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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1\, Weekend 2: Exploring a Bohmian Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics \n\n\n\nExploring a Bohmian Poetics\n\n\n\nWith Lee Nichol\, Bruce Alderman\, Hester Reeve\, Richard Burg & friends \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday\, July 11 and 12\, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST \n\n\n\n2 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReaching 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. \n\n\n\nThis 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? \n\n\n\nOur 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. \n\n\n\n2 Hours\, including Q & A. \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee 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. \n\n\n\nLee’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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester 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 /origin\forward/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. \n\n\n\nHester 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing) and a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1\, Weekend 3: Unfolding the Senses
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics \n\n\n\nUnfolding the Senses\n\n\n\nWith Bruce Alderman\, Brian Swimme\, John Vervaeke\, and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday\, July 18 and 19\, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST \n\n\n\n2 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur 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. \n\n\n\nTwo 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. \n\n\n\nTogether\, 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. \n\n\n\n2 Hours\, including Q & A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian 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. \n\n\n\nDr. 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. \n\n\n\nHe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn 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.” \n\n\n\nBeyond 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. \n\n\n\nHe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee 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. \n\n\n\nLee’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.
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SUMMARY:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place
DESCRIPTION:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place \n\n\n\nSeptember 10 – 17\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Code and Alistair Duncan \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 1800.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1650.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with dinner on Thursday September 10 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Thursday September 17. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nWhy Inscendence?\n\n\n\nIn a time riven by fragmentation\, dislocation and conflicting narratives\, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land\, body and consciousness meet.  \n\n\n\nInscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness\, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.   \n\n\n\nIn resonance with Pari\, its landscape\, history\, and community\, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight\, relationship and action can emerge. \n\n\n\nInscendence—the impulse not to rise above the world but to climb into it\, to seek its core.Thomas Berry\, via Robert Macfarlane \n\n\n\nProgramme Themes and Practices\n\n\n\nOver the course of a week in Pari\, we will engage with:  \n\n\n\nEmbodied and Perceptual Investigation: \n\n\n\n\nExplorations into how breath-work\, movement and posture can expand and transform perceptual awareness\n\n\n\nWorking with our experience of the traditional elements of nature: earth\, water\, fire\, air and ether in a contemporary way\n\n\n\nHeightening the sensitivity of our physical senses: sight\, sound\, touch\, taste\, smell\, as entry points into deeper experience \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the body-mind as a phenomenological instrument\n\n\n\n\nFieldwork in the More-than-Human World: \n\n\n\n\nImmersive sessions engaging with the plants\, stones\, weather and landforms of the Tuscany landscape\n\n\n\nExploration of a range of ways of knowing including Goethean observation and nature-connection practices\n\n\n\nAttending to artefacts\, stories and built structures as relational presences\n\n\n\n\nCreative and Collaboratives Explorations:  \n\n\n\n\nCreative writing\, journaling\, and drawing as practices of attending to lived experience\n\n\n\nSitting in Council / dialogue will allow us to share insights and integrate personal experience into collective understanding. \n\n\n\nConversational ‘tutorial-style’ sessions will be used to explore the intersection between experience and theory\n\n\n\n\nDaily Rhythms—each day will include four main elements: \n\n\n\n\nOutdoor sessions exploring a range of practices and experiences\n\n\n\nThe seeding of ‘micro-practices’ that will provide the opportunity for moments in the day to become an opportunity for conscious awareness\n\n\n\nSitting in