BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Pari Center - ECPv6.16.1//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:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20230326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20231029T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20240331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20241027T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250413T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250413T233000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250331T090827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T120119Z
UID:10000412-1744576200-1744587000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:SURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UrzcZfp-mV8?si=xAijmeVaHLNJDoWb\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death \n\n\n\nSunday April 13\, 2025 \n\n\n\n11:30am PDT\, 2:30pm EDT\, 7:30pm BST\, 8:30pm CEST (and ending about four hours later) \n\n\n\nWith: Alejandro Agudo\, Eben Alexander\, John Ballard\, Stafford Betty\, Bernard Carr\, Jeff Dunne\, Bruce Greyson\, Stanley Krippner\, Jeffrey Long\, David Lorimer\, Janice Miner Holden\, Jeffrey Mishlove\, Alexander Moreira-Almeida\, Leo Ruickbie\, Gary Schwartz\, Steve Taylor\, Stephan Schwartz\, Pim Van Lommel\, Helane Wahbeh\, Marjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nIn memoriam: Peter Fenwick (1935-2024)\, Charles Tart (1937-2025)\, and Allan Leslie Combs (1942-2025) \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Rigorous Open-Minded Exploration \n\n\n\nUnderstanding whether consciousness continues after death is one of the most profound scientific and philosophical questions of our time. A rigorous\, evidence-based\, but also open-minded\, exploratory\, approach to this mystery has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of human identity\, the nature of consciousness\, and the boundaries of life itself. What\, if anything\, survives bodily death? In what form\, and for how long? These are questions that demand a trans-disciplinary investigation\, not just for their scientific implications but for their profound impact on culture\, ethics\, and human experience. SURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death brings together world-renowned experts to explore the latest research\, theories\, and firsthand accounts that challenge conventional assumptions. This online event is an essential opportunity to engage with cutting-edge insights into what might lie beyond the final frontier. \n\n\n\nA Bold New Conference Format\n\n\n\nWe are pioneering a dynamic\, high-impact online conference format via Zoom that maximizes efficiency and engagement. These live-recorded events feature a series of fast-paced\, 15-minute “science nuggets”—concise\, content-rich presentations from leading researchers\, with or without slides\, without lengthy introductions or Q&A. This streamlined approach keeps the momentum strong\, allowing us to cover in a few hours what a traditional in-person conference might take a week to accomplish. The result? A free\, to-the-point\, and comprehensive snapshot of the latest advancements in our field\, offering a pluralistic advanced testament to where we stand—and where we’re headed.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/survival-re-appraising-the-evidence-for-life-after-death/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SURVIVAL-Re-Appraising-the-Evidence-for-Life-After-Death.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250323T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250323T223000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250207T080025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T090812Z
UID:10000403-1742761800-1742769000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Edge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqy4UxmY88\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science \n\n\n\nSunday March 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nStarting at 12:30pm PDT  | 3:30pm EDT  | 7:30pm GMT  |  8:30pm CET \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWith Robert Duncan and Brett Robinson \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE online and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience can explain many things about reality but the addition of theology\, literature\, and art deepens our understanding and makes for a much richer appreciation of life on this weird and wonderful planet. How can Religion respond to evolving scientific discoveries? How should the Church think about UFOs? What are the boundaries for Catholic belief? The McGrath Institute for Church Life is proud to present “Edge of Belief: UFOs\, Technology & The Catholic Imagination”\, a documentary short that explores the outer limits of belief. \n\n\n\n“The Edge of Belief” is a documentary film about the interplay of faith\, imagination and science. The film looks at the modern UFO phenomenon through the lens of the Catholic theological\, scientific and literary tradition. This impactful documentary gives viewers a holistic framework for thinking about the mysteries of the universe and dealing with the claims that we are not alone in it. “The Edge of Belief” features interviews with CS Lewis scholar and Oxford professor Michael Ward\, religious studies researcher and author of American Cosmic\, Diana Pasulka\, icon artist and host of “The Symbolic World\,” Jonathan Pageau\, Notre Dame theologian Christopher Baglow\, and Chair of Astronomy at Cornell\, Jonathan Lunine\, among others. \n\n\n\nLink to the film (31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0ah6Xmqus \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n08:30pm CET – Introduction \n\n\n\n08:45pm CET – Live film watch \n\n\n\n09:15pm CET – Conversation between Robert\, Brett\, and Alex  \n\n\n\n10:00pm CET – Q&A from the audience \n\n\n\n10:30pm CET – End \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Duncan\, a native of North Carolina\, is a filmmaker and communications professional who has spent over a decade producing documentaries and news videos on the Vatican and Catholic life in Rome. He has worked extensively as a journalist covering Vatican affairs and as a communications consultant for various non-profit religious organizations\, particularly in the areas of fundraising and strategic media. Robert graduated from NYU’s film program and has consulted for the U.S. State Department\, creating media for the U.S. embassies in Rome. He has lectured on communication strategy for Vatican employees and assisted with media projects for Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. Robert lives near Rome with his family\, enjoying hiking and sailing.  \n\n\n\nBrett Robinson\, Executive Producer Brett Robinson serves as the Associate Director for Outreach and Associate Professor of the Practice at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. In his role\, he oversees outreach efforts for the institute while conducting research at the intersection of religion\, technology and culture. Brett studied marketing and English at the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. He has taught media studies courses at Duquesne University\, the University of Georgia\, Saint Vincent College and Notre Dame. Brett is the author of Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs and his essays and commentary on technology and culture have been featured in Wired Magazine\, CNN\, the LA Times and Catholic News Service. \n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín\, theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist studying the edges of consciousness in the real world. He is an associate professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, Spain\, and director of the Pari Center in Tuscany\, Italy. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/edge-of-belief-faith-imagination-and-science/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/4.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250316T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250316T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250213T150313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T162750Z
UID:10000409-1742148000-1742155200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - The Tao of Emotional Sentience
DESCRIPTION:The Tao of Emotional Sentience \n\n\n\nwith Katherine Peil Kauffman \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 16\, 202510am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 6 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding upon Bohmian (and Kauffmanian) physics\, the Eastern metaphor of The Tao is employed to introduce the new emotion science. In this context\, emotional sentience—from its simple binary evaluations to its complex informational content—is not only central to the ‘self-regulatory’ behavioral hardware and learning software of living systems but may be integral to the in-forming and trans-forming process of reality creation itself. To distinguish emotion as a separate and more ancient system than ‘cognition’ proper\, is to honor the ‘agent in the machine\,’ to discover the untold wonders embodied in the physical organism\, and to reclaim the divine attributes of human being and becoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine T. Peil Kauffman is the founding Director of non-profit EFS International\, whose mission is fostering global emotional wisdom. From a background in Pantheistic spirituality and clinical and social psychology\, her lengthy interdisciplinary inquiry into the biophysical substrates of emotion led to the identification of its previously mysterious biological function: as an ancient ‘self-regulatory sense’—an evaluative perceptual mechanism through which living systems directly participate in self-organizing and evolutionary processes\, and one that invites deeper inquiries into the physics of consciousness. This new science also casts light upon innate ‘biovalues\,’ which scientific methodology has long avoided\, as well as vital processes that in-form common spiritual experiences\, and the healthy development of empathic moral conscience. It provides a biophysically informed vision of ‘naturalistic spiritualty\,’ one that echoes the common wisdom across the great religious traditions\, while challenging such time honored assumptions as ‘sin’ and the ‘good and evil’ dichotomy.A former affiliate of Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity School\, Ms. Kauffman has spoken internationally on the function\, evolution\, physio-chemical\, and informational nature of emotion\, as well as its central role in optimal health\, human development\, moral reasoning\, universal spiritual experiences\, and its informative value toward creating nonviolence in a global village.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-looking-glass-the-tao-of-emotional-sentience/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Beyond-the-looking-glass-poster_low.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250301T175900
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250316T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250213T153540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T100012Z
UID:10000410-1740851940-1742155200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Looking-Glass: Wholeness in Modern Science \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday\, Vasileios Basios\, John Briggs\, Jeff Dunne\, Stuart Kauffman\, Katherine Peil Kauffman\, Paavo Pylkkänen. \n\n\n\nMarch 1 – 16\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\n6 two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn exploration of themes from the book Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe takes a fascinating look at the wholeness revolution in physics\, mathematics\, chemistry\, biology and neurophysiology\, and the scientists whose converging theories are changing our understanding of how the universe works. The series will explore how far the themes of the book Looking-Glass Universe have developed since it was first published.  \n\n\n\nThe ‘looking-glass’ theories propose that we are at this very moment living in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe where each part is in fact the whole\, where scientists conducting an experiment are themselves the experiment\, and even inanimate objects contain consciousness. These theories give scientific meaning to the ancient mystical idea that the universe is One. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe by John Briggs and F. David Peat will be released in a new edition this year with physicist Jonathan Allday filling in readers on how science has evolved in the 40 years since the book first appeared. He reviews the progress towards a looking-glass view of the universe and updating aspects of the text in line with current scientific thinking. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to announce that two of the authors\, John Briggs and Jonathan Allday\, will be presenting during this series. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nLooking Glass UniverseWith Jonathan Allday and John BriggsSaturday March 1 \n\n\n\nDavid BohmWith Jonathan Allday and Paavo PylkkänenSunday March 2 \n\n\n\nObjectivity: The Mythical Border Between Science and ScientistsWith Jeff DunneSaturday March 8 \n\n\n\nEppur Si Muove! The Sudden–and persistent–Vortex of Ilya Prigogine and their descendantsWith Vasileios BasiosSunday March 9 \n\n\n\nHeisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of ConsciousnessWith Stuart KauffmanSaturday March 15 \n\n\n\nThe Tao of Emotional Sentience With Katherine Peil KauffmanSunday December 16
