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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePJVhhOELA\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind \n\n\n\nwith Jon Goodbun \n\n\n\nWednesday March 2310:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nJon Goodbun’s research focuses on ‘ecological thinking’—both in terms of how we think about ecological systems\, and how ecological systems themselves think—drawing in particular on his extensive study of the work of the ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson. In this talk Goodbun will introduce some of the history and thinking of this important theorist\, drawing in particular upon some of the ideas contained within his first collection of essays: Steps to an Ecology of Mind\, as well as his later synthesis: Mind and Nature—A Necessary Unity\, and his final incomplete text\, published after his death by daughter Mary Catherine Bateson\, called Angels Fear—Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred\, and will situate these ideas in relation to more recent research\, and the wider research interests of the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday March 23\, Dr. Goodbun will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jon Goodbun is mostly based in Athens\, Greece where he runs Rheomode\, a small experimental studio working and writing at the intersection of art\, architecture\, and ecological pedagogy\, although he also contributes to the MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London and the architecture and landscape programmes at University College London. His 2011 PhD\, ‘Critical Urban Ecologies: The Architecture of the Extended Mind\,’ drew together thinking on ecological and complex systems theory\, together with cognitive science and consciousness studies\, in relation to aesthetic theory\, spatial perception and ecological empathy\, and he is currently working on a book called The Ecological Calculus\, which builds on this work. He spent some time at the Pari Center in 2010\, interviewing David Peat about his own work\, and the work of his collaborator David Bohm (from whose work Goodbun borrowed the name ‘rheomode’ for his blog and studio!).
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist – A Conversation with Michel Bitbol
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N48vkz4qrgw\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Michel Bitbol and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday March 309:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nUntil the advent of quantum mechanics\, physical sciences had thrived on the separation between object and subject that seems to provide “a view from nowhere”. At the same time\, current life and mind sciences still struggle with experiments and theories in which the primacy of felt experience does not seem to matter. In this third conversation of the series we will draw from the phenomenological tradition to explore the feasibility of a new kind of science in which human consciousness is placed at the center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichel Bitbol is emeritus researcher at CNRS/École Normale Supérieure\, Paris\, France. He received a M.D.\, a Ph.D. in physics and a “Habilitation” in philosophy. After a start in scientific research\, he turned to philosophy of science\, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a philosophy of quantum mechanics based on phenomenological and neo-kantian conceptions. He then studied the relations between physics and the philosophy of mind\, as well as a first-person conception of consciousness arising from an experience of the phenomenological Epoché. More recently\, he engaged a debate with the philosophical movement called “speculative realism”\, from the same standpoint. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex 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 in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is 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 high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:Music and Numbers\, Part II
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG0La1b-QuQ\n\n\n\n\n\na webinar produced\, presented\, and performed by \n\n\n\nDr Donna Coleman \n\n\n\nStreaming from Studio OutBach® Santa Fe\, situated in the heart of the deep Indigenous history of Native New Mexico\, from ancient Paleoindians to Keres- and Tanoan-speaking peoples who were raided by the Comanches. \n\n\n\nWednesday April 6 \n\n\n\n9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CESTThursday April 7 at 2:00am AEST (Australia) \n\n\n\n“What is above is as what is below.”The Book of Thoth \n\n\n\nThis session will continue the journey we began in Music and Numbers\, Part I. Having embarked upon the landscape comprised of dissonant intervals and avoidance of tonality\, we will explore the music of composers working with the so-called Twelve-Tone System: Riccardo Malipiero\, Anton Webern\, and Luigi Dallapiccola\, for whom numbers provided the pathway to their idiosyncratic musical languages. We will begin by considering the way interval relationships in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sinfonia in F minor create what we know as consonance and compare it to Riccardo Malipiero’s (1914 Milan – 2003 Milan) Invenzione #7\, a dissonant work that is modelled upon it. Dr Coleman will demonstrate the way Webern created 144 possible versions of his twelve-tone row using the Magic Square. \n\n\n\nRepertory to be explored on this leg of the Quintessence of Music journey: \n\n\n\nJohann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in F minor\, BWV 795 (1723)Riccardo Malipiero: Invenzioni\, No. 7 (1949)Anton Webern: Variationen für Klavier\, opus 27 (1936)Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952) \n\n\n\nThe discussion will also dwell upon traditional number attributes\, delving back to the Sephiroth of the ancient Qabalah\, the significance of the ten numbers assigned to the branches of the Tree of Life\, its seven planes\, twenty-two intersections\, and the hermetic adaptation of these into the Tarot. As always\, we will look for the meaning behind all of these inter-related manifestations of the Ethereal Universe. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 6\, Donna will open our monthly monthly musical and philosophical journey  with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83082713624 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested Reading\n\n\n\n\nCrowley\, Alistair. The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians\, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V. Newburyport MA: Samuel Weiser\, Inc.\, 1974. https://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/egyptosophy/fragments-book-thoth\n\n\n\n———. Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck. http://www.thule-italia.net/esoterismo/Aleister%20Crowley/Crowley%20Thoth%20Tarot%20Deck.pdf\n\n\n\nMorris\, Robert. Mathematics and the Twelve-Tone System. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/229011/mod_resource/content/1/Mathematics%20and%20the%20Twelve-Tone%20System%20(Morris%202007).pdf\n\n\n\nPapus. The Tarot of the Bohemians. https://www.labirintoermetico.com/02tarocchi/papus_the_tarot_of_the_bohemians.pdf\n\n\n\nTufts University Faculty (unnamed). Twelve-Tone Technique: A Primer. https://sites.tufts.edu/markdevoto/files/2015/10/12TonePrimer.pdf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Coleman is a multi-award-winning concert pianist\, recording artist\, author\, performance researcher and philosopher\, and master teacher whose career spans a half-century\, of which more than half has been based in Australia. She is also an accomplished weaver and photographer and an amateur but passionate astronomer and archaeologist with a keen interest in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the United States. As Head of Keyboard and of Postgraduate Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne\, she convened weekly thought-provoking seminars that explored relationships between music and other disciplines. Donna is writing a book entitled Dancing with the Piano\, a collection of essays distilled from these sessions and from her many years of phenomenological engagement with her ultimate dance partner\, the piano.
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SUMMARY:Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNDpL1S2fLY\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual \n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans in conversation with Julie Arts \n\n\n\nWednesday April 13 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nDonna’s latest book Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides the roadmap builders and rebuilders—of society and of enterprise—with the tools to rethink\, redesign and revitalize their organizations and to remain relevant and sustainable in a new and very different future. Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kinds—businesses\, governments\, non-profits\, community initiatives and social institutions. We’ve reached a turning point and it’s time to evolve\, or we go the way of the dinosaurs. We all need to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate change)\, how can leaders find a new way forward? How can enterprises re-invent themselves to make capitalism work better for more people? These are some of the compelling and timely issues that Donna and Julie will tackle in their conversation. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 13\, Donna and Julie will be in conversation followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85176061107 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser\, adding value throughout her career to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors: as an energy insider rooted in Alberta’s oil patch; founding a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen; serving as an elected politician and cabinet minister; holding leading roles on boards of directors; and helping to steward the family farm enterprise. She is a political commentator\, community builder\, writer and speaker\, weighing in on energy\, leadership\, governance\, community and integrity issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. \n\n\n\nJulie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy.
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SUMMARY:Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love with Vincent Colapietro€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love \n\n\n\nwith Vincent Colapietro \n\n\n\nSaturday May 7\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA. N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro will seize this occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic\, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and\, for a time\, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘ immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time\, above all\, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists (including Einstein) and the conception of time implicit in the activity of physicists themselves. Are physicists in time in the same sense that they so often conceive time (specifically\, time as a reversible process or even an illusory phenomenon)? That is\, is the dominant understanding of time among theoretical physicists compatible with what physicists do as agents? Colapietro will argue that agential time is an irreducible phenomenon and any attempt to explain it away (or to render it illusory) is mistaken. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is presently at the Center for the Humanities (University of Rhode Island). One of his main areas of research is pragmatism\, with emphasis on Peirce. Though devoted to developing a semiotic perspective rooted in Peirce’s seminal work\, Colapietro draws upon a number of other authors and perspectives (including Bakhtin\, Jakobson\, and Bourdieu as well as such movements as phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, and deconstruction).  He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989)\, A Glossary of Semiotics (1993)\, Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003)\, and Acción\, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020) as well as numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics\, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction\, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. He has served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society\, the Metaphysical Society of America\, and the Semiotic Society of America.
