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SUMMARY:Remembering Jacobo Grinberg at 30
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzede1Ho5M\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRemembering Jacobo Grinberg at 30Back to the Future of a Science of the Sacred \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 8\, 2024  \n\n\n\nStarting at 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST / 7:30pm GMT / 8:30pm CET \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum disappeared in strange circumstances exactly thirty years ago. His theoretical\, empirical\, and experiential work on space\, the brain\, and consciousness would still be considered beyond cutting-edge today. In this free online event\, we will commemorate his legacy with a selected group of family\, friends\, and colleagues. Were Jacobo with us today\, he would certainly enjoy such company of top scientists\, creative artists\, deep mystics\, and original media curators. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nAmit Goswami (head of Center for Quantum Activism) on communication without signaling \n\n\n\nEstusha Grinberg (Jacobo’s daughter) on music and Jacobo’s theory \n\n\n\nIain McGilchrist (author of The Matter with Things) on brain hemispheres and coherence \n\n\n\nIda Cuéllar (director of The Secret of Dr. Grinberg) on film\, science\, and science fiction \n\n\n\nInés Urdaneta (researcher at the International Space Federation) on post-modern physics \n\n\n\nJavier F. Alvarez-Leefmans (professor of neuropharmacology at Wright State University) on the beginnings of Jacobo’s career \n\n\n\nJanine Rodiles (PhD in cognitive Sciences\, clinical psychologist\, writer\, and Sufi whirling dervish) on wholeness and mysticism \n\n\n\nJeffrey Mishlove (creator and host of New Thinking Allowed) on healing and sensitive children \n\n\n\nJordi Imbert (head of Intuitu) on extra-ocular and intuitive vision \n\n\n\nLizette Arditti (Jacobo’s first wife) on painting and Jacobo’s life \n\n\n\nKehlan Morgan (creator and host at Formscapes) on phenomenology of space and perception \n\n\n\nManuel Delaflor (Jacobo’s former student and head of Metacognition Institute) on model dependent ontology \n\n\n\nMarina Weiler (neuroscientist at the Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia School of Medicine) on anomalous teleportation and materialization \n\n\n\nNatalia Rodríguez (editor at Penguin Random House) on books\, science\, and culture \n\n\n\nPavel Ibarra (host of Psicoativo Podcast) on media\, science\, and anomalous phenomena \n\n\n\nRichard Silberstein (professor of neuroscience at the Brain Sciences Institute of Swinburne University) on brain-to-brain communication between twins \n\n\n\nRobert Lawrence Kuhn (creator and host of Closer to Truth) on theories of consciousness \n\n\n\nand more..! \n\n\n\nSome related links: \n\n\n\nThe Brain and the Universe: The Jacobo Grinberg Story\, with Alex Gomez-Marin & Jeffrey Mishlove  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Landscape of Consciousness (see 17.10)\, research article by Robert Lawrence Kuhnhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128 \n\n\n\nThe Secret of Doctor Grinberg\, documentary by Ida Cuéllarhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt11898888 \n\n\n\nCiencia de la conciencia: un regreso al futuro\, artículo de Alex Gómez-Marínhttps://www.razon.com.mx/el-cultural/2022/10/28/ciencia-de-la-conciencia-un-regreso-al-futuro \n\n\n\nLeyendo a Jacobo Grinberg (introducción)\, con Alex Gómez-Marín
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/remembering-jacobo-grinberg-at-30/
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SUMMARY:The Future World - A Conversation with John Vervaeke
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTFAeoUPfI\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between John Vervaeke and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday\, January 159:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. John Vervaeke\, an award-winning professor of psychology\, cognitive science\, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto\, brings a wealth of academic expertise to his courses. With a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto\, Dr. Vervaeke served as the former Director of Cognitive Science and holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards and has published articles on relevance realization\, general intelligence\, mindfulness\, flow\, metaphor\, and wisdom. With expertise in both Eastern and Western philosophy\, Dr. Vervaeke guides learners through a transformative journey\, integrating ancient wisdom with modern scientific insights. Dr. Vervaeke’s courses are a captivating blend of theoretical knowledge and practical wisdom\, and his dynamic teaching style engages students in exploring the depths of the mind and its implications for personal growth and societal change\, illuminating the path to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-world-a-conversation-with-john-vervaeke/
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SUMMARY:Spaced Out - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Spaced Out \n\n\n\nA Two-Part Series on that Nature of Space\, Higher Dimensions and the Multiverse \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nThursday January 16 and 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\n9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nA two-session series – each session will last two hours. \n\n\n\nAll registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1\n\n\n\nThursday January 16\, 2025 \n\n\n\nA Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Space with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThis talk is intended to be a grounding in the physicists’ conception of space. It will discuss the relativity of space and time\, how we distinguish between spatial and temporal dimensions\, space-time\, the curvature of space and what we mean by (various) forms of higher dimensions. \n\n\n\nPart 2\n\n\n\nThursday January 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nSpaced Out: A Conversation Between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe conversation is designed to be a follow-up to their earlier discussion ‘It’s About Time.’ Themes will include space-time\, the curvature of space around a black hole\, higher dimensions in their various forms\, and the multiverse. We will also touch upon the anthropic principle\, cosmology and Bernard’s conception of higher dimensions and the mind. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/spaced-out-part-1/
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SUMMARY:Is Idealism Enough?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr93mW3QmWo\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs Idealism Enough?A dialogue between Bernardo Kastrup and Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 21\, 20259:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupert Sheldrake recently made a series of criticisms of Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism on Curt Jaimungal’s Theories of Everything channel. Kastrup soon responded to Rupert’s points and subsequently Rupert sent Kastrup a rejoinder. Here\, in a spirit of true collegiality and intellectual pursuit\, we will turn this clash into an opportunity to better understand each other’s position and inquire further into the nature of reality itself. The trialogue between Kastrup\, Sheldrake\, and Gomez-Marin will be followed by Q&A from the audience.  \n\n\n\nLinks\n\n\n\n1. Sheldrake’s criticisms \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Kastrup’s responses \n\n\n\nhttps://www.bernardokastrup.com/2024/11/response-to-rupert-sheldrakes.html \n\n\n\n3. Sheldrake’s rejoinder \n\n\n\nhttps://www.bernardokastrup.com/2024/12/rupert-sheldrakes-rejoinder.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books\, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society\, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University\, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry\, and philosophy at Harvard University\, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge\, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences\, near San Francisco\, and also of Schumacher College\, in Devon. For more information\, please visit https://www.sheldrake.org/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism\, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology\, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing\, artificial intelligence). As a scientist\, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years now\, having co-founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Bernardo has most recently started AI hardware company Syncthetics B.V.\, currently in stealth mode. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books\, Bernardo’s ideas have been featured on Scientific American\, the Institute of Art and Ideas\, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association\, and Big Think\, among others. Bernardo’s 11th book\, coming in 2024\, is Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics. For more information\, freely downloadable papers\, videos\, etc.\, please visit www.bernardokastrup.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona\, 1981) is a Spanish scientist\, a theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist investigating human consciousness. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics\, a masters in biophysics\, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona (cum laude by unanimity and Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2009). He was then a postdoctoral research fellow at the Systems Biology Unit of the EMBL-CRG Center for Genomic Regulation and at the Neuroscience Programme of the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. Since 2016\, he has been the director of the Organism Behavior Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante\, where he is currently an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Since 2022\, Alex is also the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany\, Italy.  Amongst other duties\, Alex is an associate editor of Organisms: Journal of Biological Sciences\, a member of the history committee of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience\, a member of the science advisory committee of the Cobb Institute\, a member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative\, a member of the Global Consciousness Project 2.0 research team\, a team member of the Terminal Lucidity Research Group\, a faculty member at the Icloby International Consciousness Lobby Foundation\, a member of the research committee of the Wake Up Institute\, an external advisor of UAP Digital\, and a member of the postmaterialist Open Sciences group. His research encompasses the origins of the arrow of time (inert matter)\, neuroethological principles of action and perception across species from flies and worms to mice and humans (living matter)\, and robotic and artificial intelligence applied to human stupidity (so-called artificial life & mind).  Alex had a near-death experience in March of 2021. He then decided to devote his research efforts to the scientific study of human minds in the real world\, concentrating on what he calls “the edges” of consciousness – a wild\, weird\, wonderful field where great enigma meets gross stigma. In 2023 he was awarded the first Linda G O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. In 2024 Alex was selected as one of the world’s most inspiring people by OOOM 100. He has recently been nominated as one of ten revolutionary scientists by Feed Your Head. Since 2005\, Alex has published about one hundred research articles which have been cited over four thousand times in total. Alex has given countless talks and interviews too. You can find most of his material here: https://behavior-of-organisms.org/ Alex lives in sunny Alicante\, Spain\, with his wife\, two daughters\, and a cat.