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-looking-glass/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Beyond-the-looking-glass-poster_low.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250209T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250209T233000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250202T162534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250316T170950Z
UID:10000401-1739133000-1739143800@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:PSI: Back to the Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRJ7PKF9ws&t=371s\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPSI: Back to the Future \n\n\n\nSunday February 9\, 202511:30am PST  | 2:30pm EST  | 7:30pm GMT  |  8:30pm CET (and ending about four hours later) \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by: Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nWith: Damon Abraham\, David Acunzo\, Cedric Cannard\, Dani Caputi\, Adam Curry\, Maaneli Derakhshani\, Ed Kelly\, David Luke\, Jeffrey Mishlove\, Julia Mossbridge\, Roger Nelson\, Dean Radin\, Stephen Schwartz\, James Spottiswoode\, Mario Varvoglis\, Marina Weiler\, George Williams \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe scientific study of psychic (or PSI) phenomena –which includes extrasensory perception\, precognition\, synchronicity\, direct mind-to-mind communication\, or mind-matter interactions– has been going on for more than a century now. Its results are fascinating\, puzzling\, and often controversial. In this event some of the greatest active researchers in the field will present their own work while reflecting on where PSI has been\, where we think it is now\, and where we wish it to go. We hope to create an unprecedented audiovisual gathering for current and future generations to get perspective\, clarity\, and inspiration.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/psi-back-to-the-future/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PSI-Back-to-the-Future.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250123T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20250112T083350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250112T084411Z
UID:10000400-1737655200-1737662400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Spaced Out - Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Spaced Out \n\n\n\nA Two-Part Series on that Nature of Space\, Higher Dimensions and the Multiverse \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nThursday January 16 and 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nA two-session series – each session will last two hours. \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1\n\n\n\nThursday January 16\, 2025 \n\n\n\nA Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Space with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThis talk is intended to be a grounding in the physicists’ conception of space. It will discuss the relativity of space and time\, how we distinguish between spatial and temporal dimensions\, space-time\, the curvature of space and what we mean by (various) forms of higher dimensions. \n\n\n\nPart 2\n\n\n\nThursday January 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nSpaced Out: A Conversation Between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe conversation is designed to be a follow-up to their earlier discussion ‘It’s About Time.’ Themes will include space-time\, the curvature of space around a black hole\, higher dimensions in their various forms\, and the multiverse. We will also touch upon the anthropic principle\, cosmology and Bernard’s conception of higher dimensions and the mind. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/spaced-out-part-2/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/spaced-out-poster_low.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250121T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20241230T105741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T064142Z
UID:10000394-1737482400-1737489600@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Is Idealism Enough?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr93mW3QmWo\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs Idealism Enough?A dialogue between Bernardo Kastrup and Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 21\, 20259:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupert Sheldrake recently made a series of criticisms of Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism on Curt Jaimungal’s Theories of Everything channel. Kastrup soon responded to Rupert’s points and subsequently Rupert sent Kastrup a rejoinder. Here\, in a spirit of true collegiality and intellectual pursuit\, we will turn this clash into an opportunity to better understand each other’s position and inquire further into the nature of reality itself. The trialogue between Kastrup\, Sheldrake\, and Gomez-Marin will be followed by Q&A from the audience.  \n\n\n\nLinks\n\n\n\n1. Sheldrake’s criticisms \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Kastrup’s responses \n\n\n\nhttps://www.bernardokastrup.com/2024/11/response-to-rupert-sheldrakes.html \n\n\n\n3. Sheldrake’s rejoinder \n\n\n\nhttps://www.bernardokastrup.com/2024/12/rupert-sheldrakes-rejoinder.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society\, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University\, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry\, and philosophy at Harvard University\, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge\, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences\, near San Francisco\, and also of Schumacher College\, in Devon. For more information\, please visit https://www.sheldrake.org/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism\, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology\, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing\, artificial intelligence). As a scientist\, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years now\, having co-founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Bernardo has most recently started AI hardware company Syncthetics B.V.\, currently in stealth mode. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books\, Bernardo’s ideas have been featured on Scientific American\, the Institute of Art and Ideas\, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association\, and Big Think\, among others. Bernardo’s 11th book\, coming in 2024\, is Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics. For more information\, freely downloadable papers\, videos\, etc.\, please visit www.bernardokastrup.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona\, 1981) is a Spanish scientist\, a theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist investigating human consciousness. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics\, a masters in biophysics\, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona (cum laude by unanimity and Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2009). He was then a postdoctoral research fellow at the Systems Biology Unit of the EMBL-CRG Center for Genomic Regulation and at the Neuroscience Programme of the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. Since 2016\, he has been the director of the Organism Behavior Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante\, where he is currently an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Since 2022\, Alex is also the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany\, Italy.  Amongst other duties\, Alex is an associate editor of Organisms: Journal of Biological Sciences\, a member of the history committee of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience\, a member of the science advisory committee of the Cobb Institute\, a member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative\, a member of the Global Consciousness Project 2.0 research team\, a team member of the Terminal Lucidity Research Group\, a faculty member at the Icloby International Consciousness Lobby Foundation\, a member of the research committee of the Wake Up Institute\, an external advisor of UAP Digital\, and a member of the postmaterialist Open Sciences group. His research encompasses the origins of the arrow of time (inert matter)\, neuroethological principles of action and perception across species from flies and worms to mice and humans (living matter)\, and robotic and artificial intelligence applied to human stupidity (so-called artificial life & mind).  Alex had a near-death experience in March of 2021. He then decided to devote his research efforts to the scientific study of human minds in the real world\, concentrating on what he calls “the edges” of consciousness – a wild\, weird\, wonderful field where great enigma meets gross stigma. In 2023 he was awarded the first Linda G O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. In 2024 Alex was selected as one of the world’s most inspiring people by OOOM 100. He has recently been nominated as one of ten revolutionary scientists by Feed Your Head. Since 2005\, Alex has published about one hundred research articles which have been cited over four thousand times in total. Alex has given countless talks and interviews too. You can find most of his material here: https://behavior-of-organisms.org/ Alex lives in sunny Alicante\, Spain\, with his wife\, two daughters\, and a cat.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/is-idealism-enough/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/idealism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241219T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20241101T210812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T085752Z
UID:10000381-1734631200-1734636600@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:The Future Mind - A conversation with Jonathan Rowson
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSBWupp2wg\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Jonathan Rowson and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nThursday\, December 199:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Perspectiva\, a publishing house and praxis collective based primarily in London. Perspectiva describes itself as an urgent one-hundred-year project to improve the relationship between systems\, souls\, and society in theory and practice. Jonathan is a philosopher and social scientist by academic training and has degrees from Oxford\, Harvard and Bristol Universities. He has written extensively on the idea of metacrisis as our multi-faceted delusion\, and he is increasingly focused on experiments in community and spiritual praxis to help shift socio-economic immunity to change. He is an Open Society Fellow and a Fellow at The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey. In his prior role as Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts he authored influential research reports including A New Agenda on Climate Change\, Money Talks\, and Spiritualise\, and curated and chaired related events. He is also a Chess Grandmaster and three-time British Champion (2004–6) and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book\, The Moves that Matter – A Grandmaster on the Game of Life was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. He hails from Aberdeen in Scotland\, and now lives in Putney\, London\, with his wife Siva\, and their two sons\, Kailash and Vishnu. You can find Jonathan on his substack\, The Joyous Struggle.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-mind-a-conversation-with-jonathan-rowson/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Future-Mind2-e1702040240578.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241215T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20241009T124653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241130T153446Z