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SUMMARY:Re-Visioning Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Dates: June 5 – 12\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Harald Atmanspacher\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, John Pickering\, William Seager\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Angelita Valencia Borbon and Beverley Zabriskie. Guests Federico Faggin and Roberto Miller \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event:\n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by recognizing the primacy of consciousness\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. How do we understand matter\, time and space\, individual consciousness\, birth and death\, free will? Are all things alive and conscious in some sense? \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center and let us explore together the tip of the iceberg of these challenges\, perhaps the closest that philosophical enquiry comes to our existential questions and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted and honoured to announce that Federico Faggin\, inventor of the microprocessor and delver into the science of consciousness\, will be with us in Pari for this event. We will also be hosting Roberto Miller the filmmaker of the documentary The Four Lives of Federico Faggin.  Following a screening of the film\, there will be a panel discussion with Federico and other presenters and then an open discussion and Q&A with all participants of ‘Re-visioning Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Sunday June 5 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Sunday June 12 after lunch. \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\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.Schrödinger \n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by abandoning the tacit premises of materialism and physicalism\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. \n\n\n\nIs consciousness indeed\, as Schrödinger suggests above\, the primal experience\, the elementary primary fact all our philosophy and all our science are built upon? \n\n\n\nDoes consciousness arise in the world\, according to the physicalist view (e.g.\, when a sufficiently complex nervous system evolves)\, or does the world arise in consciousness? And\, if the latter is the case\, how does that happen? If the world is a dream arising in consciousness\, why does it arise? And why is the dream structured as it is\, why is it a cosmos\, not a chaos? \n\n\n\nMatter and spacetime appear to have their own order\, their own laws that govern our experience. Are those laws intrinsic to consciousness? Are they in turn a creation of consciousness? \n\n\n\nAnother possible approach is that of pantheism. In this perspective the world exists and consciousness exists\, they are both primary. But the world is infused with consciousness\, everything is conscious to some degree\, from the most elementary (say\, an elementary particle) to the cosmic scale of the universe itself. \n\n\n\nIf that is so\, why are we not aware of it? The reason might be that we recognize consciousness only when it is close enough to our own level. I am aware of the consciousness of my dogs and cats\, but the consciousness of an atom and that of a solar system both elude me\, they are too different. \n\n\n\nOr you might say matter and consciousness are just two sides of one coin. Dual aspect monism suggests that mind and matter are the dual manifestation of one substance\, which is perceived from the inside (in the first person) as consciousness\, from the outside (in the third person) as things. \n\n\n\nIn Re-Visioning Consciousness\, we will explore together the tip of the iceberg of these profound questions\, perhaps the closest philosophical enquiry comes to our existential and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nDoes “Consciousness” Exist? with Harald Atmanspacher \n\n\n\nAwakening Conciencia and The Path With Heart with Angelita Valencia Borbon \n\n\n\nDreaming Ahead of Time with Gary Lachman \n\n\n\nValue and Purpose with Dr. Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nWhy Re-vision Consciousness? with John Pickering \n\n\n\nThe Problem of Consciousness in Philosophy\, Or What’s All the Fuss About? 
with William Seager \n\n\n\nInside Out and Outside In with Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nThe Four Lives of Federico Faggin – Screening of the Film followed by Roundtable with the filmmaker Roberto Miller\, Federico Faggin and Presenters from this event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/re-visioning-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Psyche and Time
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: The Pari Center and ISAPZURICH \n\n\n\nDates: June 14 – 20\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Frédérique Dambreville\, Deborah Egger\, Andrew Fellows\, Christopher Hauke\, Mathew Mather\, Shantena Sabbadini and Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1400.00 euros (This fee includes 6-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals\, sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n[W]e cannot apply our notion of time to the unconscious. Our consciousness can conceive of things only in temporal succession\, our time is\, therefore\, essentially linked to the chronological sequence. In the unconscious this is different\, because there everything lies together\, so to speak.C.G. Jung \n\n\n\nTime is integral to many of C.G. Jung’s remarkable insights into the nature and dynamics of the psyche\, from individual development to the unus mundus—the invisible and timeless foundation of reality. \n\n\n\nJoin ISAPZURICH and the Pari Center for an in-depth exploration of the ubiquitous yet mysterious phenomena of Psyche and Time from the perspectives of science\, philosophy\, symbolism\, mythology\, therapeutic practice\, and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA defining characteristic of Carl Jung’s extraordinary life’s work is his engagement across all scales\, from the cosmic and metaphysical to the personal and psychological. Another is his breadth of influences\, from Hermetic to quantum worldviews. This is the context for our exploration of two ubiquitous phenomena that\, like fish in water\, we take for granted\, but which on closer examination are profoundly puzzling: psyche and time. Our perspectives will be scientific\, philosophical\, symbolic and mythological\, clinical and cultural as we zoom in from the universe to the practice room\, and end with a trip to the cinema! \n\n\n\nIn the first two days we will explore the fundamental nature of time with theoretical physicist Shantena Sabbadini\, and of psyche with applied physicist and Jungian Analyst Andrew Fellows. The next day we will enter the world of astrology—a lifelong interest of Jung’s that connects psyche and cosmos through time—with Jungian Analyst and professional astrologer Frédérique Dambreville. We will also explore synchronicity and the turning of the age through the symbolism of the scarab with Jungian scholar and educator Mathew Mather. On the fourth day\, Jungian Analyst Deborah Egger will delve into the vital role of time in the psychotherapeutic process\, and Mathew will follow up his previous presentation with an experiential workshop. On the last whole day\, Jungian Analysts Yuriko Sato and Christopher Hauke will\, respectively\, present an Eastern view of psyche and time\, and show how predominantly Western views have been depicted\, and sometimes deconstructed\, in film. The final morning will feature a dialogue among all the presenters responding to further questions and those aspects of the event which have generated most interest. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1400.00 euros. The event fee includes a 6-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Tuesday June 14 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday June 20 after lunch. \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\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Nature of Time with Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nThe Nature of Psyche with Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nThe Infinity of the Cosmos and the Depth of Psyche with Frédérique Dambreville \n\n\n\nA Green Gold Scarab: Symbol for the Turning of an Age? with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nTime and Timing in Therapy with Deborah Egger \n\n\n\nAnima Mundi: Synchronicity and the Soul of the World with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nLived Time in Japan with Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nScreen Time: Movies\, Mind and the Experience of Time with Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor more information about ISAPZURICH see https://www.isapzurich.com \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Imagining Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/oESEtsX_iC8?si=viacKy-JvlKZq-T7\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining Imagination \n\n\n\nwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday July 9\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, as David Bohm was bringing forth his vision of the implicate order\, he pointed out that\, rather than being a new model\, “I regard the implicate order as a new form of imagination.” There are many potential lines of inquiry bound up in this statement. Among those that we will take up are: What did Bohm mean by “a new form of imagination”? How might this differ from a model? We tend to think that descriptions and models are either literal or metaphorical – but are there aspects of imagination that are neither of these? Could a renewed and revitalized imagination itself the key to this inquiry? \n\n\n\nTo illustrate how these questions regarding imagination can have practical applications\, the second portion of this session will consider a two-year experiment into Bohm’s notion of “holoflux.” At the core of this process is an approach to embodiment called rheosoma\, the flowing body – itself an experiment in “Bohmian” imagination. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor the the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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SUMMARY:The Enchanted Universe
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Jessica Ball\, Bernard Carr\, Patrick Curry\, Alex Gomez-Marin\, Ruth Kastner\, Alison MacLeod\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nChaired by Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nEnchantment is the experience of sheer wonder. It returns us to a state of mind\, and condition of the world\, as undivided concrete magic: equally natural and cultural\, material and spiritual\, inner and outer.Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Monday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday September 5 after lunch. \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\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nWhile technology is occupying an ever growing place in our modern world and the predominance of abstraction gets us farther and farther removed from the living world\, an increasing longing is developing for a return to our roots in nature\, to the enchantment and awe of existence\, to the fantastic realms of imagination\, to the symbolic richness of myth and fairytale. \n\n\n\nWe are meaning-making creatures\, we are explorers and adventurers of the symbolic dimension. We feel that our life is worth living only when our experiences speak to us\, when we live in conversation with the mystery\, when we commune with it. \n\n\n\nCome join us in this journey through the forests of imagination\, reclaiming a territory we once roamed\, recovering the soul of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Body\, Nature and Dialogue with Jessica Ball \n\n\n\nThe View Beyond: Magic and Enchantment at the Frontiers of Physics with Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nWhat is Enchantment\, and What Follows? with Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nScience and Magic: A Disturbing Charming Braid with Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nQuantum Physics and the Return of Enchantment with Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nThe Deep Imagination\, Metaphor\, and “All’s One” Vision with Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nBrain Seed: Planting the Mind in the Non-Human Universe with Hester Reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Il Processo della Trasformazione
DESCRIPTION:Date: settembre 10 – settembre 11\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Max Bindi\, Gloria Nobili\, Martina Stolzlechner\, Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrezzo: 420 euro \n\n\n\nSeminario teorico-esperienziale alla scoperta delleteorie quantistiche di David Bohm e di alcune sue applicazioni \n\n\n\nIl seminario si articola in un’alternanza di momenti di spiegazione e altri di sperimentazione pratica delle idee del fisico quantistico David Bohm: la vita e lo sviluppo del suo pensiero\, la tecnica metamorfica riletta alla luce del concetto di ordini di realtà\, la connessione tra fisica e senso della vita\, e la ricerca del superamento della coscienza individuale attraverso il dialogo bohmiano. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSabato 10 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 10-11 \n\n\n\nSaluti iniziali. Presentazione del Workshop \n\n\n\nOre 11-13 \n\n\n\nFisica e metafisica di David Bohm: la sua vita e le sue ideecon Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nIl fisico americano David Bohm è stato una figura estremamente significativa nel panorama scientifico del secolo scorso e le sue idee ed intuizioni hanno contribuito a una trasformazione profonda e radicale dell’immagine della realtà.Aspetti fondamentali delle teorie di Bohm sono i concetti di processo\, di olismo e di totalità\, che nelle sue mani diventavano dei potenti strumenti di indagine e interpretazione della realtà e grazie ai quali Bohm è riuscito a creare un vero ponte con il mondo del misticismo\, raggiungendo moltissime persone anche al di fuori del mondo scientifico. \n\n\n\nOre 15 -18.30 \n\n\n\nL’ordine implicato a portata di manocon Martina Stolzlechner\n\n\n\nLa Tecnica Metamorfica\, sviluppata da Gaston Saint Pierre negli anni 70\, consiste in leggeri sfioramenti ai piedi\, alle mani e alla testa e opera oltre spazio\, tempo e materia\, raggiungendo il livello dell’Unità paradossale dell’Essere e del Non-Essere\, ossia l’ordine implicato di David Bohm. Per Gaston Saint-Pierre\, in ogni cosa c’è un’intelligenza innata che a partire da questo livello si manifesta in tempo\, spazio e materia. E’ come una ghianda che\, quando il tempo è maturo\, si trasforma proprio in una quercia perché dentro contiene questa coscienza\, questa intelligenza Nella prima parte del suo intervento\, Martina Stolzlechner ci presenta la Tecnica Metamorfica\, un semplice rituale dove viene riconosciuto il potere di trasformazione\, di metamorfosi\, che proviene dall’interno e si manifesta all’esterno\, proprio\, come l’onda quantistica diventa particella. E così interno ed esterno risultano avviluppati in un continuo divenire.Nella seconda parte del pomeriggio avremo modo di mettere in pratica questa tecnica e sperimentare l’essere semplicemente presenti ai fatti che emergono. \n\n\n\nOre 21 \n\n\n\nProiezione di un dialogo tra David Bohm e Jiddu Krishnamurti \n\n\n\nDomenica 11 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 9-11 \n\n\n\nMente e materia tra matematica\, fisica e concezioni del mondocon Gloria Nobili\n\n\n\nNegli ultimi anni della sua vita\, David Bohm aveva allargato la ‘lettura’ della Fisica quantisitca secondo la sua interpretazione a connessioni molto più ampie\, che esulavano dalla stretta trattazione attraverso la formulazione matematica e le teorie scientifiche. Il suo sguardo si ricollegava all’uomo\, alle grandi domande che l’uomo si pone riguardo al senso della propria vita\, oltre alla relazione tra la parte impalpabile mentale e quella materiale connessa con le nostre percezioni sensoriali. \n\n\n\nOre 11.30-12.30Introduzione al dialogo bohmiano previsto nel pomeriggio. \n\n\n\nOre 14.30-17.30 \n\n\n\nIl dialogo bohmianocon Max Bindi\n\n\n\nGrazie alla facilitazione di Max Bindi il gruppo farà un’esperienza di dialogo bohmiano: una forma di dialogo libero dagli schemi dove si dà spazio al flusso della comunicazione e nel quale i partecipanti cercano di raggiungere una comprensione comune\, sperimentando il punto di vista di tutti completamente\, allo stesso modo e senza giudicare. \n\n\n\nOre 17.30-18 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConclusioni\n\n\n\n Il costo dell’evento è di 420 euro. Sono previsti dei prezzi di favore per chi completa l’iscrizione secondo il seguente calendario: -I primi 12 iscritti entro il 15 luglio 2022 potranno usufruire di un prezzo agevolato di 380 euro. Dopo il 15 luglio il prezzo sarà quello intero di 420 euro. Il prezzo comprende: partecipazione alle attività previste dal programma\, alloggio in stanza privata nel caratteristico Borgo di Pari\, il pranzo e la cena di Sabato 10 settembre e la colazione e il pranzo di Domenica 11 settembre presso il Bar-Ristorante “Le Due Cecche”\, nella suggestiva piazzetta del Paese. Al momento dell’iscrizione dovrà essere versata una caparra di 200 euro\, da saldare entro il 01 di settembre. L’evento inizierà Sabato 10 settembre alle ore 10:00 e terminerà Domenica 11 settembre alle ore 18:00.
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SUMMARY:Recovering the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/l-PrCIprgIU?si=DghmvkkPB9wBuNAS\n\n\n\n\n\nRecovering the Soul \n\n\n\nwith Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nSaturday November 5\, 202210:00am PDT | 1:00pm EDT | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe topic of the sacred is immense\, as I confirmed to myself when I wrote a very long chapter on it in The Matter with Things. I have chosen to approach it here by directing our attention\, as it might seem at first\, to one side: on the soul. I will argue that the sacred exists not simply in this or that thing—an object\, a place\, or an act—but in the relationship between whatever it is beyond ourselves that we recognise as sacred and that part of our being that has been traditionally referred to as the soul; that this relationship is one of the reasons for evolved beings such as ourselves to have come into existence; that whatever else it may be\, the soul is a faculty\, like intellect or eyesight\, but much more than\, and more important than\, either; and that our sense of the sacred is both driven by\, and in turn drives\, the actively receptive attention paid by the soul. I suggest that the soul is in process\, and that it is one task of our lives to grow the soul—an important task\, because much depends on it: we can\, like attentive or neglectful gardeners\, nourish\, stunt the growth of\, or extinguish\, that soul. I suggest that therefore we need first to attend to our souls if we are to recover the sacred\, and I make a few exploratory forays into what we can (and cannot) say about the soul\, and how it might be integrated into a new cosmology. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford\, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford\, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital\, London.  He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital\, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.  He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature\, philosophy\, medicine and psychiatry.  He is the author of a number of books\, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009).  A book on neuroscience\, epistemology and ontology called The Matter with Things: Our Brains\, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World\, was published in November 2021.
