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

Pari, Italy – May 15-18, 2026

Speakers: Bernard Carr with Jonathan Allday

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

Price: 825.00 euros, which includes:

programmed activities and materials;

a 3-night stay in private accommodation;

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

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

Please read the Terms and Conditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, dark matter, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University, Tokyo University, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.

He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes.

Beyond his professional field, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic
2026-05-20 17:00 - 2026-05-27 14:00 | Pari, Italy
Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships, preferably to young minds, for this event. For more information:

Scholarship Programme

SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES

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

May 20–27, 2026

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

Location: Pari, Italy

Ticket Prices:

Private AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros

Shared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros

which includes:

a 7-night stay;

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

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

programmed lectures, activities and materials

There is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided.

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

Download information, terms and conditions for this course.

About the Event

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hosted by Lee Nichol and Bruce Alderman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Into the Blue

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

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

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

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

2 Hours, including Q & A

2. Exploring a Bohmian Poetics

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

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

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

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

2 Hours, including Q & A

3. Unfolding the Senses

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

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

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

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

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

Into the Blue

With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman & friends

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

2 two-hour sessions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring a Bohmian Poetics

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

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

2 two-hour sessions

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

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

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

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

2 Hours, including Q & A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Burg

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

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

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

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

Unfolding the Senses

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

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

2 two-hour sessions

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

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

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

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

2 Hours, including Q & A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experiencing Consciousness: Connecting With Our Greater Guidance

with Tanya Sacramento

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

There will be no recording.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What to Bring

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

Signing Up

Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cliccate qui per info e registrazione

A chi si rivolge

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

Invitiamo:

facilitatrici e consulenti;

leader e manager;

educatori e formatrici;

imprenditrici sociali;

operatori del settore pubblico e del terzo settore;

comunità e reti collaborative;

artisti e anime creative

persone interessate al cambiamento sistemico e alla trasformazione sociale.

Cosa imparerai

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

Imparerai a:

progettare iniziative collaborative;

facilitare conversazioni generative;

utilizzare i metodi dell’Art of Hosting;

lavorare con complessità e processi emergenti;

raccogliere apprendimenti e intuizioni attraverso l’harvesting;

trasformare idee e visioni in esperimenti concreti;

introdurre la leadership partecipativa nei tuoi contesti professionali e comunitari.

Il luogo

Pari Center · Toscana

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

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

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

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