The Pari Center

An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics
2025-10-28 18:00 - 2025-11-18 20:00 (Europe/Rome)
An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics

Presented by Jonathan Allday

A semi-serious approach to one of the most important fundamental theories in physics

10 sessions from October 28 – November 18

7 one-hour lectures and 3 sessions of group conversation and Q&A

9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

All sessions are live and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

What is quantum mechanics?

More than 100 years ago, the founding fathers were faced with a series of experimental results that confounded their understanding regarding the nature of reality. Einstein never forgave Nature for doing this to him. Heisenberg had to run away to an island to figure it out. Pauli ended up going to Jung for analysis.

Gradually, they came to a new understanding—Quantum Mechanics—but in the process, they had to throw away virtually all of the old physical picture of particles colliding and interacting like tiny billiard balls. Instead, we now have shifting probability waves existing in an implicate layer of reality and manifesting in explicate results. Our very language and concepts struggle to cope with expressing in words what is clear mathematically. Bohr had to invent a new form of double-think, complementarity, to try and ride the paradox: Nature expressing herself in both wave and particle forms, within the same experiment.

Why is it important?

Quantum mechanics, and the theories built from its foundations, is our fundamental theory of matter and forces. It underpins everything we understand about the nature of our universe. In the earliest moments of creation, fractions of a second into the Big Bang, quantum theory governed the structure and evolution of our young cosmos. Delicate measurements of the universal ‘heat map’ spread across the sky, reveal aspects of this quantum driven period.

Along with the awe-inspiring beauty and depth of the physics involved, quantum theory also has profound implications for our technology: from computer chips, MRI scans, communications and quantum computers.

Fundamentally, quantum mechanics is the most radical recasting of the nature of reality that we have ever experienced. The world is far stranger, and more supple, than we are led to believe.

Why should people have a basic understanding of QM?

It seems clear that the rigidly materialistic paradigm is crumbling, and we don’t yet know what is going to replace it.

We’re at a delicate time. On the one hand some of our political masters seek to undermine the expertise and results of the scientific community, replacing Truth with Story. On the other, enthusiastic and well-meaning groups working to assemble new paradigm thinking are promoting quantum ideas as a universal panacea for mind, body, spirit and anomalous experience.

Wider groups are trying to ride the turbulent waves and look for some understanding they can hold to. In order to steer between rigid scientism on one side and some of the flakier philosophies on the other, it helps to know a little of what quantum theory is really saying about the world

Who are our audience?

High school students

Retirees looking for new areas of interest or wanting to brush up on the latest thinking and developments

People who enjoy reading popular science books and periodicals

People who experienced poor teaching in their science classes at school and would like to start over in their physics education

People who just enjoy learning

How do these presentations differ from other online QM series?

It’s a no-math introduction—sigh of relief!

In addition to the weekly talk with Q&A there will be a weekly ‘conversation bar’ where participants can discuss the ideas of the week with each other and the course presenter, if available.

There will be no keeping away from philosophical issues—the nature of reality is in question here!

JONATHAN ALLDAY took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University. For a period, he worked at the particle physics research centre, CERN, but not as a cleaner.

For 30 years Jonathan taught physics to high-school students in a range of schools across the UK. In addition, he ran summer schools for the Open University, helped devise new physics curricula and a new course in the history and philosophy of science for 16–18-year-olds. For a period, he was co-editor of Physics Education magazine and has contributed more articles to Physics Review than anyone else in its 35-volume history.

He is an author of science textbooks, has contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists, and has written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science.

Sessions

Session 1: Not even wrong…

Tuesday 28th October

The fall of classical physics and the rise of the quantum world.

Amplitudes/wave functions, and the probable outcomes of experiments.

Conversation and Q&A

Thursday 30th October

Session 2: Come on everybody, let’s do the twist…

Saturday 1st November

The mysterious quantum property known as ‘spin’. Particles have it, photons have it, but do we really understand what it is?

Session 3: Spooky action at a distance

Tuesday 4th November

When the left hand implicately knows what the right hand is doing. Einstein’s problem with quantum theory. The work of John Bell and the radical undermining of reductionism.

Conversation and Q&A

Thursday 6th November

Session 4: The Measurement Problem

Saturday 8th November

Is quantum theory a 32 regular or a 36 long? Or more seriously…

Why does anything happen in the quantum world? The astonishing fact is that quantum theory relies on a mysterious process that is not fully understood and is not present in the standard mathematics.

Session 5: Interpretations

Tuesday 11th November

More than 100 years later, we still can’t agree what it means. Some people feel that quantum theory can only be understood in the context of many partially overlapping worlds. Others think that there is an unbridgeable and unknowable divide between the classical and quantum worlds. Most just ‘shut up and calculate.’ We, however, are made of sterner stuff so we ask the question: ‘What does quantum theory tell us about the nature of reality?’

Conversation and Q&A

Thursday 13th November

Session 6: Bohm and Hiley

Saturday 15th November

In which our heroes seek to replace the traditional approach to quantum theory with something more satisfying, from an ontological perspective.

Session 7: Quantum Snake Oil

Tuesday 18th November

Would you buy a used quantum computer from this man? What are quantum computers? Why are they attracting so much funding and have they been over-promised?

Beyond Jung: Jung & Ecology
2025-11-22 17:59 - 2025-12-07 20:30
With Gillian M Brown, Susanna Bucher, Andrew Fellows, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Orsolya Lukács, Dale Mathers.Curated and chaired by Andrew Fellows.

November 22 – December 7, 2025

6 two-hour sessions

9:00am PST, 12:00pm BST, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CET

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Beyond Jung: Jung & Ecology

Six Jungian analysts and academics at the cutting edge of this exciting and crucial area of research and practice share their diverse modes of professional engagement.

This is the second 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, ‘Jung and Ecology’, refers to the contribution of Jung’s prescient insights, and of his Analytical Psychology in general, to the emerging discipline of ecopsychology. This can be summed up in his famous and alarming assertion that “The world hangs by a thin thread… and that thread is the psyche of man.”

Ecopsychology is a broad church, gaining momentum over recent decades as our awareness of the ecological crisis and our alienation from nature increase. It embraces a range of approaches, from using psychology to address environmental issues to integrating the natural world into psychotherapeutic practice. Our six expert presenters will share their individual approaches across this spectrum, five of them as practising Jungian analysts. Their professional backgrounds, which include ecology, education, climate science and renewable energy, inform and enrich their diverse perspectives.

We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be a highly topical and engaging series of presentations.

