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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200718T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200718T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T133307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T162632Z UID:10000005-1595095200-1595102400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:David Bohm in the 1940s: Science\, Scientific Style and Political Engagement DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm in the 1940s: Science\, Scientific Style and Political Engagement \n\n\n\nwith Olival Freire Jr.  \n\n\n\nJuly 18 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nWhen David Bohm arrived in California in the early 1940s for graduate studies he had already consolidated two intellectual trends which would characterize his whole life. He knew what kind of physics he enjoyed working on; while he was attracted to theoretical physics and had exhibited skills in mathematics\, he had no patience for the solving problem style of physics he had found at Caltech. Instead he looked for speculative and conceptual science. Bohm\, however\, was not only concerned with science\, for him science was part of a larger picture involving society as a whole. During the Great Depression he had shifted from a strong commitment to individualism along the lines of the American Dream to a more socially inclined\, even sympathetic\, social view. As for physics subjects\, he began to work on a subject\, plasma\, which was inherited from the war effort and he moved to the subject to which he would dedicate his entire life: the quest to understand the quantum world. Olival will present and reflect on Bohm’s early stage of his mature life looking for elements of continuity we may find in his whole life. \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. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/david-bohm-in-the-1940s-science-scientific-style-and-political-engagement/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200719T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200719T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T133441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T180026Z UID:10000036-1595181600-1595188800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Quantum Trajectories and the Nature of Wholeness in David Bohm’s Quantum Theory DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuantum Trajectories and the Nature of Wholeness in David Bohm’s Quantum Theory \n\n\n\nwith Chris Dewdney  \n\n\n\nJuly 19 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nChris Dewdney will review a selection of the animations that he originated during the period from 1979\, when the Two-Slit calculations were first published\, up to the more recent field-matter interaction examples. The animations will be shown (many in the updated form seen in the documentary Infinite Potential) during his talk and he will explain in a non-technical way\, how they were produced and exactly what they show. For each animation\, the implications for our understanding of quantum mechanics and the nature of reality will be drawn out. In particular\, it will be argued that the fundamental nonlocality of quantum mechanics demands that we must transcend our common-sense perception that events are determined solely by processes taking place within ordinary space and time. The true arena in which Schödinger’s quantum mechanics plays out is ‘configuration space’ and these will illustrate\, using the animations\, how Bohm’s trajectories within this space give rise to nonlocal connections in our everyday space and to the wholeness that is seen in complex quantum systems (everything is a complex quantum system). Finally\, there will be discussion on the nature of quantum fields in David Bohm’s quantum field theory and the interaction between quantum fields and quantum matter\, hence revealing the nature of the photon. \n\n\n\nEach of the animations will be shown and discussed in turn\, allowing plenty of time for questions and answers after each. The animations considered will be: \n\n\n\n\nEinstein’s single slit experiment\n\n\n\nThe two-slit experiment\n\n\n\nQuantum measurement—the Stern Gerlach experiment and the measurement of quantum spin\n\n\n\nNonlocality in David Bohm’s version of the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiment\n\n\n\nThe nature of the field in David Bohm’s quantum field theory\n\n\n\nThe nature of the photon in the interaction between quantum fields and matter.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Dewdney\, PhD. Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Portsmouth. \n\n\n\nChris Dewdney obtained a joint degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 1973. He then continued his interest in philosophy of physics\, at the postgraduate level\, studying History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge; there his dissertation was written on Niels Bohr’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. \n\n\n\nChris then obtained funding from the British Science Research Council to work towards a PhD in David Bohm’s group in the Physics Department at Birkbeck College in London. There\, Chris started to read Bohm’s papers on the notion of order in physics\, attended Bohm’s undergraduate lectures on quantum theory and the frequent postgraduate seminars. Initially\, Chris was the only full-time PhD student at that time working in Bohm’s group. At Birkbeck\, students had to find their own PhD topic\, the main thrust of the research was around formulating a mathematical description of Bohm’s notion of the holomovement and the processes of ‘becoming.’ Bohm’s 1952 hidden-variable theory was not discussed at the time and it was pure serendipity (browsing in the bookshop) that lead Chris to formulate his own PhD study demonstrating in detail how Bohm’s 1952 theory accounted for all of the ‘paradoxical’ features of quantum theory\, starting with the double-slit experiment. Whilst at Birkbeck\, Chris also produced the first computer-generated motion picture animations of quantum tunnelling. \n\n\n\nOn completion of his PhD in 1983\, Chris was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship which he held in Jean-Pierre Vigier’s group at the Insitut Henri Poincare in Paris. During the fellowship Chris extended the detailed de Broglie-Bohm theory calculations to include neutron interferometry and the processes of spin measurement and spin superposition. \n\n\n\nIn 1986\, Chris took up a permanent teaching and research position at The University of Portsmouth in the UK\, becoming a Reader in Theoretical Physics in 1992. At Portsmouth he extended his work in de Broglie-Bohm theory to give a detailed\, de Broglie-Bohm account of the nonlocal processes evident\, for example\, in the Einstein\, Podolsky and Rosen experiment. At Portsmouth\, working with George Horton\, and his own students\, Chris also developed detailed de Broglie-Bohm accounts of quantum chaos\, the motion of quantum fields and the quantized exchange of energy between matter and radiation. \n\n\n\nChris’s work in carrying out the detailed calculations of quantum mechanical processes helped transform the situation regarding interest in\, and acceptance of\, de Broglie-Bohm theory. Although at first\, he was almost alone in pursuing de Broglie-Bohm theory calculations\, today there is a small industry doing so for many different physical circumstances. Chris’s work helped put de Broglie-Bohm theory centre stage in the foundations of quantum theory context. When he started out\, Bohm’s approach was hardly considered\, and none had carried out detailed calculations within the interpretation of quantum theory community; today it is considered a viable theory\, and this is in some part due to Chris’s work. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/quantum-trajectories-and-the-nature-of-wholeness-in-david-bohms-quantum-theory/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200725T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200725T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T133554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T170540Z UID:10000037-1595700000-1595707200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:How does the Classical World Emerge from the Implicate Order? DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow does the Classical World Emerge from the Implicate Order? \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley  \n\n\n\nJuly 25 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nExperimental evidence clearly shows classical physics is wrong. Sure\, it works at the classical level\, but there is some deeper order necessary to understand the new physics. Nevertheless this deeper process must approximate to the macroscopic world we experience. David Bohm suggested that the algebraic quantum formalism should be understood in terms of the implicate order. For him this was the order that we directly perceive and from our experiences we abstract an array classical orders\, the explicate orders from which we construct the an order which allows us to find a way to survive. The deeper implicate order contains an array of what appears to be contradictory possible explicate orders. Why? We find classical rigidity is replaced by a new notion of dynamical rigid forms which gives rise to what is known as quantum non-locality.  I will try to explain how these novel ideas arise from our physics and how they provide another way of looking at the world that David Bohm was developing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Basil Hiley\, collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years \n\n\n\nBasil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize ‘Best Person in Physics’ in 2012. A long-time co-worker of David Bohm\, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on the implicate order and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm\, which is considered the main reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nThe work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question ‘whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system\, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature’ and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. \n\n\n\nIn 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College\, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process\, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler’s ‘sum over three geometries’ ideas that he was using to quantize gravity. \n\n\n\nHiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm’s model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the ‘Einstein-Schrödinger equation\,’ as Wheeler called it\, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications\, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory\, published 1993\, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n In 1995\, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ‘his paramount importance as natural philosopher\, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture.’ \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/how-does-the-classical-world-emerge-from-the-implicate-order/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200726T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200726T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T133926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T172823Z UID:10000008-1595786400-1595793600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Laozi and the Implicate Order: Wholeness in Daoism and Quantum Physics DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaozi and the Implicate Order: Wholeness in Daoism and Quantum Physics \n\n\n\nwith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini  \n\n\n\nJuly 26 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nBohm’s notion of implicate order resonates with the Eastern notion of Dao. Dao is the invisible current that brings the ‘ten thousand things’ to manifestation\, but it is also described as the attractor that calls them back to return to their root\, to no-thingness\, to the unmanifest. And ultimately these two states\, the manifest\, the explicate\, that which can be named\, and the unmanifest\, the implicate\, that which has no name\, are one and the same. Holding them together in our awareness is\, Laozi tells us\, the ultimate secret\, the door of all mysteries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, quantum physicist and philosopher \n\n\n\nShantena 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\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/laozi-and-the-implicate-order-wholeness-in-daoism-and-quantum-physics/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200801T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200801T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200704T095424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T150534Z UID:10000053-1596304800-1596312000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Blackfoot Worldview\, Language and David Bohm DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3C89Rjm6p6Y?si=Nb9JU5Mzx-uzdSrq\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Blackfoot Worldview\, Language and David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Leroy Little Bear \n\n\n\nSaturday August 19:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear\, PhD. Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, Canada. \n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (Kainai First Nation)\, approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge\, Alberta. One of the first Native students to complete a program of study at the University of Lethbridge\, Little Bear graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. He continued his education at the College of Law\, University of Utah\, in Salt Lake City\, completing a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975. \n\n\n\nFollowing his graduation\, Little Bear returned to his alma mater as a founding member of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department. He remained at the University of Lethbridge as a researcher\, faculty member and department chair until his official retirement in 1997. \n\n\n\nIn recent years Little Bear has continued his influential work as an advocate for First Nations education. From January 1998 to June 1999 he served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Upon his return to Canada\, he was instrumental in the creation of a Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge—the only program of its kind in the country. \n\n\n\nIn the spring of 2003\, Little Bear was awarded the prestigious National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education\, the highest honour bestowed by Canada’s First Nations community. Little Bear is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge and the University of Northern British Columbia. Along with his wife\, Amethyst First Rider\, Little Bear brought about the historic Buffalo Treaty between First Nations on both sides of the USA-Canada border in 2014. Little Bear was inducted into the Alberta Order Excellence and the Order of Canada in 2016 and 2019 respectively. \n\n\n\nAfter a lifetime of educational service\, Little Bear remains a dedicated and dynamic teacher and mentor to students and faculty at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to pursue new research interests including North American Indian science and Western physics\, and the exploration of Blackfoot knowledge through songs\, stories and landscape. \n\n\n\nWhile his educational achievements are remarkable\, Little Bear’s contribution to the First Nations community extends well beyond the classroom. He has served as a consultant to local and national organizations including the Blood Tribe\, Indian Association of Alberta and the Assembly of First Nations of Canada. His notable reputation has also earned him a place on numerous government commissions and boards including the Task Force on the Criminal Justice and Its Impact on the Indian and Metis Peoples of Alberta (1990-91). Little Bear’s legal advice is widely sought on such significant issues as land claims\, treaties\, and hunting and fishing rights. \n\n\n\nDr Little Bear is the co-author of several books on self-government and Aboriginal rights\, including Pathways to Self Determination\, Quest For Justice\, and Governments in Conflict. His credits also include a variety of influential articles such as\, ‘A concept of Native Title\,’ which was cited in a Canadian Supreme Court decision. \n\n\n\nLola Major\, local teacher and University of Lethbridge alumna\, says Leroy’s unparalleled drive to see others succeed\, and his ability to connect people of all cultures\, make him an outstanding candidate for Alumnus of the Year. \n\n\n\nLeroy’s reputation as a scholar\, author\, consultant and University of Lethbridge builder is without equal in his quest for excellence\, understanding and equality for Aboriginal peoples. Modest\, caring and valued\, Leroy Little Bear is a truly remarkable person\, well-deserving of this award. \n\n\n\nThe University of Lethbridge Alumni Association is proud to recognize the leadership and achievements of Leroy Little Bear by awarding him the Fall 2003 Alumnus of the Year award. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/leroy-little-bear/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200802T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200802T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T180558Z UID:10000035-1596391200-1596398400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Recovering Coherency in Politics and Society through Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecovering Coherency in Politics and Society through Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Glenn Parry  \n\n\n\nAugust 2 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nThe main reason we are divided in politics is not only polarization between parties\, or fragmentation within the parties\, but because of how we think. We tend to think in partial fragments\, not in contextual wholes. David Bohm was keenly aware of this. Bohm was also aware that this lack of coherency was not necessarily the case in Indigenous cultures that have a history of shared meaning and participatory consciousness. In the USA\, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy had a profound effect on the very idea to unite the states and also on the foundational values of liberty\, equality\, and natural rights enshrined in the US Constitution—and then on the unwritten rules of engagement that govern political protocols. The latter influence arguably was what prevented the country from lapsing into fascism\, at least until now. Sadly\, authoritarian governments are now on the rise across the globe. In honor of David Bohm’s far-reaching vision\, how do we begin to restore coherency in government and society? How do we make America and the world sacred again? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlenn Aparicio Parry\, PhD\, of Basque\, Aragon Spanish\, and Jewish descent\, is the author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (SelectBooks\, 2020) and Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time\, Humanity\, and Nature (North Atlantic Press\, 2015). Parry is an educator\, ecopsychologist\, and political philosopher whose passion is to reform thinking and education into a coherent\, cohesive whole. The founder and past president of the SEED Institute\, Parry is currently the president of the think tank: Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 – 2011 that brought together Native and Western scientists in dialogue\, moderated by Leroy Little Bear. He has appeared in several documentary films\, including Journey to Turtle Island\, a biographic piece exploring David Peat’s life and participation in the dialogue circles by Spanish filmmaker Miryam Servet. Parry is a  member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Theosophical Society as part of a life-long interest in bridging the arts and sciences. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/recovering-coherency-in-politics-and-society-through-dialogue/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200808T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200808T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T172307Z UID:10000045-1596909600-1596916800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Insight and Illusion in Bohmian Psychology DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInsight and Illusion in Bohmian Psychology \n\n\n\nwith David Moody  \n\n\n\nAugust 8 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm is known primarily for his work in physics and cosmology\, but his contributions to the field of psychology were equally profound and significant. His understanding of the nature and dynamic structure of consciousness\, and their relevance to the ordinary affairs of daily life\, had several sources. His views were shaped in part by his experience with members of the scientific community and his disillusionment with their independence of mind and objectivity. He also drew upon the work of Hegel and Piaget\, among others. The greatest influence upon his outlook on psychology\, however\, was the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti\, and the quarter-century of dialogue and collaboration between the two men. \n\n\n\nIn Bohm’s approach to psychology\, the role of thought occupies a central position in consciousness\, including our common misconceptions about thought and the illusions that thought generates. The remedy for these illusions is insight\, which represents a form of seeing or intelligence that transcends the limitations of thought. These views closely parallel those of Krishnamurti\, but Bohm expressed them with his own gift for language and colourful metaphors. In this presentation\, we will examine the basic elements of Bohmian psychology with special reference to the work of Krishnamurti and the nature and quality of the relationship between the two men. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Edmund Moody\, PhD author and educator \n\n\n\nDavid Edmund Moody\, PhD\, is the author of An Uncommon Collaboration:  David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti.  He worked closely with Bohm and Krishnamurti in his capacity as director of the Oak Grove School\, founded by Krishnamurti in Ojai\, California\, in 1975.  Moody’s relationship with the two men is described in his previous book\, The Unconditioned Mind:  J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School. \n\n\n\nMoody is currently completing a biography of Krishnamurti that presents his philosophy in a new light.  Krishnamurti in America: New Perspectives on the Man and His Message is scheduled for publication in October 2019. \n\n\n\nMoody facilitated a series of seminars conducted by Bohm at Oak Grove School\, in which Bohm described his views on consciousness and the human condition.  He conducted several recorded dialogues with Bohm\, three of which are included as appendixes in An Uncommon Collaboration. \n\n\n\nHe took his PhD in education at UCLA in 1991.  His doctoral research investigated the logical structure of high school biology textbooks and their effects on student understanding of the theory of evolution.  Moody is the author of numerous articles in popular and professional journals on topics related to biology and science education\, including Gaia theory and the development of a curriculum based on the cultivation of insight. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/insight-and-illusion-in-bohmian-psychology/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200809T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200809T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200617T150003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T225348Z UID:10000050-1596996000-1597003200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Understanding Quantum Reality and Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding Quantum Reality and Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen  \n\n\n\nAugust 99:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, Philosopher of Mind\, Helsinki University\, Finland \n\n\n\nPaavo is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Program. \n\n\n\nHis main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. The central problem in philosophy of mind is how to understand the place of mind—and especially conscious experience—in the physical world. Pylkkänen has explored whether this problem can be approached in a new way in the framework of the new holistic and dynamic worldview that is emerging from quantum theory and relativity. He has in particular been inspired by the physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley’s interpretation of quantum theory and has collaborated with both of them. \n\n\n\nIn his 2007 book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that Bohmian notions such as active information and implicate order provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness. The overall aim of his research is to develop a scientific metaphysics. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and is a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/understanding-quantum-reality-and-consciousness/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200815T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200815T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T225226Z UID:10000049-1597514400-1597521600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Tracing the Story of David Bohm and Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTracing the Story of David Bohm and Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Beth Macy  \n\n\n\nAugust 159:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nHow is it that one of the world’s most gifted and innovative theoretical physicists would stray from his primary calling of uncovering the secrets of the universe?  What so captivated his interest that\, with that same intense creativity brought to his science\, he would divert his exploration to uncovering the basis of human thought and the roots of social discord?  Using David Bohm’s own words and those of his associates\, we will plumb these queries by tracing the stories of his experience that called him to this deep practice of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/tracing-the-story-of-david-bohm-and-dialogue/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200816T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200816T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T151221Z UID:10000046-1597600800-1597608000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Beyond Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/POs-PghoovY?si=zsNRyE2yW3RCFQf3\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Lee Nichol  \n\n\n\nAugust 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour live session \n\n\n\nOver the years that David Bohm presented his vision of dialogue\, he pointed to three aspects of the human being—the individual\, the collective\, and the cosmic. While the individual and collective aspects have been much studied and practiced\, the cosmic aspect has received little attention. In this presentation we will open up what this cosmic aspect might mean\, and\, of equal importance\, what is involved in conducting such an investigation. The first hour will consist of laying out the terrain involved. The second hour will be discussion and question and answer. There will be no attempt to conduct a dialogue. \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-dialogue/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200822T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200822T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T213004Z UID:10000047-1598119200-1598126400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Beyond the Known Dimension DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwith David Schrum  \n\n\n\nAugust 22 at 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm spoke of an implicate order\, a subtle\, hidden order that lies within mind and matter. While we will consider both the physical and mental dimensions of this order\, our focus will be greatly on our inner human dimension. \n\n\n\nIn our time together\, we will challenge ourselves to open an exploration into these inner depths and to uncover the implicate within ourselves. We will go into the question of what sort of inner observation will bring us into a deep participation of our own in this subtle realm and\, thus\, to first-hand appreciation and understanding of this hidden order. This is a journey of exploration together that begins with our surface consciousness and that offers an opening to that which lies beyond the known dimension. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid C. Schrum\, PhD. Quantum theorist \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory from Queen’s University\, Canada (1971)\, after which he spent two years in post-doctoral studies with David Bohm at Birkbeck College\, London. At Birkbeck\, Schrum entered the world of Bohm’s creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics\, and of his enquiry into the structure of consciousness and what may lie beyond. He was also introduced to his professor’s interest in the philosopher J. Krishnamurti. David Schrum continues engagement in these areas. \n\n\n\nFrom 1974 until retirement he taught at Cambrian College\, Sudbury\, Canada. Present areas of focus are relativistic quantum theory derived from a new application of the quantum principle\, and exploration and development of David Bohm dialogue as a process of shared enquiry into mind. \n\n\n\nHe is a board member of the Pari Center\, Italy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here\n\n\n\nAll sessions will last for approximately 2 hours\, and will be held over zoom.us. The session structure may vary from speaker to speaker\, but in general participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and in some cases there will be breakaway discussion groups. \n\n\n\nEach session will be hosted by a member of the Pari Center Team\, to ensure that the call is running smoothly and assist anyone experiencing technical problems. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded for archival purposes. The recordings will not include the possible breakout-room discussions\, but only the speaker’s presentation\, follow-up discussions and Q&A. If a participant does not feel comfortable being recorded\, we invite that participant to turn off their video and audio throughout the session. These recordings are available to anyone who has purchased a ticket for an attended session\, or for a session they have paid for but were unable to attend. If a participant would like to access to the recording\, please email us at: eleanor@paricenter.com URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-known-dimension/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200823T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20200823T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20200616T134523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T174604Z UID:10000048-1598205600-1598212800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Nonlocality\, Interconnectedness\, and the Quantum Observer DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNonlocality\, Interconnectedness\, and the Quantum Observer \n\n\n\nwith Jan Walleczek  \n\n\n\nAugust 239:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jan Walleczek   Director of Phenoscience Laboratories \n\n\n\nJan Walleczek\, Director of Phenoscience Laboratories\, Berlin\, Germany\, and Director of the Fetzer Franklin Fund of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust\, USA. Previously\, he was Director of the Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at Stanford University Medical School\, USA. Jan Walleczek was a doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics\, Berlin\, and post-doctoral fellow at the Research Medicine and Radiation Biophysics Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, University of California at Berkeley. His scientific publications cover the fields of biology\, chemistry\, engineering\, and physics. His recent work concerns the foundations of quantum mechanics and applications to living systems of concepts such as quantum coherence\, emergent dynamics\, and the flow of information\, a long-standing interest that he summarized as an edited volume for Cambridge University Press titled ‘Self-organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control.’ In 2019\, he co-edited the book titled Emergent Quantum Mechanics—David Bohm Centennial Perspectives for MDPI Press. In addition to metascience and advanced methodology\, his professional interests include the philosophy and foundations of science. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here URL:https://paricenter.com/event/nonlocality-interconnectedness-and-the-quantum-observer/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20201025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 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:20260403T232207 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:20260403T232207 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:20260403T232207 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:20260403T232207 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:20210130T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201212T112001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092259Z UID:10000064-1612029600-1612036800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Horror and the Role of Terror: The Antithesis of Being Glad to Be Alive DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHRFsnpVlE\n\n\n\n\n\nFlickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television\n\n\n\nHorror and the Role of Terror: The Antithesis of Being Glad to Be Alive \n\n\n\nwith Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\nSaturday January 30\, 20219:00 am PST  |  12:00 pm EST  |  6:00 pm CET \n\n\n\nA monthly get-together to examine the thought-provoking\, the philosophical\, and the ones that take risks. \n\n\n\nWould Christianity have taken off as successfully if Christ had been imprisoned and died out of sight? The horrific image of a nearly naked man\, nailed to a cross and bleeding from his hands\, feet\, forehead and stomach has had greater impact. What is the relationship between horror\, its images and the sublime? \n\n\n\nFrom the ancient through the mediaeval to Victorian and contemporary forms of the genre\, horror\, and terror\, have been used to impress upon us the frailty of humanity and\, often\, the value of a spiritual alternative. In one era\, the paintings of Bosch or the original German folk tales could terrify their audience\, while in the present day the horror film and its digital game equivalent offer a corresponding function. \n\n\n\nJung was aware of how myth and archetypal imagery took on modern forms when included in contemporary visual media—and yet the psychological impact remained. Jung maintained that evil was a real entity in the world.  In their stories\, horror writers and filmmakers rely on such an assumption. Christopher Hauke will be discussing a Jungian perspective on horror\, the sublime and the role of terror with wide-ranging examples from literature and especially film. You may want to keep the light on… \n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\nwww.christopherhauke.com \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/81879261698 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\nJung discusses evil in many passages. Start with Collected Works Vol. 9 Pt ii. Aion (orig. 1958). Chap. ll: ‘The Shadow’ paras. 13-19; and Chap. V: ‘Christ\, A Symbol of the Self’ paras. 68-126 \n\n\n\nHere’s a good modern horror writer with archetypal qualities: \n\n\n\nLigotti\, Thomas (2009) My Work Is Not Yet Done. Three Tales of Corporate Horror.  London\, Virgin Books. \n\n\n\nHow do we view horror films? Try this piece of research: \n\n\n\nJohnston\, Diedre D. (1995) ‘Adolescents’ Motivations for Viewing Graphic Horror. ‘Human Communication Research Vol. 21. Issue 4. Pp. 522-552. June 1995 \n\n\n\nA good article on film horror and its literary forebears: \n\n\n\nDavis\, Rhidian (2013) ‘Shadowlands and Roger Corman “The Poe Complex.”’ Sight and Sound. Vol 23. Issue 11. Pp 24-30. November 2013. \n\n\n\nBooks for further reading: \n\n\n\nHanich\, Julian (2010/2011) Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers. New York and Abingdon: Routledge \n\n\n\nTan\, Ed S.\, (2011) Emotion and the stricture of narrative film. Film as an emotion machine.  New York and Abingdon: Routledge \n\n\n\nSuggested viewing: \n\n\n\nTry these quite recent horror films and think about their different styles: \n\n\n\nGet Out  (Jordan Peele\, 2016. USA) \n\n\n\nGhost Stories   (Dyson and Nyman\, 2017. UK) \n\n\n\nTriangle  (Christopher Smith\, 2009. UK) \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/horror-and-the-role-of-terror-the-antithesis-of-being-glad-to-be-alive/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/flickering-fb-ads_02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210213T175900 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210307T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201119T152112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092158Z UID:10000057-1613239140-1615147200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Synchronicity\, Mind and Matter DESCRIPTION:Synchronicity\, Mind and Matter \n\n\n\nWith Allan Combs\, Roderick Main\, Mathew Mather\, Cruz Mañas Sabbadini\, Remo Roth\, Shantena Sabbadini\, Yuriko Sato\, Jean-François Vezina and special guest poet\, Richard Berengarten \n\n\n\n8 two-hour online sessions\, one every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nFebruary 13 – March 7\, 20219:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 18:00 CET \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nThe term ‘synchronicity’ was introduced by C.G. Jung to denote those experiences in which a coincidence of inner and outer events appears to be particularly significant\, transcending causal explanation and carrying a message that often has a remarkable\, sometimes numinous\, impact on the person experiencing it. \n\n\n\nWhen confronted with such experiences we are drawn to look at physical and psychic events as subtly interconnected\, perhaps even as manifestation of a common underlying reality. Such an intuition resonates with the findings of quantum physics\, in which the description of physical processes inevitably involves the notion of an observer\, and was the overarching theme of the correspondence Jung entertained with the Nobel prize winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli over a quarter of a century. \n\n\n\nIn this course we will focus on synchronicity as a gate to a deeper understanding of the relationship between mind and matter and as a guide to read the archetypal energy configurations we encounter in our daily life. This experiential approach to synchronicity will use the I Ching\, the ancient Chinese oracle\, as a tool for ‘inviting synchronicity’. \n\n\n\nWe are very fortunate to have poet Richard Berengarten as part of our Synchronicity series. Richard will be reading from two of his collections: Notness which includes a section of ten sonnets entitled ‘On Synchronicity\,’  and his ambitious Changing\,a homage to the I Ching.Richard will briefly introduce himself and his work and each session will begin with his reading from these two works. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday February 13: Synchronicity Questwith 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\, I show the conscious preconditions for the experience of synchronicities. Or in other words: What change of our consciousness is necessary for the observation of a multiplication of synchronicities? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday February 14: Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters that Transform Uswith Jean-François Vezina \n\n\n\nPeople often enter our lives in mysterious ways. We have all met ‘by accident’ a person who crossed our path and radically altered our trajectory and opened a new door that helped us to enter a new universe. What predisposes us to such meetings? Who are these Trickster’s messengers—not necessarily people\, as they can also take the forms of books or movies—that lead us to cross a new threshold? \n\n\n\nIn the light of the new sciences and cinema\, this presentation introduces more than 20 yeas of research trying to understand the fascinating question of synchronistic encounters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday February 20: Numinous Matter: Synchronicity and the Reanimation of the Physical Worldwith Roderick Main \n\n\n\nIn this session we shall explore the implications of synchronicity for our experience of and relationship to the physical world.  The presumption of disenchanted science is that matter is in itself inherently inert and devoid of meaning.  Contrary to this\, with the concept of synchronicity as well as his use of alchemical symbolism\, Jung proposed that meaning and numinosity\, as expressions of the psychoid archetype\, could be inherent properties of not only the psyche but also matter.  Such a view arguably fosters a more participative and respectful\, rather than instrumental and exploitative\, relationship to the physical world.  We shall examine some of the experiences and underpinning philosophical assumptions that have been invoked in support of this view. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday February 21: Synchronicity: A Common Reality in Japanwith Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nSince time immemorial\, before C.G. Jung named the phenomenon\, synchronicity has been perceived by people of various cultures. In the modern Western world view\, mind and matter are clearly separated. Synchronistic phenomena\, which cross the boundary between and connect these two distinct categories of reality\, are therefore intriguing. However\, in places where older world views have been retained in some way\, such as in Japan\, people seem to be less curious than Westerners about why and how synchronistic events happen; they seem to think of them more as natural occurrences—“just so” and “it happens.” I will approach synchronicity from these perspectives\, using the Japanese psyche as an example\, to explore its nature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday February 27 – 28: I Ching and Synchronicity Workshopwith Shantena Sabbadini and Cruz Mañas Sabbadini \n\n\n\nThe intention of this workshop is to give you an experiential taste of reading events in a synchronistic perspective. Opening up to the experience of synchronicity is the essence of all divinatory practices. The divinatory practice we will explore in this workshop is the consultation of the I Ching\, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. \n\n\n\nWe suggest to approach divination not as a way to predict the future\, but as a way to allow unconscious knowledge to emerge in order to illuminate a problematic situation or a specific question. \n\n\n\nDue to the constraint of meeting online rather than in person\, we ask you to do your I Ching consultation in advance of the workshop\, so that the workshop time can be fully devoted to the interpretation of the answers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday March 6: Tarot and Synchronicity: Reading the World as Symbol with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nAfter a brief elaboration on the history of the Tarot and its use as a divinatory tool\, Mathew will relate a number of synchronistic experiences. Based on this he will describe how the Tarot can be used as a divinatory method allowing for an understanding and appreciation of the mytho-poetic language of the Anima Mundi\, the Soul of the World. In this space\, the possibility emerges of being initiated into a stitching together of the microcosm of our individual life myth within the macrocosm of the Anima Mundi. \n\n\n\nThe second part of the session will include an interactive Tarot workshop in which participants will be invited to respond in word and image to a ‘random’ selection of a card\, individually chosen\, from the major arcana. This will be followed by sharing in groups\, and then a final discussion. Note that a pack of Tarot cards will not be required. Please have a sheet of sketch paper and a few pens (art materials) available during the session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday March 7: The Trickster Inside and Outwith Allan Combs \n\n\n\nThe trickster is a shadow figure\, a dynamic archetype\, hidden in every human psyche. It arises uninvited as impulses that urge us to “play the devil” with our own rational side and behavior. But it can also manifest as a sense of playfulness\, when one becomes a clown in an otherwise “serious” situation. The trickster is projected in myths and stories of virtually every traditional culture\, from the Native American crow and coyote\, to the closely related Mexican/Aztec dancing Huehuecóyotl (or Ueuecoyotl)\, and on to the African spider trickster\, Anansi\, and Renard the trickster fox\, popular throughout Europe during the late Middle Ages; and includes great trickster gods such as the Chinese monkey king\, the Norse Loki\, and the Greek Hermes\, said to be the “friendliest of the gods to men.” \n\n\n\nI show this with the help of some of my most important synchronicities\, which\, so to speak\, talked about how they work\, their mode of operation\, and in this way led me to the method I call today Synchronicity Quest. \n\n\n\nThe trickster protects us as individuals\, and society as a whole\, form taking ourselves too seriously\, and from growing rigid and inflexible in our traditional ways. Often by the event of synchronicities that trip us up at first\, and make us stop and examine ourselves. If we are open to these seeming stumbling blocks\, we often discover them to be treasures in hiding; gifts from the trickster to enrich our lives. \n\n\n\nThis lesson will encourage each of us to explore our personal experiences of synchronicity\, share them with others\, and question how they reflect the work of the archetypal trickster\, often to our consternation at first\, but ultimately facilitating our own growth and transformation. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/synchronicity-mind-and-matter/ CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/synchronicity2b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210213T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 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:20210214T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210214T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201122T175225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T174402Z UID:10000060-1613325600-1613332800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters that Transform Us DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNecessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters that Transform Us \n\n\n\nwith Jean-François Vezina \n\n\n\nPeople often enter our lives in mysterious ways. We have all met ‘by accident’ a person who crossed our path and radically altered our trajectory and opened a new door that helped us to enter a new universe. What predisposes us to such meetings? Who are these Trickster’s messengers—not necessarily people\, as they can also take the forms of books or movies—that lead us to cross a new threshold? \n\n\n\nIn the light of the new sciences and cinema\, this presentation introduces more than 20 yeas of research trying to understand the fascinating question of synchronistic encounters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-François Vézina is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Québec and a musician. He was the president of the Jungian Society of Quebec for 7 years and has recently created the Cercle Jung de Tequenonday and The Hilbert Hotel\, a psycho-philo-poetic experience exploring the multiverse. He has published several books translated in various languages such as Necessary Chances by Pari Publishing\, The Love Adventure and Dancing with Chaos on the Trickster archetype. Web Site: www.hilbert-hotel.com URL:https://paricenter.com/event/necessary-chances-synchronicity-in-the-encounters-that-transform-us/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210220T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210220T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201123T111110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T163704Z UID:10000006-1613844000-1613851200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Numinous Matter: Synchronicity and the Reanimation of the Physical World DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmB9tP-Km70\n\n\n\n\n\nNuminous Matter: Synchronicity and the Reanimation of the Physical World \n\n\n\nwith Roderick Main \n\n\n\nIn this session we shall explore the implications of synchronicity for our experience of and relationship to the physical world.  The presumption of disenchanted science is that matter is in itself inherently inert and devoid of meaning.  Contrary to this\, with the concept of synchronicity as well as his use of alchemical symbolism\, Jung proposed that meaning and numinosity\, as expressions of the psychoid archetype\, could be inherent properties of not only the psyche but also matter. Such a view arguably fosters a more participative and respectful\, rather than instrumental and exploitative\, relationship to the physical world.  We shall examine some of the experiences and underpinning philosophical assumptions that have been invoked in support of this view. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoderick Main\, works at the University of Essex\, UK\, where he is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies.  He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience\, the editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal\, and co-editor of Myth\, Literature\, and the Unconscious.  He was Principal Investigator in the  Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘“One world”: logical and ethical implications of holism’ (2016-18). URL:https://paricenter.com/event/numinous-matter-synchronicity-and-the-reanimation-of-the-physical-world/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210221T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210221T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201123T111432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T165107Z UID:10000051-1613930400-1613937600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Synchronicity: A Common Reality in Japan DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg8do4IsW2E\n\n\n\n\n\nSynchronicity: A Common Reality in Japan \n\n\n\nwith Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nSince time immemorial\, before C.G. Jung named the phenomenon\, synchronicity has been perceived by people of various cultures. In the modern Western world view\, mind and matter are clearly separated. Synchronistic phenomena\, which cross the boundary between and connect these two distinct categories of reality\, are therefore intriguing. However\, in places where older world views have been retained in some way\, such as in Japan\, people seem to be less curious than Westerners about why and how synchronistic events happen; they seem to think of them more as natural occurrences—“just so” and “it happens.” I will approach synchronicity from these perspectives\, using the Japanese psyche as an example\, to explore its nature. \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/synchronicity-a-common-reality-in-japan/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210227T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210228T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201123T112036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T170756Z UID:10000052-1614448800-1614542400@paricenter.com SUMMARY:I Ching and Synchronicity Workshop DESCRIPTION:I Ching and Synchronicity Workshop \n\n\n\nwith Shantena Sabbadini and Cruz Mañas Sabbadini \n\n\n\nFebruary 13 – March 7\, 2021 \n\n\n\nThe intention of this workshop is to give you an experiential taste of reading events in a synchronistic perspective. Opening up to the experience of synchronicity is the essence of all divinatory practices. The divinatory practice we will explore in this workshop is the consultation of the I Ching\, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. \n\n\n\nWe suggest to approach divination not as a way to predict the future\, but as a way to allow unconscious knowledge to emerge in order to illuminate a problematic situation or a specific question. \n\n\n\nDue to the constraint of meeting online rather than in person\, we ask you to do your I Ching consultation in advance of the workshop\, so that the workshop time can be fully devoted to the interpretation of the answers. \n\n\n\n\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/i-ching-and-synchronicity-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210306T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201123T120630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T165445Z UID:10000062-1615053600-1615060800@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Tarot and Synchronicity with Matthew Mather DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bZ1_-k-NvRI?si=oDn_Opwl0EQCiYMI\n\n\n\n\n\nTarot and Synchronicity with Matthew Mather \n\n\n\nwith Matthew Mather \n\n\n\nAfter a brief elaboration on the history of the Tarot and its use as a divinatory tool\, Mathew will relate a number of synchronistic experiences. Based on this he will describe how the Tarot can be used as a divinatory method allowing for an understanding and appreciation of the mytho-poetic language of the Anima Mundi\, the Soul of the World. In this space\, the possibility emerges of being initiated into a stitching together of the microcosm of our individual life myth within the macrocosm of the Anima Mundi. \n\n\n\nThe second part of the session will include an interactive Tarot workshop in which participants will be invited to respond in word and image to a ‘random’ selection of a card\, individually chosen\, from the major arcana. This will be followed by sharing in groups\, and then a final discussion. Note that a pack of Tarot cards will not be required. Please have a sheet of sketch paper and a few pens (art materials) available during the session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMathew is a graduate of the University of Essex\, where he specialised in Jung and Alchemy. He is a lecturer at Limerick School of Art and Design\, course director of the Certificate in Jungian Psychology with Art Therapy and the postgraduate Certificate in Art\, Psyche and the Creative Imagination. Mathew regularly presents at international conferences\, is a guest lecturer at ISAP Zurich and runs workshops with his wife Lyn for the Jung in Ireland programme. His interests include dream interpretation\, synchronicity\, art\, alchemy\, astrology\, the environment\, as well as personal and cultural mythologies. He is author of The Alchemical Mercurius: Esoteric Symbol of Jung’s Life and Works (Routledge\, 2014). URL:https://paricenter.com/event/tarotandsynchronicity/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210307T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210307T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20201123T115020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T165634Z UID:10000061-1615140000-1615147200@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Trickster Inside and Out DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/4xP6AWt-93o?si=u45XuarfY1tu1jxt\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Trickster Inside and Out \n\n\n\nwith Allan Combs \n\n\n\nThe trickster is a shadow figure\, a dynamic archetype\, hidden in every human psyche. It arises uninvited as impulses that urge us to “play the devil” with our own rational side and behavior. But it can also manifest as a sense of playfulness\, when one becomes a clown in an otherwise “serious” situation. The trickster is projected in myths and stories of virtually every traditional culture\, from the Native American crow and coyote\, to the closely related Mexican/Aztec dancing Huehuecóyotl (or Ueuecoyotl)\, and on to the African spider trickster\, Anansi\, and Renard the trickster fox\, popular throughout Europe during the late Middle Ages; and includes great trickster gods such as the Chinese monkey king\, the Norse Loki\, and the Greek Hermes\, said to be the “friendliest of the gods to men.” \n\n\n\nThe trickster protects us as individuals\, and society as a whole\, form taking ourselves too seriously\, and from growing rigid and inflexible in our traditional ways. Often by the event of synchronicities that trip us up at first\, and make us stop and examine ourselves. If we are open to these seeming stumbling blocks\, we often discover them to be treasures in hiding; gifts from the trickster to enrich our lives. \n\n\n\nThis lesson will encourage each of us to explore our personal experiences of synchronicity\, share them with others\, and question how they reflect the work of the archetypal trickster\, often to our consternation at first\, but ultimately facilitating our own growth and transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllan Combs is Professor of Consciousness Studies at the California Institute for Integral Studies. He is author or coauthor of over 200 publications on consciousness\, including Synchronicity: Science\, Myth\, and the Trickster; The Radiance of Being\, best-book award-winner of the Scientific and Medical Network; Consciousness Explained Better: An Integral Understanding of Consciousness; and Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-trickster-inside-and-out/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Event discount ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Synchronicity-Mind-and-Matter-Pari-Center-Online-Series-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210314T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210314T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20210217T123945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T092003Z UID:10000065-1615744800-1615752000@paricenter.com SUMMARY:Flickering Reality: May the Force Be with Us DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48F_L8VS5k\n\n\n\n\n\nFlickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television \n\n\n\nMay the Force Be with Us: The Archetype of the Hieros Gamos in the Star Wars Mythology \n\n\n\nwith Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSunday March 14\, 202110:00 am PDT  |  1:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm CET \n\n\n\nA monthly get-together to examine the thought-provoking\, the philosophical\, and the ones that take risks. \n\n\n\nJean-François Vézina will be looking at the full spectrum of archetypical dynamics in the Star Wars series. The core of the last episode of the series contains a great expression of the archetype of the Hieros Gamos that Jung and Pauil talked about in their correspondences. Facing the dark side of fear\, symbolised by the Star Wars’ character Palpatine and experienced in our times with Covid-19\, we need to be courageous and imaginatives in the reconciliation of our opposites\, and Star Wars offers a great path to this collective and personal individuation. Jean-François will divide his presentation into four 20-minute parts leaving plenty of time for community Q&A and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n‘May the Force be with me’.  (Trilogy 1-3) Egotic dimension of the Force\n\n\n\n‘May the Force be with you’ (Trilogy 4-6) Heroic dimension of the Force\n\n\n\n‘May The Force be with us’  (Trilogy 7-9) Hiero Gamic dimension of the Force.\n\n\n\n‘Baby Yoda\, a symbol of the sacred child’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-François Vézina is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Québec\, an author and a musician. He was the president of the Jungian Society of Quebec for 7 years and has recently created the Cercle Jung de Tequenonday and The Hilbert Hotel\, a psycho-philo-poetic experience exploring the multiverse. \n\n\n\nHe has published several books translated in various languages such as Necessary Chances by Pari Publishing\, The Love Adventure and Dancing with Chaos on the Trickster archetype. \n\n\n\nWeb Site: www.hilbert-hotel.com \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/82772844869 \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\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-may-the-force-be-with-us/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/flickering-fb-ads_03a.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210327T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210327T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 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:20210417T105900 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 CREATED:20210226T133526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T091331Z UID:10000076-1618657140-1619283600@paricenter.com SUMMARY:The Great Re-Think DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four-part series of webinars led by Colin Tudge \n\n\n\nhosted by The Pari Center\,The Scientific and Medical Network\, and the College for Real Farming and Food Cultur \n\n\n\nWith special guests Andrew Fellows\, Denise Walton\, Ian Rappel and Ruby Reed \n\n\n\n2 Sessions each Saturday –  April 17 and 24\, 202110:00 – 12:00 pm BST and 3:00 – 5:00 pm BST11:00 – 1:00 pm CEST and 4:00 – 6:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nThough the world is now in a dreadful state and popes and scientists warn of impending collapse\, humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment with abundant and diverse wildlife. But to achieve this we need to re-think everything we do and take for granted from first principles—those of morality and ecology\, both rooted in the all-but forgotten discipline of metaphysics which embraces both science and religion. The re-think and re-structuring amount to nothing less than a Renaissance—more far-reaching than the Renaissance that ended the European Middle Ages. Furthermore\, this new Renaissance must be brought about by us—people at large: Ordinary Joes and Jos. The dominant oligarchy of governments\, corporates\, financiers\, and their chosen intellectual and expert advisers are not on the case. They remain focused on wealth and power. It’s a tall order—but there is good news. Many millions of individuals and organizations worldwide are already showing the way. What’s needed now is coordination\, underpinned by a coherent philosophy. The Great Re-Think does not presume to provide sure-fire formulae. It does aspire to point the necessary discussions in the right directions. Colin will be discussing the whole thesis with expert guests\, and invites all participants to join in a lively discussion\, ask questions or add comments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday April 17The Goal with Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nSaturday April 17Actionwith Denise Walton \n\n\n\nSaturday April 24Infrastructurewith Ian Rappel \n\n\n\nSaturday April 24Mindsetwith Ruby Reed \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance by biologist and science writer Colin Tudge. \n\n\n\nWinner of the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award\, 2020 \n\n\n\nColin examines why we must re-think everything we do and take for granted—the biosphere\, agriculture\, food\, technology\, governance\, the economy\, law\, science\, metaphysics\, the arts—and start again from first principles. If we want the Renaissance to happen\, then we\, people-at-large\, ‘Ordinary Joes and Jos\,’ have to take control.  \n\n\n\nBuy the companion book to the series from bookstores or Pari Publishing.To buy Colin’s Book: https://www.paripublishing.com/books/the-great-re-think/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Tudge is a biologist by education (Peterhouse\, Cambridge) and a writer by inclination and by trade. For some decades he worked for World Medicine\, Farmers Weekly\, New Scientist\, and the much-missed Agricultural and Food Research Council\, and then had his own science programme on BBC Radio 3 before becoming a full-time author in 1990. In 2010 he co-founded the Oxford Real Farming Conference which in 2021 becomes ‘ORFC Global’; and he is now helping to set up the College for Real Farming and Food Culture to develop and disseminate the ideas outlined in The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance\, which was named Book of the Year 2020 by the Scientific and Medical Network. URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-great-re-think/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Great_rethink.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210417T110100 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210417T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T232207 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 END:VCALENDAR