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SUMMARY:Recovering the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Recovering the Sacred \n\n\n\nwith Anne Baring\, Bernard Carr\, Matthijs Cornelissen\, Alex Gomez-Marin\, Jeremy Lent\, David Lorimer\, Iain McGilchrist\, Peter Reason\, Mary-Jayne Rust \n\n\n\nCurated by John Pickering \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nNovember 5 – 27\, 20229:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n8-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nWe are living in a time of anxiety and uncertainty. As more environmental damage is done\, the means to repair it seems to be getting less. It is increasingly difficult to know what to trust in politics and the media. Spiritual traditions survive\, but the authority they once had has passed to science and so it might seem that the idea of ‘The Sacred’ has disappeared. \n\n\n\nBut as science reveals more and more about the place of the earth in the cosmos there is a growing awareness of how precious our living world is and of how inter-dependent we are with it. Perhaps this is not only a scientific discovery but also the re-appearance of the sacred in a form fit for our times. \n\n\n\nHow the living world came to be and how it persists is the business of the sciences.  How cultures appear and develop is the business of the humanities. Powerful though those styles of inquiry are\, they offer little comfort to those anxious about the destructive direction in which our globalised culture is going. What appears to be missing is some way of restoring our sense of spiritual interdependence with the living world. \n\n\n\nThis series of talks is an opportunity to hear from people concerned with these ideas and to participate in a dialogue on how they might help us to keep hope alive and decide what to do for the best in our challenging times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 5Recovering the Soulwith Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nSunday November 6The Sacred and the Evolution of Consciousnesswith Matthijs Cornelissen \n\n\n\nSaturday November 12Finding our Way Home to Nature as Sacredwith Mary-Jayne Rust \n\n\n\nSunday November 13The Sacred as Immanent in a Sentient Worldwith Peter Reason \n\n\n\nSaturday November 19Towards a Transmaterialist Science of the Sacredwith Bernard Carr and Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nSunday November 20The Loss and Recovery of the Sacredwith Anne Baring \n\n\n\nSaturday November 26Recovering a Sense of the Sacred – an Evolutionary Imperativewith David Lorimer \n\n\n\nSunday November 27Weaving a Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Deep Interrelatedness Lays a Path to Sustainable Flourishingwith Jeremy Lent
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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:The Sacred and the Evolution of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/TklytlsHY44?si=gTv9vWN76JYmMdmA\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sacred and the Evolution of Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Matthijs Cornelissen \n\n\n\nSunday November 6\, 20229:00am 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\nWe tend to think of the Sacred as something unchanging. There is some point to this: the Sacred is\, after all\, what connects us to eternity or even to something beyond space and time.  But could it be changing? To address this question\, since the modern West pays so little attention to the Sacred\, it makes sense to go back to other cultures who have developed deeper knowledge about it. \n\n\n\nMost major spiritual traditions\, in the West as well as in India\, make some kind of distinction between the Divine who is eternal and perfect\, and the world which is constrained by time and imperfect\, but what if our conception of this split is due to the limited nature of our human consciousness and our too limited mental understanding of reality? \n\n\n\nIn the first half of last century Sri Aurobindo developed the idea that evolution is the progressive embodiment of ever higher types of consciousness. He argued that we are on the brink of the next stage in evolution which will see the embodiment of a radically different type of consciousness. \n\n\n\nIn this talk Matthijs will indicate the direction in which Sri Aurobindo saw the world evolving\, and\, perhaps\, more relevant for us today\, what we can do during the transitional period. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthijs Cornelissen MD\, was born in the Netherlands and studied Medicine and Psychology in Amsterdam. He is deeply interested in the work of Sri Aurobindo\, and at 27\, he moved to India where he has lived ever since. In the Delhi Branch of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram he helped to set up the Institute for Integral Education\, Mirambika\, and at present he teaches the psychological aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s work at SAICE in Pondicherry. He assisted with the publication of Sri Aurobindo’s Complete Works\, and has written articles and book chapters on Sri Aurobindo’s contributions to Consciousness Studies and Psychology. He has also organised conferences\, given workshops and lectures\, and edited books on the same subject. He founded and maintains the websites of the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Consciousness Studies\, the Indian Psychology Institute and Infinity in a Drop.