Program of Event

Saturday November 22, 2025Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecologywith Andrew Fellows PhDSunday November 23, 2025Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human worldwith Gillian M Brown PhD

Saturday November 29, 2025A Jungian Perspective on Climate Changewith Jeffrey T. Kiehl, PhDSunday November 30, 2025Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformationwith Susanna Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH

Saturday December 6, 2025Control, Creation, and the Future of Naturewith Orsolya Lukács PhD

Sunday December 7, 2025 Time and Climate Change with Dale Mathers MD

Beyond Jung - Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology
2025-11-22 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung –Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology

with Andrew Fellows PhD

Saturday November 22, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 1 of 6

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Synergies between Jungian psychology, systems dynamics, Gaia theory, dual-aspect monism and deep ecology can prepare and guide us to counter the existential threat of the Anthropocene. Moreover, Jung’s Stages of Life “cradle-to-grave” developmental theory can be scaled up to show that our entire civilisation is in mid-life crisis, and responding to it with a toxic mix of inertia, nostalgia and hubris. Instead, the essential transition from development to individuation at this point in our personal psychology translates into an urgently needed metanoia away from our collective ecocidal behaviour. The consilience that I establish lays the foundations of a radically different worldview—a fundamental shift from anthropocentric inflation to biocentric holism—with which to address global heating, the sixth mass extinction, and other unprecedented challenges of our time.

Andrew Fellows is a Training Analyst and former Program Director at ISAP Zurich, independent researcher and author, and deep ecologist. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics (Dunelm), and has been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (UK). He enjoyed two decades of international engagement with renewable—especially wind—energy, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving to train as a Jungian Analyst in Zürich in 2001. His passion draws on his expertise from these two very different careers, extending Jungian Psychology to address global social and environmental problems. His first book, Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2019) was joint winner of the Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. He has lectured around this topic to audiences in Europe (including the Pari Center), Asia and the United States. Andrew lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland.

Beyond Jung - Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human world
2025-11-23 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung – Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human world

with Gillian M Brown PhD

Sunday November 23, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 2 of 6

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As those working in outdoor settings will testify, profound experiences can emerge from the dynamic interaction between an individual and the phenomena of the natural environment. These moments of meaning, where psyche experiences itself reflected in the other-than-human world, can hold profound personal significance, might lead to important therapeutic insight and may even inspire a sense of interconnectedness with the containing ecosystem. To explore how Jung’s concept of the symbol can help us understand such encounters, I follow his thinking from the symbolically constellated and ‘undifferentiated’ worldview of his ‘primitive’ man to the ‘transpsychic reality’ underlying the psyche, as revealed by his researches into synchronicity. With reference to my own experience of working therapeutically in outdoor settings and my recent research into the symbol-like content found in immersive engagement with the natural environment, I consider how a Jungian approach can offer us an effective framework for the ‘eco-symbolic’ and might, ultimately, guide us to discover a more ecosystemically integrated sense of self.

Gillian M Brown is a psychotherapist and nature-based counsellor and educator with a longstanding interest in the field of ecopsychology. She has a PhD from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex where she researched the application of the Jungian concept of the symbol to meaningful encounters with other-than-human phenomena. Her paper ‘The tree that called my name: on the significance of encountering the constellated symbol in the natural, other-than-human, world’ was published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology’s special edition on our environmental and climate crisis and she is the author of ‘In Nature’s embrace: Emotional emplacement and the search for an ‘eco-symbolic’’, a chapter based on her conference presentation for the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, in Routledge’s 2025 ‘Jungian and interdisciplinary interfaces between emotions individual and collective trauma’. An emeritus member and former Chair of the Cambridge Jungian Circle, Gillian remains active in the organisation and is a co-facilitator of the circle’s ‘Eco-Jung’ discussion group.

Beyond Jung - A Jungian Perspective on Climate Change
2025-11-29 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung – A Jungian Perspective on Climate Change

with Jeffrey T. Kiehl, PhD

Saturday November 29, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 3 of 6

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“Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself. But since nobody seems to know what to do, it might be worthwhile for each of us to ask himself whether by any chance his or her unconscious may know something that will help us.” C.G. Jung (CW 18, par. 599)

Human caused climate change has placed life on the planet in a precarious state. It is imperative we address this situation as soon as possible for the longer we wait, the more we commit future generations to catastrophic disruption. Jungian psychology provides a unique means to understand the problem of climate change for it recognizes the importance of the unconscious in our lives. In this presentation, I explore how the dynamics of unconscious processes relate to climate change and how these processes provide pathways to addressing the problem. I consider current myths that lie at the root of our collective dissociation from Earth and how these myths relate to cultural complexes. The presentation concludes with a discussion of how to reconnect to the sacredness of Earth, which is essential to address the issue of climate change.

Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst and senior training analyst for the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He originally trained in quantum physics before becoming a climate scientist. He has held faculty positions at a number of universities, most recently at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he taught courses on ecopsychology. He is the author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future, which provides a Jungian perspective on climate change. His most recent articles include: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes in Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche and Politics; Mandala as Portal to Healing in ARAS Connections; Engaging the Green Man: Breaking Our Spell of Enchantment in Depth Psychology and Climate Change; and The Nature of Uncertainty/The Uncertainty of Nature in Our Uncertain World: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dark Time. Jeffrey lives in Boulder, CO.

Beyond Jung - Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformation
2025-11-30 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung – Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformation

with Susanna Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH

Sunday November 30, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 4 of 6

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In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “A Descent into the Maelström” (1841), three fishermen are trapped in a gigantic ocean whirlpool threatening to destroy them. This strikes me as an image of the abyss humankind is facing today, threatened by a multi-dimensional ecological crisis in a world dominated by a one-sidedly materialistic collective consciousness that has lost its spiritual foundation, as Carl Gustav Jung characterized it. Symbolically, Poe’s story tells us that psychic transformation of the collective can be achieved by letting go of the old and embracing the new and unknown. Building on Erich Neumann and Dorothee Sölle, I examine approaches toward a felt connection with something larger, infinite, all-encompassing, or with nature. This can provide impulses for a more mystical relationship with our inner and outer nature, rooted in the Self and oriented to the world.

Susanna Bucher, Dr. sc. nat. ETH is an environmental scientist holding a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. She also holds a diploma in analytical psychology, is teaching at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAPZURICH) and elsewhere, and has a private practice in Zürich. She wrote two articles on the ecological crisis from the perspective of Jungian psychology in the Journal of Analytical Psychology in November 2022. Her interests include ecology, nature, and mysticism.

Beyond Jung - Control, Creation, and the Future of Nature
2025-12-06 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung – Control, Creation, and the Future of Nature

with Orsolya Lukács PhD

Saturday December 6, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 5 of 6

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The phenomena of climate change and the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence reveal a defining feature of humanity: the aspiration to control, reshape, and surpass the natural world. At the heart of both lies a mode of creativity and god-like ambition that seeks mastery over nature and the power to create new, autonomous entities. Originating as a human-made being shaped from earth and animated through sacred knowledge, the image of the Golem serves as a powerful metaphor for this impulse. It is interpreted here as a symbolic expression of the desire not only to dominate the natural world, but also to transcend it through technological means.

This mode of human creativity, driven by the urge to control rather than to participate in the natural order, often overlooks the profound interdependence between human systems and ecological stability. Its consequences are increasingly evident in the accelerating disruption of the climate and in the development of autonomous technologies that affect our lives in far-reaching ways. This talk uses the Golem myth as a symbolic framework to examine the ethical and psychological tensions inherent in acts of creation, the limits of control, and the urgent need to reconsider humanity’s relationship with both the natural world and technological innovation.