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SUMMARY:PSI: Back to the Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRJ7PKF9ws&t=371s\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPSI: Back to the Future \n\n\n\nSunday February 9\, 202511:30am PST  | 2:30pm EST  | 7:30pm GMT  |  8:30pm CET (and ending about four hours later) \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by: Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nWith: Damon Abraham\, David Acunzo\, Cedric Cannard\, Dani Caputi\, Adam Curry\, Maaneli Derakhshani\, Ed Kelly\, David Luke\, Jeffrey Mishlove\, Julia Mossbridge\, Roger Nelson\, Dean Radin\, Stephen Schwartz\, James Spottiswoode\, Mario Varvoglis\, Marina Weiler\, George Williams \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe scientific study of psychic (or PSI) phenomena –which includes extrasensory perception\, precognition\, synchronicity\, direct mind-to-mind communication\, or mind-matter interactions– has been going on for more than a century now. Its results are fascinating\, puzzling\, and often controversial. In this event some of the greatest active researchers in the field will present their own work while reflecting on where PSI has been\, where we think it is now\, and where we wish it to go. We hope to create an unprecedented audiovisual gathering for current and future generations to get perspective\, clarity\, and inspiration.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/psi-back-to-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Looking-Glass Universe
DESCRIPTION:Looking Glass Universe \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday and John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 1\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 1 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs and David Peat wrote Looking Glass Universe in the wake of publishing events such as The Tao of Physics. At the time\, physics was cool and popular\, especially among New Age adherents looking to science to provide a context for their beliefs. The authors wanted to take different approach—to show how a range of sciences\, not just physics\, were converging on a new way of viewing the world: as a whole. In this context\, they wanted to pose and answer the question: is a science of wholeness possible? \n\n\n\nNow that the book is about to be re-released\, it is interesting to review how things stood at the time\, with one of the original authors\, so that progress\, or lack of\, since then can but seen in context. \n\n\n\nThis will act as an introduction to the whole series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe(1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-looking-glass-looking-glass-universe/
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SUMMARY:Edge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqy4UxmY88\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science \n\n\n\nSunday March 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nStarting at 12:30pm PDT  | 3:30pm EDT  | 7:30pm GMT  |  8:30pm CET \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWith Robert Duncan and Brett Robinson \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE online and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience can explain many things about reality but the addition of theology\, literature\, and art deepens our understanding and makes for a much richer appreciation of life on this weird and wonderful planet. How can Religion respond to evolving scientific discoveries? How should the Church think about UFOs? What are the boundaries for Catholic belief? The McGrath Institute for Church Life is proud to present “Edge of Belief: UFOs\, Technology & The Catholic Imagination”\, a documentary short that explores the outer limits of belief. \n\n\n\n“The Edge of Belief” is a documentary film about the interplay of faith\, imagination and science. The film looks at the modern UFO phenomenon through the lens of the Catholic theological\, scientific and literary tradition. This impactful documentary gives viewers a holistic framework for thinking about the mysteries of the universe and dealing with the claims that we are not alone in it. “The Edge of Belief” features interviews with CS Lewis scholar and Oxford professor Michael Ward\, religious studies researcher and author of American Cosmic\, Diana Pasulka\, icon artist and host of “The Symbolic World\,” Jonathan Pageau\, Notre Dame theologian Christopher Baglow\, and Chair of Astronomy at Cornell\, Jonathan Lunine\, among others. \n\n\n\nLink to the film (31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0ah6Xmqus \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n08:30pm CET – Introduction \n\n\n\n08:45pm CET – Live film watch \n\n\n\n09:15pm CET – Conversation between Robert\, Brett\, and Alex  \n\n\n\n10:00pm CET – Q&A from the audience \n\n\n\n10:30pm CET – End \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Duncan\, a native of North Carolina\, is a filmmaker and communications professional who has spent over a decade producing documentaries and news videos on the Vatican and Catholic life in Rome. He has worked extensively as a journalist covering Vatican affairs and as a communications consultant for various non-profit religious organizations\, particularly in the areas of fundraising and strategic media. Robert graduated from NYU’s film program and has consulted for the U.S. State Department\, creating media for the U.S. embassies in Rome. He has lectured on communication strategy for Vatican employees and assisted with media projects for Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. Robert lives near Rome with his family\, enjoying hiking and sailing.  \n\n\n\nBrett Robinson\, Executive Producer Brett Robinson serves as the Associate Director for Outreach and Associate Professor of the Practice at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. In his role\, he oversees outreach efforts for the institute while conducting research at the intersection of religion\, technology and culture. Brett studied marketing and English at the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. He has taught media studies courses at Duquesne University\, the University of Georgia\, Saint Vincent College and Notre Dame. Brett is the author of Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs and his essays and commentary on technology and culture have been featured in Wired Magazine\, CNN\, the LA Times and Catholic News Service. \n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín\, theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist studying the edges of consciousness in the real world. He is an associate professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, Spain\, and director of the Pari Center in Tuscany\, Italy. 
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SUMMARY:SURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UrzcZfp-mV8?si=xAijmeVaHLNJDoWb\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death \n\n\n\nSunday April 13\, 2025 \n\n\n\n11:30am PDT\, 2:30pm EDT\, 7:30pm BST\, 8:30pm CEST (and ending about four hours later) \n\n\n\nWith: Alejandro Agudo\, Eben Alexander\, John Ballard\, Stafford Betty\, Bernard Carr\, Jeff Dunne\, Bruce Greyson\, Stanley Krippner\, Jeffrey Long\, David Lorimer\, Janice Miner Holden\, Jeffrey Mishlove\, Alexander Moreira-Almeida\, Leo Ruickbie\, Gary Schwartz\, Steve Taylor\, Stephan Schwartz\, Pim Van Lommel\, Helane Wahbeh\, Marjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nIn memoriam: Peter Fenwick (1935-2024)\, Charles Tart (1937-2025)\, and Allan Leslie Combs (1942-2025) \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Rigorous Open-Minded Exploration \n\n\n\nUnderstanding whether consciousness continues after death is one of the most profound scientific and philosophical questions of our time. A rigorous\, evidence-based\, but also open-minded\, exploratory\, approach to this mystery has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of human identity\, the nature of consciousness\, and the boundaries of life itself. What\, if anything\, survives bodily death? In what form\, and for how long? These are questions that demand a trans-disciplinary investigation\, not just for their scientific implications but for their profound impact on culture\, ethics\, and human experience. SURVIVAL: Re-Appraising the Evidence for Life After Death brings together world-renowned experts to explore the latest research\, theories\, and firsthand accounts that challenge conventional assumptions. This online event is an essential opportunity to engage with cutting-edge insights into what might lie beyond the final frontier. \n\n\n\nA Bold New Conference Format\n\n\n\nWe are pioneering a dynamic\, high-impact online conference format via Zoom that maximizes efficiency and engagement. These live-recorded events feature a series of fast-paced\, 15-minute “science nuggets”—concise\, content-rich presentations from leading researchers\, with or without slides\, without lengthy introductions or Q&A. This streamlined approach keeps the momentum strong\, allowing us to cover in a few hours what a traditional in-person conference might take a week to accomplish. The result? A free\, to-the-point\, and comprehensive snapshot of the latest advancements in our field\, offering a pluralistic advanced testament to where we stand—and where we’re headed.
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SUMMARY:Unbreaking the World
DESCRIPTION:Unbreaking the WorldAwakening from the Meaning Crisis and the Return of the Sacred \n\n\n\nPari\, Italy\, May 9-12\, 2025 \n\n\n\nSpeaker: John Vervaeke \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nThe event will start on Friday May 9 at 16:00 and end on Monday May 12 after lunch. \n\n\n\nPrice: 725.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 3-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr John Vervaeke’s Advent of the Sacred develops the sense of convergence and transformation as a response to the Meaning Crisis that the world is experiencing. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nUnbreaking the World invites us to pause and think about the cluster of crises we are globally facing. John argues that these problems aren’t just about the media\, politics\, or even the economy… the roots of this malaise are problems that are deeply historical\, cultural\, and cognitive. It’s what he calls the Meaning Crisis. Yet the word ‘crisis\,’ etymologically means ‘decision.’ \n\n\n\nDuring this weekend we will trace the history of what led to the contemporary malaise which leaves us cut off from our past\, disconnected from ourselves in the present\, and incapable of reimagining a viable future. We will examine the anxiety\, alienation and absurdity of our age\, and seek a deep transformation of our modes of knowing and being. \n\n\n\nThis transformation is not only urgent but indeed possible. John will be our guide tapping into a rich well of resources—from Socrates to Jung\, from cognitive psychology to neuroscience\, from mystical experiences to artificial intelligence. He will offer a coherent and clear approach that integrates scientific and philosophical threads with spiritual practice to ensure the development of the transformative wisdom necessary to cultivate a meaningful life. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nIn addition to his lectures\, John will offer meditation\, contemplation\, tai chi and dialogical practices. \n\n\n\nPart I: Introduction \n\n\n\nSession 1 (Friday afternoon): The Current Meta-Crisis and Trust in a Post-Truth World \n\n\n\nPart II: Awakening From the Meaning Crisis \n\n\n\nSession 2 (Saturday morning): Part I: Origins \n\n\n\nSession 3 (Saturday afternoon): Part II: Structure and Function of Meaning \n\n\n\nPart III: The Advent of the Sacred \n\n\n\nSession 4 (Sunday morning): Unbreaking the Spell of Modernity \n\n\n\nSession 5 (Sunday afternoon): Mentoring the Machines: Wisdom in the Age of AI \n\n\n\nPart IV: The Philosophical Silk Road \n\n\n\nSession 6 (Monday morning): A Pilgrimage to Lost Ways of Knowing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Vervaeke\, an award-winning professor of psychology\, cognitive science\, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto\, brings a wealth of academic expertise to his courses. \n\n\n\nWith a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto\, Dr Vervaeke served as the former Director of Cognitive Science and holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. \n\n\n\nHe has won and been nominated for several teaching awards and has published articles on relevance realization\, general intelligence\, mindfulness\, flow\, metaphor\, and wisdom. \n\n\n\nWith expertise in both Eastern and Western philosophy\, Dr Vervaeke guides learners through a transformative journey\, integrating ancient wisdom with modern scientific insights. \n\n\n\nDr Vervaeke’s courses are a captivating blend of theoretical knowledge and practical wisdom\, and his dynamic teaching style engages students in exploring the depths of the mind and its implications for personal growth and societal change\, illuminating the path to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world. \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:Radical Visions
DESCRIPTION:Radical Visions \n\n\n\nCelebrating the Lives and Work of the Two Davids\, David Bohm and David Peat.In memory of Basil J. Hiley (1935-2025) \n\n\n\nPari\, ItalyMay 23-30\, 2025 \n\n\n\nA special event celebrating 25 years at the Pari Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the Pari Center’s 25th anniversary we are holding a week-long celebration dedicated to examining the legacy of the two Davids—David Bohm and David Peat. We have gathered a group of presenters from physics\, philosophy\, the Indigenous world\, dialogue\, synchronicity\, Gentle Action\, and the sacred\, who will discuss the life’s work of the two men and how their influence has extended well beyond the confines of physics.  \n\n\n\nThe presenters—former colleagues\, friends\, and scholars—will illuminate the wide-ranging work and interests of the two physicists during their talks\, workshops and roundtable discussions\, and will share their personal stories and anecdotes.   \n\n\n\nIt is with great sadness that we announce the death of Basil Hiley\, who was to be a presenter at this event. Radical Visions will now be dedicated to his memory.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nJonathan Allday\, Harald Atmanspacher\, John Briggs\, Andrew Fellows\, Isabel Hawkins\, Paul Howard\, Melissa Nelson\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Godelieve Spaas \n\n\n\nVirtually: Àlex Gómez-Marín\, Sakej Henderson\, Leroy Little Bear\, Lee Nichol\, David Schrum \n\n\n\nChaired by: Melissa Nelson \n\n\n\nSee a list of presentations for this event \n\n\n\nTicket Prices\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nPrices include: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe event starts on Friday May 23 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Friday May 30 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nFor the Pari Center’s 25th anniversary we are holding a week-long celebration dedicated to examining the legacy of the two Davids—David Bohm and David Peat. We have gathered a group of presenters from physics\, philosophy\, the Indigenous world\, dialogue\, synchronicity\, Gentle Action\, and the sacred\, who will discuss the life’s work of the two men and how their influence has extended well beyond the confines of physics.  \n\n\n\nThe presenters—former colleagues\, friends\, and scholars—will illuminate the wide-ranging work and interests of the two physicists during their talks\, workshops and roundtable discussions\, and will share their personal stories and anecdotes.   \n\n\n\nWho This Event Is For:This event is open to everyone but especially those who have an interest in: \n\n\n\nWholeness and the Implicate OrderThought and ConsciousnessIndigenous KnowledgeSynchronicity—the Jung/Pauli connection Gentle Action and ethical valuesCreativity and metaphorBohm’s rheosomaThe Lives of the Two Davids \n\n\n\nIncluded are two special evenings with the outdoor screening of Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm and Quantum Convergence with filmmaker Paul Howard. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was the maverick physicist who proposed an alternative approach to the conventional version of quantum theory\, as well as suggesting that a new Implicate Order lay behind what could be thought of as our surface perception of reality. But Bohm’s ideas extended well beyond theoretical physics and included reflections on the nature of creativity and the order of society and the individual. The presenters we have gathered will also look at the personal life of David Bohm\, his relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer\, his encounter with the House Un-American Activities and his subsequent exile to Brazil; his friendship with Krishnamurti which led to a series of discussions between the two men and is considered one of the most important encounters of his life; the dialogue process he proposed which he felt could bring about a transformation in the individual and society; and his crucial meeting with the indigenous people of North America at the end of his life. \n\n\n\nF. David Peat was a researcher in theoretical physics when he opted to take a life-changing sabbatical year with David Bohm at Birkbeck College\, University of London. From that time on he was profoundly influenced by the work of David Bohm\, their relationship deepened\, and the Peat and Bohm families became friends. This led to Bohm and Peat’s Science\, Order and Creativity and Peat eventually writing the biography of Bohm Infinite Potential. Peat also wrote more than 20 books and numerous essays on a wide range of topics. In 2000 he founded the Pari Center as a congenial location where people can meet to think\, learn and explore while advancing the integration of knowledge\, the arts\, science\, ethical values\, community and spirituality within the ambience of a medieval village. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nDavid Bohm’s Physicswith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe Role of the Unknowable and The Universe as a Work of Artwith John Briggs \n\n\n\nJoined up thinking… and why it matterswith Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nBohm’s Gift of Somawith Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n25 years with the Davidswith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nTimes with David Peat and David Bohm; and Bohm’s Journey into Subtle Mindwith David Schrum \n\n\n\nSmall Things Making Big Differenceswith Godelieve Spaas \n\n\n\nMany Faces of Synchronicitywith Harald Atmanspacher \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm and his wife\, Sarah\n\n\n\nDAVID BOHM has been described as one of the most significant and original thinkers of the twentieth century whose interests and influence extend well beyond the fields of physics to include philosophy\, psychology\, language\, religion\, art\, dialogue\, thought and education. Underlying his innovative approach to these many different disciplines was the fundamental idea that beyond the visible\, tangible world there lies a deeper\, implicate order of undivided wholeness. \n\n\n\nAs a physicist Bohm’s radical theories challenged the orthodox Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory and in its place made the alternative proposal of Hidden Variables\, as well as his later developments of the Quantum Potential. He was also an explorer of mind and consciousness\, language\, perception\, creativity and dialogue. He had close relationships with the Indian teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti and\, later in life\, the Dalai Lama\, who called him his ‘science guru.’ In the 1960s\, he exchanged four thousand pages of correspondence with the American abstract artist Charles Biederman that discussed the nature of the creative process and questions of order\, perception and consciousness. In the final year of his life\, he was invited to join a circle of Native American elders and Western scientists. This meeting was of great significance for Bohm. As he listened to the First Nations’ participants describing their strongly verb-based Algonkian family of languages\, he recognized that here was a society that practiced what he had envisioned for his ‘rheomode’—a hypothetical verb-based language. He was also struck by their process-based worldview of constant flux and change whose metaphysics strongly mirrored his own. \n\n\n\nFinding Cartesian duality limited\, he believed that the same principles which underlie the behaviour of matter also operate in the realms of consciousness\, society and culture. In 1980 he published his seminal work Wholeness and the Implicate Order in which he suggested that all the phenomena that appear in the world—whether fundamental particles or thoughts in the mind—emerge out of a deeper order of reality\, their character varying according to the context. At its deepest level\, he maintained\, reality is an ‘unbroken whole\,’ and he made this the basis of his work in every sphere. In later life he felt that transformation in society could be brought about by dialogue and today Bohmian dialogues are held throughout the world. \n\n\n\nF. David Peat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nF. DAVID PEAT was a theoretical physicist\, writer\, and teacher who founded the Pari Center in 2000. He wrote more than 20 books on such diverse topics as quantum physics\, synchronicity\, superstrings\, artificial intelligence\, film and reality\, creativity\, chaos theory\, indigenous knowledge\, and his original concepts of Gentle Action and Creative Suspension\, a new form of intelligent\, compassionate and mild action that flows from the entire field of meaning in which a particular individual\, society or organization is a part. His books have been translated into 24 languages and his numerous essays and articles are freely available in the online library on the Pari Center website. \n\n\n\nHe was a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada when he spent a sabbatical year\, 1971-72 with David Bohm at Birkbeck College\, University of London. Thereafter his research focused on the foundations of quantum theory and a non-unitary approach to the quantum measurement problem. Bohm and Peat became friends and colleagues and eventually co-authored the book Science\, Order and Creativity and were working on a second book\, The Order Between and Beyond\, at the time of Bohm’s death. \n\n\n\nPeat continued to promote the work of David Bohm in seminars and courses at the Pari Center and in his writings. In 1997 he published the biography Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm and subsequently worked hard to obtain funding for a film based on the biography. In 2020 with the generous sponsorship of the Fetzer Foundation the film\, Infinite Potential: The Life and Work of David Bohm\, was brought to fruition by Paul Howard and Imagine Films of Dublin. Peat did not live to see its release\, but he is acknowledged as the co-writer of the script and the film is dedicated to him. \n\n\n\nWhile living in Canada\, Peat organized discussion circles between Western scientists and Native American Elders to which David Bohm was invited. While living in London he spent much of his time talking to artists and psychologists and organized a conference between artists and scientists which was instrumental in his founding of the Pari Center. The Center\, housed in a medieval village in Tuscany\, fosters an interdisciplinary approach linking science\, arts\, ethics\, community and the sacred. \n\n\n\nPeat was adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science\, Fellow of the International Futures Forum\, Distinguished Fellow at the University of South Africa\, and a corresponding Member of the European Academy of Arts\, Science and the Humanities. David Peat died in Pari in 2017 and is buried in the village cemetery. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:Consciousness 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Science of Consciousness Series \n\n\n\n\nConsciousness 2.0 \n\n\n\nSeeing the theoretical forest for the empirical trees \n\n\n\nPari\, ItalyJune 3-10\, 2025 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are living a profound moment of transformation that is happening within the field of consciousness studies\, drawing an intriguing parallel to the revolutions that occurred in physics a century ago.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nJessica Bockler\, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens\, Robert Lawrence-Kuhn (virtually)\, Lucia Melloni\, Kehlan Morgan\, Liad Mudrik\, Koncha Pinos \n\n\n\nChaired and curated by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nSee a list of presentations for this event. \n\n\n\nTicket Prices\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nPrices include: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe event starts on Tuesday June 3 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Tuesday June 10. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nModern Physics\, a Century Ago \n\n\n\nIn the early 20th century\, modern physics underwent a revolutionary transformation with the advent of quantum mechanics and relativity. The established\, classical Newtonian worldview\, which had dominated for centuries\, began to unravel in the face of new experimental evidence. This was a time of great upheaval—scientists like Albert Einstein\, Niels Bohr\, Werner Heisenberg\, and others pushed the boundaries of human understanding\, introducing concepts that defied common sense (challenging the very ideas of space\, time\, causality\, locality and objective reality) and our everyday experience of reality.  \n\n\n\nSuch revolutions were not just a series of empirical discoveries; they entailed a meta-theoretical shift that opened the door to new kinds of experience and understanding. In the process\, physicists had to embrace a new way of thinking—one that was less about absolute certainties and more about probabilities\, perspectives\, and the complex nature of reality itself. These developments are often referred to as the ‘foundations of modern physics\,’ and they marked the dawn of an entirely new era in science. \n\n\n\nConsciousness Studies: the Next Revolution? \n\n\n\nToday\, consciousness studies seems to be undergoing a similar upheaval\, though the field is in some ways even more complex because it deals directly with subjective experience. We are grappling not just with theories of the physical world\, but with the nature of awareness itself\, the qualities that make us experience the world\, perceive it\, and reflect on it. \n\n\n\nIn many ways\, consciousness studies has been constrained by our inability to bridge the gap between subjective experience (the ‘what it is like’ aspect of consciousness) and objective scientific analysis. Theories of consciousness range from materialist metaphors\, models\, and metaphysics\, which claim that consciousness arises solely from brain activity\, to more radical proposals like panpsychism\, which suggests that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe itself. Within this spectrum\, there are competing schools of thought\, such as cognitive science\, quantum consciousness theories\, integrated information theory (IIT)\, and various forms of phenomenology and philosophy of mind. \n\n\n\nLike physics in the early 20th century\, we find ourselves in a moment where the old paradigms are increasingly inadequate to explain the full scope of consciousness. Traditional\, reductionist models of mind and brain are being challenged by new\, more complex theories that attempt to account for the mystery of subjective experience—something that is elusive to scientific observation and analysis. And just as physicists had to grapple with the unsettling nature of quantum mechanics and relativity\, those of us in consciousness studies must contend with the disorienting\, mysterious quality of conscious experience itself. \n\n\n\nThe Challenge: Empirical Trees and Theoretical Forests \n\n\n\nDespite the progress being made\, a crucial issue remains: many of us within the field of consciousness studies remain attached to particular theories\, often to the point of dogma\, which can limit our capacity to integrate the vast range of data available to us. Some scientists and philosophers stubbornly cling to reductive models\, insisting that consciousness will eventually be fully explained by neuroscience. Others\, meanwhile\, explore more speculative or metaphysical theories\, sometimes neglecting the empirical rigor that has characterized the most successful scientific endeavors. As much as pluralism is welcome (even necessary)\, the divide between these camps can lead to confusion\, fragmentation\, and a lack of consensus\, leaving us stuck in a kind of theoretical paralysis. \n\n\n\nThis is where the ‘reckoning’ comes in—the realization that we must move beyond entrenched positions and truly confront the complexity of consciousness. It is not enough to insist on a particular theory or model; we need to develop a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws on insights from neuroscience\, psychology\, philosophy\, phenomenology\, physics\, and even the arts. It is time to seek integration and synthesis\, embracing diversity while avoiding division. \n\n\n\nA Science of Experience for the 21st Century \n\n\n\nWhat would such integration look like? First\, it means acknowledging that consciousness is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that cannot be fully captured by any single theory or discipline. Like the revolution in physics a century ago\, we need a new language—a more inclusive\, flexible framework that can accommodate the diversity of human experience and the complexities of the systems that give rise to it. \n\n\n\nIn practical terms\, this could involve greater collaboration between neuroscientists and philosophers of mind\, or the incorporation of phenomenological insights into experimental design. New methodologies—such as neurophenomenology—are already emerging\, which attempt to correlate subjective experience with objective neural data\, creating a bridge between ‘what it’s like’ and the brain processes that underlie it. But this will require the humility to accept that the very nature of experience may defy the kind of reductionist models that have so often dominated science. We must also be open to the possibility that the field of consciousness studies\, like physics\, may require new tools\, new conceptual frameworks\, or even a new understanding of reality itself to truly understand the nature of experience. \n\n\n\nThis means cultivating an openness to mystery—something we may have lost sight of in the quest for certainty. Unlike the hard\, measurable phenomena of physics\, consciousness resists being neatly packaged or fully explained by any one theory. However\, that does not mean we should shy away from the challenge; rather\, it invites us to deepen our inquiry and embrace the richness of experience. \n\n\n\nThe Road Ahead \n\n\n\nThe ‘reckoning’ that is needed in consciousness studies is one of intellectual humility\, bold exploration\, and interdisciplinary collaboration. It is about transcending the boundaries that currently divide us—amongst the different ‘isms\,’ between objective and subjective\, between science and spirit—and creating a field that acknowledges the complexity of human consciousness while embracing rigorous\, empirical methods. \n\n\n\nIf we can do that\, we may be poised to uncover insights about the nature of experience that are as transformative for the 21st century as the breakthroughs in physics were for the 20th century. The key will be to approach consciousness not merely as a set of theories or data points but as a profound mystery that we can experience\, reflect upon\, and\, in time\, understand in new ways. \n\n\n\nConsciousness for Real \n\n\n\nFinally\, to move beyond ‘mere’ theoretical models and into the realm of ‘consciousness for real\,’ we must make the study of consciousness not just an intellectual pursuit but a lived experience that anyone can access\, explore\, and understand. This means creating bridges between abstract theories and the concrete\, everyday experiences that shape our lives. The technologies and methodologies emerging in neuroscience\, psychology\, and even virtual reality offer exciting new ways to immerse ourselves in the study of consciousness. But these must be grounded in real\, subjective experiences—whether through meditative practices\, altered states of awareness\, or simply cultivating our attention and perception while walking in the forest—that allow individuals to directly engage with the mysteries of their own minds.  \n\n\n\nThe field of consciousness must find ways to make its insights accessible to the public\, so that consciousness is not something relegated to academic debate or laboratory experiments\, but a tangible and transformative aspect of our collective human experience. This ‘consciousness for real’ approach has the potential to democratize the study of mind\, allowing all of us to participate in the unfolding revolution\, fostering a deeper understanding of what it means to be conscious\, and ultimately helping us harness the profound potential of awareness in our everyday lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nThe Science of Beauty: How Art Generates\, Expands and Alters Consciousness. Neuroaestheticwith Koncha Pinos \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/consciousness-2-0/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Gentle Action 2025
DESCRIPTION:Gentle Action 2025 \n\n\n\nA Gathering of Shared Experience \n\n\n\nPari\, ItalyJune 12-19\, 2025 \n\n\n\n25 years at the Pari Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicket Prices\n\n\n\n950.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee served with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials.\n\n\n\n\nThe event starts on Thursday June 12 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Thursday June 19  after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the event\n\n\n\nA weeklong interaction through dialogue at the Pari Center based on F. David Peat’s concept of Gentle Action. \n\n\n\n\nOut beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing\, there is a field and I will meet you there. Rumi \n\n\n\n\nOn Gentle Action \n\n\n\n\nUndoubtedly\, we are faced by problems of great complexity. The environment\, society and even life on earth\, is under threat and\, as a result\, the human race is struggling with feelings of anger\, frustration and helplessness. Something\, we urge\, must be done; some action must be taken. Tomorrow\, we sense\, will be too late. Yet it is these very feelings and reactions that have become part of the problem. The urge to change and control\, to analyze\, priorize\, plan and act are all aspects of the same pattern that\, in the first place\, drove us to the edge of this crisis. What is needed is a radical change in human consciousness\, in organizations and governments\, if we are to survive into the second half of the 21st century. This I have called Gentle Action. F. David Peat \n\n\n\n\nOn Dialogue \n\n\n\n\nIn our modern culture men and women are able to interact with one another in many ways: they can sing\, dance or play together with little difficulty but their ability to talk together about subjects that matter deeply to them seems invariably to lead to dispute\, division and often to violence. This condition points to a deep and pervasive defect in the process of human thought. Because the nature of Dialogue is exploratory\, its meaning and its methods continue to unfold. No firm rules can be laid down for conducting a Dialogue because its essence is learning—not as the result of consuming a body of information or doctrine imparted by an authority\, nor as a means of examining or criticizing a particular theory or programme\, but rather as part of an unfolding process of creative participation between peers. David Bohm \n\n\n\n\nEmbracing the present and choosing to act more gently\, allows insights and interconnections to emerge and bubble up in a natural manner. Such moments are often accompanied by experiences of openness\, trust\, joy\, and a childlike sense of wonder. In the beautiful and peaceful setting of a medieval village\, participants in our Gentle Action gathering will have ample opportunities to connect with nature\, their fellow dialoguers\, and—perhaps most importantly—themselves. Experience the power of dialogue\, creative suspension\, and active listening in an open and supportive atmosphere. \n\n\n\nDuring out Gentle Action Gathering\, participants are encouraged to explore the village and its surroundings. We will meet in the newly renovated palazzo for our dialogues which will include sessions with the whole group as well as participating in smaller groups. A variety of activities will be offered which might include taking part in a yoga class\, exploring the wisdom of Tarot or I Ching\, creating a mandala\, walking in the countryside\, visiting the local hot springs—or just relaxing with an espresso in Pari’s piazza. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a week of living in Pari—the alchemical vessel where transformations take place. Practice living in the moment for the moment\, while acting and speaking in more gentle ways. \n\n\n\nOur Story\n\n\n\nSeveral years ago\, a small group of us were sitting outside the bar in Pari\, Italy when the idea came up to bring a group of very open-minded people together for a gathering without any agenda\, topic\, intention\, or specific purpose.  \n\n\n\nAfter leaving Pari\, we continued to meet monthly through an online Zoom dialogue\, where our small group of three individuals gradually grew in a most organic manner. More than a year of online meetings led to our first Gentle Action Gathering back at Pari in September of 2022.  \n\n\n\nOur original group of Jena\, Manfred\, and Tom\, who hail from New York\, Germany\, and Ireland has gradually grown into a thriving community. Members of our online community have traveled from throughout the world to meet one another in person. Similarly\, new participants who meet during our in-person Gentle Action Gatherings\, frequently wish to stay in touch through our online dialogues.  \n\n\n\nOver the course of time we have come to discover that we have much to share with one another. Somewhat paradoxically\, many of us believe that this is due to—rather than despite—our differing backgrounds. Throughout our interactions\, we have also found that we have much in common. Perhaps most importantly\, we all share a genuine interest in one another’s perspectives on the world\, reminiscent of Rumi’s quote:  \n\n\n\n\nOut beyond the ideas of right and wrong\, there is a field. I will meet you there. \n\n\n\n\nThis June we have chosen to meet once again in Pari\, Italy. The medieval village of Pari\, nestled in the Tuscan landscape\, provides the perfect backdrop for new insights and explorations. During our Gentle Action Gatherings\, participants are largely free to roam around as they please. They can meet in the newly renovated palazzo\, take part in a yoga class\, explore the area’s hot springs\, or just sit down to have an espresso at the charming and peaceful square. Many find that leaving their daily routine behind and setting aside the expectations of the outer world allows them to reconnect with their innermost nature.  \n\n\n\nTaking the time to communicate and interact in the moment\, for the moment\, provides a unique opportunity to engage with the world in a much more playful manner—deepening the participants’ relationships with themselves\, others\, and the world around them.  \n\n\n\nMany participants notice that an almost childlike curiosity tends to emerge\, unforced and unbidden\, ‘beyond the ideas of right and wrong’ allowing them to experience the innate beauty of the present moment.  \n\n\n\nMore than anything\, our gatherings have given us a deep sense of connection and friendships that endure beyond the limits of time and space.  \n\n\n\nThis June we get to come home again. It would be wonderful if you could join us. \n\n\n\nJena\, Lisa\, Manfred\, Michael\, Todd\, and Tom  \n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES\n\n\n\nManfredBased on the ideas of David Bohm’s Dialogue\, we had dialogues that included all the participants and in groups of four to five people. People sat in a circle with a talking stone in the middle. A person talks only when she or he has taken the talking stone. All others listen deeply without interruption. This gives the speaker the freedom to talk as long as they want\, but at the same time to take the responsibility to stop when it is appropriate for the group. I’ve participated in this kind of dialogue for more than twenty years\, but in this Gathering there was from the beginning an attitude which I had never experienced before. The level of sensitivity was so high that most of the time a talking stone was not necessary.  \n\n\n\nTimThe depth of integrated experience\, wisdom and special talents of our lovely group became increasingly clear. There were moments of true Alchemy which were enduring\, fruitful and uplifting. Love\, generosity of spirit\, deep listening\, laughter\, and pain became manifest. Five words coalesced for me: PRESENCE\, OPEN-NESS\, COMMUNION\, INTENTION\, ACCEPTANCE. Eternal thanks to you all. \n\n\n\nTomOur get together of many people and nationalities in Pari was a joy. There are many positives to our Western ways\, but deep human alienation is a price we often pay. I think in Pari we paid homage to Martin Buber’s great insight: I and Thou. In harmony with you…beyond our egos…we get glimpses of deeper truths. \n\n\n\nArturIt is always very difficult to describe a rich experience that impacts many different dimensions of Being. First of all because any kind of description will always be unfair\, incomplete\, and inaccurate…  With that in mind\, the experience was extremely rich in connections with incredible people who were available to open up\, exchange and think together without the obligation to agree or have to appear intelligent\, smart or sophisticated to the Other.  Being present and simply letting your Presence happen in the way the Soul chose was what touched me the most.  \n\n\n\nCiara Some thoughts\, but no words can really convey what it meant to me. There was something about the implicit nature to the information about the Gathering\, an invitation\, a Gentle one at that. It created a hope in me that this might be a gathering that would allow the time and space needed for truth (in all its complex beauty) to emerge. It was that and more. I am both changed and restored by the deep relationships that formed over the week. Relationships with each other\, with place\, with reality and with a way of being I thought had got lost in the noise of modern life. Eternally grateful\, Ciara  \n\n\n\nDaniela When I go to events\, I often feel overstimulated and\, in the end\, flooded with information—often welcome or sought out deliberately—but when I go home\, I carry with me too much data to handle. Such a relief to find a place\, where something new can emerge merely by people sharing time together and being in dialogue. In the Gentle Gathering I have found a co-creative place of exploration where genuinely new ideas can come into the world just because they want to and there are people who are present with them. \n\n\n\nJenaI don’t think I’ve ever seen a group coalesce so quickly into respectful dialogue; I’ve never seen a dialogue group begin with so few rules and definitions on what dialogue is. That may not exactly be a paradox but feels a bit like a Zen koan to me at the moment. \n\n\n\nAngelicaI felt connected and present. I could be who I am\, not trying to fit in\, and yet felt that I was very welcome and appreciated. That gave me an inner space to go deeper into myself and understand more about me\, without being taught or lectured to. The experience of love among participants was spectacular and that gave me confidence about a worldview I carry with me\, which is: we are all loving humans who can express that love\, be that love\, be conscious and connect with consciousness\, given the circumstances for that. \n\n\n\nAlistairMy first response is that of gratitude. Firstly\, to the six of you who have carried the flame and brought it to this point so others could share your dream. Thank you for drawing us in. It felt like sacred ground. And gratitude to all of you who were there. I gained so much from so many. In the dialogues\, over meals\, late at night after one more bottle of wine. Long conversations\, snatches of insight\, pithy one liners and stories\, overheard conversations\, moments of gracious input into my life\, observing your ways of being\, I absorbed so much. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025: The Living Mountain
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2025 (1 of 3): The Living Mountain \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday\, July 12 and 13\, 20259:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  \n\n\n\n2 two-hour sessions. \n\n\n\nThe session is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAround 1937 Scot author Nan Shepherd placed a finished manuscript in a drawer\, where it sat for 40 years. Finally published in 1977 – four years before Shepherd’s death – The Living Mountain now has a cult following\, and is considered a masterpiece that defies categorization. Though topically an account of Shepherd’s decades-long roamings in the Cairngorm massif of northern Scotland\, the heart of The Living Mountain carries the reader deep within Shepherd’s experience\, revealing ways of being that are at once place-specific and universal. She opens the reader to the forces and patterns of creation\, and the manner in which these forces interpenetrate human consciousness and imagination. \n\n\n\nIn this two-day session\, we will explore Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain\, as well as her slim volume of poetry\, In the Cairngorms. The first day will consist of brief selected readings\, with close examination and commentary on Shepherd’s intimate and evocative “way” of being with the mountain. We will also hear first-person accounts from people who\, inspired by The Living Mountain\, ventured forth and found their own “way” into the Cairngorms. \n\n\n\nAnd yet… Much of the potency in Shepherd’s writing is that it is in no way limited to the Cairngorms. Once one has been infected with the spirit of engagement brought forth by Shepherd\, that quality can be brought to bear anywhere – in a park\, at the sea\, in one’s own back yard. To that end\, our second day will consist of contributions from audience-participants – a mutual sharing of experiences in which the depths of the human meet the depths of the natural world. This may take multiple forms – first-hand description of one’s own experiences in the natural world; reading to our Zoom group short passages from other writers or further readings of Shepherd; photographs of potent or numinous locations; any other means of conveying to the group the mystery\, beauty\, and even terror that can be encountered in the domain of nature. Our aim on this second day is to give full voice to the Pari community regarding the deep human need for conscious connection with stone and sun\, wind and tree\, bird and brook\, sea and stars. Please join us! \n\n\n\nPossible reading (helpful\, not required): \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/19/the-living-mountain-nan-shepherd/ (short journal article on Shepherd)\n\n\n\nThe Living Mountain\, Nan Shepherd (basis for this weekend’s sessions)\n\n\n\nIn the Cairngorms\, Nan Shepherd (basis for this weekend’s sessions)\n\n\n\nThe Hidden Fires\, Merryn Glover (excellent commentary on Shepherd)\n\n\n\nStory About Feeling\, Bill Niedje (complementary perspective from Aboriginal elder)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasseslive art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally\, including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. She is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing) and a founding member of the Pari Holoflux group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria Hvidbak’s formal educational background encompasses a mix of architecture\, business psychology\, philosophical inter-viewing and existential-phenomenological psychotherapy. While not settling with any professional title or given field of study\, Maria is engaged with questions pertaining to “communication\,” as understood according to its etymological root sense of “moving together.” Increasingly inspired by what is commonly recognized as an attitude of the artist\, seeking into subtleties of philosophy and sports as well as experimenting with creative expressions…all become modes of exploring what can possibly be “moved together” with.  \n\n\n\nMaria is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing) and a founding member of the Pari Holoflux group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Marks was one of the founding trustees of Prison Dialogue\, and involved for its 25 year experiment. This dialogue process in the criminal justice system (CJS) attempted to get the CJS to talk to itself and thereby humanize the overall system. The work was applied primarily in the UK\, but also had outreach in the US. He has spent many years – and continues proudly working with – a number of “woke” funding organizations: human rights; economic justice; peace and conflict resolution. Chris lives in Edinburgh\, loves tai chi and real tennis. He is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. As a freelance writer and editor his latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and Holoflux: Codex (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California\, and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. He lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Introduction to Bohm’s physics
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Bohm’s physics \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday August 29:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm’s work in physics spanned a range of areas and interests\, but he always came back to the foundations of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nWhile his 1952 hidden variables papers were not really about hidden variables (it’s in quotes in the paper tiles)\, they did start a direction of travel that he periodically revisited. The quantum potential offered a new way of illustrating the profound differences between classical and quantum physics as well as a means of exploring Bohm’s vision of underlying wholeness. \n\n\n\nThe 1952 papers also profoundly influenced John Bell\, who took up Bohm’s reworking of one of Einstein’s thought experiments to explore the nature of entanglement experimentally. That line led to the 2022 Nobel Prize. Without going into too much technical detail\, I will explain the underlying physics of the 1952 papers\, Bell’s theorem and its relationship to locality and entanglement\, and will work up to the advances Basil Hiley was making right up to his death. \n\n\n\nWe might even mention the Aharonov-Bohm effect and how weird that is… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
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SUMMARY:Bringing Meaning Back to Life
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience\, Arts\, and the Sacred Series \n\n\n\n\nBringing Meaning Back to Life \n\n\n\nPari\, ItalySeptember 2-9\, 2025 \n\n\n\n25 years at the Pari Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience has largely displaced religious accounts of our existence. But it can make both life and death seem virtually meaningless. Religion does not\, suggesting there is a necessary opposition between them. We will move beyond that to look at how spiritual traditions\, the sciences and the arts provide complementary ways of celebrating life and accepting death as parts of living authentically. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nBernard Carr\, Ya’Acov Darling-Khan\, Jeff Dunne\, Suzanne Gieser\, Parul Jani\, Shoaib Malik\, Therese Schroeder-Sheker (virtually)\, Nick Spencer.List of the presentations. \n\n\n\nChaired and curated by: John Pickering \n\n\n\nTicket Prices\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nPrices include: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe event starts on Tuesday September 2 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Tuesday September 9. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nIf the time it took for life to evolve on earth were a day\, human beings wouldn’t appear until fifty seconds before midnight. Evolutionarily speaking we’re instantaneous. \n\n\n\nBut in that instant science has achieved a deep understanding of the world and the technology it has made possible has greatly enhanced our lives. So much so that in last few centuries science has replaced religion as the framework for our existence. \n\n\n\nBut that understanding comes with costs. One is the ecological damage that is the darker side-effect of technology. Another\, less apparent but just as damaging\, is that with the loss of a religious framework\, life\, and therefore death as well\, may have come to seem virtually meaningless. \n\n\n\nC.G. Jung said: ‘Man cannot stand a meaningless life.’ Iain McGilchrist seems to agree: ‘Death is not the opposite of life but its fulfilment. The opposite of life is the machine.’ Like David Bohm and David Peat\, McGilchrist rejects the idea that science requires us to conceive of the cosmos\, and ourselves\, as nothing but mechanisms. \n\n\n\nBut science is in any case changing\, as it always has. Classical mechanistic materialism has been left behind\, but quite what is to replace it is unclear. Religion is perhaps less apt to change\, but Whitehead said ‘Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.’ \n\n\n\nWe are moving on from the idea that there’s a necessary opposition between science and religion. This year’s meeting in Pari will be part of that move. It will look at how spiritual traditions\, the sciences and the arts offer ways to celebrate life and accept death as complementary parts of living authentically. \n\n\n\nIt will bring together speakers from the sciences\, arts\, faiths and healing traditions to create an open dialogue and supportive experience in which all can participate. We’ll explore the leading edge of quantum physics\, examine the relationship of science to Christianity\, Islam and Vedanta. We’ll also hear speakers on how Shamanism\, music and ritual have and continue to have a role in facing the end of our lives. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a great range of disciplines\, approaches\, and sensibilities to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and origin of human experience\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such wonderful mysteries hidden in plain sight into a coherent evolutionary understanding. You are cordially invited to join us. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nThe Soul of the Cosmos and the Hierarchy of Life and Deathwith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nBenevolent Death: A Teacher for the Livingwith Ya’Acov Darling-Khan \n\n\n\nSyntropy:  A Scientific Expression of Purpose in Life and Beyond Deathwith Jeffrey Dunne \n\n\n\nHealing the Split: How Can Science and Spirituality Join Forces?with Suzanne Gieser \n\n\n\nBeyond: Beyond the Limits of the Mindwith Parul Jani \n\n\n\nDaring to Believe and Question: Theological Anthropology in an Age of Sciencewith Shoaib Ahmed Malik \n\n\n\nScience\, Religion and Human Identitywith Nick Spencer \n\n\n\nDying and Becoming as Meaning and Metamorphosiswith Therese Schroeder-Sheker \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:Mind\, Matter and Meaning: A Jubileum