UID:10000367-1734285600-1734291000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Jung 2024 - Four Shillings and Sixpence: Synchronicity and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Four Shillings and Sixpence: Synchronicity and Poetry \n\n\n\nwith Richard Berengarten \n\n\n\nSunday\, December 15\, 20249am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2024\, Session 6 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a working poet\, Richard Berengarten is interested\, both theoretically and practically\, in how Jung’s theory of synchronicity—with all its connections of specificity in time and place—is entangled in our ideas and experiences of inspiration\, imagination\, discovery and creativity. This means that he’s interested in how Jung’s theory is intervolved in both the sciences and the arts\, and as much in our day-to-day experiences and dream-life as in\, say\, religious and visionary experience. To explore his themes and ideas\, and to broach some questions arising from them\, he’ll read a small selection of his own poems connected with synchronicity\, which he’ll open for discussion. He aims\, too\, to broach some conjectures about the fractal geometries and symbolic configurations of both four (as in the Christian cross and the quaternity favoured by Jung) and six (as in the hexagonal forms that often occur in nature\, in the hexagrams of the I Ching\, and in the Star of Solomon)\, and the ways in which configurations such as these connect with synchronistic experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Berengarten (b. London\, 1943) is a poet who lives in Cambridge UK. He has also lived in Italy\, Greece\, the USA\, and former Yugoslavia. His poetry and poetics have been influenced by Jung for sixty years\, especially vis-à-vis synchronicity and the imagination. His long poem\, Changing (2016) is based on the I Ching and is a homage to this ancient classic. His ongoing series of chapbooks\, Imagems (2013\, 2019\, 2025)\, presents succinct 12-point statements on poetics\, and his monograph Keys to Transformation: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas (1980) engages with poetry and visual art in Jungian terms. He has published over 30 books and received many poetry awards\, and his work has been translated into more than 100 languages. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College\, Cambridge\, Academic Associate of Pembroke College\, Cambridge\, and Fellow of the English Association. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-2024-four-shillings-and-sixpence-synchronicity-and-poetry/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Beyond-Jung-poster23_low.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241208T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241208T233000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20241127T125107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T090618Z
UID:10000383-1733689800-1733700600@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Remembering Jacobo Grinberg at 30
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzede1Ho5M\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRemembering Jacobo Grinberg at 30Back to the Future of a Science of the Sacred \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 8\, 2024  \n\n\n\nStarting at 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST / 7:30pm GMT / 8:30pm CET \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum disappeared in strange circumstances exactly thirty years ago. His theoretical\, empirical\, and experiential work on space\, the brain\, and consciousness would still be considered beyond cutting-edge today. In this free online event\, we will commemorate his legacy with a selected group of family\, friends\, and colleagues. Were Jacobo with us today\, he would certainly enjoy such company of top scientists\, creative artists\, deep mystics\, and original media curators. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nAmit Goswami (head of Center for Quantum Activism) on communication without signaling \n\n\n\nEstusha Grinberg (Jacobo’s daughter) on music and Jacobo’s theory \n\n\n\nIain McGilchrist (author of The Matter with Things) on brain hemispheres and coherence \n\n\n\nIda Cuéllar (director of The Secret of Dr. Grinberg) on film\, science\, and science fiction \n\n\n\nInés Urdaneta (researcher at the International Space Federation) on post-modern physics \n\n\n\nJavier F. Alvarez-Leefmans (professor of neuropharmacology at Wright State University) on the beginnings of Jacobo’s career \n\n\n\nJanine Rodiles (PhD in cognitive Sciences\, clinical psychologist\, writer\, and Sufi whirling dervish) on wholeness and mysticism \n\n\n\nJeffrey Mishlove (creator and host of New Thinking Allowed) on healing and sensitive children \n\n\n\nJordi Imbert (head of Intuitu) on extra-ocular and intuitive vision \n\n\n\nLizette Arditti (Jacobo’s first wife) on painting and Jacobo’s life \n\n\n\nKehlan Morgan (creator and host at Formscapes) on phenomenology of space and perception \n\n\n\nManuel Delaflor (Jacobo’s former student and head of Metacognition Institute) on model dependent ontology \n\n\n\nMarina Weiler (neuroscientist at the Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia School of Medicine) on anomalous teleportation and materialization \n\n\n\nNatalia Rodríguez (editor at Penguin Random House) on books\, science\, and culture \n\n\n\nPavel Ibarra (host of Psicoativo Podcast) on media\, science\, and anomalous phenomena \n\n\n\nRichard Silberstein (professor of neuroscience at the Brain Sciences Institute of Swinburne University) on brain-to-brain communication between twins \n\n\n\nRobert Lawrence Kuhn (creator and host of Closer to Truth) on theories of consciousness \n\n\n\nand more..! \n\n\n\nSome related links: \n\n\n\nThe Brain and the Universe: The Jacobo Grinberg Story\, with Alex Gomez-Marin & Jeffrey Mishlove  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Landscape of Consciousness (see 17.10)\, research article by Robert Lawrence Kuhnhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128 \n\n\n\nThe Secret of Doctor Grinberg\, documentary by Ida Cuéllarhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt11898888 \n\n\n\nCiencia de la conciencia: un regreso al futuro\, artículo de Alex Gómez-Marínhttps://www.razon.com.mx/el-cultural/2022/10/28/ciencia-de-la-conciencia-un-regreso-al-futuro \n\n\n\nLeyendo a Jacobo Grinberg (introducción)\, con Alex Gómez-Marín
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/remembering-jacobo-grinberg-at-30/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Remembering-Jacobo-poster-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241130T175900
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20241215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20241009T100611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241017T151546Z
UID:10000361-1732989540-1734291000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Jung 2024: Living Synchronicity
DESCRIPTION:with Richard Berengarten\, Jean Bolen\, Joe Cambray\, Suzanne Gieser\, Roderick Main\, Rick Tarnas.Curated and Chaired by Roderick Main. \n\n\n\nNovember 30 – December 15\, 20249am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\n6 two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday  \n\n\n\nAll sessions are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSix seasoned explorers of synchronicity share their insight into the topic\, including how synchronicity\, as an experience or as a principle\, plays a vital part in their professional work. \n\n\n\nThis is the inaugural set of talks in a new ‘Beyond Jung’ series hosted by the Pari Center\, honouring the seminal work and inspiration of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. Our title\, ‘Living Synchronicity’\, refers to both the vital contemporary importance of synchronicity and the possibility of our living more synchronistically. Beginning with this topic seems especially apt in view of the seminal contribution to the study of synchronicity by the founder of the Pari Center\, the late David Peat. \n\n\n\nSynchronistic experiences—meaningful coincidences—are often described as profoundly significant both personally and sometimes also at a more than personal level. Meanwhile\, synchronicity as a principle—acausal connection through meaning—is often claimed to have radical implications for how we understand reality. Jung himself associated synchronicity with a unitary worldview\, and he developed the concept as a form of holistic epistemology to address what he saw as the perilous one-sidedness of modern experimental science when decoupled from the realms of meaning and value. \n\n\n\nIn this series of talks\, six seasoned explorers of the topic—from scientific\, scholarly\, psychotherapeutic\, divinatory\, and creative backgrounds—share some of their insights into the nature and importance of synchronicity and how it has played into their lives and professional work. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\n‘Everything Breathes Together’: Synchronicity and Its Implications\, Cosmological\, Psychological\, SpiritualWith Professor Rick TarnasSaturday 30 November \n\n\n\nSplitting the Mirror: A Shard of Synchronicity from a Historical and Personal PerspectiveWith Dr Suzanne GieserSunday 1 December \n\n\n\nThe Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the SelfWith Dr Jean Shinoda BolenSaturday December 7 \n\n\n\nSynchronicity and Jung’s Holistic EpistemologyWith Professor Roderick MainSunday December 8 \n\n\n\nAn Arc of SynchronicitiesWith Dr Joe CambraySaturday December 14 \n\n\n\nFour Shillings and Sixpence: Synchronicity and Poetry With Richard BerengartenSunday December 15
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-2024-living-synchronicity/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Beyond-Jung-poster23_low.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240920T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240924T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240917T130319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T130522Z
UID:10000357-1726855200-1727186400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Structuring Process in the Undivided Universe
DESCRIPTION:Structuring Process in the Undivided Universe: a series of talks and conversations with Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSeptember\, 20 – 24\, 2024 \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley\, Hamish Todd\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, Jonathan Allday and Michael Wright \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuantum Phoronomy; that is Quantum Non-mechanics. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm writes in his 1951 book “Quantum Theory” (p. 167):-  “The entire universe must\, on a very accurate level\, be regarded as a single indivisible unit in which the separate parts appear as idealisations permissible only on a classical level of accuracy of description.”  The challenge then is to find an accurate mathematical way to describe this situation.  As Eddington points out in his 1936 book\, “Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons”\,  “The quantum formalism tells us how an incompletely separated object can be represented as a probability distribution over completely separated states.”  I will explain how this removes the ‘measurement problem’ and replaces materialism with the more primitive organic notion of process where activity or ‘energy’\, rather than ‘matter’\, is taken as basic. \n\n\n\nThis approach provides a way to understand Bohm’s implicate/explicate order in which emphasis is given to the emergence of different geometries (or phoronomies\, a notion already used by Einstein in ‘Über den Äther\,  Schw. Nat. Gesel. Verh. 105 (1924) 85-93).  I want to motivate intuitively why it is necessary to change the whole system of order and measure assumed in Euclidean geometry.  In this way I want to emphasise the role of algebra in the mathematical description in this approach\, linking up with some more recent developments in symplectic\, conformal and nil geometries.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/structuring-process-in-the-undivided-universe/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-16-at-21.47.34.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240827T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240903T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240129T111051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240727T085615Z
UID:10000317-1724785200-1725372000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Longing for Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLonging for Wholeness:What do the Sciences\, Arts and Religions Share? \n\n\n\nAugust 27 – September 3\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Allday\, Jonathan Code\, Chamkaur Ghag\, Tim Ingold\, Alison MacLeod\, Andrea McLean\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Joan Walton \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: John Pickering \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices:\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday August 27 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 3 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nScience has helped us to live with less suffering\, but has it helped us to understand life or accept death? It cannot do what spiritual traditions do. Ideally\, it should remain open to other ways of knowing and this meeting will look at what common ground might exist between them. Speakers from the sciences\, arts and the healing traditions will aim to create an open\, participatory dialogue on how we might understand the world as a unified whole.  \n\n\n\nOver the past four centuries or so we have come to know far more than we understand.  But although modern science has become the principal framework for human understanding\, it cannot do what spiritual traditions formerly did.  Science has helped us to live with less suffering\, but has it helped us to understand life or to accept death? \n\n\n\nIf science exclusively favours rational methodology over artistic expression or spiritual insight it can become restrictive\, leading to Blake’s “Single Vision”.  But at its best science remains open to other traditions and other ways of knowing.  Many scientists are firmly religious while deeply religious people usually find little difficulty in engaging with scientific findings. \n\n\n\nThis meeting will look at what common ground exists between different ways of knowing.  Perhaps that lies in the feeling that we need to understand the world as a unified whole and that inquiry can be open\, guided by imagination and by beauty.  Here\, the arts play a unique role\, leading the way to a deeper understanding of the place of human life\, and death\, within the cosmos.   \n\n\n\nIt will bring together speakers from the sciences\, arts\, faiths and the healing traditions to create an open dialogue and supportive experience in which all can participate.  We hope to touch on the relationship of science and religions\, especially as they touch on the reality of death\, the roles and status of women both now and in former times\, ritual\, music especially the voice and much more.  \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a great range of disciplines\, approaches\, and sensibilities to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and origin of human experience\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such wonderful mysteries hidden in plain sight into a coherent evolutionary understanding. You are cordially invited to join us \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nSigns and Portents: How Physics Points Beyond Itself into a Richer Reality with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe Turin Shroudwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nCultivating Imaginative Cognition: The Time is at Hand! with Jonathan Code \n\n\n\nPhysics in Flux with Chamkaur Ghag \n\n\n\nEvolution in the Minor Key\, or\, the Soul of Wisdom with Tim Ingold \n\n\n\nWays of Knowing; the Human Imagination as Conduit with Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nVisionary Mapping: Creating Blakean Worlds with Andrea McLean \n\n\n\nVisionary cartographywith Andrea McLean \n\n\n\nQuantum Measurement as Act of Creation with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nA Quest for Wholeness: Weaving a Rich Tapestry Interleaving Science\, the Arts and the Sacred with Joan Walton \n\n\n\nThe Dao Without Namewith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions for this course (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/longing-for-wholeness/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Longing-for-Wholeness-poster.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240825T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240825T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240705T092444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T092446Z
UID:10000351-1724608800-1724614200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?
DESCRIPTION:Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?\n\n\n\nwith Jens Allwood. Comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 259:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this session we will explore the following questions: Is there one all-encompassing concept of information or are there several different concepts of information? Do different disciplines have different notions of information? Is there a unifying notion of information? Can a unifying concept of information help us solve important disciplinary and interdisciplinary problems? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJens Allwood is professor of Linguistics at the University Gothenburg. He is also professor of communication studies at Strömstad Academy. He is born in Moline\, Illinois\, USA in 1947. He is active as a researcher and professor emeritus in projects at the University of Gothenburg and in the Company Communication Development J.A. & E.A. HB. He is the director of Marston Hill Intercultural Center for Quality of Life\, chairman of the board of the Immigrant Institute and editor in chief of the Journal of Intercultural Communication (on-line\, open access). He has worked as researcher and teacher in linguistics\, specialized in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, multimodal communication and intercultural communication. He has coordinated and participated in a large number of national and international research project in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, studies of spoken language\, multimodal communication\, intercultural communication and development of research and research education. He has been the chairman of the department of linguistics\, section manager of the Interdisciplinary center SCCIIL (semantics\, cognition\, communication\, information\, interaction). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Richter is a Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig University (Department of Natural Language Processing)\, and at the Institute of Applied Computer Science (InfAI) in Leipzig. His fields of research include Models of Communication in natural language; information theory; corpus linguistics\, lexical semantics; text mining; application of information theory in digital humanities; and syntax models of natural language.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2-is-there-a-unifying-notion-of-information/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Beyond-Bohm-2-poster_lower.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240728T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240728T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240604T072030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T100829Z
UID:10000344-1722189600-1722196800@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 – Vortex of Indigenous Cosmologies
DESCRIPTION:Vortex of Indigenous Cosmologies\n\n\n\nwith Melissa Nelson and friends \n\n\n\nSunday July 289:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability\, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerrellyn Fearn is a Mi’kmaq scholar-practitioner\, Snake clan from Glooscap First Nation and a citizen of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Terrellyn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute\, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank (a learning lodge) grounded in Metuaptmumk: All Around Seeing\, a uniquely Indigenous approach to wholistic human development and systems transformation. \n\n\n\nHer work spans 30 years exploring the human dimensions of transformative change where systems science\, arts and the sacred meet by amplifying Indigenous languages\, ancient wisdom traditions and Ancestral sciences. She is a Research Associate with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience and holds a Masters degree in Education. She has worked with over 380 Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America) to advance wellbeing and create communities of practice dedicated to social change and heart centred leadership. Terrellyn is a mother and believes large-scale systemic change begins through restoring the sacred feminine and reawakening the human Spirit by connecting to self\, each other\, our Earth Mother and all of Creation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsabel Hawkins\, Senior Scientist (she/her/ella)\, grew up in Córdoba\, Argentina\, where the beauty of the night sky and a childhood visit to the Planetario charted the course of her career as an astronomer and science educator. Reaching for the stars\, Isabel came to the United States as an American Field Service exchange student when she was sixteen. In 1981\, she received a BS in physics from UC Riverside\, where she was asked to join Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently\, she obtained an MS and a PhD in astrophysics from UCLA. Before joining the Exploratorium in 2009\, she spent 20 years as an astrophysics researcher and science educator at the University of California\, Berkeley\, Space Sciences Laboratory. Isabel’s work at the Exploratorium is focused on NASA\, NSF\, and museum-funded efforts related to Latinx audience engagement\, such as Solar Eclipse\, GENIAL: Generating Engagement and New Initiatives for All Latinos\, and Cambio\, a professional development approach for building Latinx-focused cultural competence in museums. Through cultural astronomy\, she fosters science pluralism by making visible The Cultural Roots of STEM (science\, technology\, engineering\, and mathematics)\, a research synthesis effort that has been funded by the NSF. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific bestowed on her the prestigious Klumpke-Roberts Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy\, an honor that she shares with fellow awardees Carl Sagan\, Isaac Asimov\, Julieta Fierro\, and Tim Ferris\, among others. Isabel is also a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution\, a volunteer coordinator for the YAKANAL\, Indigenous Youth Cultural Exchange program\, and a 2018 to 2022 Fulbright US Global Scholar. Her interests include salsa and bachata dancing\, yoga\, drawing Maya classic period glyphs\, and the study of native languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Briggs-Cloud is a language revitalizer\, scholar\, and musician. He is co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv\, an off-grid\, climate-positive\, income-sharing Indigenous ecovillage community centered in Weogufka\, Alabama\, comprised of Maskoke persons who have returned to their ancestral homelands—after 180 years of having been forcibly removed—for the purpose of embodying sustainable lifeways through language/cultural revitalization\, ecological restoration\, regenerative agriculture\, and natural building. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School\, Marcus has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida\, where his work intersected ecology\, linguistics\, genetics\, ecofeminism\, and liberation theology. He received awards for his Maskoke hymn album Pum Vculvke Vrakkuecetv (To Honor Our Elders)\, and in 2012\, he served as composer and choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Indigenous Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke); they have two children\, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke\, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-vortex-of-indigenous-cosmologies/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Beyond-Bohm-Poster-2024-5132024.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240723T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240723T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240712T084935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T190903Z
UID:10000355-1721757600-1721763000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Free Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BruT-EHF-iE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial \n\n\n\nWith Vandana Shiva and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nTuesday July 23\, 20249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) has been regarded as “the worst enemy of science” (Nature\, 1987) but also a “breath of fresh air” (Science\, 1979). He is the fourth iteration of the great philosophers of science of the 20th century\, after Karl Popper (1902-1994)\, Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)\, and Imre Lakatos (1922-1974)\, standing as one of the most relevant thinkers ever in our understanding of what science really is and does.  \n\n\n\nHis works —Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975)\, Science in a Free Society (1978)\, and Farewell to Reason (1987)\, amongst other books\, lectures\, and essays— revealed that the so-called scientific method is not so well defined and stable as commonly thought or proclaimed\, but crowded with notable anomalies. In fact\, the history of science shows that progress often takes place when scientists actually break (rather than follow) the methodological rules and standards we so much venerate.  \n\n\n\nHe also denounced that science is too often entangled with politics while pretending it isn’t\, which enables its misuse for ideological and authoritarian reasons. He deliberately promulgated his famous motto “anything goes” in order to point to another kind of rationality (which some disdain as irrationalism)\, beyond the dogmatic mechanistic deductive order that seeks to dominate nature and people. Cartesian-Baconian rationality is one (but not the only) valuable tradition in science. One must address the relation between Reason and Practice. \n\n\n\nIn order to celebrate the centennial of his birth (and three decades since he passed away)\, Vandana and Alex will be in dialogue for about one hour\, reflecting on Feyerabend’s legacy and its impact today. They will discuss current pernicious monotheisms of the mind and\, based on general principles and concrete examples\, entertain and illustrate alternatives in physics\, neurobiology\, agriculture\, and economy. We would then open it up for questions and comments from the audience. \n\n\n\nScience needs boundaries indeed\, but they need to be porous. The role of scientists (and the authority of experts) in a genuine democratic society is at stake. The complex dynamics between truth\, post-truth\, and totalitarianism needs to be put on the table. The tension between dogmatism and anarchism can be resolved via an ecological pluralism applied to our minds and lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, activist\, and author. A food sovereignty advocate\, environmentalist\, and ecofeminist\, Shiva holds a PhD in physics and has written more than 20 books\, including Making Peace with the Earth\, Staying Alive\, Monocultures of the Mind\, Democratizing Biology\, Soil Not Oil\, and Stolen Harvest. Based in Delhi\, she is referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization\, and a figure of the anti-globalization movement. She has worked as a consultant for the Indian government and abroad\, and in NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalization\, Women’s Environment & Development Organization and Third World Network. She is a co-founder of the gender unit of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development\, and of the Women’s Environment & Development Organization. Shiva has received numerous international honors\, such as the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008)\, Sydney’s Peace Prize (2010)\, Calgary’s Peace Prize (2011)\, and the Right Livelihood Award (1993)\, which is regarded as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/free-science-in-a-free-society-celebrating-feyerabends-centennial/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/free-science.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240713T175900