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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:Finding our Way Home to Nature as Sacred
DESCRIPTION:https://youtu.be/5OMEfeZO-bc?si=ZRl–LKxnhoF7BQ9\n\n\n\n\n\nFinding our Way Home to Nature as Sacred \n\n\n\nwith Mary-Jayne Rust \n\n\n\nSaturday November 12\, 20229:00am 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\nThe Rainmaker Story tells of a Taoist elder who brought rain to a region of great drought in ancient China; it was one of C.G. Jung’s favourite stories about the capacity to bring about a state of natural balance. It is also one of many examples of an ancient worldview where the earth is seen as sacred and humans are part of that sacred matrix. Can we reinhabit this way of seeing in our modern world? In this talk I will bring stories\, experiences and examples of ways in which our relationship with the earth\, and with our own animal nature\, can be restored\, opening doors to imagination\, synchronicity and the numinous. Along the way there may be many difficult and painful encounters with the shadow of our dominant culture; when this is honoured our ecological crisis can then become an extraordinary portal of modern times. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary-Jayne Rust is an ecopsychologist and Jungian analyst  Journeys to Ladakh (on the Tibetan plateau) in the early 1990’s alerted her to the seriousness of the ecological crisis and its cultural\, economic and spiritual roots. This led her into the field of ecopsychology which has been the focus of her teaching and writing ever since. Her numerous publications can be found on www.mjrust.net\, including Towards an Ecopsychotherapy\, Confer Books\, London 2019 and Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis\, eds M.J. Rust & Nick Totton. Karnac\, London 2011. She grew up beside the sea and is wild about swimming. Now she lives and works beside ancient woodland in north London where she has both an indoor and outdoor ecopsychotherapy practice.
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SUMMARY:The Sacred as Immanent in a Sentient World
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tz3JjQ2tgM\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sacred as Immanent in a Sentient World \n\n\n\nwith Peter Reason \n\n\n\nSunday November 13\, 20229:00am 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\nWhat does it mean to live on Earth as Gaia—that is to say\, as a living\, vital entity in which many kinds of beings create meaning and tell stories? If we invoke such a world of sentient presence\, calling to other-than-human beings as persons\, might we be graced with a response? And what does this mean for recovering the sacred? \n\n\n\nOver the past four years I have initiated and participated in a series of co-operative inquiries\, drawing on Freya Mathews’ articulation of ‘living cosmos panpsychism.’ In this talk I will give some accounts of our experiences from these inquiries\, narratives of occasions when the world has indeed ‘answered back’ to our invocation. From this I will say something about living cosmos panpsychism that has underpinned our work. \n\n\n\nI will continue to explore the ethical position inherent in this perspective—the ought which is ontological\, at the core of what is. This is the Law in the pattern in things that enables the living cosmos to renew and re-articulate itself in perpetuity. It provides an understanding of the sacred as immanent\, and offers a foundation for a more ontologically reverent\, cosmocentric way of inhabiting the world. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Reason \n\n\n\nAs Director of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice at the University of Bath\, England\, Peter Reason was an international leader in the development of participative approaches to action research. In these forms of experiential inquiry all are co-researchers\, contributing both to the thinking that forms the research and to the action that is its subject. He published widely\, co-editing the Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice and co-founding the journal Action Research. \n\n\n\nSince retiring from his academic position\, Peter has focused on writing that links the tradition of nature writing with the ecological crisis of our times\, drawing on scientific\, ecological\, philosophical and spiritual sources. He is currently engaged in a series of experiential and co-operative inquiries exploring living cosmos panpsychism in relation to Rivers. His books include Spindrift: A wilderness pilgrimage at sea; In Search of Grace: An ecological pilgrimage\, and most recently (with artist Sarah Gillespie) On Presence: Essays | Drawings and On Sentience: Essays | Drawings. He is currently preparing Living in a Sentient World: An inquiry with his colleagues Freya Mathews\, Andreas Weber\, Stephan Harding\, and Sandra Wooltorton. \n\n\n\nPeter is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath.