Dr Orsolya Lukács is a Lecturer of Psychoanalytic Studies and the Director of Education for the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Her primary academic interests lie in the interdisciplinary nature of analytical psychology, particularly its intersections with physics, its applications to emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, and its relevance to critical societal issues like climate change. She is also deeply interested in the history of analytical psychology and the role of talking therapies in shaping and driving societal change and is drawn to explorations of time, the interplay between mind and matter, intuition, imagination, creativity, theories of consciousness, virtual realities, and the evolving concept of the Self. Her upcoming book, C. G. Jung and Albert Einstein: Analytical Psychology, Relativity and the Universe will be published by Routledge. She has also contributed a chapter, entitled ‘Jung, Ecopsychology and Climate Change’ to the forthcoming The Second Handbook of Jungian Psychology, edited by Renos Papadopoulos and Stephen Garratt, and to be published by Routledge.

Beyond Jung - Time and Climate Change
2025-12-07 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond Jung – Time and Climate Change

with Dale Mathers MD

Sunday December 7, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

Beyond Jung 2025, Session 6 of 6

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In this presentation I will look at how hard it is to comprehend the problem of climate change due to our natural, human problem with perceiving time. We can’t know those three generations behind or in front – so we can’t take in the effect our actions have on future generations. This links to the fractal nature of time, and to how hard it is to submerge our own sense of self into the complex emergent system which is the collective unconscious.

Dr. Dale Mathers is a retired psychiatrist, humanistic psychotherapist, and analytical psychologist. He was a Training Analyst and Supervisor with AJA and RSAP. He has taught in the UK, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and China. He has authored and edited several books. The latest is ‘Dreams: the Basics’. (Routledge 2024). His approach involves exploring symbols of transformation, aiming to foster a deeper understanding and response to the challenges of Climate Change.

Experiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art
2026-01-04 19:00 - 20:00
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art

with Jeff Dunne

Sunday January 4, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET

This event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording.

The inaugural session of the Experiencing Consciousness event series is a roughly one-hour workshop led by ICRL’s president, Jeff Dunne. We will start with a brief, guided meditation and then transition into a series of artistic exercises that use simple drawings and short writings in response to individualized prompts that are randomly (or perhaps not-so-randomly!) generated. The activities are designed to bypass the intellect and allow each person to tap into their inner wisdom to answer perhaps what they thought they wanted to know, but undoubtedly what they needed to hear. At the end, participants will have the opportunity – if they wish – to share their insights with another participant one-on-one, and/or with the whole group.

No background in art is required for this workshop, only an interest in trying something different in a safe, welcoming online group setting.

Experiencing Consciousness

Register now to reserve your place!

As you will see in the registration form, there are three options for registering. The normal ticket price is $15 for the session. There is also a free option for students and others who cannot afford this registration fee, and this is possible thanks to the incredible generosity of Neal Grossman, who has provided a scholarship fund to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. Lastly, if you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, there is also a Supporting Angel ticket for $30 that will make another free ticket available for future participants!

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a 17.5% donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Experiencing Consciousness: Remote Viewing
2026-02-15 19:00 - 21:30
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Remote Viewing

with David Harker

Sunday February 15, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET

This event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording.

In this session you will do remote viewing. You might have read about it, but as is the point of the Exploring Consciousness series, there’s no substitute for first-hand experience. If you’re curious to explore this natural ability that everyone has, this is a great opportunity to learn by doing in an informal group workshop.

The session is for beginners, including people who don’t think they are psychic! All you need is some plain paper, a pen and an open mind. Come along and give it a go — you might well be surprised to discover just what your mind is capable of.

David Harker is a remote viewer, trainer, mentor, mystic and magickian. He hosts The Psychic Guys podcast, is a founder of the Second House RV Group (who regularly predict the future), and moderates the largest online community of remote viewers. He’s particularly interested in the overlap between remote viewing and esoteric spiritual traditions and how remote viewing can serve as an adjunct to spiritual practice. He has a background in archaeology, software engineering and life sciences. David lives in North Yorkshire, UK. Learn more about David at Intuitive Ops.

No background or prior experience with remote viewing is required to participate, only an interest in trying your mind at a new way of perceiving the universe.

Experiencing Consciousness

Register now to reserve your place!

As you will see in the registration form, there are three options for registering. The normal ticket price is $15 for the session. There is also a free option for students and others who cannot afford this registration fee, and this is possible thanks to the incredible generosity of Neal Grossman, who has provided a scholarship fund to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. Lastly, if you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, there is also a Supporting Angel ticket for $30 that will make another free ticket available for future participants!

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a 17.5% donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Fringe Physics
2026-03-07 17:59 - 2026-03-22 21:00
March 7 – 22, 20266 two-hour sessions

10am PDT/1pm EDT/5pm GMT/6pm CET

With Jonathan Allday, Bernard Carr, Jeff Dunne, Gwyneth Moss, Dean Radin.Curated and Chaired by Jonathan Allday.

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

A webinar series discussing topics at the edge of conventional physics.

Physics has something to say about reality. It would not have survived as an approach to the world for so many centuries if that wasn’t the case. Yet we have to be careful. Physics has bought its success by narrowing its focus and developing a specific approach. We shouldn’t think of it as a ‘catch-all,’ capable of accounting for everything that we experience.

That’s a hard lesson for a physicist to learn.

It may even be an aspect of the ‘ontological shock’ that Jeff Kripal warns us about in the context of anomalous phenomena. It certainly seems that there’s a ‘trickster’ element in everything from UAPs, NDEs and other weird acronym-experiences. The phenomenon seems to be deliberately defying explanation.

Perhaps it’s time to push back.

Perhaps it’s time to start thinking about how physics can be extended to accommodate (not ‘explain away’) stranger aspects of the world. It’s possible that physics it not equipped to do this, but also possible that an extended and revised physics might help people integrate their experiences.

In this series of talks, we’ll take on some of these topics.

Program of Event

Saturday March 7Mind and Multiverse: Part 1Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about the Multiverse

Sunday March 8Mind and Multiverse; Part 2Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about Mind

Saturday March 14 Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse HypothesisWith Dean Radin

Sunday March 15 The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic ParticlesWith Jeff Dunne

Sarturday March 21The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Physics of QiWith Gwyneth Moss

Sunday March 22Beyond the PaleWith Jonathan Allday

Fringe Physics - Mind and Multiverse (Session 1 and 2 of 6)
2026-03-07 18:00 - 2026-03-08 21:00
Mind and Multiverse

Fringe Physics, Session 1 and 2 of 6

With Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr.

Saturday and Sunday March 7-8, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

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Up to around the 1970s, cosmology was not a subject that a well-brought up young physicist would get involved with. It was dangerously close to philosophy, and worse, theology. Now, cosmology is not only a respected branch of science, it’s one of the fastest growing. However, it’s also an area where some of the ideas involved (speculative to be sure) are the weirdest. The community accepts conversations about higher dimensions, parallel worlds, and a multiverse.

This topic is split into two parts:

Saturday March 7, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday

We will discuss the evidence for the Big Bang and various topics to do with the Multiverse.

Sunday March 8, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday

In this conversation we’ll venture into higher dimensions and where Bernard sees mind fitting in to an expanded physics.

Jonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him.

After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics.

Shortly after his PhD, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years.

Since then, he has also written Apollo in Perspective, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition), Space-time, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World, written with an old school friend, Professor Simon Hands. In addition, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs.

In various other projects, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education.

During COVID, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home. His physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants. All of them can do sport, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well).

In January 2026, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.

Bernard 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.

Fringe Physics - Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis (Session 3 of 6)
2026-03-14 18:00 - 20:30
Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis

Fringe Physics, Session 3 of 6

With Dean Radin.

Saturday, March 14, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

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The role of observation in quantum mechanics remains one of the most persistent and intriguing open questions in science. From the earliest formulations of quantum theory, it was clear that measurement plays a special role, yet precisely what that role entails is still debated. Among the more provocative responses to this puzzle is the proposal, associated with von Neumann and others, that conscious observation itself contributes to the collapse of the quantum wave function. While this idea has long occupied a marginal position within physics, it continues to attract interest at the intersection of quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and consciousness studies.

The title Fringe Physics is intended in a double sense. It reflects both the unconventional status of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis and the fact that many of the relevant experiments involve interference fringes in quantum-optical systems. In this talk, I review known experimental efforts that have explicitly or implicitly tested observer-dependent collapse, including optical double-slit studies. Although the range of experiments differ widely in methods and interpretations, they collectively form a small but coherent body of empirical work that has not been widely known outside specialized communities.

A central aim of the talk is to clarify distinctions that are often blurred in discussions of this topic. One is the difference between the strong claim that consciousness is necessary for wave-function collapse and the weaker claim that conscious observation may, under certain conditions, measurably influence quantum outcomes. Another is the distinction between establishing the existence of a small observer-dependent effect versus demonstrating practical or technological significance. The experimental literature bears only on these weaker claims, yet the evidence is frequently criticized as if it were advancing the strongest possible versions of the hypothesis.

I will also discuss a recent analysis by Chalmers and McQueen, who examined consciousness-based collapse models from the perspective of both philosophy of mind and quantum theory. They argue that while simple versions of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis are unlikely to be correct, more sophisticated formulations remain empirically open and, in principle, testable. Their work provides a useful framework for assessing whether such proposals should be regarded as legitimate scientific hypotheses rather than as purely metaphysical speculation.

The talk concludes with cautious, provisional conclusions. I do not claim that the consciousness-collapse hypothesis has been established, nor that it provides a superior solution to the measurement problem. Rather, I suggest that the existing experimental record, though limited, is sufficiently structured to justify continued, careful investigation. At minimum, these studies serve as informative probes of our assumptions about measurement, observation, and the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. Whether they ultimately point toward new physics or help refine existing theories, they occupy a scientifically legitimate, and still unresolved, fringe.

Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide, is co-inventor on 12 patents, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and five books, all of which have been translated into foreign languages, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe(1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and The Science of Magic (2025).

Fringe Physics - The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic Particles (Session 4 of 6)
2026-03-15 18:00 - 20:30
The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic Particles

Fringe Physics, Session 4 of 6

With Jeff Dunne

Sunday, March 15, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

These events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING.

The world according to classical physics was a gentle cage, for it allowed (perhaps even encouraged) us to revel in the idea of an objective universe, i.e. a universe having form and structure with no dependence on us as observers. Then came the fathers of modern physics and quantum mechanics, who royally screwed everything up. These inglorious bastards forced us to consider that consciousness itself might be playing a role in the structure of reality, a completely unheard-of concept except for the tens of thousands of years that people had held that belief prior to the rise and subsequent dominance of the western scientific worldview.

In this session we will explore the possibility that the external, so-called “objective” world has the form it has not as an absolute and neither by accident, but because that form is a construct of consciousness. We will contemplate the implications that arise from the idea that the laws of physics are not an external prison that dictates our lives, but rather a natural expression of humanity’s consensus agreement on how to express our experiences—to others and to ourselves. We will examine the as-above-so-below parallels between what we see in the universe and what we see in ourselves, and entertain the possibility that the laws of physics are really just an expression of our own psychology.

And we’ll have cake – but you have to bring your own because, you know, we’re meeting online.

Dr. Jeffrey Dunne is the President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), a charitable research organization established in the late 1990’s to build upon the foundation established by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. In this role, Dr. Dunne runs a variety of research and outreach activities focused on exploring the nature of consciousness, particularly as it relates to space, time, and language, as well as events for sharing such understanding with people from all backgrounds.

In addition to his role with ICRL, Jeff is a researcher and Chief Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, working over the past thirty years in a variety of fields ranging from acoustics and cybersecurity to data science and artificial intelligence. He is also an award-winning author and playwright, with nearly two hundred plays performed over four continents. In his 2023 novel, Nexus, Jeff unites three decades of scientific experience with four decades of pursuits in philosophy and metaphysics to weave a story introducing the scientific principle of syntropy and its importance in finding balance at every scale – personal, societal, and global.

Dr. Dunne holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics.

Fringe Physics - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Physics of Qi (Session 5 of 6)
2026-03-21 18:00 - 20:30
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Physics of Qi

Fringe Physics, Session 5 of 6

With Gwyneth Moss

Saturday, March 21, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

These events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING.

A Hitchhiker’s Guide is written from observations, experiences and conversations and intended as helpful advice for fellow travellers. This journey begins with experiences that make no conventional sense and evolves into a quest that explores both modern physics, particularly the work of David Bohm, and the ancient metaphysics of the Dao de Jing, seeking to bridge the divide between two tribes that both use the word energy with completely different meaning.

Gwyneth Moss grew up steeped in materialist science: raised by research chemists she followed a Cambridge Physics degree with worldwide experience as an oil exploration seismologist, project manager in smart card cryptography and organisational consultant. At the age of forty she ran away from the corporate world and now has twenty five years of experience as a Meridian Energy Psychology therapist. She is recognised internationally as an innovator and an expert practitioner and trainer of EFT Tapping. She is the founder of The EFT Guild community of learning.

Gwyneth lives in Yorkshire and enjoys walking, talking, thinking and drinking.

Fringe Physics - Beyond the Pale (Session 6 of 6)
2026-03-22 18:00 - 20:30
Beyond the Pale

Fringe Physics, Session 6 of 6

With Jonathan Allday

Sunday, March 22, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET

These events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING.

Stored in the cathedral of Turin is a strip of linen cloth. On one side of the material is the faint image of a crucified male. Contextually, it appears to be a rendering of Christ after being taken down from the cross. Carbon dating of a sample taken from the cloth places it as medieval in origin. Its documented provenance also fades away in that era. Yet, it’s remarkably difficult to explain how an image of that nature was formed. There is also good scientific reasons to be doubtful of the carbon date.

In this talk we’ll examine the image characteristics, identifying the key features that must be accounted for in any explanation of how it was formed. We will also take a look at the raw data from the carbon tests and discuss some of the curious anomalies that were revealed when the information was finally released.

Jonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him.

After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics.