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240728T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240604T071051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145917Z
UID:10000343-1720893540-1722196800@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024 - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:The Beyond Bohm series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm. Now in our fourth year\, we are continuing that tradition with an array of new faces and presenters that we are especially excited about. \n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nOur first weekend begins with some “basics”: a roundtable discussion of a foundational Bohm text\, Thought as a System. We are pleased to welcome members of the David Bohm Society into this discussion. The following day\, we will hear from Dr. Elizabeth Henderson\, whose 40 years of work in education suggest multiple perspectives for establishing wholeness in human beings\, from their earliest years. Dr. Henderson uses autoethnography to help illustrate the possibilities and tensions facing practitioners as they try to help children build their interior worlds. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend opens by taking us directly into the “deep time” geology of Dr. Marcia Bjornerud. Here we are asked to sense Earth through the fourth dimension of time\, as a living\, moving\, process-oriented phenomenon. The next day\, abstract artist Pam Harris shares with us the nature of her experience in contemplating scientific and philosophical questions\, and how that experience translates to canvas. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend continues the thread of artistic and scientific complementarity. Artist-engineer Cheryl Brant walks us through the unfolding of her own 40-year artistic process\, and its culmination in questions of consciousness and the living world. Finally\, closing out the series\, Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Métis) and friends will share indigenous perspectives on a variety of culturally-oriented issues and concerns.  \n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters.Tickets are available for the whole series\, for three presentations of your choice\, or for single presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 13Thought as a Systemwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 14Inner Freedom and Early Childhoodwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSaturday July 20Discovering the Deep Logic of Earthwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSunday July 21Finding David Bohm – and Beyondwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSaturday July 27Science and Art: Squaring the Circlewith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSunday July 28Vortex of Indigenous CosmologiesWith Melissa Nelson and Friends
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Beyond-Bohm-Poster-2024-5132024.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240713T175800
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240825T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240705T130033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T150011Z
UID:10000353-1720893480-1724614200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024
DESCRIPTION:Solidarity tickets available. Click for Part 1 and Part 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2024  \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13 – Sunday August 25\, 2024 The Beyond Bohm 2024 series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm. Now in our fourth year\, we are continuing that tradition with an array of new faces and presenters that we are especially excited about. \n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nOur first weekend begins with some “basics”: a roundtable discussion of a foundational Bohm text\, Thought as a System. We are pleased to welcome members of the David Bohm Society into this discussion. The following day\, we will hear from Dr. Elizabeth Henderson\, whose 40 years of work in education suggest multiple perspectives for establishing wholeness in human beings\, from their earliest years. Dr. Henderson uses autoethnography to help illustrate the possibilities and tensions facing practitioners as they try to help children build their interior worlds. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend opens by taking us directly into the “deep time” geology of Dr. Marcia Bjornerud. Here we are asked to sense Earth through the fourth dimension of time\, as a living\, moving\, process-oriented phenomenon. The next day\, abstract artist Pam Harris shares with us the nature of her experience in contemplating scientific and philosophical questions\, and how that experience translates to canvas. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend continues the thread of artistic and scientific complementarity. Artist-engineer Cheryl Brant walks us through the unfolding of her own 40-year artistic process\, and its culmination in questions of consciousness and the living world. Finally\, closing out the series\, Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Métis) and friends will share indigenous perspectives on a variety of culturally-oriented issues and concerns.  \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nAfter an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, we will explore the relations between Russellian monism\, William James’s radical empiricism and Bohm’s implicate order; some traditional and recent (e.g.\, Johanna Seibt’s) work on process philosophy and how it connects with Bohm’s ideas; the idea of quantum properties of matter as potentialities in Bohm’s early thought; the influence of Hegel on Bohm’s ideas about fragmentation and wholeness; and whether Bohm’s notion of active information is a candidate for a unifying notionof information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters.Tickets are available for the whole series\, for three presentations of your choice\, or for single presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13Thought as a Systemwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 14Inner Freedom and Early Childhoodwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSaturday July 20Discovering the Deep Logic of Earthwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSunday July 21Finding David Bohm – and Beyondwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSaturday July 27Science and Art: Squaring the Circlewith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSunday July 28Vortex of Indigenous CosmologiesWith Melissa Nelson and Friends \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nSunday August 4Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 11The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James’s Radical Empiricism and Bohm’s Implicate OrderWilliam Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 17A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics & Indeterminate Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process TheorySamuli Isotalo and Thelma Nylund\, with comments by Paavo PylkkänenSunday August 18Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum TheoryPaavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 24Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. HegelBoris Koznjak \n\n\n\nSunday August 25 Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?  Jens Allwood\, with comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Beyond-Bohm-2024-square.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240628T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240701T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240119T160731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T125435Z
UID:10000294-1719590400-1719842400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:How to Think Impossibly
DESCRIPTION:How to Think Impossibly:A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human \n\n\n\nJune 28 – July 1\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jeffrey J. Kripal \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 725.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 3-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Friday June 28 at 16:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday July 1 after lunch. \n\n\n\nFrom precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences\, UFO encounters\, and beyond\, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality\, but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nHow to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human\, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both.  \n\n\n\nThinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable\, open\, and often humorous ways\, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to develop an awareness that the fantastic is real\, the supernatural is super natural\, and the impossible is possible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Kripal’s new book\, How to Think Impossibly\, will be published on July 3rd\, 2024. \n\n\n\nAs complimentary preparation material\, participants will receive an exclusive digital copy of the Prologue and Introduction of the book before its publication\, as well as a signed physical copy of the book while in Pari. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE \n\n\n\nIntro (Friday afternoon): Thinking-with experiencers… \n\n\n\nPart 1 (Saturday morning): World of the dead and the nature of soul \n\n\n\nPart 2 (Saturday afternoon): Praying mantises\, flying sauces and professional comedians \n\n\n\nPart 3 (Sunday morning): Neuro-diversity and multi-verses \n\n\n\nPart 4 (Sunday afternoon): Time travel\, quantum physics  \n\n\n\nOutro (Monday morning): How to pull it all together \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California and sits on numerous advisory boards in the U.S. and Europe involving the nature of consciousness and the human\, social\, and natural sciences. Most recently\, Jeff is the author of The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents\, Moral Objections\, New Realities (Chicago\, 2022)\, where he intuits an emerging order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories and futures. His forthcoming book is How to Think Impossibly: About Souls\, UFOs\, Time\, Belief\, and Everything Else (Chicago\, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences\, modern esoteric literature\, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com  He thinks he may be Spider-Man.  \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/how-to-think-impossibly/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/How-to-think-impossibly-poster.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240613T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240620T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240119T143521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T203444Z
UID:10000293-1718305200-1718892000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Shared Experience
