BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Pari Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Pari Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://paricenter.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Pari Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200711T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200711T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20200616T083624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T093455Z UID:10000003-1594490400-1594501200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm - Exclusive Screening of Director's Cut DESCRIPTION:It is our great pleasure to invite you to join us for the screening of theWorld Premiere of the Director’s cut of \n\n\n\nINFINITE POTENTIALTHE LIFE AND IDEAS OF DAVID BOHM\n\n\n\nSaturday July 11 at 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nDavid Peat’s long-term dream was to produce a documentary about his colleague and friend David Bohm. Now\, with the support of the Fetzer Foundation\, the Mind and Life Institute\, director Paul Howard and Imagine Films\, and the Pari Center Community\, the dream has finally been realised. Pari was the birthplace of the film\, and many of the interviewees were filmed here in the village\, so it is an honour for us to present the long-awaited Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was one of the 20th Century’s most brilliant physicists. INFINITE POTENTIAL takes us on a mystical and scientific journey into the nature of life and reality with David Bohm\, the man Einstein called his ‘spiritual son’ and the Dalai Lama his ‘science guru.’ A physicist and explorer of Consciousness\, Bohm turned to Eastern wisdom to develop groundbreaking insights into the profound interconnectedness of the Universe and our place within it. \n\n\n\nThe Director’s Cut will feature exclusive interviews with luminaries such as H.H. the Dalai Lama\, Basil Hiley\, Sir Anthony Gormley\, Sir Roger Penrose\, Yakir Aharnov and Leroy Little Bear among others. This version will feature in-depth explorations of David Bohm’s ideas and philosophy\, with original animations curated by physicist Chris Dewdney. \n\n\n\nFollowing the screening\, an Online Summer Series organized in celebration of the film will span the following 7 weekends\, featuring almost all of the interviewees in 2-hour long live interactive sessions. Find out more \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel Discussion And Live Q&A\n\n\n\nFollowing the film\, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion and live Q&A with the director and key interviewees from the film. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\nDavid LorimerProgram Director of Scientific and Medical NetworkEditor\, Paradigm Explorer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists\n\n\n\nPaul Howard\, Director and ProducerBasil Hiley\, Quantum Physicist and Professor Emeritus\, University of London\, UKLeroy Little Bear\, Blackfoot Native\, Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, CanadaLee Nichol\, Editor and Educator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign up for your FREE seat at the Director’s Cut screening on YouTube and we’ll keep you up to date with all the relevant info\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n Email address (required)\n \n \n\n\n Δ URL:https://paricenter.com/event/infinite-potential-the-life-and-ideas-of-david-bohm-screening-of-directors-cut/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Inf_Potential_Pari_poster-scaled-e1592554889250.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200712T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200712T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20200616T133226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T171535Z UID:10000004-1594576800-1594584000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Infinite Potential: A Filmmaker's Journey into the World of David Bohm DESCRIPTION:Infinite Potential: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the World of David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Paul Howard  \n\n\n\nJuly 12 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nHaving just completed a film on David Bohm’s life\, his incredible work in physics\, philosophy and the nature of consciousness\, the question that Paul asked himself was\, how come I never before heard about this extraordinary man and his work? \n\n\n\nHe was the man Einstein called his ‘spiritual son’ and the Dalai Lama his ‘science guru\,’ so why is it that the world hardly knows his name? \n\n\n\nPaul Howard’s film is an attempt to answer that question\, to shine a light into the world of Bohm and how making the film changed his life. \n\n\n\nIt’s a film he believes has the potential to change the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Howard\, Film and Television Producer and Director\, Ireland \n\n\n\nA Producer\, Director\, Executive Producer of International repute with an enviable track record in documentary\, television series and more recently in feature film production.He has just completed work on the documentary titled Infinite Potential—The Life and Ideas of David Bohm for release in 2020. \n\n\n\nPaul has worked across most disciplines in the film/television industry over the past 30 years in Ireland and overseas as a director\, producer\, writer\, covering genres such as biography\, natural history\, wildlife. He has directed many critically acclaimed documentaries. He has worked for RTE (Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster)\, Imagine Limited (Independent Film Company)\, Nine Network (Sydney\, Australia)\, Nomad Films International (Melbourne\, Australia). \n\n\n\nSome recent successes include 21st Century Railway\, a modern history of railways; Waiting for Houlihan\, an arts documentary nominated for an IFTA award; Marsh to the Skies\, the secret Irish/American alliance that gave American access to Shannon Airport during the ‘Cold War’; The Irish in Hollywood\, a documentary ‘special’ on the cultural impact that the Irish have had on the famous Film Town; Bloomsday\, a documentary celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses\, broadcast internationally. \n\n\n\nIn Australia\, Paul completed Triumph of the Nomads\, a history of Australia prior to the arrival of European white settlement; and The Pintubi\, a series about the last remaining tribe of Aborigines who roamed the outback of Australia up until 1935. Also\, Breakthroughs\, a series on the latest developments in science and medicine. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/infinite-potential-a-filmmakers-journey-into-the-world-of-david-bohm/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/summer-school-sessions.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20200901T213247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092626Z UID:10000054-1601838000-1603659600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Entering Bohm's Holoflux DESCRIPTION:Entering Bohm’s Holoflux \n\n\n\nFour Sundays in October  – 4\, 11\, 18\, 25  – 202010:00 am PST\, 7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nEach Sunday session will be followed by a one-hour Wednesday discussion group11:00 am PST\, 8:00 pm CEST. \n\n\n\nAn experiential\, experimental approach to David Bohm’s holoflux: the flowing movement of all that is\, the ground of our being\, the mysterious domain in which mind\, matter\, and meaning are an organic whole. \n\n\n\nBohm proposed that human beings hold the potential to manifest the holoflux as living reality. What access points might we already have to this potential? What aspects of our personal and cultural lives thwart this access? Through presentation and extensive participant interaction\, these questions will guide our inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday October 4:  The Enfolding/Unfolding HumanOur contemporary identity—the self-image—follows a pattern of ‘enfolding’ and ‘unfolding’ that we find articulated throughout Bohm’s cosmos. But this self-image filters out the deep\, living currents of the holoflux\, in favour of enfolding recycled thought patterns\, values\, and images. Bohm often referred to the bright lights of Las Vegas\, which blot out the light of the stars: ‘When you turn off the electric lights\, then the universe comes through.’ Can we move through this analogy\, and into the living cosmos it points to? This holds the key to what Bohm referred to as true individuality—the undivided human. \n\n\n\nSunday October 11: Thought as a System & the Pain BodyWe will examine the manner in which awareness\, thinking\, and feeling deteriorate into ‘thoughting’ and ‘felting.’ This process permeates our individual lives\, as well as collective global culture\, and is at the root of reflexive defensiveness and isolation. The result is what has been called the ‘pain body\,’ a uniquely apt term for our modern condition. We will inquire into the various manifestations of the pain body\, and how this blockage to the deep currents of the holoflux might be undone. We will explore how interoception—our interpretation of the sensations within our bodies—can help us understand the grip and extent of the thoughting/felting vortex. \n\n\n\nSunday October 18: Liberating the Explicate Order & and the Prospect of DialogueIf we can release somewhat the impulses of thoughting\, felting\, and the pain body\, we can begin to sense untapped aspects of consciousness that are innately in motion\, rather than fixed and rigid. As inner rigidities dissolve\, this is reflected in the ‘outer’ world. It is this affinity for movement that allows us to sense and engage in a new way with the explicate order—the world of cars\, rivers\, people\, stars. Such ‘liberating’ of the explicate order is central to deep engagement in dialogue—when multiple participants allow the flux and flow of assumptions and presuppositions\, we find the seeds of a new level of participatory consciousness. \n\n\n\nSunday October 25: Flux & TransformationFor 40\,000 years or more\, indigenous people have been attuned to what David Bohm referred to as the holoflux\, and its attendant implicate orders. Our guest Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot) will discuss how these perceptions relate to the fixities and rigidities of the modern world. Can our categories of ‘reality’ become fluid? More deeply\, can fluid\, evolving categories—our framings of reality—help us align with the movements of the holoflux? Is such activity itself the expression of the holoflux\, manifesting in human beings? Are we willing to entertain the prospect of perpetual transformations? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Bohm collaborator\, editor\, educator \n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entering-bohms-holoflux/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lee-Nichol2_72.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201031T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20201004T201028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092720Z UID:10000055-1604167200-1607191200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:David Bohm Dialogue: Is There a Different Way to Talk Together DESCRIPTION:David Bohm Dialogue: Is There a Different Way to Talk Together \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 31 – December 5\, 2020Six Saturday Sessions of 2 hours and 30 mins18:00 CEST  /  13:00 EST on October 31\,  thereafter 12:00 EST \n\n\n\nwith Sally Jeffery\, Manfred Kritzler\, Beth Macy\, Caroline Pawluk and David Schrum \n\n\n\nRegister early as this program has a limit of 16 participants. \n\n\n\n\nDialogue works at several levels. At the deepest level it is about the development and transformative power of the collective mind. At another it provides a ‘display’ of thought\, slowing down its movement and allowing its observation. It allows the expression of many alternative views on a particular topic\, some of which are presented in non-negotiable ways. Thanks to the group process these differences do not lead to confrontation but are held together in a creative tension. Rather than trying to resolve opposing positions through compromise\, it is possible to move to an ‘order between and beyond. \nDavid Bohm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dialogue Program\n\n\n\nThis dialogue program is an invitation both to those new to dialogue and those who have participated previously. It is a journey together\, without leaders or followers. Registrants and convenors enquire as co-participants\, as we explore the movement of conscious mind and touch into what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nEach week a presenter will offer a brief introduction to a dialogue theme. Group dialogues of about two hours will follow. All convenors will participate in each session. Through this series\, our weekly introductory focus will progress—beginning from (1) a general overview\, then moving to (2) self\, (3) the other\, (4) the group as a whole\, (5) silence and (6) the dialogic field. In practice\, however\, our intention is that every session may bring in all these aspects and that we explore without boundaries\, in freedom. \n\n\n\nTopics and presenters are listed below\, each followed by a quotation/quotations by David Bohm that touch on the week’s focus:  \n\n\n\nWeek 1 – Dialogue – A Journey Together – with David Schrum\n\n\n\nWhat is it to discover the roots of our common human consciousness? Through David Bohm’s approach to dialogue\, we will open an enquiry into this question as we begin our journey together. \n\n\n\n\nThe object of dialogue is not to analyze things\, or to win an argument\, or to exchange opinions. Rather\, it is to suspend your opinions and to look at the opinions—to listen to everyone’s opinions\, to suspend them\, and to see what all that means. \n\n\n\nI suggest that there is a potential for self-awareness of thought—that the concrete\, real process of the movement of thought could be self-aware\, without bringing in a “self” who is aware of it. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 2 – The Art of Listening – with David Schrum\n\n\n\nDeep listening is a transformative process for the listener. As we listen to both the voices of others and the voice within\, we enter into an exploration together. Through intimate listening consciousness flowers\, to reveal its inner structure. \n\n\n\n\nIf you see other people’s thought\, it becomes your own thought\, and you treat it as your own thought. And when an emotional charge comes up\, you share all the emotional charges\, too\, if they affect you; you hold them together with all the thoughts. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 3 – Suspension and Moving Together – with Manfred Kritzler\n\n\n\nThrough suspension of assessment and judgement\, whatever thoughts are arising in me have the same value as the thoughts of others.  This gives us the opportunity to move together beyond the limitation of thought. \n\n\n\n\nIf each of us in the room is suspending\, then we are all doing the same thing. We are looking at everything together. \n\n\n\nAccordingly\, a different kind of consciousness is possible among us\, a participatory consciousness….Everything can move between us. Each person is participating\, is partaking of the whole meaning of the group and also taking part in it. We can call that true dialogue. \n\n\n\nThe point of suspension is to help make proprioception possible\, to create a mirror so that you can see the results of your thought. You have it inside yourself because your body acts as a mirror and you can see tensions arising in the body. Also\, other people are a mirror\, the group is a mirror. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 4 – Facilitation – with Sally Jeffery\n\n\n\nThis process of dialogue\, as David Bohm proposes it\, is not easy. Perhaps there are ways to support its emergence. It begins with seeing the need for this kind of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\nOn the whole you could say that if you are defending your opinions\, you are not serious. Likewise\, if you are trying to avoid something unpleasant inside of yourself\, that is also not being serious. But in dialogue you have to be serious. It is not dialogue if you are not—not in the way I’m using the word. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 5 – Silence and Listening – with Caroline Pawluk\n\n\n\nThe beauty of silent listening is that we just watch and listen\, doing nothing about what we observe. \n\n\n\n\nBut in a participatory view\, the suggestion is that we have the unlimited as the ground of everything—that our true being is unlimited. \n\n\n\n\n\nSo we can see there is no “road” to truth. What we are trying to say is that in dialogue we share all the roads and we finally see that none of them matters. We see the meaning of all the roads\, and therefore we come to the “no road.” \n\n\n\n\nWeek 6 – Sensing the Field – with Beth Macy\n\n\n\nListening intently to the silence that is beyond our personal thought\, what seeks to emerge from that field of common consciousness?  What inklings of new meaning are arising? \n\n\n\n\nI am proposing\, however\, that the field of thought is limited. I am also suggesting that there is the “unlimited\,” which contains the limited. This “unlimited” is not just in the direction of going to greater and greater distances out to the end of the universe; but much more importantly\, it is also going into more and more subtlety. \n\n\n\n\nSALLY JEFFERY was introduced to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti while an undergraduate in Sociology. Through involvement with his school in England\, she met and was impressed by David Bohm (a founding trustee of the school) and became committed to his work with dialogue. Over more than three decades\, she has participated in dialogue in many settings including prisons and her local (Lancaster) dialogue group. \n\n\n\nMANFRED KRITZLER was born in Nürnberg\, Germany. He was a partner in a German tax consultant firm in Stuttgart and a member of an international group of chartered accountants. He specialized in international taxes and transferring firms to the next generation. Having left the partnership some years ago\, he is now a self-employed coach based mainly on David Bohm‘s holographic worldview. Manfred is presently in the process of creating a workshop with the title\, ‘Trust in the Unknown.’ \n\n\n\nBETH MACY has followed a career interwoven with a common thread—change. She has 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\nCAROLINE PAWLUK has been involved in a local dialogue group in Sudbury\, Canada over the past twenty years and in various international forums in the United States and Europe during the past eight years. She is presently engaged with four online dialogue groups. \n\n\n\nDAVID SCHRUM has been involved in dialogue for over thirty years. His experience includes dialogues extending across approaches that arise from David Bohm’s work\, Krishnamurti’s teachings\, Ojibway spiritual traditions\, and other forms. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/david-bohm-dialogue-is-there-a-different-way-to-talk-together/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bohm-dialogue-1-e1602167454988.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201108T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201108T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20201020T154745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092445Z UID:10000056-1604858400-1604863800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Online Pari Community Conversations: What is ‘I’? with Yuriko Sato DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wy91SDXQA\n\n\n\n\n\nOnline Pari Community Conversations: What is ‘I’? \n\n\n\nwith Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nSunday November 8\, 202012:00 EST  / 18:00 CET \n\n\n\nThe Jungian analyst\, James Hillman\, wrote\, ‘There is only one core issue for all psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin?’ In other words\, ‘What is I?’ When we dream at night\, is ‘I’ dreaming or being dreamed? Is it also ‘I’ who appears in someone else’s dream? In the Japanese language\, there are different words to express ‘I’ according to relationship and occasion. So\, what is ‘I’? \n\n\n\nOn Sunday November 8\, Yuriko will open our monthly Community Call with a short presentation on the fascinating topic of ‘What is I’? This will be followed by breakaway discussion groups with the community coming back together for comments and Q&A. \n\n\n\n This event is open to everyone!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85232321129 \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\nYuriko Sato is a Japanese Jungian analyst and psychotherapist\, and a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. She studied medicine and worked as a psychiatrist in Osaka and Kyoto. She has private psychotherapy practices in Zürich and Bern\, and is a training/supervising analyst at ISAPZURICH (International School of Analytical Psychology Zürich)\, where she teaches on topics such as the Eastern (Japanese) psyche\, narcissism\, and psychiatry. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/online-pari-community-conversations-what-is-i-with-yuriko-sato/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Picture-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201213T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20201119T155848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092433Z UID:10000058-1607882400-1607889600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Flickering Reality: Exploring Alex Garland’s “Devs” with James Peat Barbieri DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbzND6KzXYM\n\n\n\n\n\nFlickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television \n\n\n\nExploring Alex Garland’s “Devs” \n\n\n\nwith James Peat Barbieri \n\n\n\nSunday December 13\, 20209:00am PST  | 12:00 pm EST  | 6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nA monthly get-together to examine the thought-provoking\, the philosophical\, and the ones that take risks. \n\n\n\nQuantum Physics\, Free Will and Faith in Devs \n\n\n\nJames Peat Barbieri will explore the ideas that arise from Alex Garland’s Devs (2020). This 8-part series follows the story of the secret department of a high-tech company\, which is developing a quantum computer that will be able to determine the past and the future by analysing data from the present. This session will take a look at the ideas in physics used in the show\, such as Bohm and Everett’s interpretations of Quantum Mechanics\, the philosophical implications of living in a deterministic world\, and the meaning of faith in science and in the creators of visionary technologies.The session will be followed by Q&A and discussion. \n\n\n\nTo watch this series: Devs is available on the BBC in the UK\, on Hulu in the US\, FX in Canada and Binge in Australia. If you live elsewhere and you have problems finding a streaming platform that includes Devs\, send me a message and I’ll see if I can help! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to everyone! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8533220379 \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\nWhat do Films and Television say about our world? What ideas can be examined through the moving image? From Science Fiction\, to Comedy\, Drama and Documentaries\, the Seventh Art has been a mirror of our society\, from the stories they portray to the method in which they’ve been produced\, a mirror that is sometimes difficult to understand. \n\n\n\nThis monthly series will reveal the message behind different Films and TV Series\, exploring the themes through the lens of physics\, psychology\, philosophy and sociology. Each session will have a guest speaker who will analyse these themes\, which will then be discussed with our community\, and lead us to a better understanding of film and reveal the deeper truths of our world. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/flickering-reality-exploring-alex-garlands-devs-with-james-peat-barbieri/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Unknown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210116T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210116T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20201210T122107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T152549Z UID:10000063-1610820000-1610827200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:What Breakthroughs in Science Can We Reasonably Predict? DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Aet1N1eskNI?si=hP3Q6RSTFM-JsfAI\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Olival Freire Jr. \n\n\n\nSaturday January 16\, 20219:00 PST  | 12:00 EST | 18:00 CET \n\n\n\nIt is much easier to talk about advances in the field of science in the past than to guess about its future. The case of Lord Kelvin’s 1900 statement concerning the two little clouds that still obscured the sky of physics\, and that would eventually be resolved into revolutionary theories—special relativity and quantum mechanics—is a well-known example of this. While risky\, guesses about the future of science are appealing. Indeed\, dramatic change is a recurrent theme in science studies as illustrated by Thomas Kuhn’s ideas on shifting paradigms in scientific revolutions as well as by several other authors who elaborated different views on the subject. Informed guesses about the future of science breakthroughs will be the subject of our conversation. \n\n\n\nThis online talk will be followed by questions and answers and discussion. \n\n\n\nThis event has a fee of €10\,00 a participant\, €9.00 for Friends of The Pari Center.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Olival Freire Jr.\, professor of physics and history of science \n\n\n\nOlival Freire Jr. is Professor of Physics and History of Physics at the Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Brazil. In Brazil\, he was trained in Physics (UFBA)\, he earned a PhD in History (USP) in 1995 and is fellow at the CNPq in History of Science. \n\n\n\nHe founded the Graduate Program in Science Teaching\, History and Philosophy of Science at UFBA\, in Brazil. He served as President of the Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência\, the Commission on the History of Physics at DHST and as a member of the council of History of Science Society. \n\n\n\nHe was researcher at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science\, MIT\, Harvard\, Université de Paris VII\, University of Maryland\, and Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. \n\n\n\nHe has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as books and book chapters. He wrote The Quantum Dissidents—Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1950-1990\, Springer\, 2015\, and David Bohm—A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World\, Springer\, 2019. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/what-breakthroughs-in-science-can-we-reasonably-predict/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Unknown-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210213T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20201122T171434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T152421Z UID:10000059-1613239200-1613246400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Synchronicity Quest with Remo Roth DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/E2iBB1h5Aeo?si=TZjSnVdClrlYX8w_\n\n\n\n\n\nSynchronicity Quest with Remo Roth \n\n\n\nwith Remo Roth \n\n\n\nExperiencing synchronicities is the observation of spontaneous incarnation phenomena in our consciousness. \n\n\n\nBeginning with Jung’s Scarab Synchronicity\, Roth outlines the conscious preconditions for the experience of synchronicities. In other words: What change in our consciousness is necessary for the observation of a multiplication of synchronicities? \n\n\n\nWith the help of some of his most important synchronicities\, Roth will demonstrate how they work\, their mode of operation\, and the way in which they led him to the method he calls Synchronicity Quest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRemo F. Roth\, was born in 1943 and lives in Zurich\, Switzerland. He is a researcher in the field of psychophysical reality (W. Pauli) or unus mundus (C.G. Jung)\, the magical unified world of Hermetic alchemy\, Daoism and Tantrism that is behind\, or even beyond\, the split into the outer world of physics and the inner world of Jung’s depth psychology. Roth was a former student and collaborator of Marie-Louise von Franz. Today he is working as an interpreter of synchronicity and archetypal dreams\, and as a healing practitioner. \n\n\n\nWith Pari Publishing he published three books on this subject; see http://www.paripublishing.com/authors/remo-f-roth/ URL:https://paricenter.com/event/synchronicity-quest-with-remo-roth/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210327T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210327T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210311T164708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T091937Z UID:10000086-1616868000-1616875200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Practice of the I Ching DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Lad9o5wME\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Practice of the I Ching \n\n\n\nwith Shantena Sabbadini and Cruz Mañas Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSaturday March 2710:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nOnline Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe practice of the I Ching oracle is a form of introspection bridging different dimensions\, unconscious and conscious\, imaginal and rational\, heart and mind. The wild images from a shamanic tradition three thousand years old are framed in the rigorous system of yin and yang. And the intuitive practice of ‘rolling the words in one’s heart’ is grounded in the exact discipline of handling the forty-nine yarrow stalks or the three coins and reading one’s answer in the book. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar we will explore the practice of consultation in detail\, answering\, as far as possible\, all the questions concerning this mysterious activity\, from the appropriate formulation of the question to the specific function of the various sections of a hexagram in the answer. \n\n\n\nThe webinar is addressed both to newcomers and to ‘old I Ching hands.’ Our main reference will be the Eranos I Ching\, translated by Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Sabbadini\, but you are welcome to keep at hand your favourite I Ching and to compare passages. Often the ancient Chinese of the I Chingallows for multiple meanings. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday March 27\, Shantena and Cruz will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82002877500 \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\nShantena 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 Yijing and 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\nCruz Mañas Sabbadini\, is a clinical psychologist. She researched mental illness and gave treatment in jails. She works as a psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation and gives I Ching  seminars with Shantena Sabbadini. She founded El Cortijo de Gaia\, a deep psychology center in Lanjaron (Granada). She is author of the book Simplicidad Consciente and of a number of poetry books\, among which Todo lo Sabe la Tierra\, Mar de Fondo\, Noveno Planeta\, La Zarza Incandescente. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-practice-of-the-i-ching/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1-2-e1616009127799.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210417T110100 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210417T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210303T151519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T122103Z UID:10000078-1618657260-1618664400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Goal - The Great Re-Think DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtSyZAOFqg\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Goal \n\n\n\nSession 1 of The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nSaturday April 1710:00am BST  |  11:00am CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nFirst we need to decide what we want to achieve—which Colin suggests should be to create: \n\n\n\n Convivial societies—with personal fulfilment! —within a flourishing biosphere \n\n\n\nGovernments rarely spell out properly what they are actually trying to achieve. They rely on slogans—as in ‘Make America Great Again’ or ‘Take Back Control.’ \n\n\n\nWe need to achieve the necessary turn-around not merely by Reform\, or by out-and-out Revolution—but by Renaissance—re-birth: creating the world we want to see in situ\, and leaving what we don’t need to wither on the vine. \n\n\n\nBut powers-that-be—an oligarchy of governments\, corporates\, financiers\, and their selected intellectual advisers—are not going to do what’s needed. In large part they are leading us in the opposite direction. So we—people at large—need to make the Renaissance happen for ourselves. \n\n\n\nAlways we need to be guided by the twin principles of morality (what is it right to do?) and of ecology (what is necessary and what is possible?). Both are rooted in the much neglected discipline of metaphysics. Good science is vital but commensurately we need to restore the sense of the sacred. ‘Re-enchantment’ is required. \n\n\n\n** All is ripe for discussion. Most basically: does everyone agree with the stated goal? And is it really possible to take care of humanity and our fellow creatures? (Yes\, is the answer\, but only with truly radical change—brought about by people at large.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Fellows is a Jungian Analyst\, Program Director and Training Analyst at ISAP Zurich\, independent researcher and author\, and deep ecologist. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics\, and enjoyed two decades of international engagement with renewable energy\, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving to Switzerland. \n\n\n\nHe is currently extending Jungian Psychology with Gaia theory\, dual-aspect monism and deep ecology to address global environmental problems. \n\n\n\nHis first book\, Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene was joint winner of the Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. Andrew lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland without a car. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-goal-the-great-re-think/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210508T175900 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210508T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210414T104149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T090837Z UID:10000090-1620496740-1620505800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow \n\n\n\n4-part series: Saturday May 8\, 15\, 22\, 299:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  |   6:00pm SAST \n\n\n\nEach session is 2.5 hours \n\n\n\nwith Gavin Andersson\, Rutendo Ngara and Godelieve Spaasand special guests Ela Manga and Keith Mparana \n\n\n\nThis programme features meditation\, drawing\, music\, stories\, dialogues and experiences and is limited to 20 active participants. \n\n\n\nWe find ourselves in a world in crisis. While theories abound\, to some humanity is at the edge of the apocalypse. We are at a time of reckoning\, a time of turning. We are both actors and spectators in the time foretold by ancient prophecy. \n\n\n\nThere has been no greater symbol of this in recent history than the global health emergency due to Covid-19. As a consequence of the virus\, borders have been closed\, millions of sources of livelihood have been lost\, systems have been stifled\, economies have suffered\, and all the ills of the world have been accentuated. At the peak of the pandemic\, the world was stopped in its tracks and activity—as we knew it—and was locked down. Some point out that this may just be the first such pandemic\, and that it is merely a harbinger of the crises to come with climate change. \n\n\n\nAt this watershed moment humanity is asked to re-think\, re-imagine\, re-define\, re-act\, re-store\, re-generate and re-new. \n\n\n\nCan the current Western economic thinking solve everything? What lessons can we learn from Ancient Wisdom? \n\n\n\nThis series of dialogues aims to bring to light concepts from African Indigenous Knowledge Systems as catalysts for reimagining how to approach issues in our current reality in an interrelated and unbounded way. \n\n\n\nBy enlarging the space\, we can move beyond the existing dominant paradigms and rethink the fictions that shape the modern world. We explore four different Indigenous principles\, allowing other ways of knowing to expand our ways of doing—our activity. We create a container for unbounded organising in a time of transition. We traverse the bridge between remembering and imagining and paint the world as we would wish it to become. \n\n\n\nEach session addresses one principle: \n\n\n\nUbuntu (Southern Africa)Ubuntu is the principle of interrelatedness\, interconnectedness and interdependence.  It asserts that: ‘A person is a person through other persons. I am because you are. You are because we are. We are because it is. It is because All that is is.’ This is the root of identity. \n\n\n\nSankofa (West Africa)Sankofa tells us to ‘go back and fetch it.’ It is a concept of ‘historical recovery\,’ moving us to reflect on and reclaim Indigenous cultural ideas and principles in order to advance towards a co-created future. \n\n\n\nKemetic Tree of Life (Ancient Egypt)The Tree of Life tracks the process of creation from the Void to All That Is. It is a cosmological principle describing the ancient wisdom about the nature of the cosmos: from the unmanifest to the manifest\, the infinite to finite. \n\n\n\nAncestors (throughout)African spirituality holds that there is no separation between the living\, those who have walked before and those who are to come. Death is a complementary of life and the beginning of the communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. \n\n\n\nHow do we look back to move forward\, what new insights seek to emerge and what transformative activity fractals can we manifest? \n\n\n\nPre-readingGavin Andersson (2021) ‘Unbounded Organising’ Pari Perspectives\, Issue 7\, ‘The Common Good’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Andersson\, PhD\, is a development practitioner and activity theorist whose life work has focused on strengthening community organisation\, and leadership development within civil society. \n\n\n\nGavin was founder and co-ordinator of CORDE\, which worked with farmer groups and community enterprises in Botswana. He later consulted in organisational development across southern Africa and in the Caribbean. Returning to South Africa at the inception of democracy he led a development advocacy organization and worked in the fields of corporate social responsibility\, civil accountability\, and leadership development. Gavin has helped to develop methodologies for citizen-based monitoring of government programmes. \n\n\n\nGavin is an executive coach\, senior fellow of the Chair for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg and was a distinguished fellow of the Chair in Development Education housed at the University of South Africa UNISA. He is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town where he hosts critical conversations on Macroeconomics\, Ethics and Organizing. Gavin lives with three of his five children\, is passionate about agroecology\, and follows African spirituality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher whose professional interests have spanned from clinical engineering\, healthcare technology management\, socio-economic development\, mathematics\, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science\, culture\, cosmology and paradigms of healing. With a passion for integrating art\, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole\, she is a spiritual coach\, priestess and counsellor\, who engages several modes of healing. She consults in workshop facilitation in areas such as leadership\, personal development\, health and wellness. Rutendo is a co-founder of Ancient Wisdom Africa\, a forum that seeks to gather knowledges and voices of Ancient Wisdom and see how these can illuminate the present; as well as a member of the Assegaia Alliance—a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary group of experts dedicated to the protection of the Earth’s Sacred Natural Sites. She serves on a number of boards\, advisory and convening committees\, including the Credo Mutwa Foundation\, the South African Wushu Federation\, Earthrise Collective and Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage. Rutendo is a practitioner of a number of physical disciplines\, including Wushu/Kung Fu/Tai Ji for which she has represented South Africa as an international silver medallist. She holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering\, an MSc in Medicine in Biomedical Engineering\, and is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy of Education. The quest for harmony\, co- existence and complimentarity underpins her endeavours. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGodelieve Spaas is a professor of Sustainable Strategy and Innovation at Avans University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She is a researcher and also creates and makes performances and podcasts about new ways of entrepreneurial organizing where ecology\, society\, and the economy all benefit from and interact seamlessly with each other. Her aim is to increase diversity in organizational and entrepreneurial models and realities with a view to the development of a fairer\, more sustainable and robust entrepreneurial space. She combines art\, science\, entrepreneurial practices and indigenous knowledge. \n\n\n\nGodelieve also creates new businesses that are collaborative\, inclusive and work in harmony with nature. She is associate Director of the Pari Center and a regular guest in Pari\, a place where she writes\, participates in dialogues\, and follows and gives courses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor with an ancient vision for the future. Amongst the gifts she offers\, she is a specialist in energy management\, author and speaker who uses Breathwork as a tool for self-empowerment\, healing and transformation. For those who have had the privilege of experiencing the transformative power of the breath under her facilitation\, it was a source of inspiration and expiration. Last year she ran a podcast series called ‘Threads of Healing\,’ where she expanded the notion of healing through different voices and wove it back together into a tapestry of beauty. Apart from her medical practice\, she is the Founder of Breathwork Africa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeith Mparana is an avid student of African-based systems of knowledge that he translates into artwork through studying the thought processes that are depicted in ancient cosmologies. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/ancient-wisdom-transforming-tomorrow/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image001-e1619730849220.