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SUMMARY:Matter\, Mind and Multiverse
DESCRIPTION:Matter\, Mind and Multiverse: Incorporating Mind into Physics \n\n\n\nPari\, Italy – May 15-18\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Bernard Carr with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe event will start on Friday May 15 at 16:00 and end on Monday May 18 after lunch. \n\n\n\nPrice: 825.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\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\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner.\n\n\n\n\nPlease read the Terms and Conditions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysics has built a hugely impressive picture of the world. We have a broad understanding of structure from the microverse within the atom to the universe of galaxies and clusters. The evolutionary history of the cosmos is also well mapped\, right back to the earliest moments of the Big Bang. \n\n\n\nThere is\, however\, one conspicuous absence from this grand design—us. Much of the success of physics\, and science in general\, has come from deliberately excluding the subjective. The physicist’s universe is a rather arid lunar landscape devoid of the colour that comes with consciousness\, mind and spirit. \n\n\n\nMost physicists believe that this is fine. It’s not their job to deal with messy and unreliable emotions\, qualia and subjective experience. Some go even further and say all our personal life is an illusion. \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, a significant number of people have experiences that are mystical\, anomalous\, synchronistic and personally transformative. The plural of anecdote is data: these events are happening\, and they contain important clues to the nature of reality. \n\n\n\nIt is time to seriously discuss how physics might be extended to accommodate consciousness\, mind and spirit. \n\n\n\nIn this series of conversations and workshops with Professor Bernard Carr and Dr. Jonathan Allday\, we will explore the bounds of current physics from M-theory in the microscopic domain to the multiverse in the macroscopic domain\, probe the nature of space and time\, push into the esoteric worlds of cosmology and black holes\, and ask whether some  final theory which amalgamates relativity and quantum mechanics can accommodate consciousness and associated anomalous phenomena.  We speculate that physics will need to take a broader view of reality if it is ever going to complete its mission. \n\n\n\nProfessor Carr has been at the forefront of this movement for most of his career. With a well-respected research profile in cosmology\, black holes and the anthropic principle\, he is well-placed to speak with authority on the nature of current physics. Bernard has also had a long-standing interest in Buddhism\, psychical research and spiritual experience. He’s been President of the Society for Psychical Research and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.  \n\n\n\nHe is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes.  \n\n\n\nBeyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department\, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy\,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him. \n\n\n\nAfter attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School\, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge\, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time\, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics. \n\n\n\nShortly after his PhD\, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang\, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years. \n\n\n\nSince then\, he has also written Apollo in Perspective\, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition)\, Space-time\, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World\, written with an old school friend\, Professor Simon Hands. In addition\, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently\, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nIn various other projects\, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education. \n\n\n\nDuring COVID\, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then\, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home. \n\n\n\nHis physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys\, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University\, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants. \n\n\n\nAll of them can do sport\, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well). \n\n\n\nIn January 2026\, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.
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SUMMARY:Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES \n\n\n\nPaths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic \n\n\n\nMay 20–27\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Allday\, Vicente Arraez\, Vasileios Basios\, Apela Colorado\, Alvaro Doethiro Tukano\, Ruro Caituiro Monge\, Aimee Morgana (virtually)\, Robin Rice\, Francisco Rivarola.Curated and Chaired by: Jeff Dunne \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with on Wedensday May 20 at 17:00 and ends after lunch on Wednesday May 27. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nThe exploration of consciousness\, as a direct goal or as reflected in our desire to understand the natural universe\, is central to every culture throughout history. In this event we consider how this quest has been pursued through both modern western intellectualism and the older indigenous paths of experiential knowing\, and ultimately ask whether such approaches can be complementary. \n\n\n\nHumanity’s recent evolution has seen an increase in anxiety of epidemic proportions\, and a prevailing assessment is that it is strongly correlated with our growing sense of disconnection—disconnection with others\, of course\, but also disconnection from the world\, and even from ourselves at the individual level. It is quite possible that the relatively recent resurgence of interest in understanding the nature of ourselves and our connection to the universe is in response to these pressures; whether at a conscious or subconscious level\, we sense that this growing sense of isolation is at the core of our dis-ease manifesting at spiritual and emotional levels\, and ultimately manifesting as literal disease in the physical. \n\n\n\nWe say resurgence because understanding the nature of self in relation to the world has been an enduring priority throughout most of human history\, only diminished—particularly in western societies—over the last few hundred years. Modern science is now seeking these answers by exploring our prevailing models of reality (such as quantum mechanics) through the language of mathematics\, but we must recognize that this intellectual path is only one approach\, and quite nascent. For many thousands of years\, indigenous cultures have been approaching these same questions\, but along an experiential path\, i.e. understanding our connection to the world (and each other) by focusing on the experience of those connections. \n\n\n\nWhat is consciousness? What is reality? How are they connected? In this conference\, we will not provide an answer to such questions; instead\, we will provide many answers. But that is not our goal. These answers\, offered from the diverse perspectives of a diverse set of presenters\, are the candles with which we will examine the methods that produce such answers. \n\n\n\nDuring the seven days of May 20-27th—as nature transitions from awakening into full function… as the Gemini Threshold encourages increase cognition and the urge to converse and explain… as Indigenous cultures offer first harvest blessings and elders speak the season into the people—we will come together to explore the potential for integrating intellectual articulation with experiential knowing. A group of eight speakers will share insights on topics such as: \n\n\n\n\nThe history of western science’s approach to understanding the universe\, and where the scientific world stands today;\n\n\n\nHow the process of connecting with nature has been developed over thousands of years of living with nature\, and where it stands today;\n\n\n\nThe evolution of ancient energetic traditions such as Qigong and Shamanism into modern practices;\n\n\n\nAlternate experiences of reality—or even alternate realities—that can be experienced through dreaming and other ways of experiencing; and ultimately…\n\n\n\nHow we can leverage all of this into a set of coherent practices and worldviews.\n\n\n\n\nBut more than an opportunity to listen\, this conference is an opportunity to engage. Participants will be more than individuals; they will be part of the conference community. Supported with tools\, conversations\, and a safe\, welcoming environment\, they will be challenged to make their own connections\, find their own answers\, and then (if they so choose) to contribute their insights as part of something bigger. \n\n\n\nPlease be part of the science\, the magic\, the experience. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/paths-to-knowing-consciousness-and-reality-from-the-indigenous-to-the-academic/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1\, Weekend 1: Into the Blue
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics \n\n\n\nInto the Blue\n\n\n\nWith Lee Nichol\, Bruce Alderman & friends \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday\, July 4 and 5\, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST \n\n\n\n2 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe recently-released Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm is an account of fifty years of experimentation with David Bohm’s metaphysical perspectives. It is not a book of physics\, nor is it a book of abstract philosophy. It is the distillation of practical\, experiential engagements with core aspects of Bohm’s worldview: wholeness and fragmentation\, the self-image\, thought as a system\, meaning\, dialogue\, soma-significance\, and the implicate order. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this weekend\, we will inquire into these themes\, and how anyone can pursue these questions in real-life ways. Of particular focus\, we will outline new ways of understanding Bohm’s emphasis on somatic experience. Among these are rheosoma (the flowing body) and the open organism\, an exploratory mode of recovering the innate depth of human being. \n\n\n\nWe will be joined by friends who have been participating in a group exploration of the weekend’s themes. \n\n\n\nThe themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm\, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe\, the UK\, and the US. It is recommended\, though not required\, for a full appreciation of July 4\, 5\, 11\, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download\, click here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver\, Colorado\, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\nLee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm\, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies\, a faculty with the Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Transformation program at National University\, and author of several forthcoming books\, including Feeling Fully Alive\, Giving Voice to Time and Space\, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2026-part-1-weekend-1-into-the-blue/
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SUMMARY:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place
DESCRIPTION:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place \n\n\n\nSeptember 10 – 17\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Code and Alistair Duncan \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 1800.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1650.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with dinner on Thursday September 10 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Thursday September 17. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nWhy Inscendence?\n\n\n\nIn a time riven by fragmentation\, dislocation and conflicting narratives\, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land\, body and consciousness meet.  \n\n\n\nInscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness\, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.   \n\n\n\nIn resonance with Pari\, its landscape\, history\, and community\, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight\, relationship and action can emerge. \n\n\n\nInscendence—the impulse not to rise above the world but to climb into it\, to seek its core.Thomas Berry\, via Robert Macfarlane \n\n\n\nProgramme Themes and Practices\n\n\n\nOver the course of a week in Pari\, we will engage with:  \n\n\n\nEmbodied and Perceptual Investigation: \n\n\n\n\nExplorations into how breath-work\, movement and posture can expand and transform perceptual awareness\n\n\n\nWorking with our experience of the traditional elements of nature: earth\, water\, fire\, air and ether in a contemporary way\n\n\n\nHeightening the sensitivity of our physical senses: sight\, sound\, touch\, taste\, smell\, as entry points into deeper experience \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the body-mind as a phenomenological instrument\n\n\n\n\nFieldwork in the More-than-Human World: \n\n\n\n\nImmersive sessions engaging with the plants\, stones\, weather and landforms of the Tuscany landscape\n\n\n\nExploration of a range of ways of knowing including Goethean observation and nature-connection practices\n\n\n\nAttending to artefacts\, stories and built structures as relational presences\n\n\n\n\nCreative and Collaboratives Explorations:  \n\n\n\n\nCreative writing\, journaling\, and drawing as practices of attending to lived experience\n\n\n\nSitting in Council / dialogue will allow us to share insights and integrate personal experience into collective understanding. \n\n\n\nConversational ‘tutorial-style’ sessions will be used to explore the intersection between experience and theory\n\n\n\n\nDaily Rhythms—each day will include four main elements: \n\n\n\n\nOutdoor sessions exploring a range of practices and experiences\n\n\n\nThe seeding of ‘micro-practices’ that will provide the opportunity for moments in the day to become an opportunity for conscious awareness\n\n\n\nSitting in Council\, ‘tutorial’ circles and creative sessions to collectively reflect on our unfolding experience and its implications \n\n\n\nPersonal reflection time supported by the quiet rhythms of the village\n\n\n\n\nTheoretical Context: \n\n\n\nWith an emphasis on experiential forms of enquiry\, Inscendence is nevertheless inspired by the insights and practices of a wide range of thinkers from both East and West. These perspectives provide lenses through which our lived experience can be shared and articulated. \n\n\n\nSome of these sources of inspiration include: \n\n\n\n\nThe Implicate / Explicate / Holoflux (David Bohm) \n\n\n\nThe implications of brain hemisphere modes of attention (Iain McGilchrist) \n\n\n\nThe nature of participatory consciousness (Owen Barfield\,)\n\n\n\nThe idea of Authentic Wholeness (Henri Bortoft\, J.W. Goethe)\n\n\n\nThe unity of Mind and Matter from (Gregory Bateson) \n\n\n\nThe explorations of language\, sensory perception and the new animism (David Abram\, Robin Kimmerer)\n\n\n\nPhilosophical Taoism\n\n\n\nNon-dual Shaiva Tantra\n\n\n\n\nWhat May Emerge: \n\n\n\n\nA refined capacity for attentional flexibility and resonance\n\n\n\nA deeper sense of participation in the implicate wholeness of the cosmos\n\n\n\nInsight into how perception constructs (and reconstructs) the world\n\n\n\nA felt understanding of new grounds for coherent action and relationship\n\n\n\nA more integrated experience of self within the context of a conscious whole.\n\n\n\n\nOur aim is not to provide answers to the complex challenges of our time but to cultivate a new ground of exploration—a place from which thought\, relationship and creativity may unfold with greater coherence and sensitivity. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \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\nJonathan Code \n\n\n\nDuring a childhood and youth spent in Southern Ontario\, regular immersion in and on the freshwater lakes of Frontenac Park fostered in me a deep ecological and place-based awareness of the natural world. I am to this day never more at home than in a canoe on a lake at dawn\, paddling out as the sun rises and the loons call forth the day. \n\n\n\nMy ecological interests grew and deepened through encounters with the work of Goethe\, Schumacher\, Vine Deloria Jr.\, and Steiner—whose contributions to education\, medicine\, human development\, and agriculture (Biodynamic farming) continue to inform my teaching\, research\, and writing to this day. \n\n\n\nI am particularly interested in the contribution that Goethe can make to ecological thinking (which I addressed in a study of Goethe’s method of exact imagination as applied to the Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)) and in how the Biodynamic preparations are not only stimulants for good composting processes but are also catalysts for a deepening of agricultural consciousness (which I address in Muck and Mind: Encountering Biodynamic Agriculture\, 2014). \n\n\n\nI am currently engaged in a study of traditional fire-craft and its affordances for educational philosophy and praxis. This study grows out of a deep concern for education in the twenty first century (see Crafting: Transforming Materials and the Maker\, 2019)—a concern that what is too often left out in many of our educational endeavors is a sense for who a human being is…and what we can (potentially) become. \n\n\n\nAlistair Duncan  \n\n\n\nAfter a first career as a systems programmer\, architect and programme manager in technology for a couple of global corporations\, fifteen years ago I jumped ship. Since then I  have worked as an eco-psychologist\, workshop facilitator/educator and therapist across a number of contexts particularly  in universities\, disadvantaged communities and with conservation organisations.  \n\n\n\nMy passion is weaving together concrete practices from contemporary psychology\, embodiment modalities and therapies as well as the spiritualities of east and west. Then\, using them to make experiential and practical\, the insights that arise from a range of fields across philosophy\, science and spirituality.  \n\n\n\nTo define my context with a few names. I would cite David Bohm\, Owen Barfield\, Martin Heidegger\, Gregory Bateson\, Henri Bortoff\, Michael Washburn\, David Abram and Kenneth White as my current key co-ordinates. And I am drawing practices from a wide palette\, but the core is found in indigenous tracking methods\, Non-dual Shaiva Tantrism\, Taoism\, and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). \n\n\n\nI have a first degree in Biology and a Masters in Philosophy\, and have trained in several coaching and therapeutic modalities. \n\n\n\nEverything I do nowadays is based in nature. It’s my current conviction that exploring a deeper sensorial resonance and reciprocity between the human body-mind and the more-than-human cosmos is the starting point for a lived experience of wholeness and a connection into the deep consciousness of the cosmos. And that\, from there\, we may be able to discern a better way to live in these times.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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