Shortly after his PhD, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years.

Since then, he has also written Apollo in Perspective, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition), Space-time, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World, written with an old school friend, Professor Simon Hands. In addition, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs.

In various other projects, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education.

During COVID, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home. His physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants. All of them can do sport, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well).

In January 2026, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.

An Armchair Guide to Jung and God
2026-04-10 08:00 - 2026-04-29 17:00
The Armchair Guide to Jung and God

Presented by Mark Vernon

What did Carl Jung really think about God, religion, and the inner life?

In this thought-provoking 9-session course, Mark Vernon brings Jung’s most powerful ideas to life—exploring the unconscious, symbols, synchronicity, and spiritual experience in a way that’s accessible, challenging, and deeply relevant to modern seekers.

Course Format

The course includes 9 sessions:

6 one-hour recorded lectures

3 live group conversation and Q&A sessions

Beginning April 10, two recorded lectures will be released each week for you to view at your own pace. These talks provide the foundation for deeper reflection and discussion.

The weekly live group conversations are an opportunity to:

Reflect on the week’s two lectures

Ask questions

Explore your own responses and insights

Learn from the perspectives of others

Live Group Conversation Dates:

Wednesdays: April 15, 22, 2910am PDT/1pm EDT/6pm BST/7pm CEST

Carl Jung was born in 1875, just over 150 years ago. His impact upon psychology is immense, with notions such as extroversion and introversion, archetypes and synchronicities. But what lies at the heart of his psychology and how compatible is it with theistic convictions?

The course will examine the fundamentals of Jung’s depth psychology, paying particular attention to its significance for religious belief. Jung felt that psychoanalysis had emerged to fill a vacuum in the western world, with churches losing the ability to address the pressing issues of inner life.

Why is this important?

He endured a substantial crisis in the earlier part of his life, known now in his so-called Red Book, in which he describes encounters with various entities and the zeitgeist. He strove to bring the insights he gained to the wider world, in various phases of work, including personality types and alchemical concepts. He also engaged with other thinkers such as Nietzsche and Darwin and, of course, Freud.

In other words, Jung wanted to make a difference and, by any measure, he has. But his ideas about religion, and Christianity in particular, are contested. Towards the end of his life, he described not believing in God but knowing of God’s existence. He also disagreed with the classical conception of God held in traditions including the Christian. So what can be made of his work now?

Who Is This Series For?

This course will appeal to:

Students and practitioners of psychotherapy and depth psychology

Religious professionals interested in psychological flourishing and how Jung might inform their work.

Those considering psychotherapy or spiritual direction as a second career

People who enjoy reading about spirituality and have a spiritual practice

Anyone who enjoys reflecting on religious questions and the inner life

How will this presentation differ?

Assuming no prior knowledge, this course will return to basics, which is, in fact, the best way to make an assessment of Jung’s insights. There will be plenty of opportunity for QnA and discussion.

Lecture Titles

Lecture 1A Call From The UnconsciousAn outline of Jung’s life and how he came to see his vocation.

Lecture 2After The Split With FreudJung’s own analytical psychology in outline.

Lecture 3The Spiritual Problem of TodayHow Jung understood psychotherapy to be a response to a modern crisis.

Lecture 4The Failure of ReligionJung had a sharp critique of the failures of Christianity.

Lecture 5The Fabric of RealityPhenomena like synchronicities suggested a complete metaphysic to Jung.

Lecture 6Jung and GodAn exploration of Jung’s theology: its genius and constraints.

Dr Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist, teacher, podcaster and writer of journalistic articles as well as books. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy, and degrees in theology and physics. His books include Carl Jung: How To Believe, A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness; Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey and most recently Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination.

He teaches with a variety of informal adult education projects, both online and in-person, covering the mystical traditions of theistic traditions and the interface between science and religion. He was recently Philosophy in Residence at Broughton Sanctuary and is a contributor to the BBC, particularly on programmes such as the Moral Maze and Thought for the Day. He has a regular column in the Idler magazine and is also a director of the Realisation Festival, a gathering that brings together ideas and music to resource the soul for our times. He used to be a priest in the Church of England and lives in south London. For more see www.markvernon.com

Experiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness
2026-04-12 19:00 - 20:30
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness

with Robin Rice

Sunday April 12, 202610:00AM PDT | 1:00PM EDT | 6:00PM BST | 7:00PM CEST

This event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording.

How we tell our stories – to ourselves and others – shapes our lives and defines the boundaries of our world. To fully explore consciousness, we must examine the stories that hold us. Join Robin Rice, Master Storyteller and Alchemist, as she guides you through deconstructing three of your personal life stories to see what they hide and reveal. You’ll then practice a “cleaner” and more integrated storytelling process. You will also learn how consciousness itself can be invited to become a character in your narrative. Expect a lifting of old burdens and a revitalization of your stories going forward.

No background in storytelling or writing in general is required for this workshop, only an interest in trying something different in a safe, welcoming online group setting.

Robin Rice is an AGI Strategist, serving as a trusted partner to C-suite leaders navigating the ethical frontiers of emerging technologies. Bridging the gap between code and consciousness, she helps her clients align their efforts with the betterment of humanity. She is the author of 11 books and a Story Strategist behind multiple high-profile bestsellers. Her interest in conscious narrative is largely due to her 28 years of personal inquiry into the “hard problem” of consciousness—a journey sparked by a profound personal awakening at age 35. Her latest project, the audiobook Stories About Stories with Robin Rice, explores these intersections and is available for free on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Learn more at RobinRice.com.

Experiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness on ICRL website

Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!

As you will see in the registration form, there are three options for registering. The normal ticket price is $15 for the session. There is also a free option for students and others who cannot afford this registration fee, and this is possible thanks to the incredible generosity of Neal Grossman, who has provided a scholarship fund to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. Lastly, if you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, there is also a Supporting Angel ticket for $30 that will make another free ticket available for future participants.

Note: Please do not sign up for the free slots if you are not a student or financially disadvantaged, as you are taking away an opportunity from someone who really needs it.

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a 17.5% donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Experiencing Consciousness: Metaphor and Consciousness
2026-05-03 19:00 - 20:30
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Metaphor and Consciousness

with Jessica Ball

Sunday, May 3, 202610:00AM PDT | 1:00PM EDT | 6:00PM BST | 7:00PM CEST

There will be no recording.

Many people overlook the deeply metaphorical nature of our language, thought, and action. Metaphor can help us access deeper levels of consciousness, connecting to more universal and creative aspects of what it means to be human and revealing the interrelationships with each other and the world around us. This creative workshop will guide participants through a series of Clean Language* questions to facilitate an imaginative process that will allow each person to create (by drawing, annotating and speaking in response to the questions) a personal metaphor, grounded in their own physical, cultural and creative experience. The starting point will be to imagine a vessel, as an invitation to connect to individual and shared meaning and experience of what it means to be in participatory and reciprocal relationship with other humans and the more-than-human world.