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210516T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210516T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210423T180525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T090243Z UID:10000101-1621188000-1621193400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Hope and Delusion DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTF4n-mRXM\n\n\n\n\n\nHope and Delusion: Critical Storytelling for Difficult Times \n\n\n\nwith Robert Norris \n\n\n\nSunday May 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nWhen we realise just how much hangs on our attitudes towards the various forms of crisis we are exposed to\, we may come to see what our work really is. Hope has a curious story to tell. It reminds us of the wealth we carry within us\, but also of how easily we are persuaded to give it all up. This talk attempts to string together disparate stories relating to\, but not necessarily about\, hope\, and aims specifically to raise more questions than it answers. Accompanying the talk there will be breakout and plenary sessions in which participants will be able to articulate their thoughts and responses. \n\n\n\nOn Sunday May 16\, Robert will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84842167052 \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\nWhen asked once to provide a blurb for a book on the philosophy of language\, the question of how to describe Robert professionally had to be addressed. It was decided to describe him as an independent researcher\, and this is more or less how Robert has viewed himself ever since. Robert teaches English as a foreign language\, but his interests and experience are wide-ranging. Born to British parents in Modena\, Italy\, he studied Classics at school\, English at Aberdeen University and General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. He has travelled and worked in various parts of Europe\, the Middle East\, the Far East\, Southeast Asia\, Australasia and the United States. In 2014\, he completed a Permaculture Design Course in Vang Vieng\, Laos\, and holds a second degree black belt in the art of aikido. He is indebted to many teachers in the fields of aikido and meditation\, especially Vipassana meditation\, and in 2018 completed a Mindfulness Teacher Training Course at the Mangalam Meditation Centre in Germany. He now lives with his beloved wife in Zürich\, Switzerland\, where he plans to embark on training as a Jungian Analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychologists. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/hope-and-delusion/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kristine-weilert-tLNRTxieD7k-unsplash-scaled-e1619201686453.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210605T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210605T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210421T110937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T155122Z UID:10000100-1622916000-1622923200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Analytic Idealism DESCRIPTION:Analytic Idealism \n\n\n\nwith Bernardo Kastrup \n\n\n\nSaturday June 5\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nTwo widespread current notions of consciousness are physicalism\, i.e. the perspective that assumes physical reality\, matter\, as fundamental\, and bottom-up panpsychism\, i.e. the perspective that takes everything as possessing mind or consciousness and higher levels of consciousness consisting of a combination of more elementary levels. Bernardo Kastrup will argue for an idealist (consciousness only) ontology consistent with empirical observations\, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism\, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ (the challenge of deducing consciousness from matter) or the ‘subject combination problem\,’ (the challenge of deducing higher levels of consciousness from lower levels). It can be summarized as follows: spatially unbound consciousness is posited to be the only ontological reality\, the ultimate nature of everything. We\, as well as all other living organisms\, are dissociated alters of this unbound consciousness\, similarly to what happens in multiple personality disorders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism\, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a PhD in philosophy (ontology\, philosophy of mind) and a second PhD in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing\, artificial intelligence). As a scientist\, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books\, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American\, the Institute of Art and Ideas\, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think\, among others. Bernardo’s most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information\, freely downloadable papers\, videos\, etc.\, please visit www.bernardokastrup.com. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/analytic-idealism/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/E-e1621433986649.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210616T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210616T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210512T101716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T214400Z UID:10000103-1623866400-1623873600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12raflNx6g\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning \n\n\n\nwith Melanie Rein \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16  9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nOnline Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThis talk will focus on the unconscious patterns which run through families and generations of families\, as one generation inherits\, responds and reacts to the complexes and archetypal energies of the previous generation—and even of the generation before that—parents\, grandparents and in some cases\, great-grandparents. Drawing on mythology and other cultural experiences\, the presenter will explore the symbolic nature of the genogram\, or psychological genealogy tree\, and its connection to the Tree of Life as a visual image for eliciting\, revealing and deepening insights into family and ancestral patterning. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday June 16\, Melanie will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84239833716 \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\nMelanie Rein PhD.\, is a Jungian analyst and supervisor with a practice in Cambridge\, UK. She is a senior member of the Guild of Analytical Psychologists\, London\, where she originally trained\, and of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. Many moons ago\, Melanie worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker\, using family therapy in her work with children and families. Later\, following her PhD.\, and as a social scientist\, she directed a number of British Government and EU projects in Central and Eastern Europe\, as well working on a collaborative research project with colleagues in Zambia and Kwa Zulu Natal\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nImage Above:Israhel van MeckenemOrnament with the Tree of Jesse\, 1480–90With kind permission of The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-ancestors-the-tree-of-life-and-intergenerational-patterning/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tree-of-Jesse-4.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210616T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210616T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210414T144007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T090013Z UID:10000092-1623870000-1623873600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Epistemic Justice DESCRIPTION:Epistemic Justice \n\n\n\nReflections on Past\, Present and Future – from an African Perspective With Dr. Baba Buntu (PhD) \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16\, 23 and 30 – 1 hour sessions10:00 am PDT  |  1:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm BST  |  7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis seminar-series is a presentation of reflections on justice\, liberation and transformation. It is a fragmented story\, inspired by the presenter’s tri-continental life-journey\, interpreted through a trans-disciplinary lens and motivated by finding strategies for change through epistemic disobedience. \n\n\n\nRooted in African worldviews\, each session will explore aspects of history that has had a devastating impact on human development. Literary references will be used as navigation points in order to interrogate complex problems and stimulate philosophical introspection. \n\n\n\nMore than providing the answers\, the seminar-series will seek to disrupt common thinking and encourage a transdisciplinary approach to transformation. Realizing that our views of the world have been greatly impacted by exclusion and silencing\, the series is an attempt to speak the unspoken and envision the righteous. \n\n\n\nThe seminar-series will be scheduled along 12 key-concepts\, structured through four dimensions: Physical\, cognitive\, social and metaphysical. 3 sessions will be held each month of May\, June\, July and August at 7:00 CEST of 1 hour. \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive\n\n\n\nJune 16 – Violence: What is the script of violence\, beyond physical aggression?June 23 – Economy: How do we manage a world where “to have” is a privilege?June 30 – Leadership: Is there a universal script for how to lead? \n\n\n\nWhat people have said….\n\n\n\n\nThis program is -in my eyes- an absolute prerequisite for everyone aspiring to bring change in the world\, for everyone who claims to believe in change\, equality and justice. You cannot not listen to Baba Buntu’s work on (in)justice. Julie Arts \n\n\n\nUsing evocative questions and images\, engaging around both the mind and lived experience\, Dr. Buntu opens the potential for understanding at a deep and enduring level.  Sharon Landes \n\n\n\nDr. Baba Buntu strikes the perfect balance between personal experience and in-depth academic research in this eye-opening series. This course should be mandatory for people of all colours to become aware and hopefully start to fight the inherent systemic injustices both in our daily lives and at a larger scale. Rose Vervenne \n\n\n\n\nFollowing months…..\n\n\n\nJuly: SocialJuly 14 – Family: Who is the teacher of familyhood?July 21 – Youth: Why do we hate youth so much?July 28 – Gender: Is gender a concept of violence? \n\n\n\nAugust: MetaphysicalAugust 11 – Spirit: Who defines truth beyond the physical world?August 18 – Unity: What are the mechanics of reuniting a fragmented world?August 25 – Balance: Whose responsibility is it to restore what was broken? \n\n\n\nPrevious month…..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay: The PhysicalMay 12 – Skin: How did appearance become punishable?May 19 – Presence: What does it mean to exist in this world?May 26 – Representation: Who can represent who\, and why? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Baba Amani Olúbánjọ Buntu is a Community/Activist Scholar with more than 30 years of experience in conceptualizing and implementing programs on social development\, innovative entrepreneurship\, youth empowerment and indigenous knowledge – particularly suited for Afrikan applicability. He has background from Anguilla\, grew up in Norway and has lived in South Afrika since the 90’s. \n\n\n\nIn Norway he founded Afrikan Youth In Norway (AYIN)\, started Norway’s first Afrikan-centered retail shop\, Afrikan Excellence\, and co-founded Afrikan History Week (AHW). He is the Founder and Co-Director of eBukhosini Solutions\, a community based company in Johannesburg\, focusing on Afrikan-Centered education and decolonial transformation. He holds a Doctoral and a Master Degree in Philosophy of Education from University of South Africa and has also studied social work\, group therapy and political science. As a Pan-Afrikan educator\, writer\, mentor and practitioner\, with broad experience from work in Afrika\, the Caribbean and Europe. \n\n\n\nThe Image Above: MMRA KRADO belongs to the family of Adinkra conceptual symbols created by the Bono and Akan civilizations\, in today’s Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. \n\n\n\nIn the literal sense\, mmra means law while krado means padlock. Together they can be translated to mean the seal of the law. This symbol represents justice and authority. When there is a desire for law and order\, citizens must resolve to be law abiding for a peaceful and harmonious community. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/epistemic-justice/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Epistemic-Justice-Flyer-e1620118845418.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210703T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210703T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210618T210630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T084439Z UID:10000120-1625335200-1625340600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Screen and the Soul DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TRmZBZIpo\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Screen and the Soul: Virtual Reality\, Real Reality and How It Is \n\n\n\nwith Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\nSaturday July 39:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe Covid pandemic has required us to keep a broader social distance from one another; for psychotherapists this should be less of a problem. With reliable broadband making therapy sessions (and presentations like this one) possible online\, why do so many people still find the virtual session falls so far short of the ‘real’ meeting in person? Maybe our assumption that there is a ‘real’ version and there is an inferior ‘virtual’ version is wrong to begin with. Christopher Hauke will lay out three approaches to this question. \n\n\n\nThe first derives from quantum theorist David Deutsch and his book The Fabric of Reality (Deutsch\, 1997). The second approach digs further into philosophical implications around the idea that material reality is not an objective fact and consciousness is all there is. This is known as metaphysical idealism as analysed by Bernardo Kastrup’s (Kastrup 2020\, 2021) work especially his understanding of Jung’s metaphysics. \n\n\n\nLastly\, film narratives\, as well as factual ‘reality’ films\, have long been delivering ‘reality’ to us on screens in their own virtual way. So Chris will finish by discussing the bio-evolutionary ideas around visual perception\, affordance (Gibson\, 1979) and the central role of meaning in both film and the therapy session. In doing so\, he will bring us back to the definition of ‘virtual’ which flagged it as something in essence or effect. In this way he brings a new perspective to the idea of ‘real reality’ and ‘virtual reality’ in our new way of working. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday July 3\, Chris will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83111513487 \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\nChristopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice and Senior Lecturer emeritus at Goldsmiths\, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena including film. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities\, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the  Soul  (2005) Visible Mind. Movies\, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co-edited two collections of Jungian film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image(2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return (2011). \n\n\n\nHis short films\, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama  Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona\, Zurich and Montreal. \n\n\n\nIn addition to new film projects he is now researching the limits of rationality\, and the place of the irrational in our lives. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-screen-and-the-soul/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cyber-glasses-4685055-scaled-e1624051145618.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210710T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210710T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210530T141551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T161850Z UID:10000107-1625940000-1625947200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Contextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyond DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nContextuality In De Broglie-Bohm And Beyond with Emily Adlam€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyond \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSaturday July 10\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nContextuality is one particularly puzzling non-classical feature of the quantum world—but what conclusions should we draw from it? In this talk\, Dr Adlam will explain what contextuality is and why the presence of contextuality in our theories needs explaining. She will describe how contextuality is manifested in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics and compare and contrast the de Broglie-Bohm account of contextuality to various alternatives. Finally\, she will discuss some interesting new mathematical approaches to contextuality and consider what these results add to our understanding. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Adlam is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of physics specialising in quantum information and foundations. She studied physics and philosophy at Oxford and then received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in relativistic quantum information. She recently published a book\, Quantum Foundations\, as part of the Cambridge University Press Elements of Philosophy series. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/contextuality-in-de-broglie-bohm-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Pari-center-online-summer-series-2-e1624904544651.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210904T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210904T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210421T101129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T091207Z UID:10000096-1630778400-1630785600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Brain and our Encounter with the World DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZNDD77in8\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain and our Encounter with the World \n\n\n\nwith Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nSaturday September 49:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nAt the very least\, our brains help to shape our consciousness. Can an examination of the way in which they do so help us to reconcile different visons of ourselves and of our world?  There is nothing reductionist about asking such a question: rather\, McGilchrist shall suggest\, it helps us to transcend the limitations of reductionism itself.  Importantly it may\, for the first time\, give philosophy a basis for judging certain views on the world as worthier of acceptance than others. \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)\, and is shortly to publish a book on epistemology and ontology called The Matter with Things.  He lives on the Isle of Skye\, and has two daughters and a son. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-brain-and-our-encounter-with-the-world/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/What-is-Consciousness-instagram-2-e1625314249286.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210911T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210919T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210807T134119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T084205Z UID:10000121-1631383200-1632081600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Exploring the Earth-Mind DESCRIPTION:Exploring the Earth-Mind \n\n\n\n4-part series: Saturday and Sunday September 11- 12\, 18 – 199:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  | 6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nEach session is 2 hours \n\n\n\nwith John Briggs PhD\, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSUand coauthor of three books with F. David Peat \n\n\n\nFeaturing Guests:Robert Toth: Former Executive Director of the Merton Institute for Contemplative LivingOfelia Rivas: Elder of the Tohono O’odham NationShantena Augusto Sabbatini\, Director of The Pari CenterJames Peat Barbieri\, Associate Program Director of The Pari Center \n\n\n\nIndigenous peoples alive today are rooted in a consciousness of Earth that once provided the guiding mode of consciousness for humans but which at this point in time most of the rest of humanity has lost. The mainstream mode of consciousness is the “anthropocentric” or human-centered mode—a consciousness of objects\, causality\, competition and hierarchy that focuses on the individual self and on the conflict for survival of the individual. By contrast\, the holomorphic or Earth-Mind consciousness is a holistic awareness; it’s an awareness of living in dynamic balance with other beings as “relatives\,” including mountains\, trees\, rivers\, wind. It’s an awareness of the deeply metaphoric nature of our relationship to reality and of our obligation to engage in “reciprocity” with all beings\, animate or inanimate. \n\n\n\nEveryone comes to life naturally endowed with both modes of consciousness\, but the holistic Earth-Mind has been suppressed by the all-consuming anthropocentric structures of thought and self-interest that have moved to control nature since the Neolithic Revolution. In the words of one Native elder: “Instead of taking care\, we are taking over.” \n\n\n\nThe objective of the four sessions of this course is to alert participants to the existence of the Earth-Mind mode of awareness in their own consciousness and to explore the implication of this mode of awareness for their individual lives and the collective life of the planet. \n\n\n\nThe sessions will be interactive. Through simple activities\, participants will engage their Earth-Mind and report back to the group for discussion what they find. Guests will include Ofelia Rivas elder of the Tohono O’odam Nation in Southern Arizona and Mexico. Physicists Shantena Sabbadini and James Peat Barbieri will join the final session in a dialogue exploring how modern physics and ideas of the whole might find resonance with the holistic mode of consciousness that grounds traditional People. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSession 1: A Holistic Kind of Consciousness—Saturday September 11Climate change and catastrophic species extinction have resulted from a way of thinking that could be called anthropocentric or “human-centered.” This is thinking about the world and ourselves in terms of separate objects and interchangeable parts. The so-called “human enhancement project” exemplifies this kind of thinking that most people would conclude is\, for better and ill\, the only kind of human thinking there is short of enlightenment. However\, Indigenous people around the world are guided by another mode of consciousness\, a holomorphic or Earth-Mind  consciousness. This first session will sketch the characteristics of Earth-Mind consciousness. Short selections of reading will be assigned along with an activity. Both will be discussed on Sept. 18 in session 3. \n\n\n\nSession 2: A Conversation with O’odam Elder Ofelia Rivas—Sunday September 12Among the items Ofelia will discuss: her experience of reality as flux\, relations with other entities\, ceremony\, reciprocity\, balance\, the original instructions. What is the role of the feminine in maintaining balance in the flux of the world? What is it like for her to live under the pressures of a toxic anthropocentric society? This session will end with a recommendation that participants engage in two simple activities over the next week and come prepared to communicate their experiences on the 18th\, session 3. \n\n\n\nSession 3: Living with Our Relatives—Saturday September 18This session is devoted to participants’ thoughts about the reading selections and their experiences as they engaged the recommended “homework” activities.  Final assignment will be given to view two short videos on YouTube in preparation for the last session. \n\n\n\nSession 4: What Is the Whole?—Sunday September 19Physics has pursued the idea of a universe made of separate objects connected by forces and causality. But figuring out how the smallest objects come together to make the world eventually led to the discovery of a missing ingredient in scientific  theories: the whole. What is the whole according to chaos theory\, quantum mechanics and David Bohm’s implicte order? The final session will unfold as a dialogue with physicists Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and James Peat Barberi exploring physical conceptions of holism and their possible connections to Earth-Mind consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOphelia Rivas  My people are the O’odham from the desert\, O’odham means people. The O’odham oral history teaches us where and when we originated and how to live on the land and follow our way of life called the Him’dag.  My homelands are illegally occupied by the United States of America and the Republic States of Mexico—an International Boundary bisected my homelands.  Today we live on reservations “wards of the state”\, where the poverty levels are above national levels. My father’s community is in Cu:Wi I-gersk\, Sonora\, Mexico and my mother’s community is Ali Jegk\, Arizona\, USA. I hold my alliance with my Indigenous brothers and sisters and my traditional O’odham Elders and ceremony leaders. The traditional O´odham hold their alliance to Mother Earth. No written documents required.  I carry the words from my traditional elders and ceremony leaders.  They call for solidarity to defend the sacred places of our people for our survival.  They call to defend the source of our original birthplaces as people\, Mother Earth\, Father Sky and the sacred Water and Air. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert G. Toth served as Executive Director the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living from 1998 to 2010. He co-edited Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton\, a popular series designed for small group dialogue. He is an active member of The Contemplative Alliance\, an initiative of the Global Peace Initiative of Women\, which organizes dialogues and programs around the world to advance contemplative approaches to issues affecting the welfare of all being. He also serves on the Board of the Lake Erie Institute which offers holistic ecological leadership programs to individuals engaged in creating flourishing\, regenerative\, and socially just communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShantena 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 Yijing and 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\nJames Peat Barbieri is the Associate Programme Director at the Pari Center\, and host of the Pari Center online events. He studied at a professional dance school\, Ateneo della Danza\, Siena\, but moved on to academic studies. James is now a King’s College\, University of London graduate in Physics and Philosophy. His other interests include Film\, Art\, and Philosophy. He is interested in analysing cinema and works of art by applying philosophical approaches such as aesthetics and the Continental philosophies. \n\n\n\nJames has been taking part in conferences and courses at the Pari Center since he was 11. He was David Peat’s Teaching Assistant from the age of 15 and has since then given several presentations at the Pari Center\, including two mini-courses on Beauty and Mathematics\, dealing with the relationship of Nature and the Golden Section\, on Hegel’s philosophy and its symmetry with the works of David Bohm\, and the historical relationship between Art and Science. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/exploring-the-earth-mind/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/john-briggs2-e1628417783464.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210930T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210930T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210912T221706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T084038Z UID:10000128-1633024800-1633032000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:On the Interpretation of Signs: The Search for Meaning in Music Notation DESCRIPTION:On the Interpretation of Signs: The Search for Meaning in Music Notation \n\n\n\nwith Donna Coleman \n\n\n\nThursday September 309:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere\, and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms.Ralph Waldo Emerson\, Essays1803 Boston MA – 1882 Concord MA \n\n\n\nWhat in the hell have the notes got to do with the music?!Charles Edward Ives1874 Danbury CT – 1954 West Redding CT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf we gaze at the image above\, many thoughts\, ideas\, interpretations come to mind. My tendency is to see astronomical phenomena. Total solar eclipse. Sunspot. Inverse full moon. End of a sentence; a separator. Centre of a universe; a generator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe line suggests altogether different meanings. A horizon. An edge. ‘The bottom line.’ Another version of a separator. A blue highway across Kansas. \n\n\n\nThe origins of written language—the use of symbols to represent sounds—date back to c 4\,000 BC and the ancient Sumerians. Their script\, called Proto-Sumerian\, consisted of marks pressed into soft clay using either the blunt or the sharp end of a stylus. Since that time\, attempts to translate the aural experience of music into visual cues for its re-creation by a performer have evolved into a sophisticated but ultimately inadequate system of ‘notation.’ As a performer and researcher\, world renowned concert pianist Dr Donna Coleman has spent six decades engaged in the daily challenge of turning a collection of black dots on a line into a narrative\, yet wordless\, aural journey. \n\n\n\nIn this two-hour webinar\, divided into two forty-minute presentation sessions followed by twenty minutes for questions and debate\, Coleman will lead a discussion about the perception and interpretation of signs and symbols at it relates to music notation. The discourse will encircle Coleman’s Music: It IS Rocket Science and the many disciplines that inform the study and contemplation and performance of music. We will explore the history of music notation and contemplate the notion of music as language. Coleman will demonstrate at the piano the diverse performance outcomes that arise from the often confusing\, different published editions of a single work. Webinar attendees will be encouraged to actively engage in discussion\, and they will be provided with links to materials that can be perused in advance of the scheduled session. \n\n\n\nOn Thursday September 30\, Donna will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88489296199 \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\nDr Donna Coleman is a world renowned concert pianist\, recording artist\, author\, philosopher\, and master teacher whose career spans a half-century\, of which half has been based in Australia. She is also an accomplished weaver and photographer and an amateur but passionate astronomer and archeologist with a keen interest in the deep history of the US Southwest. As Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne\, she convened weekly thought-provoking seminars that explored relationships between music and other disciplines. Donna is writing a book entitled Dancing with the Piano\, a collection of essays distilled from these sessions and from her many years of phenomenological engagement with her ultimate dance partner\, the piano. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/interpretation-of-signs-search-for-meaning-in-music-notation/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/music-2661329-scaled-e1631488475499.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211002T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211002T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20210907T135335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T090739Z UID:10000122-1633197600-1633204800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Multiverse and the Limits of Science DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOyQW8QyoQ\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse and the Limits of Science \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSaturday October 2\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nDevelopments in both cosmology and particle physics suggest that our universe may just be one member of an ensemble of universes\, termed the multiverse. However\, there are many different versions of the multiverse proposal\, so it is important to distinguish between these in assessing the plausibility of the notion. In some versions the values of the physical constants may vary across the ensemble\, so this could provide a scientific basis for the suggestion that some of the constants are fine-tuned for the existence of observers. The evidence for this comes from numerous unexplained ‘coincidences’ between the constants\, a notion which used to regarded as purely philosophical or even theological. But what is the universe fine-tuned for? Is it for complexity or some physical feature (such as the existence of black holes) or is for life or consciousness. And is the multiverse a proper scientific proposal or just philosophical speculation? This depends on the definition of ‘science’ but it is argued that the nature of science has continually changed as our knowledge of the universe has expanded. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes 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. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-multiverse-and-the-limits-of-science/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2-2-e1631716237244.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211020T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20211006T110813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T083303Z UID:10000131-1634752800-1634760000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Imagined Problems: Real Opportunities DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0CxUbY3iY\n\n\n\n\n\nImagined Problems: Real Opportunities \n\n\n\nwith Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert and Gary Goldberg \n\n\n\nWednesday October 209:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe science of perception tells us that our problems are subjective and socially constructed. So what is a “real” problem\, and what solutions become available to us?  In this engaging session\, Drs. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert\, MAPP\, PhD and Gary Goldberg\, MD discuss the nature of perception and “reality” in our VUCA world (volatile\, uncertain\, complex\, and ambiguous). They will also discuss how to move from feelings of overwhelm and despair to inspiration and agency by accessing our deep\, inner wisdom. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey will be presented as a timeless\, increasingly relevant\, and useful frame for our individual and collective pursuit of meaning and authentic\, impactful action\, especially in light of our modern challenges. Personal stories and anecdotes will be used to illustrate how we can create our own sagas akin to Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) and Luke Skywalker (Star Wars). Participants will be invited to envision\, and then pursue their own achievable\, unique\, and deeply authentic solutions to achieve the beautiful new world that we all desire. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday October 20\, Susanna and Gary will open our monthly Community Call followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86035064521 \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\nDr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert is a 26-year veteran of higher education\, first starting at Virginia Commonwealth University where she was a faculty member in the School of Pharmacy\, Department of Pharmaceutics\, and Director of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program for 11 years.  She joined the Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Georgia in 2016 as the inaugural Director of Programming\, where she supported faculty success and wellbeing\, and leadership and organizational development for the 2300 faculty across the UGA campuses.  In 2018\, she founded the Foundation for Family and Community Healing\, who focuses on creating vibrant connections between individuals and their families\, communities\, and with Earth to promote wellbeing for all. \n\n\n\nSusanna has a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Texas\, Austin\, a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania\, a PhD in pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California\, San Francisco and a postdoctoral fellowship in dermatology\, also at UCSF.  During her career she has published almost 100 journal articles\, books\, and book chapters\, and has written hundreds of blogs for the Silver Lining blog (www.findingpositiveperspective.wordpress.com) and through FFCH.   She has several coaching credentials including Clifton StrengthsFinders\, Growth Edge Coaching\, Arbinger Institute\, and the Leadership Circle\, and is trained as a life coach.  Her passion is in helping individuals and organizations find and pursue their calling and the highest versions of themselves. \n\n\n\nFor more information on Susanna and her work www.HealingEdu.org and  www.SusannaCalvert.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gary Goldberg received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and then a Medical Degree from McMaster University.  He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine.  In 2020\, he retired from clinical practice after over 35 years working in the field of brain injury rehabilitation at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Pittsburgh and Richmond in the USA.  He now is focused on drawing on this work experience to seek a means of conjoining faith and science into a coherent conceptual framework of holistic inquiry. \n\n\n\nGary is an energetic member of the Pari Center\, actively participating in our online events and is a member of the Pari Center Advisory Board. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/imagined-problems-real-opportunities/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2865.jpg-e1633526572131-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211106T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20211106T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20211029T081832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T083210Z UID:10000132-1636221600-1636228800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Consciousness of Neuroscience DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxG7_rMpnuk\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Consciousness of Neuroscience \n\n\n\nwith Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 610:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe scientific study of consciousness used to be taboo just a few decades ago\, but it is now in its heyday. Consciousness research captures the imagination of laypeople\, attracts research funding\, and sells books. Amongst neuroscientists\, the dominant position is this: whatever consciousness is\, it must somehow emerge somewhere in the brain. Where else could it be? The challenge then is to find out how subjective experience springs from neural activity. But does it? By what kind of modern alchemy is the water of the matter supposed to be transformed into the wine of experience? We are never told. Instead\, materialism excels at selling old metaphysical commitments as new scientific data. In addition\, materialism is promissory by necessity: the grand resolution is at hand but always lies ahead – the best is yet to come. Moreover\, and despite the impressive tools available\, such a conception of the physical world dates back to the nineteenth century – ironically\, physicalism is embraced by virtually everyone except physicists themselves. In sum\, the blind spot of the neuroscience of consciousness is paradoxical: a mind studies other brains and declares itself illusory\, epiphenomenal\, or emergent at best. Here\, rather than trying to answer how “matter makes mind”\, Alex Gomez-Marin questions whether it does\, and what this entails for science writ large. He argues that the science of consciousness is at a sweet crossroads: either we continue doing science as usual with ever fancier tools and bigger data or we seize the opportunity to craft a new idea of science. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday November 6\, Alex will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89671398135 \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\nAlex Gomez-Marin is a theoretical physicist turned cognitive neuroscientist. He was awarded his PhD in physics in 2008 by the University of Barcelona. He also holds a Masters in Biophysics from the same university. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the EMBL-CRG Centre forGenomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown\, where he studied worms\, flies and mice. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante\, Spain. The mission of his group is to establish neuro-ethological principles across species. His latest research concentrates on machines and humans in real-world situations\, combining computational techniques with theoretical biology and continental philosophy. You can follow him at @behaviOrganisms and read his work here: https://behavior-of-organisms.org/read-us URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-consciousness-of-neuroscience/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ADHUk5jg-scaled-e1635495773974.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220108T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220108T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20211211T103831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T082750Z UID:10000134-1641668400-1641673800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Beyond Words DESCRIPTION:A Film Trilogy: Giving Form to the Ineffable \n\n\n\nwith director\, writer and producer Hugh PidgeonRoundtable Guests: Eelco de Geus\, Gary Goldberg\, Donna Kennedy-Glans\, Jacob Raz\, Yuriko Sato and David SchrumModerated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday January 8\, 2022 \n\n\n\nThree Short Films9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nRoundtable Conversation10:00am PST  | 1:00pm EST  | 6:00pm GMT  |  7:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue\n\n\n\nI first heard of Hugh Pidgeon’s Beyond Words trilogy from Hugh himself\, when he sent me a link to view the three films. Not realizing these were short films\, I put off viewing them for some time\, assuming an hour or more for each film. When I realized they were not lengthy\, I opened them right away\, beginning with A Moment of Clarity. \n\n\n\nAt the end of Clarity\, there was a simple state of silence. Eventually I began to reflect on what I had seen\, and was taken aback to realize that not once\, in 15 minutes of film about David Bohm\, did Bohm’s image ever appear. And yet\, the very essence of Bohm was everywhere\, distilled and concentrated with great artistry and a true sense of love. \n\n\n\nAs it turns out\, all these qualities are to be found in The Wall within Our Minds and Negotiating with Gravity\, the other two films in the trilogy. But it is from within the wholeness of the three films\, seen in their original intended sequence\, that the true import of Hugh’s work emerges. The overlapping\, interlaced meanings of the trilogy evoke a sense of mystery and beauty that transcends any of the individual films. These qualities linger\, and indeed work to rearrange one’s interiority\, one’s very being. \n\n\n\nIt was with great joy to learn from Hugh – who has kept these films rather close for a number of years – that he was enthusiastic about sharing them with the larger Pari community. This prospect has now come to fruition. Please join us for this very special\, one-time-only event! \n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Moderator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Saturday January 8\, 2022\, we are offering all our friends at the Pari Center the unique opportunity to view Hugh Pidgeon’s trilogy Beyond Words followed by a panel discussion. \n\n\n\nOur invited guests at the table will come together to discuss the ideas\, the beauty\, and the overall sense of Wholeness that is portrayed throughout. They will examine the interconnections between David Bohm\, Martin Buber\, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra of young Palestinians and Israelis\, and the artist Andy Goldsworthy. \n\n\n\nThe films (with a combined running time of 32 minutes) can be viewed at leisure in a 60-minute window prior to the 90-minute roundtable discussion between our panelists. There will not be Q&A during this event. \n\n\n\nIt is essential that you get your ticket above in order to receive the necessary links. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nPlease get your ticket for this event at the top of the page and you will be sent the links to the films and to the roundtable conversation.  \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center on Saturday January 8\, 2022 for a screening of Hugh Pidgeon’s trilogy Beyond Words followed by a panel conversation. This is a unique opportunity to not only view Hugh’s films but to hear a ninety-minute roundtable conversation on the ideas presented in the films. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks to creator and director Hugh Pidgeon\, it is our privilege to screen the Beyond Words trilogy\, Hugh’s stunning short films\, free of charge\, for the Pari Center community. \n\n\n\nThe Beyond Words trilogy opens with The Wall in Our Minds which introduces Arab and Jewish young musicians from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra\, with founder and conductor Daniel Barenboim who believes the orchestra is a metaphor for what could be achieved in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nThese young people were brought together as a one-off scratch orchestra in 1999 (yet is still giving performances) by Barenboim and the philosopher and writer\, the late Edward Said. The name chosen for the orchestra The West-Eastern Divan was the title of a collection of lyrical poems by Goethe. One hundred years earlier\, Martin Buber prefaced two lines from the very same collection in his book I and Thou. \n\n\n\nNegotiating With Gravity\, the second film in the trilogy\, was the outcome of an invitation to the director to lead a plenary at an international conference of Gestalt therapists on Martin Buber’s contribution to the core notions of dialogue that inform Gestalt psychotherapy. \n\n\n\nFor Buber the first of what he called the ‘spheres of relation’ was our life with Nature. Going beyond words\, the photographic essay that became the film followed conversations with a botanist from Kew Gardens\, a professor of physics at Oxford\, a professor of mathematics at Warwick University\, a resident ecologist at Schumacher College\, and an artist whose paintings feature in the film\, the better to understand the five perspectives that featured in the passage from Buber’s book and begins ‘I consider a tree.’ \n\n\n\nThe third in the series A Moment of Clarity was conceived as a sister film to bring David Bohm and Martin Buber together for the first time in the same space. In Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order the physicist includes extensive reference to the Ancient Greek notions of measure in music and the visual arts. \n\n\n\nHugh drew his inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy\, a site-specific sculptor whose work he has long admired and is featured on the cover of the Routledge edition of Bohm’s On Dialogue edited by Lee Nichol. It is Andy Goldsworthy who speaks of a moment of clarity at the close of the film. \n\n\n\nHugh presents an entirely new configuration of Goldsworthy’s film Rivers and Tides brought into conjunction with David Bohm’s writing on process from Wholeness and the Implicate Order\, and the extraordinary Ice Music of Norwegian musician Terje Isungset. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHugh Pidgeon is an organisational consultant\, an academic and a practicing Gestalt psychotherapist. He has been as much influenced in his work by the teaching of Martin Buber on dialogue as he has been by that of David Bohm .  Drawn by the commonality of insight they shared with each other\, Hugh created the trilogy Beyond Words\, several years in the making\, that features the two of them for the first time in the same space. \n\n\n\nA number of years living and working in Thailand and China and often visiting Japan have also proved a significant influence on Hugh personally.  He was first introduced to David Bohm’s work by fellow US consultants Roger Harrison and Peter Block while he was representing a Kansas City-based consultancy in Europe and was intrigued from the beginning by the interest David Bohm developed in the parallels in Buddhist teaching to his own work as a physicist. \n\n\n\nHugh’s primary interest is the contribution a dialogic orientation yet might make to the fractious collisions of opinion on how best to address our seemingly insatiable determination as the human race to sacrifice the ecological balance of the planet in pursuit of our own economic development – the outcome of the fragmentation in the way we think that David Bohm anticipated over 40 years ago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEelco de Geus met the work of David Bohm in his Dialogue Training in Germany with Freeman Dhoritiy. He is inspired by the integration of Bohm’s Thinking\, the relational approaches in the works of Martin Buber\, the process work of Arnold Mindell and different community building practices. Eelco applies this integration in a proces- oriented approach on dialogue\,  that inquires beyond words into the essence of human connection. He is co- founder of the Dialogue Academy Vienna\, which provides learning spaces for dialogue process work and systemic constellations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary Goldberg received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and then a Medical Degree from McMaster University.  He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine.  In 2020\, he retired from clinical practice after over 35 years working in the field of brain injury rehabilitation at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Pittsburgh and Richmond in the USA.  He now is focused on drawing on this work experience to seek a means of conjoining faith and science into a coherent conceptual framework of holistic inquiry. \n\n\n\nGary is an energetic member of the Pari Center\, actively participating in our online events and is a member of the Pari Center Advisory Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser. As a Canadian\, she has worked on the ground to add value to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors. Donna began her career as a lawyer in the energy sector\, where she held several unique and pioneering roles involving corporate integrity\, transparency and sustainability. She founded a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen\, served as an elected politician and cabinet minister in the province of Alberta\, has held leading roles on boards of directors\, and participates with her siblings in the stewardship of a family farm enterprise. \n\n\n\nDonna’s book about her work with women in Yemen—Unveiling the Breath: One Woman’s Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality–was published by Pari Publishing in 2009. Donna’s latest book—Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual—will be released in March 2022; see teachingthedinosaur.com for details. Donna blogs at https://beyondpolarity.blog and is active on several social media platforms. She is an amateur photographer and delighted grandmother to two-year-old Kennedy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO. \n\n\n\nLee has recently released – Entering Bohm’s Holoflux – which can be downloaded for free at: https://paricenter.com/product/entering-bohms-holoflux-by-lee-nichol/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJacob Raz is Professor Emeritus\, East Asian Studies\, Tel Aviv University. He translates and writes on Buddhism\, Zen Buddhism\, and Japanese Culture and poetry\, as well as his own haiku. Raz lived many years in Japan and travelled extensively in Asia. He has long been a practitioner and teacher of Zen. \n\n\n\nRaz has taught seminars and workshops on Martin Buber and Buddhism\, and wrote the Afterword in the new translation of Martin Buber’s book I and Thou into Hebrew [2014]. He has been active in the Consciousness Laboratory\, Tel Aviv University\, and wrote extensively on the subject. \n\n\n\nHe is also the father of Yoni\, a loving person with DS.  They speak ‘Yonish’\,  a language they have been creating over a lifetime through constant\, embodied dialogue. Consequently\, Raz became a social activist\, and has led a national movement toward a paradigmatic change in the life and dialogue with people with disabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYuriko Sato is a Japanese Jungian analyst and psychotherapist\, and a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. She studied medicine and worked as a psychiatrist in Osaka and Kyoto. She has private psychotherapy practices in Zürich and Bern\, and is a training/supervising analyst at ISAPZURICH (International School of Analytical Psychology Zürich)\, where she teaches on topics such as the Eastern (Japanese) psyche\, narcissism\, and psychiatry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory at Queen’s University\, following which he spent two post-doctoral years with David Bohm at Birkbeck College. Here\, he entered Bohm’s world of creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics and his enquiry into consciousness and what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum continues in these explorations\, in physics developing a new approach to relativistic quantum theory and\, through the dialogue process\, going into what it is to bring to light that which lies enfolded within our individual and collective consciousness. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-words/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/beyond-words-e1639493639132.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220119T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220119T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20220105T144533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T082600Z UID:10000135-1642615200-1642622400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist DESCRIPTION:A Conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday January 199:00am 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\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \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. \n\n\n\nJoin Iain McGilchrist and Àlex Gómez-Marín on Wednesday January 19 for the first event in this series. \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\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nSome likely topics that may emerge in this first conversation involve (i) the need of synthesis in the face of piles of analytic studies\, (ii) the pursuit of convergence from different lines of inquiry (such as neurology\, philosophy\, and physics)\, and (iii) the constraints\, both challenges and opportunities\, of doing research with and without current academia. \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Alex Gomez-Marin is a theoretical physicist turned cognitive neuroscientist. He earned his PhD in Physics in 2008 from the University of Barcelona\, where we studied the microscopic origins of the arrow of time. He also holds a Masters in Biophysics from the same university. He was a Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation where he investigated the neurobiology of action and perception in fruit flies\, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon\, Portugal\, where he deployed a computational ethology approach to establish neuro-ethological principles in worms\, flies and mice. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, Spain\, where he has been a Ramón y Cajal Fellow\, and where he currently is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. His latest research concentrates on consciousness and cognition in humans in real-world situations\, combining high-resolution experiments with theoretical biology and continental philosophy. He is the author of a number of research articles\, and he is shortly to publish his first book in Spanish on the ‘tales not told’ in current neuroscience. Born in Barcelona\, he now lives in the Mediterranean coast of Alicante and has two daughters and a cat. You can follow him on social media at @behaviOrganisms and read his work here: https://behavior-of-organisms.org/read-us URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-dr-iain-mcgilchrist/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25C401ED-7002-4827-850A-C0B33FDAA2B0.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220205T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20211221T173840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T154626Z UID:10000077-1644084000-1644091200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:A Conversation about Duality and Non-duality in East and West DESCRIPTION:A Conversation about Duality and Non-duality in East and West \n\n\n\nwith Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSaturday February 5\, 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 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 primary subjective experience is one of duality\, of experiencing the separateness of self and the rest of the world around us. This informs how we live and perceive the world\, the knowledge and institutional systems we have created throughout history and as we continue to do so in the present. \n\n\n\nOn the other hand\, some Eastern systems and mystics of all religions have insisted on the fundamental non-duality of the world. In India for instance\, the belief in the discrete disconnected egoic self is seen as epitomizing ignorance and the root cause of suffering. The experience of nonduality liberates and transforms one’s existence. The Tao in Chinese philosophy is the symbol and experience of integration and wholeness\, nonduality beyond duality\, undergirding the universe. In our contemporary times the insights and explorations into nonduality have been coming through Quantum physics; consequently\, initiating much needed dialogues between science and spirituality. \n\n\n\nNonduality as a construct and experience is not merely a wondrous spiritual belief\, or an exploration into fascinating but abstract ideas. It has tangible consequences individually\, collectively and politically for the integrity of ourselves and our world/planet as a whole. It impacts how we choose to live\, relate and behave as we begin to understand that we are all one indivisible whole. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Dualities Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnjali D’Souza has a Master’s degree in Sociology and has just completed her training in Jungian Analysis at ISAP-Zurich. She has 20 years of experience  working in India as a psychotherapist and consultant with individuals\, groups\, communities and organisations. She also trained as an Indian classical dancer and subsequently studied dance expression and Authentic Movement. Her multi systemic approach is shaped by her own experiences\, C.G. Jung\, the expressive arts\, Indian philosophy\, and gender and post-colonial studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Fellows\, is a Jungian Analyst (AGAP/IAAP) with private practices in Bern and Zürich\, a deep ecologist\, and a writer. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics (Dunelm)\, and enjoyed two decades of international professional engagement with renewable energy\, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving from the U.K. to Switzerland in 2001 to study Analytical Psychology. His special interests include the anima mundi\, the mid-life transition\, the new sciences\, and the use of depth psychology to understand and address global collective and environmental problems\, especially climate change and other aspects of the Anthropocene. His personal passions include nature\, mountains and music\, and he lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland without a car. \n\n\n\nHis lecture draws on many years of independent research and writing\, from which he has presented his evolving ideas since 2007 at international conferences in England\, Estonia\, Japan\, Switzerland and the U.S. in addition to teaching at ISAP Zurich. His first book\, published by Routledge in March 2019\, is Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene.  \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 Yijing and 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. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/a-conversation-about-duality-and-non-duality-in-east-and-west/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1-e1640780593677.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220323T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220323T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20220311T105025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T080406Z UID:10000156-1648058400-1648065600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:An Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePJVhhOELA\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind \n\n\n\nwith Jon Goodbun \n\n\n\nWednesday March 2310:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nJon Goodbun’s research focuses on ‘ecological thinking’—both in terms of how we think about ecological systems\, and how ecological systems themselves think—drawing in particular on his extensive study of the work of the ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson. In this talk Goodbun will introduce some of the history and thinking of this important theorist\, drawing in particular upon some of the ideas contained within his first collection of essays: Steps to an Ecology of Mind\, as well as his later synthesis: Mind and Nature—A Necessary Unity\, and his final incomplete text\, published after his death by daughter Mary Catherine Bateson\, called Angels Fear—Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred\, and will situate these ideas in relation to more recent research\, and the wider research interests of the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday March 23\, Dr. Goodbun will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jon Goodbun is mostly based in Athens\, Greece where he runs Rheomode\, a small experimental studio working and writing at the intersection of art\, architecture\, and ecological pedagogy\, although he also contributes to the MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London and the architecture and landscape programmes at University College London. His 2011 PhD\, ‘Critical Urban Ecologies: The Architecture of the Extended Mind\,’ drew together thinking on ecological and complex systems theory\, together with cognitive science and consciousness studies\, in relation to aesthetic theory\, spatial perception and ecological empathy\, and he is currently working on a book called The Ecological Calculus\, which builds on this work. He spent some time at the Pari Center in 2010\, interviewing David Peat about his own work\, and the work of his collaborator David Bohm (from whose work Goodbun borrowed the name ‘rheomode’ for his blog and studio!). URL:https://paricenter.com/event/an-introduction-to-gregory-batesons-ecology-of-mind/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Neuro-Arboriculture-igor-morski.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220413T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220413T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20220405T202241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T211127Z UID:10000170-1649872800-1649878200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNDpL1S2fLY\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual \n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans in conversation with Julie Arts \n\n\n\nWednesday April 13 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nDonna’s latest book Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides the roadmap builders and rebuilders—of society and of enterprise—with the tools to rethink\, redesign and revitalize their organizations and to remain relevant and sustainable in a new and very different future. Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kinds—businesses\, governments\, non-profits\, community initiatives and social institutions. We’ve reached a turning point and it’s time to evolve\, or we go the way of the dinosaurs. We all need to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate change)\, how can leaders find a new way forward? How can enterprises re-invent themselves to make capitalism work better for more people? These are some of the compelling and timely issues that Donna and Julie will tackle in their conversation. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 13\, Donna and Julie will be in conversation followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85176061107 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser\, adding value throughout her career to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors: as an energy insider rooted in Alberta’s oil patch; founding a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen; serving as an elected politician and cabinet minister; holding leading roles on boards of directors; and helping to steward the family farm enterprise. She is a political commentator\, community builder\, writer and speaker\, weighing in on energy\, leadership\, governance\, community and integrity issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. \n\n\n\nJulie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/teaching-the-dinosaur-to-dance-moving-beyond-business-as-usual/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/TeachingDinosaursToDance_Front_Cover_IG-scaled-e1649190699468.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220507T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220507T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20220404T190222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T214323Z UID:10000167-1651946400-1651953600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love with Vincent Colapietro€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love \n\n\n\nwith Vincent Colapietro \n\n\n\nSaturday May 7\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA. N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro will seize this occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic\, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and\, for a time\, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘ immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time\, above all\, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists (including Einstein) and the conception of time implicit in the activity of physicists themselves. Are physicists in time in the same sense that they so often conceive time (specifically\, time as a reversible process or even an illusory phenomenon)? That is\, is the dominant understanding of time among theoretical physicists compatible with what physicists do as agents? Colapietro will argue that agential time is an irreducible phenomenon and any attempt to explain it away (or to render it illusory) is mistaken. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is presently at the Center for the Humanities (University of Rhode Island). One of his main areas of research is pragmatism\, with emphasis on Peirce. Though devoted to developing a semiotic perspective rooted in Peirce’s seminal work\, Colapietro draws upon a number of other authors and perspectives (including Bakhtin\, Jakobson\, and Bourdieu as well as such movements as phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, and deconstruction).  He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989)\, A Glossary of Semiotics (1993)\, Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003)\, and Acción\, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020) as well as numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics\, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction\, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. He has served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society\, the Metaphysical Society of America\, and the Semiotic Society of America. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/temporality-and-tragedy-irrevocable-loss-and-redemptive-love/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1-e1650359732535.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220605T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20220612T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T220326 CREATED:20220128T120812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T205434Z UID:10000150-1654452000-1655042400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Re-Visioning Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Dates: June 5 – 12\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Harald Atmanspacher\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, John Pickering\, William Seager\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Angelita Valencia Borbon and Beverley Zabriskie. Guests Federico Faggin and Roberto Miller \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event:\n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by recognizing the primacy of consciousness\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. How do we understand matter\, time and space\, individual consciousness\, birth and death\, free will? Are all things alive and conscious in some sense? \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center and let us explore together the tip of the iceberg of these challenges\, perhaps the closest that philosophical enquiry comes to our existential questions and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted and honoured to announce that Federico Faggin\, inventor of the microprocessor and delver into the science of consciousness\, will be with us in Pari for this event. We will also be hosting Roberto Miller the filmmaker of the documentary The Four Lives of Federico Faggin.  Following a screening of the film\, there will be a panel discussion with Federico and other presenters and then an open discussion and Q&A with all participants of ‘Re-visioning Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Sunday June 5 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Sunday June 12 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.Schrödinger \n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by abandoning the tacit premises of materialism and physicalism\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. \n\n\n\nIs consciousness indeed\, as Schrödinger suggests above\, the primal experience\, the elementary primary fact all our philosophy and all our science are built upon? \n\n\n\nDoes consciousness arise in the world\, according to the physicalist view (e.g.\, when a sufficiently complex nervous system evolves)\, or does the world arise in consciousness? And\, if the latter is the case\, how does that happen? If the world is a dream arising in consciousness\, why does it arise? And why is the dream structured as it is\, why is it a cosmos\, not a chaos? \n\n\n\nMatter and spacetime appear to have their own order\, their own laws that govern our experience. Are those laws intrinsic to consciousness? Are they in turn a creation of consciousness? \n\n\n\nAnother possible approach is that of pantheism. In this perspective the world exists and consciousness exists\, they are both primary. But the world is infused with consciousness\, everything is conscious to some degree\, from the most elementary (say\, an elementary particle) to the cosmic scale of the universe itself. \n\n\n\nIf that is so\, why are we not aware of it? The reason might be that we recognize consciousness only when it is close enough to our own level. I am aware of the consciousness of my dogs and cats\, but the consciousness of an atom and that of a solar system both elude me\, they are too different. \n\n\n\nOr you might say matter and consciousness are just two sides of one coin. Dual aspect monism suggests that mind and matter are the dual manifestation of one substance\, which is perceived from the inside (in the first person) as consciousness\, from the outside (in the third person) as things. \n\n\n\nIn Re-Visioning Consciousness\, we will explore together the tip of the iceberg of these profound questions\, perhaps the closest philosophical enquiry comes to our existential and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nDoes “Consciousness” Exist? with Harald Atmanspacher \n\n\n\nAwakening Conciencia and The Path With Heart with Angelita Valencia Borbon \n\n\n\nDreaming Ahead of Time with Gary Lachman \n\n\n\nValue and Purpose with Dr. Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nWhy Re-vision Consciousness? with John Pickering \n\n\n\nThe Problem of Consciousness in Philosophy\, Or What’s All the Fuss About? 
with William Seager \n\n\n\nInside Out and Outside In with Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nThe Four Lives of Federico Faggin – Screening of the Film followed by Roundtable with the filmmaker Roberto Miller\, Federico Faggin and Presenters from this event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/re-visioning-consciousness/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Consciousness-poster3-e1643222532307.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR