The Pari Center

Experiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art
2026-01-04 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome)
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

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

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

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

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.

Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness, Presence and Place
2026-09-10 19:00 - 2026-09-17 14:00 | Pari, Italy
Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness, Presence and Place

September 10 – 17, 2026

Speakers: Jonathan Code and Alistair Duncan

Location: Pari, Italy

Ticket Prices:

Private AccommodationPrice: 1800.00 euros

Shared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1650.00 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 dinner on Thursday September 10 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Thursday September 17.

Download information, terms and conditions for this course.

About the Event

Why Inscendence?

In 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.

Inscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.

In 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.

Inscendence—the impulse not to rise above the world but to climb into it, to seek its core.Thomas Berry, via Robert Macfarlane

Programme Themes and Practices

Over the course of a week in Pari, we will engage with:

Embodied and Perceptual Investigation:

Explorations into how breath-work, movement and posture can expand and transform perceptual awareness

Working with our experience of the traditional elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air and ether in a contemporary way

Heightening the sensitivity of our physical senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, as entry points into deeper experience

Understanding the body-mind as a phenomenological instrument

Fieldwork in the More-than-Human World:

Immersive sessions engaging with the plants, stones, weather and landforms of the Tuscany landscape

Exploration of a range of ways of knowing including Goethean observation and nature-connection practices

Attending to artefacts, stories and built structures as relational presences

Creative and Collaboratives Explorations:

Creative writing, journaling, and drawing as practices of attending to lived experience

Sitting in Council / dialogue will allow us to share insights and integrate personal experience into collective understanding.

Conversational ‘tutorial-style’ sessions will be used to explore the intersection between experience and theory

Daily Rhythms—each day will include four main elements:

Outdoor sessions exploring a range of practices and experiences

The seeding of ‘micro-practices’ that will provide the opportunity for moments in the day to become an opportunity for conscious awareness

Sitting in Council, ‘tutorial’ circles and creative sessions to collectively reflect on our unfolding experience and its implications

Personal reflection time supported by the quiet rhythms of the village

Theoretical Context:

With 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.

Some of these sources of inspiration include:

The Implicate / Explicate / Holoflux (David Bohm)

The implications of brain hemisphere modes of attention (Iain McGilchrist)

The nature of participatory consciousness (Owen Barfield,)

The idea of Authentic Wholeness (Henri Bortoft, J.W. Goethe)

The unity of Mind and Matter from (Gregory Bateson)

The explorations of language, sensory perception and the new animism (David Abram, Robin Kimmerer)

Philosophical Taoism

Non-dual Shaiva Tantra

What May Emerge:

A refined capacity for attentional flexibility and resonance

A deeper sense of participation in the implicate wholeness of the cosmos

Insight into how perception constructs (and reconstructs) the world

A felt understanding of new grounds for coherent action and relationship

A more integrated experience of self within the context of a conscious whole.

Our 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.

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

Jonathan Code

During 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.

My 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.

I 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).

I 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.

Alistair Duncan

After 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.

My 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.

To 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).

I have a first degree in Biology and a Masters in Philosophy, and have trained in several coaching and therapeutic modalities.

Everything 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.

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