DESCRIPTION:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Shared Experience \n\n\n\nDates: June 13 – 20\, 2024 \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 950.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee served with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Thursday June 13 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Thursday June 20 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nJoin us for a week of living moment by moment\, in Pari\, Italy surrounded by the peaceful hills of the Tuscan landscape. With its beautiful palazzo\, rustic bar\, and numerous quiet places\, the medieval village of Pari acts as an alchemical vessel for transformations to take place. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week you will have ample opportunities to connect with Nature\, others\, and—perhaps most importantly—yourself. Experience the power of dialogue and active listening in an atmosphere that cultivates intimacy in everyday interactions. \n\n\n\nEmbracing the present and choosing to act more gently\, allows insights and interconnections to emerge and bubble up in a natural and playful manner. Such moments are often accompanied by experiences of openness\, trust\, joy\, and a childlike sense of wonder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Story\n\n\n\nSeveral years ago\, a small group of us were sitting outside the bar in Pari\, Italy when the idea came up to bring a group of very open-minded people together for a gathering without any agenda\, topic\, intention\, or specific purpose.  \n\n\n\nAfter leaving Pari\, we continued to meet monthly through an online Zoom dialogue\, where our small group of three individuals gradually grew in a most organic manner. More than a year of online meetings led to our first Gentle Action Gathering back at Pari in September of 2022.  \n\n\n\nOur original group of Jena\, Manfred\, and Tom\, who hail from New York\, Germany\, and Ireland has gradually grown into a thriving community. Members of our online community have traveled from throughout the world to meet one another in person. Similarly\, new participants who meet during our in-person Gentle Action Gatherings\, frequently wish to stay in touch through our online dialogues.  \n\n\n\nOver the course of time we have come to discover that we have much to share with one another. Somewhat paradoxically\, many of us believe that this is due to—rather than despite—our differing backgrounds. Throughout our interactions\, we have also found that we have much in common. Perhaps most importantly\, we all share a genuine interest in one another’s perspectives on the world\, quite reminiscent of Rumi’s quote:  \n\n\n\nOut beyond the ideas of right and wrong\, there is a field. I will meet you there. \n\n\n\nThis June we have chosen to meet once again in Pari\, Italy. The medieval village of Pari\, nestled in the Tuscan landscape\, provides the perfect backdrop for new insights and explorations. During our Gentle Action Gatherings\, participants are largely free to roam around as they please. They can meet in the newly renovated palazzo\, take part in a yoga class\, explore the area’s hot springs\, or just sit down to have an espresso at the charming and peaceful square. Many find that leaving their daily routine behind and setting aside the expectations of the outer world allows them to reconnect with their innermost nature.  \n\n\n\nTaking the time to communicate and interact in the moment\, for the moment\, provides a unique opportunity to engage with the world in a much more playful manner—deepening participants relationships with themselves\, others\, and the world around them.  \n\n\n\nMany participants notice that an almost childlike curiosity tends to emerge\, unforced and unbidden\, ‘beyond the ideas of right and wrong’ allowing them to experience the innate beauty of the present moment.  \n\n\n\nMore than anything\, our gatherings have given us a deep sense of connection and friendships that endure beyond the limits of time and space.  \n\n\n\nThis June we get to come home again. It would be wonderful if you could join us. \n\n\n\nJena\, Lisa\, Manfred\, Michael\, Todd\, and Tom  \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about this Event (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions for this course (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/gentle-action-a-gathering-of-shared-experience/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gentle-Action-Poster-2024-w-MD-Updates-96-dpi.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240604T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240611T120000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240118T152445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T204044Z
UID:10000290-1717527600-1718107200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Consciousness for Real
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness for Real:Towards a New Science of Human Experience \n\n\n\nJune 4 – 11\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Owen A. Barfield\, Edi Bilimoria\, David Glowacki\, Marcello Massimini (on zoom)\, Jonathan Rowson\, Vandana Shiva\, Angela Volpini\, Marjorie Woollacott  \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday June 4 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday June 11 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center with world-renowned leaders in consciousness studies as we deepen our insights into the many facets that such an intimate mystery entails.  \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nThrough in-depth presentations and informal discussions in a convivial atmosphere you will learn about\, and have opportunities to discuss\, the insights and research findings of world-renowned experts on current consciousness research and its future. \n\n\n\nSuch a multifaceted field is currently enjoying a huge renaissance in terms of general interest and academic momentum. Consciousness is more than a ‘hard problem’—and also less. It’s the intimate mystery of our very existence. Its study thus requires an integrative and conscious approach beyond short-sighted abstractions.  \n\n\n\nFrom phenomenology and neuroscience to biology and sociology\, we will weave together a spectrum of approaches to consciousness that have\, up till now\, been largely disconnected\, if not avoided\, by academia and left to lie beyond the border of what is typically explored scientifically or discussed in public. \n\n\n\nWe can now more openly and rigorously ask whether such approaches can actually inform us about ‘consciousness for real\,’ truly advancing its scientific study as well as transforming science as we know it and\, more importantly\, our very understanding of the nature of reality and our collective and individual place in it. \n\n\n\nMindfully drawing from orthodox\, heterodox\, and heretic views on consciousness\, our humble ambition is to tackle it ‘for real\,’ overcoming our ingrained limiting habits of thought and grasping the roots of human experience and its evolutionary future. \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a great range of disciplines\, approaches\, and sensibilities to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and origin of human experience\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such wonderful mysteries hidden in plain sight into a coherent evolutionary understanding. You are cordially invited to join us. \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions for this course (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/consciousness-for-real/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consciousness-for-Real-poster2b.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240525T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240601T190000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240322T135606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T122051Z
UID:10000327-1716660000-1717268400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Benign Anarchy!
DESCRIPTION:Benign Anarchy! \n\n\n\nA gathering of members of AA and NA but open to anyone interested in Dialogue..as developed by David Bohm and also Martin Bubers “I-Thou“ \n\n\n\nDates: May 25 – June 1\, 2024 \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Tom C.\,  Rose R.\,  Jim C. \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 890 euros for single occupancy730 euros for shared occupancy (two-bedroom apartment\, shared bathroom)645 euros each for a couple sharing a room  \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Saturday May 25 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Saturday June 1 after lunch. \n\n\n\nRegistration and Information: Please contact Tom tcallagyp@gmail.com or Eleanor eleanor@paricenter.com or Chiara chiara@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nThe second gathering of members of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) will be held in Pari\, May 25 – June 1. The week’s structure is freeform and anarchistic! There will be closed and open meetings\, visits to the hot springs\, long hours at the bar/restaurant talking\, and wonderful food. There will also be visits to Florence and Siena for those who wish to go further afield. \n\n\n\nIt is not necessary to be a member of either fellowship in order to attend. And we hope that this year\, the group will include a few friends and partners. This is also an invitation to anyone interested in Dialogue—note that the 12 Steps and the 12 Traditions for nearly 100 years ‘contain all the wisdom of all the ages.’  \n\n\n\nIt is hoped to have discussion groups/workshops on the history of AA and NA; the influence of Carl Jung on Bill W; a talk on Bill W. and Jimmy K. by Irene C.; the deep wisdom of the 12 Steps and the profundity of the 12 traditions. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped the golden thread running through our week will be‘The Language of the Heart.’ \n\n\n\nAll of the above in magical Pari—the creation of David Peat and Maureen Doolan. Here we will have wonderful Italian food—and—talk\, talk\, talk in the outdoor café\, with music and dancing in the square\, soaking in the sulphur springs\, and joy and laughter! \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only attending meetings but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the local population\, eating local dishes\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. \n\n\n\nAdditional information about the Pari Center – pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/benign-anarchy-2/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Benign-Anarchy.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240424T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240424T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240405T121528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T163607Z
UID:10000331-1713981600-1713988800@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:It’s About Time
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRnig-KI2U\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s About Time: A Conversation on the Subject of Time \n\n\n\nWednesday April 24\, 20249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nA free\, online\, live event at the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nTime is one of the central mysteries of existence. It is also a profound puzzle in physics. \n\n\n\nWe understand how the passage of time ‘expands’ or ‘contracts’ depending on how fast you are travelling compared to an observer. There is also conclusive evidence that time distorts in the presence of mass\, leading to the effects we used to ascribe to a force of gravity. Some even believe that they understand how time morphs into existence\, along with the universe\, out of some quantum pre-stuff. This\, however\, is all ‘physical time’; the relationship between the physics and the experience of ‘psychological time’ is far from clear. \n\n\n\nIs there a “block universe”\, where all of time is laid out to God’s eye-view\, with humans only perceiving a small slice as they advance along their world-lines? Or is the future not yet written\, but exists in some quantum level of possibility and probability?  \n\n\n\nIn this conversation we will touch upon the physical aspects of time\, attempting to make the physics clear to non-scientists. Undoubtedly\, this will lead us to psychological\, and perhaps spiritual time. Who knows where the thoughts will take us\, but it seems very likely that the specious present and the multiverse will also come up… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse?and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/its-about-time/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Its-About-Time-2.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240225T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240127T080057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240323T144813Z
UID:10000314-1708884000-1708891200@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Integrated Information Theory: Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 6/6: Integrated Information Theory – Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations (with Matteo Grasso)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntegrated Information Theory: Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations \n\n\n\nWith Matteo Grasso \n\n\n\nSunday February 25\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIntegrated Information Theory (IIT) aims to account for consciousness in physical terms by identifying the essential properties of experience (axioms)\, and inferring the necessary and sufficient properties that its physical substrate must satisfy (postulates). In this talk I will present an outline of IIT 4.0’s account of some qualitative contents of experience. First\, I will introduce IIT’s methodology to study consciousness scientifically\, highlighting its differences with respect to other approaches in philosophy and consciousness science. Then\, I will provide an overview of the core concepts of the theory\, with particular focus on the role of phenomenology\, on the view of experience as a phenomenal structure\, and on their implications for the understanding of consciousness in physical terms. Lastly\, I will present IIT’s account of some key qualitative contents of experience (such as the extendedness of visual space and the flow of time). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatteo Grasso works as a Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After completing a PhD in philosophy\, he joined the Tononi lab to contribute to the development of Integrated Information Theory (IIT). Currently\, his research is focused on applying IIT’s formalism to account for phenomenal time and conceptual invariance. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/integrated-information-theory-methodology-foundations-explanations/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Grasso.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240221T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240221T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240130T211501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T154651Z