*Clean Language is a method of questioning that removes all assumptions and biases from the questioner. Through a set of 12 simple questions, it draws on the power of metaphor to allow people to develop meaning and clarity that can support them to bring about personal or group change. Jessica Ball is an experienced facilitator with over a decade of expertise in Bohm Dialogue. The principles of a dialogue practice provide a grounding in all aspects of her facilitation work. As founder of Creating Meaning, she works with purpose-led organisations, supporting them to navigate complexity and change and strengthen the human skills that make transformation possible. Alongside her facilitation work she is researching a PhD in ecolinguistics and regenerative language. Enriched by her background in art and design, Jessica weaves theory and practice to create meaningful and creative dialogues and workshops that aim to transform how people communicate and relate to themselves, each other and the world around them.

As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.

If you would like to receive a free or discounted registration, please just get in touch! eleanor@paricenter.com

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a 17.5% donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Warp Drives, Black Holes, and Wormholes
2026-05-13 18:00 - 20:30
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Matter, Mind and Multiverse
2026-05-15 16:00 - 2026-05-18 15:00 | Pari, Italy
Matter, Mind and Multiverse: Incorporating Mind into Physics

Pari, Italy – May 15-18, 2026

Speakers: Bernard Carr with Jonathan Allday

The event will start on Friday May 15 at 16:00 and end on Monday May 18 after lunch.

Price: 825.00 euros, which includes:

programmed activities and materials;

a 3-night stay in private accommodation;

breakfast, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;

water, wine, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner.

Please read the Terms and Conditions.

Physics has built a hugely impressive picture of the world. We have a broad understanding of structure from the microverse within the atom to the universe of galaxies and clusters. The evolutionary history of the cosmos is also well mapped, right back to the earliest moments of the Big Bang.

There is, however, one conspicuous absence from this grand design—us. Much of the success of physics, and science in general, has come from deliberately excluding the subjective. The physicist’s universe is a rather arid lunar landscape devoid of the colour that comes with consciousness, mind and spirit.

Most physicists believe that this is fine. It’s not their job to deal with messy and unreliable emotions, qualia and subjective experience. Some go even further and say all our personal life is an illusion.

Meanwhile, a significant number of people have experiences that are mystical, anomalous, synchronistic and personally transformative. The plural of anecdote is data: these events are happening, and they contain important clues to the nature of reality.

It is time to seriously discuss how physics might be extended to accommodate consciousness, mind and spirit.

In this series of conversations and workshops with Professor Bernard Carr and Dr. Jonathan Allday, we will explore the bounds of current physics from M-theory in the microscopic domain to the multiverse in the macroscopic domain, probe the nature of space and time, push into the esoteric worlds of cosmology and black holes, and ask whether some final theory which amalgamates relativity and quantum mechanics can accommodate consciousness and associated anomalous phenomena. We speculate that physics will need to take a broader view of reality if it is ever going to complete its mission.

Professor Carr has been at the forefront of this movement for most of his career. With a well-respected research profile in cosmology, black holes and the anthropic principle, he is well-placed to speak with authority on the nature of current physics. Bernard has also had a long-standing interest in Buddhism, psychical research and spiritual experience. He’s been President of the Society for Psychical Research and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.

Participating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think, feel, and reconnect.

At the Pari Center, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection, renewal, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper.

You will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants, taste local wines, mingle with the village’s tiny community, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living.

The Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers, scholars, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry, creative dialogue and participatory activities, we aim to illuminate the origins, nature, and possibilities of human experience.

We invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning, but as a place of personal transformation.

Bernard 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.

Jonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him.

After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics.

Shortly after his PhD, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years.

Since then, he has also written Apollo in Perspective, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition), Space-time, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World, written with an old school friend, Professor Simon Hands. In addition, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs.

In various other projects, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education.

During COVID, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home.

His physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants.

All of them can do sport, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well).

In January 2026, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.

Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic
2026-05-20 17:00 - 2026-05-27 14:00 | Pari, Italy
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:

Scholarship Programme

SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES

Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic

May 20–27, 2026

Speakers: Jonathan Allday, Vicente Arraez, Vasileios Basios, Apela Colorado, Alvaro Doethiro Tukano, Ruro Caituiro Monge, Aimee Morgana (virtually), Robin Rice, Francisco Rivarola.Curated and Chaired by: Jeff Dunne

Location: Pari, Italy

Ticket Prices:

Private AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros

Shared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros

which includes:

a 7-night stay;

breakfast, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;

water, wine, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;

programmed lectures, activities and materials

There 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.

Event: The event starts with on Wedensday May 20 at 17:00 and ends after lunch on Wednesday May 27.

Download information, terms and conditions for this course.

About the Event

The exploration of consciousness, as a direct goal or as reflected in our desire to understand the natural universe, is central to every culture throughout history. In this event we consider how this quest has been pursued through both modern western intellectualism and the older indigenous paths of experiential knowing, and ultimately ask whether such approaches can be complementary.

Humanity’s recent evolution has seen an increase in anxiety of epidemic proportions, and a prevailing assessment is that it is strongly correlated with our growing sense of disconnection—disconnection with others, of course, but also disconnection from the world, and even from ourselves at the individual level. It is quite possible that the relatively recent resurgence of interest in understanding the nature of ourselves and our connection to the universe is in response to these pressures; whether at a conscious or subconscious level, we sense that this growing sense of isolation is at the core of our dis-ease manifesting at spiritual and emotional levels, and ultimately manifesting as literal disease in the physical.

We say resurgence because understanding the nature of self in relation to the world has been an enduring priority throughout most of human history, only diminished—particularly in western societies—over the last few hundred years. Modern science is now seeking these answers by exploring our prevailing models of reality (such as quantum mechanics) through the language of mathematics, but we must recognize that this intellectual path is only one approach, and quite nascent. For many thousands of years, indigenous cultures have been approaching these same questions, but along an experiential path, i.e. understanding our connection to the world (and each other) by focusing on the experience of those connections.

What is consciousness? What is reality? How are they connected? In this conference, we will not provide an answer to such questions; instead, we will provide many answers. But that is not our goal. These answers, offered from the diverse perspectives of a diverse set of presenters, are the candles with which we will examine the methods that produce such answers.

During the seven days of May 20-27th—as nature transitions from awakening into full function… as the Gemini Threshold encourages increase cognition and the urge to converse and explain… as Indigenous cultures offer first harvest blessings and elders speak the season into the people—we will come together to explore the potential for integrating intellectual articulation with experiential knowing. A group of eight speakers will share insights on topics such as:

The history of western science’s approach to understanding the universe, and where the scientific world stands today;

How the process of connecting with nature has been developed over thousands of years of living with nature, and where it stands today;

The evolution of ancient energetic traditions such as Qigong and Shamanism into modern practices;

Alternate experiences of reality—or even alternate realities—that can be experienced through dreaming and other ways of experiencing; and ultimately…

How we can leverage all of this into a set of coherent practices and worldviews.

But more than an opportunity to listen, this conference is an opportunity to engage. Participants will be more than individuals; they will be part of the conference community. Supported with tools, conversations, and a safe, welcoming environment, they will be challenged to make their own connections, find their own answers, and then (if they so choose) to contribute their insights as part of something bigger.