Council\, ‘tutorial’ circles and creative sessions to collectively reflect on our unfolding experience and its implications \n\n\n\nPersonal reflection time supported by the quiet rhythms of the village\n\n\n\n\nTheoretical Context: \n\n\n\nWith an emphasis on experiential forms of enquiry\, Inscendence is nevertheless inspired by the insights and practices of a wide range of thinkers from both East and West. These perspectives provide lenses through which our lived experience can be shared and articulated. \n\n\n\nSome of these sources of inspiration include: \n\n\n\n\nThe Implicate / Explicate / Holoflux (David Bohm) \n\n\n\nThe implications of brain hemisphere modes of attention (Iain McGilchrist) \n\n\n\nThe nature of participatory consciousness (Owen Barfield\,)\n\n\n\nThe idea of Authentic Wholeness (Henri Bortoft\, J.W. Goethe)\n\n\n\nThe unity of Mind and Matter from (Gregory Bateson) \n\n\n\nThe explorations of language\, sensory perception and the new animism (David Abram\, Robin Kimmerer)\n\n\n\nPhilosophical Taoism\n\n\n\nNon-dual Shaiva Tantra\n\n\n\n\nWhat May Emerge: \n\n\n\n\nA refined capacity for attentional flexibility and resonance\n\n\n\nA deeper sense of participation in the implicate wholeness of the cosmos\n\n\n\nInsight into how perception constructs (and reconstructs) the world\n\n\n\nA felt understanding of new grounds for coherent action and relationship\n\n\n\nA more integrated experience of self within the context of a conscious whole.\n\n\n\n\nOur aim is not to provide answers to the complex challenges of our time but to cultivate a new ground of exploration—a place from which thought\, relationship and creativity may unfold with greater coherence and sensitivity. \n\n\n\nParticipating 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. \n\n\n\nAt 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. \n\n\n\nYou 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. \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Code \n\n\n\nDuring a childhood and youth spent in Southern Ontario\, regular immersion in and on the freshwater lakes of Frontenac Park fostered in me a deep ecological and place-based awareness of the natural world. I am to this day never more at home than in a canoe on a lake at dawn\, paddling out as the sun rises and the loons call forth the day. \n\n\n\nMy ecological interests grew and deepened through encounters with the work of Goethe\, Schumacher\, Vine Deloria Jr.\, and Steiner—whose contributions to education\, medicine\, human development\, and agriculture (Biodynamic farming) continue to inform my teaching\, research\, and writing to this day. \n\n\n\nI am particularly interested in the contribution that Goethe can make to ecological thinking (which I addressed in a study of Goethe’s method of exact imagination as applied to the Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)) and in how the Biodynamic preparations are not only stimulants for good composting processes but are also catalysts for a deepening of agricultural consciousness (which I address in Muck and Mind: Encountering Biodynamic Agriculture\, 2014). \n\n\n\nI am currently engaged in a study of traditional fire-craft and its affordances for educational philosophy and praxis. This study grows out of a deep concern for education in the twenty first century (see Crafting: Transforming Materials and the Maker\, 2019)—a concern that what is too often left out in many of our educational endeavors is a sense for who a human being is…and what we can (potentially) become. \n\n\n\nAlistair Duncan  \n\n\n\nAfter a first career as a systems programmer\, architect and programme manager in technology for a couple of global corporations\, fifteen years ago I jumped ship. Since then I  have worked as an eco-psychologist\, workshop facilitator/educator and therapist across a number of contexts particularly  in universities\, disadvantaged communities and with conservation organisations.  \n\n\n\nMy passion is weaving together concrete practices from contemporary psychology\, embodiment modalities and therapies as well as the spiritualities of east and west. Then\, using them to make experiential and practical\, the insights that arise from a range of fields across philosophy\, science and spirituality.  \n\n\n\nTo define my context with a few names. I would cite David Bohm\, Owen Barfield\, Martin Heidegger\, Gregory Bateson\, Henri Bortoff\, Michael Washburn\, David Abram and Kenneth White as my current key co-ordinates. And I am drawing practices from a wide palette\, but the core is found in indigenous tracking methods\, Non-dual Shaiva Tantrism\, Taoism\, and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). \n\n\n\nI have a first degree in Biology and a Masters in Philosophy\, and have trained in several coaching and therapeutic modalities. \n\n\n\nEverything I do nowadays is based in nature. It’s my current conviction that exploring a deeper sensorial resonance and reciprocity between the human body-mind and the more-than-human cosmos is the starting point for a lived experience of wholeness and a connection into the deep consciousness of the cosmos. And that\, from there\, we may be able to discern a better way to live in these times.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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