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SUMMARY:Towards a Transmaterialist Science of the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIYNYys3DU\n\n\n\n\n\nTowards a Transmaterialist Science of the Sacred \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr and Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 19\, 20229:00am 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\nScience is traditionally associated with the material world but in this conversation Bernard (President of the Scientific and Medical Network) and Alex (Director of the Pari Center) will discuss whether\, and to what extent\, it can be expanded to accommodate the worlds of mind and spirit. This is the remit of what is sometimes termed ‘postmaterialist’ science\, although ‘transmaterialist science’ is another possible designation\, this requiring a change in the nature of both science and scientists themselves. From this perspective\, the sacred can be found in all three worlds and not just the domain of spirit. While materialist science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a divine element in the universe\, an expanded version may reinforce the link between science and spirituality\, thus healing a bifurcation that harms both our planet and our humanity. The conversation will include a brief presentation in which Bernard introduces his hyperdimensional theory\, this unifying the three worlds by invoking extra dimensions beyond ordinary space and time. This suggests that consciousness is fundamental and not necessarily restricted to brains\, with evolution operating on the level of mind and spirit as well as body. This is congruent with Alex’s research as a neuroscientist\, investigating the strong version of the extended mind hypothesis\, in which memory and perception are non-local and the brain has a permissive rather than a productive function. \n\n\n\nConsciousness is also associated with life\, which might itself be regarded as sacred. But there may be forms of life beyond our own planet and the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would surely have a huge impact on humanity—technologically\, culturally and spiritually. The future scientist will need to be a well-versed practitioner of the science of the sacred. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\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. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse?and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond 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\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 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.
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SUMMARY:The Loss and Recovery of the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/e22uwZFa30o?si=ghyq7F8dDHl-nA3s\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loss and Recovery of the Sacred \n\n\n\nwith Anne Baring \n\n\n\nSunday November 20\, 20229:00am 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\nJesus said that men do not put new wine in old bottles\, lest the bottles break and the wine is lost. There is new wine pouring into our culture from different sources: new bottles are being created to hold it. This talk will explore aspects of the new wine and the new bottles. It will also explore when\, where and how we lost a vital aspect of the sacred\, together with visionary imagination and experience. In focussing so much on the rational mind\, we have lost touch with the heart and the soul. For increasing numbers\, religion has become meaningless. God has been pronounced dead—an outgrown superstition. But while the image of the sacred may die\, the Sacred cannot die. After an interval marked by cultural and social disintegration\, chaos and despair\, a new image may appear\, unheralded\, from the depths of the human psyche. We are living at such a time\, in the final stages of an old era and the birth of a new one. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Baring b. 1931. MA Oxon. PhD (Hons) in Wisdom Studies Ubiquity University 2018. Jungian Analyst\, author and co-author of 7 books including\, with Jules Cashford\, The Myth of the Goddess; Evolution of an Image; with Andrew Harvey\, The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine; with Dr Scilla Elworthy\, Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity. Also a book for children\, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time. Her most recent book The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul (2013\, updated and reprinted 2020) was awarded the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 2013. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual\, mythological\, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her websites are devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. www.annebaring.com and www.anne-baring.com
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr. Jordi Pigem
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1FuPevbtQ\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Jordi Pigem and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday November 239:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nYou are not a robot. And yet it is necessary to say the obvious. Under the spell of techno-capitalism\, machines are made in the image of people\, and people in the image of machines. At the same time\, the distinction between true and false is waning as virtual worlds are proclaimed by academic and technocratic celebrities as a sort of “reality+”. The artificial is the new natural. And the Orwellian\, the new normal. In this installment of The Future Scientist we will draw attention to the roots\, falsehoods\, and perils of “post-truth” in the context of the so-called fourth industrial revolution — to distract and confuse\, to discipline and punish\, such are the means of totalitarianism\, now overpowered by digital media. If not dark\, the mirror of science has become rather blurred. Who to trust\, and why? The post-pandemic challenges of global control and dehumanization apply not only to science\, but also to education\, health\, and the economy. Despite the accelerated proliferation of scientism (and precisely because of this)\, science still has a vital role to play. A post-materialist view of consciousness and of life may bring back the critical free thought we have missed\, and the joy we have lost. In the context of the covert philosophies and confounded ideologies that scientists profess\, and also in the context of actual science itself\, we will attempt a vital conversation in the minor key. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84980605546 \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\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\n\n\n\n\nJordi Pigem holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. He devoted his doctoral work to the intercultural thought of the philosopher and theologian Raimon Panikkar\, being also the author of the edition and introduction of Raimon Panikkar\, Ecosophy: the wisdom of the Earth (2021). From 1998 to 2003 he was a professor of Philosophy of Science in the Masters in Holistic Science at the Schumacher College in England. He currently teaches several courses in Spanish universities. He is the author\, amongst other books\, of the following Spanish titles: Pandemic and post-truth: Life\, consciousness and the fourth industrial revolution (2021)\, Thus speaks the Earth (2021)\, Angels or robots: the human condition in the hyper-technological society (2018)\, and Vital intelligence: a postmaterialist vision of life and consciousness (2016). He was granted the Philosophical Award of the Institute of  Catalan Studies in 1999\, the Essay Award of Resurgenceand the Scientific and Medical Network in 2006\, and the prestigious Joan Maragall Award in 2016. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-dr-jordi-pigem/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Recovering a Sense of the Sacred – an Evolutionary Imperative
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hM2TknIlvNE?si=_A5jk7EnW27grTzg\n\n\n\n\n\nRecovering a Sense of the Sacred – an Evolutionary Imperative \n\n\n\nwith David Lorimer \n\n\n\nSaturday November 26\, 20229:00am 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\nScientific materialism and modern consumerism have led to a widespread loss of a sense of the sacred where Nature is regarded as dead and a resource to exploit for monetary gain. Correspondingly\, the human being is understood in mechanistic terms\, and the vision of transhumanism and technocracy is a future ‘upgrade of the human operating system’ where we are\, in the memorably chilling phrase of Yuval Noah Harari\, simply hackable animals. The very nature of what it means to be human is now at stake\, and a recovery of a sense of the sacred with respect to both humans and Nature is now an evolutionary imperative. This entails resisting the transhumanist agenda of universal surveillance and control\, and forging a beneficial relationship both with Nature and emerging technologies with human flourishing at the centre; also recognising the centrality of our transcendent nature that gives us access to deeper structures of reality. In the words of King Charles III\, the watchword is Harmony. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\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
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SUMMARY:Weaving a Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Deep Interrelatedness Lays a Path to Sustainable Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/T_dUhQE6TlM?si=JlXotccW7_WMoCpj\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Jeremy Lent \n\n\n\nSunday November 27\, 20229:00am 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\nOur dominant worldview tells us we’re split between mind and body\, separate from each other\, and at odds with the natural world. This worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings. In this talk\, based on themes from his recent book\, The Web of Meaning\, author Jeremy Lent will discuss how another worldview is possible—recognizing our deep interrelatedness with all of life. \n\n\n\nShowing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures\, the talk weaves together findings from modern systems thinking\, evolutionary biology\, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism\, Taoism\, and Indigenous wisdom. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy Lent\, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as ‘one of the greatest thinkers of our age\,’ is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis\, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning books\, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning\, and The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe\, trace the historical underpinnings and flaws of the dominant worldview\, and offer a foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision of\, and pathways toward\, an ecological civilization and is founder of the Deep Transformation Network.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr. Shantena Sabbadini
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjlv-_aPMas\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Shantena Sabbadini and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nTuesday December 139:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn this final instalment of The Future Scientist series we will be in conversation with the former director of The Pari Center\, Dr. Shantena Augusto Sabbadini. We will discuss the I Ching\, also known as The Book of Changes\, which Dr. Sabbadini translated to English together with Rudolf Ritsema\, the former director of the Eranos Foundation. The I Ching is a divination system\, a formidable three-thousand years old manual\, whose language defies Western rationality. It is not a philosophical text\, nor a prediction machine. Rather than guessing the future\, the I Ching allows us to read into the present moment\, weaving together context and chance as an organic whole at the moment of observation. Causality gives way to synchronicity; and yet\, meaningful randomness sounds like an oxymoron to the contemporary left-hemispheric scientific mind. Integrating the principles of yin and yang\, structure and action\, form and energy\, and chaos and order\, the I Ching offers us a doorway into the imaginal world\, closer to the language of dreams. In ending\, inspired by Carl Gustav Jung’s foreword to the I Ching translation by Richard Wilhelm\, we will conclude our series by asking the oracle about the future scientist. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82101234528 \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\n\n\n\n\nShantena Augusto Sabbadini graduated from the University of Milan in 1968 and was awarded his PhD in physics from the University of California in 1976. In Milan he researched the foundations of quantum physics\, laying the base for what is currently known as the decoherence interpretation of quantum physics. At the University of California\, he contributed to the theoretical work behind the first identification of a black hole\, the X-ray source Cygnus X-1. In the 1990s he was scientific consultant for the Eranos Foundation\, an East-West research center founded under the auspices of C.G. Jung in the 1930s. In that context he produced various translations and commentaries of Chinese classics in Italian and English\, including the Yijingand the trilogy of Daoist classics\, the Laozi\, the Zhuangzi and the Liezi. From 2002 onwards he collaborated with F. David Peat running the Pari Center for New Learning and in 2017 he succeeded his friend and colleague as director of the center. \n\n\n\nShantena leads workshops and courses on the philosophical implications of quantum physics\, on Daoism\, and on using the Yijing as a tool for introspection. His most recent book in English\, Pilgrimages to Emptiness: Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics\, was published by Pari Publishing in 2017. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-dr-shantena-sabbadini/
LOCATION:Online
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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 Scientist: A Recapitulation
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording \n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoyZM4-94g&t=1s\n\n\n\n\n\nA Recapitulation and Conversation between the Audience and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday December 219:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist conversation series is reaching an end. After a whole year of monthly encounters with prominent\, deep\, and visionary scholars\, the project will complete the first phase of a greater journey. In this last event of the year\, at the heart of the winter solstice\, Alex will revisit the initial intention of the series\, briefly recapitulate each of the twelve sessions we have had so far\, and seek comments and feedback from the participants in an extended Q&A. He will then introduce the rationale for bringing The Future Scientist to a close and evolve it into The Future Human conversation series\, which will begin in January 2023 as a natural continuation of the 2022 quest. Paraphrasing one of our very mottos\, this will be a virtual encounter to understand where the series is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86553137353 \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/a-recapitulation-and-conversation-between-the-audience-and-dr-alex-gomez-marin/
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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
DESCRIPTION:Entanglement: Physics\, Mind and Worlds \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Jonathan Allday\, Basil Hiley\, José Latorre\, Dean Radin\, Vandana Shiva \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nFebruary 18 – March 5\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nGiven the recently awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect\, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for the experiments with entangled photons\, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”\, the mysterious notion of entanglement has come back with renewed force not only to the Olympus of mainstream science\, but also to the lives of laypeople\, recapturing our imagination as to the fundamental interconnected nature of the cosmos. \n\n\n\nIn a spirit of celebration\, this online series brings together world-experts to discuss what entanglement entails\, from a theoretical perspective\, along with the experiments that have confirmed “spooky action at a distance” and closed increasingly implausible loopholes that might provide another explanation. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will also address the impact of entanglement beyond physics\, and its promise for technological applications in quantum computing. \n\n\n\nWe intend to cover in relative depth some of the following questions: What is entanglement? What experimental evidence is there for entanglement? Is entanglement the distinctive difference between classical and quantum physics? How does entanglement impact on conventional notions such as ‘part’ and ‘whole’? Does entanglement point to a different conception of space and time? How might entanglement impact on areas of conventional science – e.g.\, quantum biology\, consciousness studies? Is entanglement anything more than a useful analogy in areas of less conventional science – e.g.\, parapsychology? Has entanglement been anticipated in the worldviews of other cultures? Does entanglement radically undermine the prevailing materialist western worldview? \n\n\n\nAs physicist David Bohm proposed\, “the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth\, but because their separateness is an illusion. . . . At some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities\, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 18Entanglement for Amateurswith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday February 19Quantum Computingwith Prof. José Latorre \n\n\n\nSaturday February 25Spooky Action at a (Temporal) Distancewith Dr. Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSunday February 26My Entanglement with Entanglementwith Prof. Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday March 4Entangled Minds and Matterwith Dr. Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSunday March 5Living in a Non-Local World: Entanglement Meets Ecologywith Dr. Vandana Shiva
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entanglement-2/
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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:José Ignacio Latorre
DESCRIPTION:Sunday February 19\, 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\n\n\n\n\nJosé Ignacio Latorre got his PhD in Particle Physics at Univ. Barcelona. He was a Fullbright Fellow at MIT (USA) and a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He then became associate professor at the Univ. Barcelona and\, later\, full professor in Theoretical Physics. \n\n\n\nHe has written over 100 papers on Particle Physics and Quantum Information and has directed 12 PhD thesis. \n\n\n\nHe was a founder of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual. \n\n\n\nHe produced two documentaries\, one of them on the last voice of the Manhattan Project. \n\n\n\nHe works on Ariticial Intelligence and was a founder of the NNPDF collaboration. \n\n\n\nHe is a partner at Entanglement Partners. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/jose-ignacio-latorre/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Spooky Action at a (Temporal) Distance
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSaturday February 25\, 2023 \n\n\n\n9:00am 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\nSince the discovery of Bell’s theorem\, the physics community has come to take seriously the possibility that the universe might contain physical processes which are spatially nonlocal\, but there has been no such revolution with regard to the possibility of temporally nonlocal processes. In this talk\, I will explore what temporal nonlocality might mean for physics. I will begin by arguing that temporal locality is incompatible with relativity and I will consider what kind of temporal nonlocality is suggested by relativistic considerations. I will introduce the temporal Bell inequalities\, and discuss how temporal nonlocality is related to retrocausality. Finally\, I will describe how accepting temporal nonlocality might change scientific explanations and open up new possibilities for research in physics. The talk will be followed by audience discussion of possible objections to temporal nonlocality and areas of science that might be affected by temporal nonlocality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science\, associated with the University of Western Ontario. Adlam received her PhD in relativistic quantum information from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that she completed the Perimeter Scholar’s International programme in theoretical physics\, and she did her undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy at the Univeristy of Oxford. Adlam works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of physics. Adlam is particularly interested in approaches to physics which go beyond the time evolution paradigm – encompassing a range of possibilities like temporal non-locality\, retrocausality\, and all-at-once laws.  \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/dr-emily-adlam/
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SUMMARY:My Entanglement with Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:My Entanglement with Entanglement \n\n\n\nwith Prof. Basil J. Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday February 26\, 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\n\n\n\n\nBasil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize ‘Best Person in Physics’ in 2012. A long-time co-worker of David Bohm\, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on the implicate order and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm\, which is considered the main reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nThe work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question ‘whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system\, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature’ and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. \n\n\n\nIn 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College\, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process\, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler’s ‘sum over three geometries’ ideas that he was using to quantize gravity. \n\n\n\nHiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm’s model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the ‘Einstein-Schrödinger equation\,’ as Wheeler called it\, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications\, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory\, published 1993\, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nIn 1995\, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ‘his paramount importance as natural philosopher\, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture.’ \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/prof-basil-j-hiley/
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Satish Kumar
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswI-Y8Xs9g\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Satish Kumar and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday March 19:00am 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\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\nThe second conversation in this series will be on Wednesday March 1\, 2023 with Satish Kumar. Our conversation will orbit around “Love”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeace-pilgrim\, life-long activist and former monk\, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9\, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering Jain monks. Inspired by Gandhi\, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back in the world and soon undertook a peace-pilgrimage\, walking without money from India to America in the name of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s\, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration\, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. \n\n\n\nSatish founded Schumacher College as well as The Resurgence Trust\, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. To join Satish in protecting people and planet\, become a member of Resurgence (with 20% off)\, entitling you to this charity’s change-making magazine\, Resurgence & Ecologist. \n\n\n\nSatish appears regularly on podcasts\, radio and television shows. He has been interviewed by Richard Dawkins\, Russell Brand and Annie Lennox\, appearing as a guest on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs\, Thought for the Day and Midweek. Satish presented an episode of BBC2’s Natural World documentary series\, which was watched by 3.6 million people. An acclaimed international speaker and author\, Satish’s autobiography sold over 50\,000 copies\, inspiring change around the world. \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-satish-kumar/
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SUMMARY:Entangled Minds and Matter
DESCRIPTION:Entangled Minds and Matter \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSaturday March 4\, 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\nMethods for investigating mind-matter interactions were proposed by Sir Francis Bacon at the very origins of empiricism\, over three centuries ago. Systematic scientific studies began about a century ago. In this talk\, I will briefly review the modern experimental literature on “psychokinetic” effects\, then I will present in more detail experiments I have conducted involving random physical systems based on quantum indeterminacy\, photon polarization\, scattering\, and entanglement\, the molecular structure of water\, growth of plants and stem cells in vitro\, and influences on human mood and physiology. I will also discuss the epistemological challenges in conducting these kinds of studies\, as well as the practical and philosophical implications of mind-matter entanglements. \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 biotech 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). \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 690 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\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entangled-minds-and-matter/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Living in a Non-Local World: Entanglement Meets Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Living in a Non-Local World: Entanglement Meets Ecology \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Vandana Shiva \n\n\n\nSunday March 5\, 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\nI will discuss the implications of the concept of nonlocality and hidden variables to our understanding of life in the real world. Making a concrete analogy between quantum systems and humane societies reveals a way of being-in-the-world that is not only more Beautiful and True but also Good. I will argue that the revolutionary discoveries of the quantum revolution inform and inspire current revolutions in ecology\, agriculture\, and politics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, activist\, and author. A food sovereignty advocate\, environmentalist\, and ecofeminist\, Shiva holds a PhD in physics and has written more than 20 books\, including Making Peace with the Earth\, Staying Alive\, Monocultures of the Mind\, Democratizing Biology\, Soil Not Oil\, and Stolen Harvest. Based in Delhi\, she is referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization\, and a figure of the anti-globalization movement. She has worked as a consultant for the Indian government and abroad\, and in NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalization\, Women’s Environment & Development Organization and Third World Network. She is a co-founder of the gender unit of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development\, and of the Women’s Environment & Development Organization. Shiva has received numerous international honors\, such as the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008)\, Sydney’s Peace Prize (2010)\, Calgary’s Peace Prize (2011)\, and the Right Livelihood Award (1993)\, which is regarded as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/dr-vandana-shiva/
LOCATION:Online
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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/
LOCATION:Online
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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/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Incredible Minds
DESCRIPTION:Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual\, Virtual\, and Possible Minds Across Living Matter \n\n\n\nwith Paco Calvo\, Lars Chittka\, Audrey Dussutour\, Michael Levin\, Julia Mossbridge\, Matthew Segall \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nApril 22 – May 7\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities\, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin\, or not\, to ours. And\, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies\, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development\, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds\, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds\, a sister group to fungi and animals\, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What\, if anything\, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology\, and no less scientifically compatible\, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus\, at the end of the day\, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural\, and even more incredible\, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday April 22Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plantswith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSunday April 23The Mind of a Beewith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Naturewith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSunday April 30Human Thinking and Human Beingwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSaturday May 6The Use of Slime Molds in Promoting Science for and by the Peoplewith Dr. Audrey Dussutour \n\n\n\nSunday May 7Mind and Life in the Cosmoswith Dr. Matthew David Segall
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/incredible-minds-2/
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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:The Mind of a Bee
DESCRIPTION:The Mind of a Bee \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSunday April 23\, 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\nMost of us are aware of the hive mind—the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals?  Lars Chittka draws from decades of research\, including his own pioneering work\, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart\, have distinct personalities\, can recognize flowers and human faces\, exhibit basic emotions\, count\, use simple tools\, solve problems\, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness. Chittka illustrates how bee brains are unparalleled in the animal kingdom in terms of how much sophisticated material is packed into their tiny nervous systems. He looks at their innate behaviors and the ways their evolution as foragers may have contributed to their keen spatial memory. Chittka also examines the psychological differences between bees and the ethical dilemmas that arise in conservation and laboratory settings because bees might feel and think. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLars Chittka is the author of the book The Mind of a Bee and Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary College of the University of London.  He is also the founder of the Research Centre for Psychology at Queen Mary. He is known for his work on the evolution of sensory systems and cognition using insect-flower interactions as a model system. Chittka has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of animal cognition and its impact on evolutionary fitness studying bumblebees and honeybees.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-mind-of-a-bee/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Nature
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Fm7jLNrpg\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29\, 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\nEach of us takes a remarkable journey from physics to mind: we start as a blob of chemicals in an unfertilized quiescent oocyte and becomes a complex\, metacognitive human being. The continuous process of transformation and emergence that we see in developmental biology reminds us that we are true collective intelligences – composed of cells which used to be individual organisms themselves. In this talk\, I will describe our work on understanding how the competencies of single cells are harnessed to solve problems in anatomical space\, and how evolution pivoted this scaling of intelligence into the familiar forms of cognition in the nervous system. We will talk about diverse intelligence in novel embodiments\, the scaling of the cognitive light cone of all beings\, and the role of developmental bioelectricity as a cognitive glue and as the interface by which mind controls matter in the body. I will also show a new synthetic life form\, and discuss what it means for bioengineering and ethics of human relationships to the wider world of possible beings. We will discuss the implications of these ideas for understanding evolution\, and the applications we have developed in birth defects\, cancer\, and traumatic injury repair. By merging deep ideas from developmental biophysics\, computer science\, and cognitive science\, we not only get a new perspective on fundamental questions of life and mind\, but also new roadmaps in regenerative medicine\, biorobotics\, and AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Levin received dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and biology\, followed by a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard.  He did his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School\, and started his independent lab in 2000. He is currently the Vannevar Bush chair at Tufts University\, and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard. He serves as the founding director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. His lab uses a mix of developmental biophysics\, computer science\, and behavior science to understand the emergence of mind in unconventional embodiments at all scales\, and to develop interventions in regenerative medicine and applications in synthetic bioengineering. They can be found at www.drmichaellevin.org/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-collective-intelligence-of-cells-during-morphogenesis-what-bioelectricity-outside-the-brain-means-for-understanding-our-multiscale-nature/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Human Thinking and Human Being
DESCRIPTION:Human Thinking and Human Being \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSunday April 30\, 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\nThis talk is about the radical idea that if there is anything uniquely human about our minds\, it doesn’t actually matter. Our desire to feel special\, better-than\, and different-from other forms of intelligent life is not inspiring\, beneficial\, or supportive of transformation or self-transcendence. In contrast\, the ability to love all that is\, exactly as it is without suffering is rare among humans and apparently more common among non-humans. This is likely because we are keenly aware of all that could be improved in the world. The question I pose is\, how can we learn even more about how the world can be improved while also learning to love everything exactly as it is? How can we think our way into human being? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/human-thinking-and-human-being/
LOCATION:Online
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