Please be part of the science, the magic, the experience.

Participating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think, feel, and reconnect.

At the Pari Center, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection, renewal, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper.

You will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants, taste local wines, mingle with the village’s tiny community, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living.

The Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers, scholars, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry, creative dialogue and participatory activities, we aim to illuminate the origins, nature, and possibilities of human experience.

We invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning, but as a place of personal transformation.

Please contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com

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Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics
2026-07-04 17:59 - 2026-07-19 20:00
With John Vervaeke, Brian Swimme, Hester Reeve, Lee Nichol, Richard Burg, Bruce Alderman, and additional friends.

Hosted by Lee Nichol and Bruce Alderman.

July 4 and 5, 11 and 12, 18 and 19

Three Weekends / Six Sessions – 6 two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday

9:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST | 6:00pm CEST

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

For decades, David Bohm’s oeuvre has largely been presented in three categories – his work in physics, in philosophy, and in social dialogue. In Beyond Bohm 2026, we will shift that emphasis, looking further afield for new perspectives on Bohm’s multifaceted vision. Initially we will explore Bohm’s organicist metaphysics from an experiential perspective – in what ways can his radical views on the nature of the human be put to the test in daily life? This will be followed by an introduction to Bohmian poetics – a new, multi-disciplinary theme in Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. Finally, we will examine how the groundbreaking work of cosmologist Brian Swimme and philosopher John Vervaeke complement and extend Bohm’s diverse perspectives.

The themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe, the UK, and the US. It is recommended, though not required, for a full appreciation of July 4, 5, 11, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download, click here.

1. Into the Blue

July 4 and 5With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman & friends

The recently-released Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm is an account of fifty years of experimentation with David Bohm’s metaphysical perspectives. It is not a book of physics, nor is it a book of abstract philosophy. It is the distillation of practical, experiential engagements with core aspects of Bohm’s worldview: wholeness and fragmentation, the self-image, thought as a system, meaning, dialogue, soma-significance, and the implicate order.

Over the course of this weekend, we will inquire into these themes, and how anyone can pursue these questions in real-life ways. Of particular focus, we will outline new ways of understanding Bohm’s emphasis on somatic experience. Among these are rheosoma (the flowing body) and the open organism, an exploratory mode of recovering the innate depth of human being.

We will be joined by friends who have been participating in a group exploration of the weekend’s themes.

2 Hours, including Q & A

2. Exploring a Bohmian Poetics

July 11 and 12With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman, Hester Reeve, Richard Burg & friends

Reaching back into antiquity, the notion of poiesis has a long and rich history. Originally it alluded to “creation,” as in an art object, or poetry. In contemporary usage poiesis has come to indicate the movement by which something emerges from concealment into living presence, and the degree to which that movement expresses truth, or wholeness. This could be a carving, or a cloud, or an automobile, or a concept.

This weekend we will take up three questions. First, in what ways can we think of David Bohm’s framework of implicate and explicate orders as poiesis, as revealing the coming-into-being of the human and natural worlds? Second, in what ways are human beings participants in this implicate/explicate movement of poiesis? And finally, the poetics: how can we think about and embody these questions – what can literature, song, painting, conversation, philosophy, and contemplative arts reveal about unfolding meaning?

Our intention here is long-term – to open up multiple new ways of experiencing and expressing the arc of David Bohm’s lifework. As in our first weekend, friends who are exploring this territory will join us and share their perspectives.

2 Hours, including Q & A

3. Unfolding the Senses

July 18 & 19With Bruce Alderman, Brian Swimme, John Vervaeke, and Lee Nichol

Our final weekend explores how the sensibility cultivated across the first two weekends — the felt encounter with rheosoma and organismic being — might extend into the domains of perception, cosmology, and the renewal of meaning. Bruce Alderman, drawing from his forthcoming book Unfolding the Senses, will introduce the territory where Bohm’s vision meets the phenomenology of the senses, inviting participants to explore felt sense, motility, and vision as concrete pathways into embodied wholeness.

Two special conversations will deepen this inquiry: with mathematical cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme (Saturday), whose work on cosmogenesis situates embodied perception within the creative arc of a time-developmental universe; and with cognitive scientist and philosopher John Vervaeke (Sunday), whose account of the meaning crisis and participatory knowing illuminates why the perceptual transformations at the heart of this work are both personally and collectively urgent.

Together, these encounters invite us to sense how a Bohmian poetics — a calling forth of form and meaning — might unfold through the living body, across deep time, and into our most pressing contemporary challenges.

Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1, Weekend 1: Into the Blue
2026-07-04 18:00 - 2026-07-05 20:00
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Into the Blue

With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman & friends

Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

The recently-released Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm is an account of fifty years of experimentation with David Bohm’s metaphysical perspectives. It is not a book of physics, nor is it a book of abstract philosophy. It is the distillation of practical, experiential engagements with core aspects of Bohm’s worldview: wholeness and fragmentation, the self-image, thought as a system, meaning, dialogue, soma-significance, and the implicate order.

Over the course of this weekend, we will inquire into these themes, and how anyone can pursue these questions in real-life ways. Of particular focus, we will outline new ways of understanding Bohm’s emphasis on somatic experience. Among these are rheosoma (the flowing body) and the open organism, an exploratory mode of recovering the innate depth of human being.

We will be joined by friends who have been participating in a group exploration of the weekend’s themes.

The themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe, the UK, and the US. It is recommended, though not required, for a full appreciation of July 4, 5, 11, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download, click here.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1, Weekend 2: Exploring a Bohmian Poetics
2026-07-11 18:00 - 2026-07-12 20:00
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Exploring a Bohmian Poetics

With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman, Hester Reeve, Richard Burg & friends

Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Reaching back into antiquity, the notion of poiesis has a long and rich history. Originally it alluded to “creation,” as in an art object, or poetry. In contemporary usage poiesis has come to indicate the movement by which something emerges from concealment into living presence, and the degree to which that movement expresses truth, or wholeness. This could be a carving, or a cloud, or an automobile, or a concept.

This weekend we will take up three questions. First, in what ways can we think of David Bohm’s framework of implicate and explicate orders as poiesis, as revealing the coming-into-being of the human and natural worlds? Second, in what ways are human beings participants in this implicate/explicate movement of poiesis? And finally, the poetics: how can we think about and embody these questions – what can literature, song, painting, conversation, philosophy, and contemplative arts reveal about unfolding meaning?

Our intention here is long-term – to open up multiple new ways of experiencing and expressing the arc of David Bohm’s lifework. As in our first weekend, friends who are exploring this territory will join us and share their perspectives.

2 Hours, including Q & A.

The themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe, the UK, and the US. It is recommended, though not required, for a full appreciation of July 4, 5, 11, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download, click here.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Hester Reeve is an artist whose practice encompasses live art, drawing, sculpture, poetry and David Bohm’s ‘Dialogue.’ Venues hosting public works include former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, LIVE Biennale Vancouver, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland, Tate Britain (under the umbrella of The Emily Davison Lodge), Philosophy on Stage at Halle G Vienna, Nirox Sculpture Park South Africa and, most recently, Flat Time House London (as part of the group /originforward/slash and in association with The Centre for Philosophy and Art, Kings College). The first monograph of her work, Ymedaca, was published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2015.

Hester is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. She is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing), and is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Richard Burg

In 2003 I retired from consulting, my fourth career (IT, potter, Continuing Medical Education research). My company Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals.

In 1990 I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently, like many, in online dialogues, before and during the covid pandemic.

Richard is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing) and a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1, Weekend 3: Unfolding the Senses
2026-07-18 18:00 - 2026-07-19 20:00
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Unfolding the Senses

With Bruce Alderman, Brian Swimme, John Vervaeke, and Lee Nichol

Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Our final weekend explores how the sensibility cultivated across the first two weekends — the felt encounter with rheosoma and organismic being — might extend into the domains of perception, cosmology, and the renewal of meaning. Bruce Alderman, drawing from his forthcoming book Unfolding the Senses, will introduce the territory where Bohm’s vision meets the phenomenology of the senses, inviting participants to explore felt sense, motility, and vision as concrete pathways into embodied wholeness.

Two special conversations will deepen this inquiry: with mathematical cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme (Saturday), whose work on cosmogenesis situates embodied perception within the creative arc of a time-developmental universe; and with cognitive scientist and philosopher John Vervaeke (Sunday), whose account of the meaning crisis and participatory knowing illuminates why the perceptual transformations at the heart of this work are both personally and collectively urgent.

Together, these encounters invite us to sense how a Bohmian poetics — a calling forth of form and meaning — might unfold through the living body, across deep time, and into our most pressing contemporary challenges.

2 Hours, including Q & A

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Brian Swimme is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics.

Dr. Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a ten year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry. Dr. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe. Most recently he co-wrote and hosted the 60 minute film Journey of the Universe, broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide.

He lectures widely and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Museum of Natural History.

John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist and award-winning educator at the University of Toronto, where he has taught in Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program since 1994. His teaching awards include the Students’ Administrative Council & Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award (2001) and the Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award (2012). His research and publications span relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, metaphor, and wisdom, oriented toward addressing the contemporary “meaning crisis.”

Beyond the classroom, Vervaeke is widely known for the 50-episode public lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, which synthesizes cognitive science, philosophy, and contemplative traditions to diagnose and respond to modern disconnection. This was followed by his second series After Socrates, a series on dialectic-into-dialogos: training wisdom through practices, virtue cultivation, and participatory knowing for meaning beyond belief.

He co-authored the open-access book Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017) with Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic, an interdisciplinary study using the zombie figure to illuminate cultural alienation and the loss of shared frameworks.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Experiencing Consciousness: Connecting With Our Greater Guidance
2026-07-26 19:00 - 20:30
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Connecting With Our Greater Guidance

with Tanya Sacramento

Sunday, July 26, 202610:00AM PDT | 1:00PM EDT | 6:00PM BST | 7:00PM CEST

There will be no recording.

An invitation to ignite, enliven and expand your connection to a Greater Guidance through a channelled Guided Journey…

We are all capable of connecting intuitively to a source of wisdom and knowing. It could be one’s Soul, Angels, Animals Spirits, Guides, Ancestors (to give a few examples) or something that is beyond a name or label – and none of these are mutually exclusive! Our beliefs and experiences are diverse. The term “Greater Guidance” serves as an umbrella for this ineffable, loving wisdom. How we sense, perceive and receives prompts, messages and signs is also different for each of one us. This changes over time, as we ourselves change and develop. There is no right or wrong way; the magic happens when we nurture our own way.

You will be led on a Guided Journey, to have an experience. It is not just what is spoken, but the energy being brought through, to create a conduit and container. Trance mediums, in an expanded state of consciousness, can channel words, art, healing – but the essence of it all is energy. Tanya will co-create an energetic space to facilitate your abilities to connect, receive and discover.

Often we have preconceptions about what should happen during a Guided Journey. Cast these aside and be open to exploring and expanding your personal way of communing with the Cosmos!

The aim is not to have a one-off experience, but to use this as a stepping stone to develop your relationship with this Greater Guidance, in your daily life.

Tanya Sacramento is a psychic medium with a passion for trance mediumship and working with expanded states of consciousness, including Holotropic Breathwork. She has trained and studied evidential and trance mediumship under a number of Arthur Findlay College tutors and internationally renowned mediums. Tanya works in a one-to-one or group setting, to support individuals in developing their intuition and connection to a Greater Guidance, and in so doing, foster their self-empowerment. She also offers readings that are a mix of modalities and seeks to involve her client in the process.

What to Bring

Participants will be writing and/or drawing during the session, so be sure to have paper and a writing implement or two on hand.

Signing Up

Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!

As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.

If you would like to receive a free or discounted registration, please just get in touch at eleanor@paricenter.com

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Art of Hosting 2026
2026-10-23 12:00 - 2026-10-26 17:00 | Pari, Italia
Art of hosting / Arte Della leadership partecipativa per la trasformazione sociale

Pari (GR), dal 23 al 26 Ottobre 2026.

Un’esperienza immersiva per esplorare pratiche di leadership partecipativa, facilitazione e intelligenza collettiva.

Viviamo un tempo caratterizzato da crescente complessità e interdipendenza. Le sfide che affrontiamo richiedono nuovi modi di collaborare, ascoltare e agire insieme.

L’Art of Hosting offre pratiche e strumenti per creare conversazioni significative, facilitare processi partecipativi e generare cambiamento collaborativo.

Questo training è un invito a esplorare nuove possibilità insieme ad una comunità internazionale di praticanti.

Cliccate qui per info e registrazione

A chi si rivolge

Questa formazione è dedicata a persone che lavorano con gruppi, team e comunità e desiderano facilitare processi di cambiamento collaborativo.

Invitiamo:

facilitatrici e consulenti;

leader e manager;

educatori e formatrici;

imprenditrici sociali;

operatori del settore pubblico e del terzo settore;

comunità e reti collaborative;

artisti e anime creative

persone interessate al cambiamento sistemico e alla trasformazione sociale.

Cosa imparerai

Insieme esploreremo pratiche, prospettive e metodologie partecipative per coinvolgere gruppi eterogenei e lavorare con complessità, cambiamento e conflitto.

Imparerai a:

progettare iniziative collaborative;

facilitare conversazioni generative;

utilizzare i metodi dell’Art of Hosting;

lavorare con complessità e processi emergenti;

raccogliere apprendimenti e intuizioni attraverso l’harvesting;

trasformare idee e visioni in esperimenti concreti;

introdurre la leadership partecipativa nei tuoi contesti professionali e comunitari.

Il luogo

Pari Center · Toscana

Il training si svolgerà presso il Pari Center, un borgo medievale immerso nella natura nel cuore della Toscana.

Un contesto che favorisce apprendimento, connessione e momenti informali di incontro.

Il corso è residenziale e i partecipanti potranno soggiornare nelle strutture del borgo, raggiungibili a pochi minuti a piedi.

Pari è facilmente raggiungibile in macchina e con mezzi di trasporto pubblico.
