Events

There is a long tradition in thought and mysticism which holds that the world is, somehow, ONE. Here I survey the large variety of monisms to try to understand what the monistic claim really is. Following tradition and thinkers up to and including David Bohm, one supreme form of monism keeps reappearing, which I call ‘strict monism’. Strict monism makes the highly paradoxical claim that all differentiation, diversity, categorization and conceptualization is fundamentally misrepresenting
reality. Despite the intuitive implausibility of this position, a number of arguments point in its direction, although – as befits the nature of strict monism – arguments themselves are part of the misrepresentation.

Science 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.

Mind, Matter and Meaning: A Jubileum October 2-6, 2025Pari, Italy Event Schedule Thursday, October 2 16:00-16:30 Welcome/Introductions 16:30-19:00 Symposium 1 Friday, October 3 09:30-13:00  Symposium 2 15:00-18:00     Symposium 3 Saturday, October 4 09:30-13:00     Symposium 4 Sunday, October 5 09:30-13:00     Symposium 5 15:00-18:00     Symposium 6 Monday, October 6 09:30-13:00     Symposium 7 […]

An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics Presented by Jonathan Allday A semi-serious approach to one of the most important fundamental theories in physics 10 sessions from October 28 – November 18 7 one-hour lectures and 3 sessions of group conversation and Q&A  9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET All sessions are live and all participants will […]

Six Jungian analysts and academics at the cutting edge of this exciting and crucial area of research and practice share their diverse modes of professional engagement.

This is the second set of talks in a new ‘Beyond Jung’ series hosted by the Pari Center, honouring the seminal work and inspiration of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. Our title, ‘Jung and Ecology’, refers to the contribution of Jung’s prescient insights, and of his Analytical Psychology in general, to the emerging discipline of ecopsychology. This can be summed up in his famous and alarming assertion that “The world hangs by a thin thread… and that thread is the psyche of man.” Despite his old-fashioned language, four of our six presenters are women!

In this presentation I will look at how hard it is to comprehend the problem of climate change due to our natural, human problem with perceiving time. We can’t know those three generations behind or in front – so we can’t take in the effect our actions have on future generations. This links to the fractal nature of time, and to how hard it is to submerge our own sense of self into the complex emergent system which is the collective unconscious.

International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present: Experiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art with Jeff Dunne Sunday January 4, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET This event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording. The inaugural session of the Experiencing Consciousness event series is […]

International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present: Experiencing Consciousness: Remote Viewing with David Harker Sunday February 15, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET This event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording. In this session you will do remote viewing. You might have read […]

In this series of conversations and workshops with Prof Carr, we will explore the bounds of current physics from M-theory in the microscopic domain to the multiverse on the macroscopic domain, probe the nature of space and time, push into the esoteric worlds of cosmology and black holes, and ask whether some  final theory which amalgamates relativity and quantum mechanics can accommodate consciousness and associated anomalous phenomena.  We speculate that physics will need to take a broader view of reality if it is ever going to complete its mission.

The exploration of consciousness, as a direct goal or as reflected in our desire to understand the natural universe, is central to every cultural throughout history. In this event we consider how this quest has been pursued through both modern western intellectualism and the older indigenous paths of experiential knowing, and ultimately ask whether such approaches can be complementary.