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5irBZhy15s\n\n\n\n\n\nReflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things \n\n\n\nIain McGlichristwith Mary Attwood | Sharon Dirckx | Alex Gómez-Marín | Jürg Kesselring | David Lorimer | Martin Rossor | Jonathan Rowson | Jan Zwicky \n\n\n\nTuesday November 8\, 20221-3pm EST | 6-8pm GMT | 7–9pm CET  \n\n\n\nFREE EVENT \n\n\n\nAnniversary event\, hosted by The Pari Centerin conjunction with Channel McGilchrist\, Perspectiva\, The Scientific and Medical Network and The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre. \n\n\n\nTrouble Registering: just send us an email and we will send you the link! eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nTo mark the one year since the publication of The Matter with Things\, this free online event will reflect on its first year of being in the world. Dr. McGilchrist will be interviewed by the publisher of the book\, Perspectiva’s Jonathan Rowson\, followed by a discussion with experts for the sciences and humanities. The final part of the event will give you a chance to put a question to Dr. McGilchrist. \n\n\n\nYou can view the footage of The Matter with Things launch party in 2021 by Perspectiva Press in the following link:  https://youtu.be/ibI0mRLgMI8
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SUMMARY:Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps
DESCRIPTION:With the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35kzTlV1LxI\n\n\n\n\n\nSpiritual Intelligence – what is it\, how can it be cultivated\, and why does it matter? \n\n\n\nMark Vernon in conversation with Beth Macy \n\n\n\nFriday December 1611:00am PST  | 2:00pm EST  | 7:00pm GMT  |  8:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the release of his new book Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps\, we have invited Mark Vernon\, to talk about his new work. Mark’s book will be out in time for Christmas (December 9) and would make an excellent gift. He will be in conversation with Beth Macy followed by Q&A and discussion from the audience.  \n\n\n\n“In Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps\, Mark Vernon draws on the understanding of numerous individuals and cultures\, weaving them into a text that leads the reader on a journey into the very heart of their self and\, at the same time\, to the reality that lies behind and is expressed as the world. Like the journey which his mentor\, Dante\, undertakes\, each chapter guides us more and more deeply into the perennial understanding that lies at the foundation of our civilisation.” Rupert Spira \n\n\n\n“Compellingly readable\, urgently important\, kind\, wise and scholarly. This is a manual for living and dying that begins with the usually overlooked questions: ‘What are we?’ and ‘Where did we come from?’ Unless we have informed answers we can’t begin to say how we should behave\, or what makes us thrive\, or speculate on our prognosis as a species\, let alone about the therapy that might avert catastrophe. Vernon’s gentle\, humble and powerful book needs to be widely read before it’s too late for us all.” Charles Foster \n\n\n\n“The world is desperately in need the kind of spiritual intelligence which Vernon presents\, based on humility\, insight\, compassion and\, above all\, joy. His attempt to talk about it in a way which is not circumscribed by specific religious belief\, but rather draws upon the wisdom of all the great spiritual traditions as well as the contemporary psychology and science\, is both original and immensely helpful for those who wish to cultivate these qualities in themselves.” Jane Clark \n\n\n\n“As entertaining and passionate as it is profound\, this book is a treasure trove of spiritual insight and guidance. Expertly interweaving the wisdom of mysticism\, philosophy and psychology\, Mark Vernon shows that spiritual awakening is the most urgent need of our time.” Steve Taylor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81518521680 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, The common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues: organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor in the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/spiritual-intelligence-in-seven-steps/
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meF3nIRcQDc&t=12s\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday February 158:30am PST  | 11:30am EST  | 4:30pm GMT  |  5:30pm CET \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guests\, the sessions will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nWe will inaugurate the series on Wednesday 15th of February of 2023 (from 17:30 to 19:00 CET) with Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Our conversation will orbit around “The Superhumanities”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California and sits on numerous advisory boards in the U.S. and Europe involving the nature of consciousness and the sciences. Jeff is the author of ten single-authored books\, including\, most recently\, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents\, Moral Objections\, New Realities (Chicago\, 2022)\, where he intuits an emerging new order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories\, cultures\, and futures. He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences\, modern esoteric literature\, and the hidden history of science fiction for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com  He thinks he may be Spider-Man. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-prof-jeffery-j-kripal/
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SUMMARY:Entanglement for Amateurs
DESCRIPTION:Entanglement for Amateurs \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday February 18\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm 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 this talk I will explore the theoretical aspects of entanglement\, keeping the technicalities to a minimum but providing an adequate grounding for the other presentations to come. The work of John Bell will be discussed\, as he provided a means of experimentally showing exactly how counter to classical expectations quantum entangled systems really are. The experiments that have been carried out based on Bell’s work will also be covered in outline. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2000 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entanglement-for-amateurs/
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SUMMARY:Reflections On Rupert Sheldrake’s “The Science Delusion”
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wA4KEjxYo\n\n\n\n\n\nReflections On Rupert Sheldrake’s “The Science Delusion” \n\n\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of his banned TED talk   \n\n\n\nDr. Rupert Sheldrakein conversation with Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nTuesday March 1410:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nIn January 2013 Rupert Sheldrake gave a talk at TEDx Whitechapel entitled “The Science Delusion” where he questioned ten fundamental beliefs of mainstream science. The event was called “Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world)”. After protests from two militant materialists\, P.Z. Myers and Jerry Coyne\, and in consultation with an undisclosed Scientific Board\, TED declared: “we feel a responsibility not to provide a platform for talks which appear to have crossed the line into pseudoscience.”  \n\n\n\nThe irony (and tragedy) was twofold. First\, Sheldrake’s questioning of dogmatism was met with a dogmatic canceling of his questioning. Second\, despite TED’s famed ethos of “ideas worth spreading”\, they deemed other ideas worth canceling\, especially when challenging TED’s sanctioned narrow worldview. Mislaying their reputation\, TED’s decision refuted itself. \n\n\n\nTen years after the controversy\, Dr. Sheldrake will reflect together with Dr. Gomez-Marin on the effectiveness of heterodox critiques of mainstream scientific thinking. Did they make a difference? What has changed\, if anything\, after such clashes?  \n\n\n\nNowadays’ media landscape affords new opportunities to expose and share different worldviews through podcasting and blogging. However\, curricula remain unchanged\, as students continue to be indoctrinated with the materialist mechanistic reductionist program. In addition\, venues such as Wikipedia profess the same unexamined prejudices\, and so do major newspapers\, TVs\, and grant agencies. In the meantime\, scientific breakthroughs stagnate. \n\n\n\nIn this free online event we will ask what has to really change for things to really change. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nYou can view the censored TEDx talk here:https://youtu.be/hO4p3xeTtUA \n\n\n\nAs well a recent animation by After Skool on “Exposing Scientific Dogma”:https://youtu.be/sF03FN37i5w \n\n\n\nTED’s justification and Sheldrake’s reply:https://blog.ted.com/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/ \n\n\n\nSheldrake’s book “The Science Delusion”:https://sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-science-delusion-science-set-free \n\n\n\nAnd a conversation between Sheldrake and Gomez-Marin on scientific dogmatism:https://youtu.be/nFQWgnVrmZU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than ninety technical papers and nine books\, including The Science Delusion (called Science Set Free in the US). As a Fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology\, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad\, India\, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)\, and also lived for two years in the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010\, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma\, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington\, Devon. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce\, with whom he has two sons. His web site is www.sheldrake.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex 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 in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is 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 high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/reflections-on-rupert-sheldrakes-the-science-delusion/
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SUMMARY:Nexus with Dr Jeffrey Dunne
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phP9kecFbEc\n\n\n\n\n\nNexus \n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne in conversation with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marin \n\n\n\nTuesday April 189:00am 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\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne is the President and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL)\, a charitable research organization established in the late 1990’s to build upon the foundation laid by Dr. Robert Jahn and Dr. Brenda Dunne in the research carried out at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory.  In addition to his role with ICRL\, Jeff is a researcher and systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University and an award-winning author and playwright.  In his recently published book\, Nexus\, Jeff brings unites three decades of scientific experience with four decades of pursuits in philosophy and metaphysics to weave a story that introduces the principle of syntropy and its importance of finding balance at every scale – personal\, societal\, and global.  Jeff’s driving passion is to help transform our world such that materialism gives way to the recognition of the crucial role that consciousness plays in the formation of reality. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/nexus-with-dr-jeffery-dunne/
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SUMMARY:Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plants
DESCRIPTION:Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plants \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSaturday April 22\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nPlants can be knocked out using the very same drug that your vet might use to put your pet to sleep. Although demonstrations of “plants under anaesthesia” provides the perfect blank slate from which to begin to view plants in an entirely new way\, this just the beginning. Take sleep; do plants sleep? Or can plants suffer from jet lag? Most people would assume I am talking metaphorically in my hot off the press Planta Sapiens. And yet\, planta sapiens is not unlike Harari’s Sapiens\, if you see what I mean. Plants biosynthesize their own melatonin that helps them regulate their circadian rhythms\, just as we do with our internal circadian clocks under the cycles of day and night. And what if plants could suffer or feel pain? Assuming otherwise is extremely convenient for the human purpose of guilt-free plant consumption\, but what if plants were like “locked-in syndrome” patients? What if they happened to have their own internal experiences that are just currently inaccessible to us? We cannot possibly ignore such a possibility. Many of the chemicals that control behavior and emotions in humans and other animals such as serotonin\, dopamine\, and adrenaline are also synthesized or have analogs in plants. Being expensive to produce\, it would make no evolutionary sense to manufacture such substances without purpose. Some of these chemicals are only produced in situations when plants are stressed or injured. Plants make many substances that have pain-killing or anesthetic effects\, such as ethylene. We certainly don’t know that these molecules act as painkillers in plants\, but given that they are created in stressful situations\, there is reason to believe that they serve to relieve suffering. From an evolutionary standpoint\, the ability to perceive pain or to suffer in some way is essential. More generally\, we need to consider the evolutionary importance of “feelings” beyond being an abstract distinguishing feature of humanity. Emotion and emotional behaviors might have evolved across the tree of life for very good reasons. They give the capacity to make rapid\, prioritized decisions in response to the demands of a dangerous environment. We are actually far more driven by emotions than we like to think—they are powerful guides! If it makes sense to animals to “trust their gut\,” it might as well pay off for plants to “trust their gut” too. It’s just unfortunate that our instincts are to ignore plants as background greenery because they don’t fit into our immediate\, fast-paced attention spans. However\, perhaps it’s time to rethink how we understand ourselves. Or so I’ll argue. \n\n\n\nPlanta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant IntelligencePaco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence \n\n\n\nTimes Literary Supplement – A manifesto inviting us to think about plants and our attitudes to them in revolutionary ways \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaco Calvo (PhD\, University of Glasgow\, 2000) is a Professor of Philosophy of Science\, and Principal Investigator of the MinimalIntelligence Laboratory (MINTLab) at the University of Murcia (Spain). \n\n\n\nHis research interests range broadly within the cognitive sciences\, with special emphasis on plant intelligence\, ecological psychology and embodied cognitive science\, robotics and AI. \n\n\n\nHe uses time-lapse photography to explore perception-action and learning in plants. His scientific articles have appeared in Annals of Botany\, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications\, Frontiers in Neurorobotics\, Frontiers in Robotics and AI\, Journal of the Royal Society\, Plant\, Cell & Environment\, Plant Signaling & Behavior\, Scientific Reports\, and Trends in Plant Science\, among other journals. He is co-author with Natalie Lawrence of Planta Sapiens (Little\, Brown (UK); Norton (US)).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/planta-sapiens-the-incredible-minds-of-plants/
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SUMMARY:Never Land: Culture\, Agriculture and the Striving after Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Jenkinson\n\n\n\nDates: May 12 – 15\, 2023 \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 725.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 3-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\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\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 Friday May 12 at 16:00 and ends on Monday May 15 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concept\n\n\n\nPeople half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age\, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so\, what did you do? \n\n\n\nThe most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t\, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes. \n\n\n\nWe are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not\, most of us\, belong. We inhabit\, we own\, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here\, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have\, voluntarily or not\, opted for the latter. \n\n\n\nIn this gathering —employing a format\, approach\, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance\, prejudice\, spirit work\, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Jenkinson is a poet of non-negotiable truths\, a whisperer of the unspeakable. \n\n\n\nCo-founder of the Orphan Wisdom school in Canada\, he is known as “griefwalker” in the “death trade”\, due to his insistence on avoiding the pervasive absurdity of the current cultural imperative to “die not dying”. He has also written books about elderhood and money and its corollary in the soul\, about the phenomenology of the pandemic. Relentlessly teaching about the very same untold reality\, he never says the same thing twice. His use of speech is masterfully and deliberately conjuring and sacramental. Democratizing whatever wisdom has come to him\, he means to keep nothing to himself. \n\n\n\nIn order to midwife his new book on culture and agriculture\, Stephen will do a residency at the Pari Center. The residency will culminate with a four-day teaching event\, when he will work his book out loud with participants. \n\n\n\nThe themes of the work are three-fold: our debt to the young and their obligation to life\, plant/animal domestication\, and the advent of the iron age and its contemporary edge\, the barbed wire fence\, and the obscenity of surplus. Along the way the session will consider the strange contradictory demand to return back to that land was never known by younger generations\, searching a kind of ab-solution\, a kind of neolithic restoration whose causes and consequences remain unexamined. Second\, the rather unavoidable psychic and poetic contradictions of animal domestication in farms. Third\, the strange sense of victory contemporary Western cultures revel in as estrangement from the natural order deepens and we begin flirt with our demise. \n\n\n\nStephen’s allegations are a dark pool of light – a harsh blessing that calls for reckoning in times of trouble. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Participants\n\n\n\nPeople will be challenged at a level typically unwelcome in gatherings covertly designed to find self-avowal. \n\n\n\nThis is how Stephen’s workshops and lectures work: We will address our limits\, frailties\, and endings. A mostly troubling radicalized hospitality will be provided. Seeking commitment rather than interest\, people will be vehemently minded. Instead of reaffirming an inarticulate longing that rests on associations devoid of grounding\, we will seek to do something that is real\, that can be lived\, and that it is consequential. \n\n\n\nStephen will dissolve the notion of an audience. His work aspires to be seminal\, not a display or summary of contents. He will summon something like a learning ceremony\, not entertainment. The criteria for inclusion is suspended. Participants should consider themselves the willing casualties of a sheer willingness to entertain subversion beyond decoration. \n\n\n\nIf you are up for something that never happened before\, please register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Format\n\n\n\nIt is perhaps appropriate that such attempt at a cultural redemption be explored in Pari. A small group of participants will gather in the small medieval village at the heart of Tuscany\, starting on a Friday evening\, and departing on Monday after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means 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\n\n\n\n\nCoda\n\n\n\nBeing human and being humane are different things. \n\n\n\nIn the face of culture failure\, we will practice a method of inquiry that can reveal (and perhaps heal) our grief illiteracy and amnesia of ancestry beyond the pernicious triad of cope\, hope\, and dope. \n\n\n\nWe shall acknowledge our own ectopic ideas and cultural homelessness. Being radically contingent upon each generation and the troubles of their times\, wisdom is actually “too indigenous” and never indigenous-enough. \n\n\n\nThus\, this is not going to be an easy encounter. The so-called homo part of the sapiens etymologically stems from humus\, meaning earth\, ground\, soil\, and ultimately\, dirt. Celebrating Leonard Cohen’s genius verse\, “there is a crack in everything\, that’s how the light gets in”. Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with powdered gold. Dirt & grief are one portal for our very own “golden repair”.During this event we will be screening in the main piazza in Pari: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGriefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is a lyrical\, poetic portrait of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with dying people. The talk will be in English. Italian subtitles are made by Giulia Sbernini\, who will also be in attendance. \n\n\n\nWhen? Saturday\, May 13\, 2023 (8:30pm – 10:30pm followed by book signing) \n\n\n\nABOUT GRIEFWALKER ~ Filmed over a twelve year period\, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses\, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families\, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director while paddling a birch bark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die. This extraordinary film portrait reveals some of the cultural and spiritual roots that continue to shape his death and dying ideas and teachings. \n\n\n\nDying: the great blindspot in a culture awash in information\, the great arbiter in a culture adamant about extending the power of choice across all of our endeavours. Griefwalker is a feature length National Film Board of Canada documentary of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with and on behalf of dying people\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is also a profound mandate for creating sanity around the heart breaking and often toxic death fears and practices that gather at our dying time now. \n\n\n\nJenkinson asks\,”What does it take to fall in love with being alive?”\, and the answer that he offers\, both unwelcome and vitally necessary\, is\, “Being willing to see the end of what you love.” \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 1 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 2 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 3 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 4 \n\n\n\nAvailable in DVD format in English with French subtitles\, or watch online in English\, Spanish and Hebrew versions. Note About the Watch Online Version: You can watch the online streaming version on any desktop\, tablet or mobile device that supports video while connected to a high-speed internet connection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about The Pari Center – the pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/never-land-culture-agriculture-and-the-striving-after-belonging/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Griefwalker ~ Film Screening & Talk ~ Pari\, Italy
DESCRIPTION:Join Stephen Jenkinson for a film screening and live conversation. \n\n\n\nGriefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is a lyrical\, poetic portrait of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with dying people. The talk will be in English. Italian subtitles are made by Giulia Sbernini\, who will also be in attendance. \n\n\n\nWhen? Saturday\, May 13\, 2023 (8:30pm-10:30pm followed by book signing) \n\n\n\nWhere? Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nABOUT GRIEFWALKER ~ Filmed over a twelve year period\, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses\, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families\, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director while paddling a birch bark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die. This extraordinary film portrait reveals some of the cultural and spiritual roots that continue to shape his death and dying ideas and teachings. \n\n\n\nDying: the great blindspot in a culture awash in information\, the great arbiter in a culture adamant about extending the power of choice across all of our endeavours. Griefwalker is a feature length National Film Board of Canada documentary of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with and on behalf of dying people\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is also a profound mandate for creating sanity around the heart breaking and often toxic death fears and practices that gather at our dying time now. \n\n\n\nJenkinson asks\,”What does it take to fall in love with being alive?”\, and the answer that he offers\, both unwelcome and vitally necessary\, is\, “Being willing to see the end of what you love.” \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 1 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 2 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 3 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 4 \n\n\n\nAvailable in DVD format in English with French subtitles\, or watch online in English\, Spanish and Hebrew versions. Note About the Watch Online Version: You can watch the online streaming version on any desktop\, tablet or mobile device that supports video while connected to a high-speed internet connection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT STEPHEN JENKINSON ~ culture activist\, worker\, author\, founder of The Orphan Wisdom School ~ Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School\, co-founded the school with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010\, convening semi-annually in Deacon\, Ontario\, and in northern Europe.He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). \n\n\n\nHe is the author of Reckoning (co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson (2022)\, A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021)\, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018)\, the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015 and translated into Hebrew and Turkish)\, Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013)\, How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009)\, Homecoming – The Haiku Sessions (Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – (a live teaching from 2009)\, and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007).Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (National Film Board of Canada\, 2008\, dir. Tim Wilson and translated into five languages)\, a portrait of his work with dying people\, and Lost Nation Road\, a shorter documentary on the crafting of the Nights of Grief and Mystery tours (2019\, dir. Ian Mackenzie). Read more about Stephen at orphanwisdom.com/about
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/griefwalker-film-screening-talk-pari-italy/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:At the Edges of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:At the Edges of Consciousness \n\n\n\nDates: June 6 – 13\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Allan Leslie Combs\, Etzel Cardeña\, Paul Grof\, Sarah Janes\, Jeffrey Kripal\, Roderick Main\, Dean Radin (via zoom)\, Tanya Sacramento\, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1975.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich 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\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\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 Tuesday June 6 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday June 13 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center with world-renowned scholars as we deepen our insights into the ‘exceptional’ experiences we have all encountered. \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\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nThrough presentations and informal discussions in a convivial atmosphere you will learn about and have opportunities to discuss the insights and research findings of world-renowned experts on what are called ‘exceptional’ experiences. \n\n\n\nThe subject fits under the umbrella of consciousness research\, which is currently enjoying a huge renaissance in terms of general interest and academic momentum. \n\n\n\nThe study of consciousness requires that we take seriously the many flavors of human experience\, even those—ranging from psychedelics and lucid dreaming to synchronicities\, near death experiences and mystical phenomena—that could be said to enter through the ‘backdoors of perception.’ Such experiences have until now been largely avoided by academia and left to lie beyond the border of what is typically explored scientifically and discussed in public. \n\n\n\nHowever\, now it is more openly being asked whether such experiences can actually inform—and even transform—not just neuroscience and fundamental physics but also our very understanding of the nature of reality and our collective and individual place in the world. \n\n\n\nThe scientific study of consciousness is now acknowledging that it has reached a stage where such parcels of human subjectivity have to be taken seriously. In fact\, it is playing an important role in the recognition that such ‘backdoors of perception’ have the potential to profoundly impact our current state of knowledge in many fields. \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a variety of disciplines to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and bases of such experiences\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such a constellation into a coherent understanding. You are cordially invited to join us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Evolutionary Ascent of ConsciousnessAllan Leslie Combs \n\n\n\nA Review of the Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological PhenomenaEtzel Cardeña \n\n\n\nLocal and Non-local Consciousness ComponentsPaul Grof \n\n\n\nDivine Dreams: The History and Culture of the Dream as Medicine in the Western Esoteric TraditionSarah Janes \n\n\n\nArchives of the Impossible: The Further Reaches of the Imagination and the Future HumanJeffery Kripal \n\n\n\nThe Hermeneutics of Exceptional ExperiencesRoderick Main \n\n\n\nDean Radin \n\n\n\nThe Subtle Art of Mediumship: Effectively Communicating with ConsciousnessTanya Sacramento \n\n\n\nMetaphysics\, Mysticism\, and Psychedelic ResearchPeter Sjöstedt-Hughes \n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/at-the-edges-of-consciousness/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Common Experience
DESCRIPTION:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Common Experience \n\n\n\nDates: June 14 – 20\, 2023 \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 850 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 6-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\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\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 Wednesday June 14 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday June 20 after breakfast. \n\n\n\n“The world is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. If you tamper with it\, you’ll ruin it… \n\n\n\nCan you see things as they are\, without trying to control them? \n\n\n\nCan you let them go theirown way while remaining centered?” \n\n\n\nLao Tse\, Dao De Jing #29(Mitchell & MacDonald Combined) \n\n\n\nJoin us for a week of living in the moment\, for the moment\, surrounded by the peaceful hills of the Tuscan landscape in Pari. With its beautiful palazzo\, rustic bar\, and numerous quiet places\, the medieval village of Pari serves as an alchemical vessel for growth and personal transformation. \n\n\n\n“The idea of bringing people in. They could be business people\, they could be environmentalists\, whatever\, and bringing them in without any sort of fixed program\, without them giving talks and powerpoint presentations. Just to sit in the room and see what emerges\, because they are in a container\, it’s in an alchemical vessel which allows something transformative to take place. So that was the idea of Pari as a container.”David Peat w/ Jena Axelrod in The Absurdity of Certainty. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week you will have plenty of opportunities to cultivate connections with Nature\, others\, and — perhaps most importantly — yourself. Explore the medieval village and its surroundings\, or take in the beauty of the landscape from Pari’s expansive palazzo. Dialogue with others in a supportive atmosphere and experience what it feels like to have others truly listen to your unique perspectives and experiences from a place of genuine interest and curiosity. Set aside thoughts of forcing or striving and experience how insights and interconnections naturally bubble up during dialogue. \n\n\n\nBecome more responsive and less reactive by learning to actively listen\, not only to others but also to yourself. As F. David Peat\, one of the founders of the Pari Center states in his autobiography\, Pathways of Chance: \n\n\n\n“Much depends upon how we react when the unexpected occurs and a new door temporarily opens. Do we compensate as best we can and attempt to remain on our own predetermined track\, or do we ask ‘What is life trying to tell me? In what direction could this new possibility take me? Is it worth suspending what I am doing at the moment to explore something new?”1 \n\n\n\nSomewhat paradoxically\, setting aside striving and engaging in gentle action often gives rise to the types of benefits that many people often seek\, but seldom find in a sustainable form. Along with feelings of openness\, trust\, joy\, and a childlike sense of wonder\, gentle action often gives rise to a deeper sense of engagement with yourself\, others\, and the Universe. \n\n\n\n1. Pathways of Chance\, pp. 1-2. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Story (and an invitation) Several 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. After 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. Our original group of Jena\, Manfred\, and Tom\, who hail from New York\, Germany\, and Ireland were joined by several additional members of our online community. Stefan\, Rose\, and Todd\, traveled from Sweden\, Germany/Canada\, and Alaska to finally meet everyone in person. Two of our members\, Lisa\, from Italy\, and Michael\, from Connecticut\, were unable to meet in person\, but are quite active in our online meetings and the preparations for our gathering in June of 2023. Over the course of time\, we have come to discover that we have much to share with one another due to\, rather than despite\, our differing backgrounds. And yet\, we have also found that we also 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: “Out beyond 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. This medieval village\, nestled in the 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. 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. Set aside your daily routine and begin to reconnect with your own innermost nature by setting aside the expectations of the outer world. Communicating and interacting in the moment\, for the moment has enabled each of us to interact with ourselves\, each other\, and the world at large in a much more playful manner. Over time\, we have noticed that an almost childlike curiosity tends to emerge\, unforced and unbidden “beyond the ideas of right and wrong” allowing us to experience the innate beauty of the present moment and our interactions. More than anything\, our gatherings have given us a deep sense of connection and friendships that endure beyond the limits of time and space. This June we get to come home again.  \n\n\n\nIt would be wonderful if you could join us\, Jena\, Lisa\, Manfred\, Michael\, Rose\, Stefan\, Todd\, & Tom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nCommunity Activities – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about The Pari Center – the pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/gentle-action-a-gathering-of-common-experience/
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SUMMARY:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue – From Worldview to Sustainable Order \n\n\n\nCommencing at the Pari Center 20-25 June 2023 and concluding at the Vatican 27-28 June 2023. \n\n\n\nA gathering of world leading philosophers to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. \n\n\n\nEngendering a new chapter in East and West communication especially in relation to pressing global challenges. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center is pleased to host the June 2023 symposium East and West Philosophy in Dialogue—From Worldview to Sustainable Order. At the eight-day symposium\, leading philosophers from the East and the West will gather to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. The symposium will convene in Pari at the Pari Center and conclude in Rome at the Vatican with two days of dialogue on the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\nSome of the pertinent questions to be addressed include: \n\n\n\n\nHow does Eastern holism relate to the modern Western philosophical schools of Continental Philosophy\, Analytic Philosophy\, and Process Philosophy?\n\n\n\nWhether and to what extent a holistic vision also can be found in the West?\n\n\n\nWhether the diverse philosophical paths may complement each other and to what extent a Perennial Philosophy exists?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to global sustainability?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to local and global order?\n\n\n\n\nThrough substantive discussions\, the Symposium hopes to engender a new chapter in East and West communication\, especially insofar as it relates to pressing global challenges.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/east-and-west-philosophy-in-dialogue/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead:  Life as Movement
DESCRIPTION:Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead:  Life as Movement \n\n\n\nwith Àlex Gómez-Marin\, Hester Reeve\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 16\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nProcess\, movement\, time\, flux\, consciousness\, memory\, recurrence\, relationality – these elements and more occur in mutually reflective ways in the work of David Bohm\, Henri Bergson\, and Alfred North Whitehead. What resonances emerge when we hold these three bodies of work together? What variances do we discover? In this opening session of Beyond Bohm 2023\, our panel will explore these and other questions. Of particular significance is the fact that all three men intended their insights to be applied and tested in daily life\, rather than remaining purely theoretical. We then pose a further question: How do we make the shift from the abstract idea to the concrete lived quality? \n\n\n\nPlease join us as we initiate new lines of inquiry in the Pari community\, drawing from three profoundly original yet complementary philosophical perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally\, including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nhttps://hester-reeve.squarespace.com/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, Holoflux: Codex – Form / Movement / Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. Lee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. He lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science\, the Arts and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Mary Attwood\, John Cleese (via Zoom)\, John Krakauer\, Mervat Nasser\, Melissa Nelson\, John Pickering\, Jordi Pigem\, Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1995.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich 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\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\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 Tuesday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nThere was a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. This initial vision was lost\, leading to a bifurcation of nature that has impeded human flourishing. In the medieval hilltop of a Tuscan town\, we will seek to explore and experience the underlying wholeness that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind\, and the sense of the sacred. \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 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\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nThe 20th century composer of devotional music\, John Tavener\, has written of the “one simple memory\,” a deeply buried sense of a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. In that period the artisan\, miner\, metal worker and artist alike were considered as the midwives to nature\, aiding her in her striving to perfection. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli believed that this sprit was still alive in the 17th century when the quantitative science of Kepler and Galileo coexisted with a more deeply symbolic approach to nature and matter—each complementing the other. This later vanished in the hands of the followers of Descartes and Newton and\, for Wolfgang Pauli\, the ‘spirit in matter’ was banished for over two hundred years. Particularly in the twentieth century\, physics (and subsequently other major disciplines\, mirroring themselves in it) had lost its initial vision and become obsessed with a “will to power” as it sought control over nature. A “bifurcation of nature” —the harsh separation of reality as conceived by science and as experienced by humans (including scientists) —\, in the words of mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead\, is one of the greatest fallacies of modernity and a major impediment to human flourishing. However\, a “resurrection” of spirit within matter may be at hand today. Such wholeness can be explored in the medieval hilltop town of Pari\, Tuscany\, for in the Middle Ages nature\, beauty and the sacred were seen as one. The presenters and participants who come to Pari will bring together many skills to the discussions on the relationship of religious ritual to sacred theatre; of brain activity to the orders of music and mathematics; the ultimate nature of reality as seen from these various disciplines; limitations to knowing\, and questions of the origin of the universe. Topics move towards questions that stretch the limits and boundaries that are currently placed around science\, the sacred and the arts. We will discuss\, and hopefully experience\, the underlying unity that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind and the spiritual quest. We shall seek to “re-member” such one simple memory — indeed\, we have taken as our maxim a quotation from Carlo Levi “The future has an ancient heart.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Art of Seeing: Rediscovering the Four Senses HermeneuticMary Attwood \n\n\n\nThe Humanities as an Emergent Level of ExplanationJohn Krakauer \n\n\n\nThe Return of Hermopolis as Healing MemoryMervat Nassar \n\n\n\nThe Journey is the Goal and Beauty is our Guide John Pickering \n\n\n\nTowards a Postmaterialistic Worldview: Contributions from Contemporary Science and Eastern and Western PhilosophyJordi Pigem \n\n\n\nDante\, Blake and the Revelation of UnityMark Vernon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf
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SUMMARY:Benign Anarchy!
DESCRIPTION:Benign Anarchy! \n\n\n\nA gathering of members of AA and NA(mainly Irish!) but open to anyone interested in Dialogue..as developed by David Bohm and also Martin Bubers “I-Thou \n\n\n\nDates: September 9 – September 16\, 2023 \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Tom C.\,  Rose R.\,  Jim C. \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 890 euros for single occupancy\, 730 for shared occupancy (two-bedroom apartment\, shared bathroom) \n\n\n\nwhich 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\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 Saturday September 9 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Saturday September 16 after lunch. \n\n\n\nRegistration and Information: Please contact Tom tcallagyp@gmail.com or Eleanor eleanor@paricenter.com or Chiara chiara@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA Pari gathering/retreat for members of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) plus family and friends will be held in Pari\, Tuscany from September 9-16\, 2023 (Saturday to Saturday). \n\n\n\nThe format will be a combination of closed AA and NA meetings and meditation\, and some open meetings which everyone can attend. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped to have discussion groups/workshops on the history of AA and NA; the influence of Carl Jung on Bill W; a talk on Bill W. and Jimmy K. by Irene C.; the deep wisdom of the 12 Steps and the profundity of the 12 traditions. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped the golden thread running through our week will be‘The Language of the Heart.’ \n\n\n\nAll of the above in magical Pari—the creation of David Peat and Maureen Doolan. Here we will have wonderful Italian food—and—talk\, talk\, talk in the outdoor café\, with music and dancing in the square\, soaking in the sulphur springs\, and joy and laughter! \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only attending meetings but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the local population\, eating local dishes\, 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. \n\n\n\nAdditional information about the Pari Center – pdf
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SUMMARY:Galileo at 400
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recordings\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66cS8XoQ2A\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4btmqCOYhpk\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOeqgq4ymIY\n\n\n\n\n\nGalileo at 400 \n\n\n\nLooking Through 21st Century Telescopes \n\n\n\nwith Avi Loeb\, Dean Radin\, David Lorimer\, Athena Potari\, Marjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nCurated by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nFree Program in 3 Parts \n\n\n\nTuesday October 3110:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nPart 1 – The Assayer – To Watch the recordingA reading together of Galileo’s seminal book with Àlex Gómez-Marín and James Peat BarbieriFriday October 20 at 12:00-13:30 EDT\, 17:00-18:30 BST\, 18:00-19:30 CEST \n\n\n\nPart 2 – Exploring Outer and Inner Spaces- To Watch the RecordingA conversation between Avi Loeb and Dean Radin with Àlex Gómez-MarínWednesday October 25 at 13:00-14:30 EDT\, 18:00-19:30 BST\, 19:00-20:30 CEST \n\n\n\nPart 3 – Expanding the Scope of Science with the Galileo CommissionA dialogue between David Lorimer\, Marjorie Woollacott\, Athena Potari\, and Àlex Gómez-MarínTuesday October 31 at 12:00-13:30 EDT\, 17:00-18:30 GMT\, 18:00-19:30 CET \n\n\n\nIn this online series we will revisit Galileo’s book\, The Assayer\, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication this very month of October. \n\n\n\nWritten as a letter in a controversy about the nature of comets\, such a foundational text in the history of modern science deserves to be more widely known and read. It contains one of the first and clearest articulations of the scientific method\, the famous claim about the mathematical intelligibility of nature\, and Galileo’s emphasis on epistemic humility in the face of dogma and authority. Remarkably\, in the book we also find Galileo’s programmatic exclusion of consciousness from the purview of science\, whose consequences we are still wrestling with today. \n\n\n\nCelebrating “Galileo at 400” shall inspire us to dare to look through current “telescopes” in order to continue exploring our inner and outer spaces while expanding the scope of science as we know it. \n\n\n\nGalileo’s indelible legacy can be grasped directly from his own words. We encourage attendees to get first-hand experience with The Assayer before the event\, via the free material linked below. \n\n\n\nREFERENCES \n\n\n\n(1)    ABRIDGED ENGLISH TRANSLATION: G. Galilei\, in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618\, S. Drake\, C. D. O’Malley\, Transl. (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press\, 1960). You can read it for free here: https://web.stanford.edu/~jsabol/certainty/readings/Galileo-Assayer.pdf \n\n\n\n(2)    ORIGINAL TEXT IN ITALIAN: G. Galilei\, Il Saggiatore [Works of Galileo Galilei\, Part 3\, Volume 15\, Astronomy: The Assayer] (Giacomo Mascardi\, 1623). You can read it for free here: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666740/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird\, Jr.\, Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Die Zeit\, Der Spiegel\, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986)\, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988)\, and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books\, including most recently\, Extraterrestrial\, and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 119 and i10-index of 543) on a wide range of topics\, including black holes\, the first stars\, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project(2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, the American Physical Society\, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House\, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a current member of the Advisory Board for “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible” of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012\, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb’s commentaries on innovation and diversity. \n\n\n\nPersonal website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, and chairman of the genetic engineering company\, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University (an accredited university in Bangalore\, India). He served for five terms as President of the Parapsychological Association (PA)\, a professional society affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS))\, and in 2023 received the PA’s Outstanding Career Award. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the IONS research staff in 2001\, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs\, Princeton University\, University of Edinburgh\, and SRI International. He has given over 750 talks and interviews worldwide\, and he is author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles\, four dozen book chapters\, and nine books\, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997\, HarperCollins)\, Entangled Minds (2006\, Simon & Schuster)\, Supernormal (2013\, RandomHouse)\, and Real Magic (2018\, PenguinRandomHouse). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lorimer\, MA\, PGCE\, FRSA is a writer\, lecturer\, poet\, editor and spiritual activist who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland\, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society (www.swedenborgsociety.org.uk). He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org)  and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every year since the late 1980s. \n\n\n\nOriginally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College\, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books\, including Survival? Death as Transition (1984\, 2017) Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One) (1990/2017)\, The Spirit of Science (1998)\, Thinking Beyond the Brain (2001)\, The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about the Bulgarian sage Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov): Prophet for our Times (1991\, 2015)\, The Circle of Sacred Dance\, and Gems of Love\, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince (2003) – has been translated into Dutch\, Spanish and French. His new book of essays\, A Quest for Wisdom was published in 2021. \n\n\n\nDavid is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the expand the evidence base of science of consciousness beyond a materialistic world view. \n\n\n\nIn 2020 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader by the Visioneers International Network and the 2021 Aboca Human Ecology Prize. He is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest. His website is www.davidlorimer.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Athena Potari is Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford\, specializing in Political Philosophy\, and her MA in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is recipient of the Academy of Athens Award of Philosophy (2020)\, author of A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities published by the Galileo Commission\, and Member of the Galileo Commission Committee. In 2019\, she founded Athenoa\, a School of Hellenic Philosophy based in Athens\, Greece where Hellenism is approached as a living wisdom tradition whose very essence consists in the inextricable combination of science\, reason and spirituality. Her work aims to revive the deeper spiritual and experiential dimensions of Hellenic Philosophy\, combining discursive rigor and embodied spiritual and meditative practices with the aim of awakening to our true Self. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Woollacott\, Ph.D.\, was Professor\, and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology\, and member of the Inst. of Neuroscience\, at the U. of Oregon for 35 yrs. She is Co-director of the Galileo Commission\, President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences (AAPS) and Research Director for the Intl. Assoc. of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). She has received over 7.2 million dollars in research funding and published more than 200 scientific articles on her research in medicine\, meditation and spiritual awakening. Her book\, Infinite Awareness (2015) pairs Woollacott’s research as a neuroscientist with her self-revelations about the mind’s spiritual power. \n\n\n\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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SUMMARY:Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 1/6: Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? (with Dr. Jonathan Allday)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoes Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday November 4\, 202310:00am PDT | 1:00pm EDT | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm 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 the 1970s\, a series of books\, such as The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters\, explored the supposed synergies between quantum theory and the wisdom traditions. These well-meaning books spawned something of an industry and associated quantum hype where quantum theory was portrayed as supporting\, or worse justifying\, certain worldviews. \n\n\n\nTypically\, these approaches drew on the Copenhagen interpretation\, the idea that the mind causes quantum state collapse and the physics of entanglement and related them to the experience of non-duality\, wholeness and immersion in a universal mind characteristic of spiritual insight. \n\n\n\nIt is now time to look back on these ideas in the light of 50 years further thought on quantum theory and its philosophical implications and to draw some more nuanced conclusions. In the words of Eddington[1] “I have not suggested that either religion or free-will can be deduced from modern physics; I have limited myself to showing that certain difficulties in reconciling them have been removed.” \n\n\n\n[1] Eddington “New Pathways in Science”\, 1935\, p306 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
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SUMMARY:The Big Questions in Science with Rupert Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5BQ0rMvDz8\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dialogue between Dr Àlex Gómez-Marín and Dr Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nThursday January 119:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn his 12-part online course\, recently launched in an online on-demand format\, Rupert Sheldrake argues that the sciences are being constricted by ten assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. In this course he turns the dogmas into questions and examines them scientifically in the light of advances in the sciences themselves. For example\, the dogma that nature is mechanical becomes the question “Is nature mechanical?”; the dogma that matter is unconscious becomes “Is matter unconscious?”; the dogma that minds are confined to brains becomes “Are minds confined to brains?” This mind-transforming course is based on Rupert’s award-winning bestselling book The Science Delusion (called Science Set Free in the US) and makes these ideas accessible to scientists and non-scientists alike. Alex and Rupert will discuss some of the ways in which the sciences could be liberated and revitalized. Their discussion will be followed by Q&A. This event is free of charge but participants need to register in advance. \n\n\n\nLink to the event: https://advaya.life/courses/the-rupert-sheldrake-course \n\n\n\nPlease use the 20% single course discount code 20-PARI.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society\, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University\, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry\, and philosophy at Harvard University\, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge\, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences\, near San Francisco\, and also of Schumacher College\, in Devon. \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rupert Sheldrake Course \n\n\n\nExplore the big questions in science in this 13-week self-paced course. \n\n\n\nAre you ready to deepen your understanding of cutting edge science?  This course will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible. Embark on an enlightening exploration with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake\, challenging the core beliefs of contemporary science. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Included: \n\n\n\n\n13 Modules and 14 Sessions:  Uncover the depth of Dr. Sheldrake’s thought-provoking content spread across comprehensive modules and engaging sessions. You’ll explore groundbreaking research into topics like Free will\, The consciousness of nature\, The mind\, The mystery of psychic phenomena\, How dogs know when their owners come home\, How memory works\, The potential of alternative medicine\, and more.\n\n\n\nCutting Edge Science:  Learn from the distinguished Dr. Rupert Sheldrake\, a biologist\, and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, published in 28 languages. Dr. Sheldrake is a leading authority in pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry.\n\n\n\nCurated Readings and Resources:  Access carefully selected readings and resources that deepen your understanding and provide additional context to the course content.\n\n\n\nLive Q&A: to be scheduled in February to add a new element to the course\n\n\n\nFlexible Formats: Both video and audio formats are available.\n\n\n\n\nIn this course\, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. \n\n\n\nLink to the event: https://advaya.life/courses/the-rupert-sheldrake-course \n\n\n\nPlease use the 20% single course discount code 20-PARI. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-big-questions-in-science-with-rupert-sheldrake/
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SUMMARY:Book-A-Month Club - The Blackwinged Night
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFpmyLHRYnM&t=1s\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mindby F. David Peat \n\n\n\nHost: Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nFriday January 26\, 20249:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community. \n\n\n\nEach month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy\, the work of David Bohm\, Indigenous Ways of Knowing\, Jungian Concepts\, Gentle Action\, Creativity\, the Arts\, Ethics\, Community\, the Sacred.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/book-a-month-club-the-blackwinged-night/
LOCATION:Online
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