UID:10000318-1708538400-1708543800@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:A Field for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwOQh6Iz3Y\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Field for the Future:Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science” \n\n\n\nFebruary 21\, 20249:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nwithKaralee KotheLisa MillerLorne SchusselGary E. SchwartzLaurel WatermanMarjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nHosted by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nA free\, online\, live event at the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with:The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN);The Academy for the Advancement of PostMaterialist Sciences (AAPS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaralee Kothe has been a student of consciousness since she was a kid. The beauty of nature\, the joy of music and dancing\, the exploration of knowledge\, and the enduring love of her family have been her guiding lights on her path. She obtained a master’s degree from the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College\, Columbia University\, and she is currently a clinical health psychology PhD student at the University of Colorado\, Denver. Her research interests presently include understanding terminal lucidity\, the sudden return of energy and clarity before death\, and examining the intersection of meaning\, spirituality\, and health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Miller\, Ph.D.\, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College\, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute\, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology\, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals\, including Cerebral Cortex\, The American Journal of Psychiatry\, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality\, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice\, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania\, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology\, Martin Seligman\, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military\, businesses (including tech\, finance\, HR and sales)\, personal development\, faith based organizations\, schools and universities\, and for mental health and wellness initiatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorne Schussel\, Ph.D is Adjunct Assistant Professor and Core Faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute of Columbia University\, Teacher College.  He is the Research Director of the Contemplative Science and Post Materialism Lab as well as the PI of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Connectivity Project. His research focuses on the utilization of contemplative practices\, human connectivity\, contemplative neuroscience\, EEG hyperscanning\, and integrating clinical biomarkers into treatment. Dr. Schussel developed a psychological healing practice known as “The Best Self Visualization Method” which has been cited in the New York Times\, ABC-online\, and the Huffington Post. His thoughts on creativity and neuroscience have been quoted recently in Health.com  He has also been an invited speaker at the United Nations Mission to Nigeria and United Nation Church Center and his method has been added to a curriculum for mental health and resilience at Zucker Hillside Hospital (NorthWell Health) and the Long Beach School District. He has presented to corporate leaders in Indonesia as part of a mental health initiative for the COVID-19 crisis and lectured to Psychiatry Medical Residents at Mount Sinai Hospital\, Glendale Adventist Hospital and to the University of Southern California. Dr. Schussel has worked as visiting faculty at the California State Judicial College teaching about mental health and employee burnout to appointed state judges and offered meditation\, loving-kindness and resilience programs to Police Officers in NY\, CA\, and MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary E. Schwartz\, Ph.D.\, is professor of psychology\, medicine\, neurology\, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona\, and Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (www.lach.arizona.edu). He received his PhD from Harvard University\, and was a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University. He served as the founding President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences. Schwartz has published more than 500 scientific articles and chapters\, including six in the journal Science. His research has been funded by NSF\, NIH\, NIMH\, NCCAM\, DARPA\, private foundations and donors. Schwartz has co-edited more than a dozen academic volumes and authored more than a dozen books for the general public including The Afterlife Experiments\, The G.O.D. Experiments\, and The Energy Healing Experiments.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaurel Waterman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Pedagogy\, Wellbeing Emphasis\, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She teaches narrative non-fiction writing at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct Faculty in the Alef Trust’s MSc in Consciousness\, Spirituality\, and Transpersonal Psychology. She is a board member of The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN)\, an educational organization focused on the intersection of science and spirituality\, and belongs to the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS Global). Laurel’s research focuses on consciousness studies and education\, with the goal of popularizing participatory and postmaterialist paradigms of consciousness in the field of education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Woollacott\, Ph.D.\, was professor and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology and is a member of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences\, On the Science Committee of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Co-Director of the Galileo Commission and Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Woollacott has received over 7.2 million dollars in research funding for her research in rehabilitation medicine\, meditation\, spiritual awakening and end-of-life experiences\, has published over 200 scientific articles and written or edited nine books\, including Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (receiving 8 book awards) and Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/a-field-for-the-future/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-field-for-the-future2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240207T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240121T220722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T172331Z
UID:10000295-1707327000-1707332400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Global Futures\, Conscious Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Global Futures\, Conscious Leadership \n\n\n\nwith Jessica Bockler and Bruce Alderman \n\n\n\nFebruary 7\, 20248:30am PST  | 11:30am EST  | 4:30pm GMT  |  5:30pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. \n\n\n\nAs Alfred North Whitehead put it\, the world “craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past”. We feel we urgently need change but we seem unable to make it happen\, at least at the speed\, precision\, and depth required for it to make a real\, positive\, and effective difference in the world. In this free live event Àlex Gómez-Marín will be in conversation with Jessica Bockler (Alef Trust) and Bruce Alderman (California Institute of Integral Studies) in the context of their respective new programmes which seek to promote\, with the same spirit but in different ways\, conscious leadership and conscious change-making in ourselves and the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNurturing the Fields of Change Programme | Alef Trust \n\n\n\nConscious community has always been at the heart of the Alef Trust\, a non-profit global learning provider in higher education\, research and community development. Our work is about cultivating balanced ways of being\, as well as activating the potential of whole-person inquiry for the evolution of human habits\, cultures\, and systems. In 2023 we launched Nurturing the Fields of Change\, a programme for holistic change leaders working on transformation projects. The programme explores the links between inner work\, deep ecology\, conscious leadership\, and social change; and it offers opportunities for collective presencing and sense-making to address the big challenges of our time. We know that transformation thrives through collaboration and supportive community\, as well as through deep participation in our inner\, multi-dimensional growth. With the support and encouragement of our peers\, we feel accompanied and validated in our work; and we grow in our inner capacities and in our ability to engage more expansively and creatively with the questions we face in our work. A new cycle of the programme begins on Monday\, 5th February 2024 and we invite you to join us: \n\n\n\nhttps://fieldsofchange2024.sutra.co/space/9mx82r/register \n\n\n\nThe Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program | California Institute of Integra Studies. \n\n\n\nBlue Sky Leaders at CIIS is a professional certificate program that blends intensive contemplative training with cutting-edge neuroscience\, new cosmology\, regenerative economics\, creative arts\, and conscious leadership principles for a profoundly transformative educational experience.  Modeled on the “encore” or “third act” programs offered by universities such as Stanford\, Notre Dame\, or Oxford\, the BSL program is designed to provide established or retired professionals\, leaders\, and cultural creatives with new opportunities for growth and development\, an expanded community of practice\, and the skills to respond wisely to the fragmentation and loss of meaning that drive many of our current social and environmental ills. Grounded in timeless wisdom and emerging science\, and led and facilitated by a team of over 30 thought-leaders and creative change agents from across many disciplines\, BSL reimagines leadership development by emphasizing the dynamic intersections of personal transformation\, global consciousness\, and creative action. Applications for the 2024 cohort are now being accepted: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.ciis.edu/blueskyleaders/bsl-certificate \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Bockler is an applied artist and transpersonal psychologist who has spent the past two decades exploring how integrative practices\, spiritual wisdom and creativity can catalyse individual and collective transformation. Jessica is a co-founding director of the Alef Trust\, a global provider of transpersonal and integrative education. Jessica’s vision and research interests centre on holistic and creative approaches to social transformation\, bridging embodied imagination and sourcing of deep intelligence with transpersonal activism and social change initiatives. Jessica is the research lead of Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative which galvanises and supports projects for human flourishing\, social justice\, peace and sustainability. She is a certified Warm Data Lab host (Bateson Institute) and she is on the academic advisory board of the Inner Development Goals initiative. She is also a member of the Presencing Institute’s research community and the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, part-time faculty for the Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Transformation department at National University\, and an integral and transpersonal psychologist. He is also a long-time student of David Bohm’s work\, and recently led a course with Lee Nichol on the concept and practice of the rheosoma. Prior to working at CIIS and NU\, Bruce worked and studied abroad in Asia for several years\, teaching courses on creative writing and inquiry at the Rajghat Besant School\, a Krishnamurti school in Varanasi\, India\, and studying and practicing at monasteries and ashrams in Korea\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, India\, and Nepal. He has published essays in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and Consciousness Journal\, as well as in several anthologies on Integral philosophy and spirituality. Recently he launched a YouTube channel and podcast called The Integral Stage\, dedicated to exploring integral\, metamodern\, and other holistic and integrative approaches to addressing the complex social\, ecological\, and spiritual challenges of our time.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/global-futures-conscious-leadership/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Global-futures-poster3.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240128T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20231214T132623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231215T113827Z
UID:10000286-1706464800-1706475600@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Holoflux: The Meanings of Stone - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:No places available \n\n\n[rtec-registration-form] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nJanuary 27 & 28\, 2024 \n\n\n\n9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nThe maximum number of 25 participants was reached\, registration is closed. \n\n\n\nThe price of this workshop is 30 euros for the two-days\, 6 hours. If you are interested in participating\, please use the form above to pre-register. \n\n\n\nThis two-day\, six-hour workshop is hands-on\, and fully participatory. Each participant will need to acquire a new “found stone” (not store-bought) and work with that stone in ways specific to the workshop. In addition\, each participant will give a brief report to the whole group\, on Zoom\, of what occurs when working with their found stone. \n\n\n\nIf you have an interest in this workshop\, please read on\, and make note of the requirements outlined below. Please don’t register if you feel you can’t follow these group guidelines. \n\n\n\nFinding a stone prior to the workshop is the starting point. Stones are everywhere! Open fields\, stream beds\, hillsides\, abandoned lots\, the beach\, mountains – even parking lots (car parks) – are good places to find stones. Some of the most amazing stones can be found in those concrete islands that partition outdoor parking lots. Urban or rural\, you will have no problem finding a stone. \n\n\n\nThere are four key aspects in the finding. First\, this must be a new stone\, not one you already have. Second\, it must be an opaque stone – no gemstones. Third\, it should be palm-sized – easy to hold in the hand\, not too big\, not too small. Finally\, the stone should appeal to you\, should have some quality – tactile\, visual\, or otherwise – that draws you to it. \n\n\n\nIt is very useful to make notes of anything that seems of interest or value as you search for the stone. You could begin your search now\, or you could begin a week or so before the workshop. You might gather multiple stones\, and make a final decision shortly before we begin on Jan. 27. \n\n\n\nOnce you have a new stone\, you may be inclined to engage with it right away\, naturally and spontaneously. Try to resist this! Set it aside\, considering it from afar. Of course\, if you cannot resist\, by all means enjoy the stone in any way you wish! But the less you work with the stone in advance\, the more we will discover together. \n\n\n\nWhy is this? \n\n\n\nThe reason is simple. A few days before we begin the workshop\, we will all receive some basic instructions on “how” to work with the stone. This short working (10 – 20 minutes) will be done privately\, on an individual basis\, a day or two before January 27. There is nothing complicated or mysterious in this. It will involve simple things like holding the stone in silence and paying attention to what kinds of sensings occur\, and what kinds of images pass through consciousness. The key is that we are all starting from the exact same basis. Different stones\, same approach. No one is out wandering into their own “way” of working with stones – we are all doing the same thing\, very direct\, very uncomplicated.  \n\n\n\nNeedless to say\, what occurs once we follow the simple instructions is another matter altogether. Each person will have their own individual and unique experiences. This is why the workshop title refers to “meanings” (plural). It is this great variety that will arise from within the group that allows us to begin to see “what really happens” when we work with a stone\, as opposed to what we think should happen\, or what we want to happen. When we work as a group with “what really happens\,” and share that together\, very rich possibilities emerge. Our first day\, January 27\, will largely consist of this sharing\, relying on notes and memory. Making brief notes after each stage of your stone experiment is essential\, as reporting back to the group is at the core of the work together. \n\n\n\nThe second day\, January 28\, we will use the results of our collective workings as a basis for asking\, “What relationship does our body-consciousness have with stone?” Is there meaning\, significance in that relationship\, apart from utility and enjoyment? This query will lead to further considerations of rheosoma – the flowing body – and how engaging with stone might open new variants of very primordial human experiences. \n\n\n\nIf this collective\, hands-on stone experiment speaks to you\, in all its specificity\, please join us for Holoflux: The Meanings of Stone. \n\n\n\nTo pre-register\, use the form above or contact Eleanor Peat – eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, Holoflux: Codex – Form / Movement / Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. He lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/holoflux-the-meanings-of-stone-3/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PosterRhyoliteMeaningOfStones2023.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240111T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240111T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20240105T183538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T171817Z
UID:10000289-1704996000-1705001400@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:The Big Questions in Science with Rupert Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5BQ0rMvDz8\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dialogue between Dr Àlex Gómez-Marín and Dr Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nThursday January 119:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn his 12-part online course\, recently launched in an online on-demand format\, Rupert Sheldrake argues that the sciences are being constricted by ten assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. In this course he turns the dogmas into questions and examines them scientifically in the light of advances in the sciences themselves. For example\, the dogma that nature is mechanical becomes the question “Is nature mechanical?”; the dogma that matter is unconscious becomes “Is matter unconscious?”; the dogma that minds are confined to brains becomes “Are minds confined to brains?” This mind-transforming course is based on Rupert’s award-winning bestselling book The Science Delusion (called Science Set Free in the US) and makes these ideas accessible to scientists and non-scientists alike. Alex and Rupert will discuss some of the ways in which the sciences could be liberated and revitalized. Their discussion will be followed by Q&A. This event is free of charge but participants need to register in advance. \n\n\n\nLink to the event: https://advaya.life/courses/the-rupert-sheldrake-course \n\n\n\nPlease use the 20% single course discount code 20-PARI.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society\, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University\, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry\, and philosophy at Harvard University\, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge\, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences\, near San Francisco\, and also of Schumacher College\, in Devon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rupert Sheldrake Course \n\n\n\nExplore the big questions in science in this 13-week self-paced course. \n\n\n\nAre you ready to deepen your understanding of cutting edge science?  This course will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible. Embark on an enlightening exploration with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake\, challenging the core beliefs of contemporary science. \n\n\n\nWhat’s Included: \n\n\n\n\n13 Modules and 14 Sessions:  Uncover the depth of Dr. Sheldrake’s thought-provoking content spread across comprehensive modules and engaging sessions. You’ll explore groundbreaking research into topics like Free will\, The consciousness of nature\, The mind\, The mystery of psychic phenomena\, How dogs know when their owners come home\, How memory works\, The potential of alternative medicine\, and more.\n\n\n\nCutting Edge Science:  Learn from the distinguished Dr. Rupert Sheldrake\, a biologist\, and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, published in 28 languages. Dr. Sheldrake is a leading authority in pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry.\n\n\n\nCurated Readings and Resources:  Access carefully selected readings and resources that deepen your understanding and provide additional context to the course content.\n\n\n\nLive Q&A: to be scheduled in February to add a new element to the course\n\n\n\nFlexible Formats: Both video and audio formats are available.\n\n\n\n\nIn this course\, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. \n\n\n\nLink to the event: https://advaya.life/courses/the-rupert-sheldrake-course \n\n\n\nPlease use the 20% single course discount code 20-PARI. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-big-questions-in-science-with-rupert-sheldrake/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/big-questions.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20231220T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20231220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20231201T153000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T172109Z
UID:10000284-1703095200-1703100600@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Michael Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrADU7-u5M\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Michael Murphy and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday December 209:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nThe twelfth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday December 20\, 2023 with Michael Murphy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Murphy is a graduate of Stanford University\, co-founder of Esalen Institute in 1962\, and founder of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research. He is a key figure in the Human Potential Movement and author of The Future of the Body (1992)\, a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing\, hypnosis\, martial arts\, yogic techniques\, clairvoyance\, telepathy\, and feats of superhuman strength and extraordinary potential. He is an author of numerous books. His novels include The Kingdom of Shivas Irons\, Golf in the Kingdom\, Jacob Atabet\, and An End to Ordinary History. His latest nonfiction work is An End to Ordinary History: Comments on a Philosophical Novel. Other nonfiction work includes: God and the Evolving Universe\, co-authored with James Redfield and Sylvia Timbers; In the Zone\, an anthology of extraordinary sports experiences\, co-authored with Rhea White; The Life We Are Given\, a book about transformative practice\, co-authored with George Leonard; and The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation\, co-authored with Steve Donovan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-michael-murphy/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Murphy-1-e1701943917974.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20231119T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20231119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T093722
CREATED:20231019T104509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T225455Z
UID:10000280-1700416800-1700424000@paricenter.com
SUMMARY:Universe as Process
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 6/6: Universe as Process (with Prof. Chamkaur Ghag)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniverse as Process \n\n\n\nwith Prof. Chamkaur Ghag \n\n\n\nSunday November 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWe will explore the relationship between apparent dichotomoies through which we perceive our universe and place within it. From wave particle duality\, to the left and right hemispheres of the brain\, to the Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity divide that plays out in the quest to understand Dark Matter\, it is becoming ever clearer that the way forward is to evolve past subjective/objective divides and come recognise the Universe as process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist leading the research at University College London (UCL) to experimentally detect dark matter in our galaxy. Prior to joining UCL in 2012 he held positions at the University of California\, Los Angeles and the University of Edinburgh\, where he completed his PhD in 2006. Chamkaur is the Spokesperson of the international LZ Collaboration\, operating the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment ever constructed. Chamkaur collaborates widely outside fundamental physics within the arts\, neuroscience and Earth sciences.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/universe-as-process/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Science-of-wholeness-singles6.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR