like David Bohm and David Peat\, McGilchrist rejects the idea that science requires us to conceive of the cosmos\, and ourselves\, as nothing but mechanisms. \n\n\n\nBut science is in any case changing\, as it always has. Classical mechanistic materialism has been left behind\, but quite what is to replace it is unclear. Religion is perhaps less apt to change\, but Whitehead said ‘Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.’ \n\n\n\nWe are moving on from the idea that there’s a necessary opposition between science and religion. This year’s meeting in Pari will be part of that move. It will look at how spiritual traditions\, the sciences and the arts offer ways to celebrate life and accept death as complementary parts of living authentically. \n\n\n\nIt will bring together speakers from the sciences\, arts\, faiths and healing traditions to create an open dialogue and supportive experience in which all can participate. We’ll explore the leading edge of quantum physics\, examine the relationship of science to Christianity\, Islam and Vedanta. We’ll also hear speakers on how Shamanism\, music and ritual have and continue to have a role in facing the end of our lives. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a great range of disciplines\, approaches\, and sensibilities to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and origin of human experience\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such wonderful mysteries hidden in plain sight into a coherent evolutionary understanding. You are cordially invited to join us. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nThe Soul of the Cosmos and the Hierarchy of Life and Deathwith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nBenevolent Death: A Teacher for the Livingwith Ya’Acov Darling-Khan \n\n\n\nSyntropy:  A Scientific Expression of Purpose in Life and Beyond Deathwith Jeffrey Dunne \n\n\n\nHealing the Split: How Can Science and Spirituality Join Forces?with Suzanne Gieser \n\n\n\nBeyond: Beyond the Limits of the Mindwith Parul Jani \n\n\n\nDaring to Believe and Question: Theological Anthropology in an Age of Sciencewith Shoaib Ahmed Malik \n\n\n\nScience\, Religion and Human Identitywith Nick Spencer \n\n\n\nDying and Becoming as Meaning and Metamorphosiswith Therese Schroeder-Sheker \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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