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Matter and Meaning: A Jubileum \n\n\n\nOctober 2-6\, 2025Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Schedule\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 2 \n\n\n\n16:00-16:30 Welcome/Introductions \n\n\n\n16:30-19:00 Symposium 1 \n\n\n\n\n16:30 Oliver Sharpe: “Portfolism – Reasoning well given the logical limits of rationality”\n\n\n\n17:30 Berkan Eskikaya: “Before it’s gone: Fragility as a Precondition for Consciousness\, Meaning\, and Value”\n\n\n\n18:30 General discussion: Reason and Living well\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 3 \n\n\n\n09:30-13:00  Symposium 2 \n\n\n\n\n09:30 Paavo Pylkkänen: “Bohm’s pilot wave theory and its philosophical implications”\n\n\n\n10:30 General discussion: Science and philosophy\n\n\n\n11:00 coffee\n\n\n\n11:30 Uziel Awret: “Consciousness and the AdS/CFT Duality”\n\n\n\n12:30 General discussion: Physics and consciousness\n\n\n\n\n15:00-18:00     Symposium 3 \n\n\n\n\n15:00 Vinod Goel: “Biological Constraints on the Rational Mind”\n\n\n\n16:00 coffee\n\n\n\n16:30 Ron Chrisley: “Creativity as Non-Conceptual Conceptual Change”\n\n\n\n17:30 General discussion: Beyond the Rational/Conceptual Mind\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 4 \n\n\n\n09:30-13:00     Symposium 4 \n\n\n\n\n09:30 John Polito: “How to perceive BS with AI (It’s not what you’re thinking\, it’s what your hearing)”\n\n\n\n10:30 Avery Wang: TBA\n\n\n\n11:30 coffee\n\n\n\n12:00 Barney Pell: TBA\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 5 \n\n\n\n09:30-13:00     Symposium 5 \n\n\n\n\n09:30 Yair Pinto: “Conscious comprehension enables non-algorithmic capabilities.”\n\n\n\n10:30 Mark Kennedy: TBA\n\n\n\n11:30 coffee\n\n\n\n12:00 Ron Chrisley: “Adventures in Self-Reference 1: Epistemic Blindspots”\n\n\n\n\n15:00-18:00     Symposium 6 \n\n\n\n\n15:00 Ewan Paton: “Must Judges Be Human?”\n\n\n\n16:00 coffee\n\n\n\n16:30 Brian Keeley: “The weird epistemology of conspiracy theories.”\n\n\n\n17:30 General discussion: Reckoning & Judgement\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, October 6 \n\n\n\n09:30-13:00     Symposium 7 \n\n\n\n\n09:30 Ron Chrisley: “Adventures in Self-Reference 2: The Situatedness of Computation and Inference”\n\n\n\n10:30 TBA (possibly Vinod Goel?)\n\n\n\n11:30 coffee\n\n\n\n12:00 General discussion: Moving Forward\n\n\n\n12:30 Closing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nUziel Awret \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Consciousness and the AdS/CFT Duality” \n\n\n\nIn my talk I will try and convince you that were the neural correlates of consciousness shown to be massively entangled then consciousness might be an exotic phase of matter that is constituted similarly to space. Physicists like Juan Maldacena believe that in the not so far future we will be able to use quantum computers to generate AdS spaces with a couple of thousands of properly entangled qubits. These spaces\, which are a solution of Einstein’s gravitational equation\, are more classical in nature and possess many philosophically relevant properties. \n\n\n\nI will begin the talk with methodological issues relevant to any theory of consciousness that appeals to novel physical mechanisms and proceed to motivate my argument. Next I will say a few words on massively entangled systems that harbor interspersed local measuring devices and the new Frontier of quantum complexity. While the physical scenario that I will be entertaining may have little to do with reality (after all it assumes large scale entanglement in the warm brain and embraces a radical interpretation of the holographic duality) it is worth considering because of the many philosophical advantages that it provides\, if time permits\, I will list more than twenty such philosophical advantages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRon Chrisley \n\n\n\nPresentations: \n\n\n\nI will give some or all of the following talks: \n\n\n\n\n“Creativity as Non-Conceptual Conceptual Change”\n\nMuch of our mental life is non-conceptual (roughly\, composed of meanings not capturable in words). This poses a challenge for our sciences and technologies of the mind\, but also promises several opportunities. The challenge is how to talk and theorize about these otherwise ineffable non-conceptual contents. The opportunities derive from the role that non-conceptuality plays in our mental lives: grounding perception\, action on the one hand\, and providing the medium for radical learning and creativity on the other. How can the proper recognition and understanding of the role of the non-conceptual inform the design of better AI systems?\n\n\n\n(This talk of mine from almost 20 years ago introduces some of the key ideas: https://e-asterisk.blogspot.com/2007/08/interactive-empiricism-philosopher-in_06.html )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Adventures in Self-Reference 1: Epistemic Blindspots”\n\n“It’s raining\, but George doesn’t know it” is an example of an epistemic blindspot for George: it can be true\, it can be known (e.g. by Ron)\, but it is logically impossible for George to know it. Each knower has an unbounded number epistemic blindspots. I show:\n\n(Following Sorensen) how conditional epistemic blindspots can be used to resolve paradoxes (e.g.\, the paradox of the surprise examination);\n\n\n\nHow epistemic blindspots can be used to defeat a famous argument against physicalism\, Jackson’s Knowledge Argument;\n\n\n\nThat physical knowledge can be logically private and ineffable knowledge;\n\n\n\nThat the mere possibility of epistemic blindspots implies that for any knowledge-based system (natural or artificial) to track the truth it must not only check for logical consistency (as is well known)\, but must also check for what I call epistemic consistency.\n\n\n\n\n\n(This talk of mine from almost 20 years ago introduces some of the key ideas: https://e-asterisk.blogspot.com/2006/07/epistemic-blindspot-sets-resolution-of.html)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Adventures in Self-Reference 2: The Situatedness of Computation and Inference”\n\nComputation and inference are both situated in the sense that they occur in a particular context; specifically\, there is a particular system carrying out the computation\, and a particular subject engaging in the inference at a particular time.  The upshot of this is that general accounts of what is and what is not computable\, or what inferences are or are not valid\, must\, contrary to orthodoxy\, pay attention to these contextual details. I demonstrate this by showing:\n\nOne cannot capture inferential validity purely syntactically: the argument “P; P->Q; Therefore Q” is not\, despite conventional wisdom\, always valid; to capture validity requires reference to situational aspects\, not just syntactic form.\n\n\n\nThe non-computability of the (non-)Halting Problem by a system is itself dependent on the identity (classification) of that system. One result of this is that the diagonal argument against AI fails.\n\n\n\n\n\n(This talk of mine from last year introduces some of the key ideas concerning the second point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBpUOG7UH8)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerkan Eskikaya \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Before it’s gone: Fragility as a Precondition for Consciousness\, Meaning\, and Value” \n\n\n\nThis talk is a speculative exploration of how fragility and vulnerability are not only essential features of living systems\, but also serve as a lens through which we can shape our understanding of consciousness\, meaning\, and value. Edge cases such as mind–body conditions and ephemeral art are used to probe and stress these ideas — for instance\, do they point to ways fragility can be turned into appreciation or resilience? The aim is to invite dialogue on how fragility\, as a unifying principle\, may connect across domains relevant to consciousness\, AI\, and creativity. \n\n\n\nVinod Goel \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Biological Constraints on the Rational Mind (Discussed in Context of “Us and Them” Phenomenon)” \n\n\n\nWe are widely considered to be the rational animal.  This entails that our volitional behavior is a function of our beliefs\, desires\, and a principle of coherence which guides our pursuit of the latter in the context of the former.  Where human behavior seems less than rational one can appeal to irrationality in the form of various “heuristic” responses. \n\n\n\nAt least two important assumptions underly the model of rationality: (1) Beliefs (and cognitive desires founded on false suppositions) are considered to be malleable/corrigible allowing for unlimited learning and enormous flexibility in behavior at any tme.  (2) The model is self-contained and insulated from lower-level biological systems (for e.g beliefs and desires presumably cannot mingle with low blood sugar level).  I want to suggest that both of these assumptions are flawed.  They ignore basic biological constraints.  In the case of the first assumption\, while neural development does allow for local belief revision at any time\,  revision of large-scale worldviews are rare/impossible after certain neural maturation windows have closed.  In the case of the second\, if we are to accept the theory of evolution and the past 100 years of neurobiology research we must acknowledge that our system of rationality is built on top of and modulated by evolutionarily older systems such as the autonomic system\, reinforcement learning systems\, and instincts.  There is no Libertarian CEO in charge.  The control structure is based on hedonic principles.  This leads to a notion of arational (rather than irrational) behavior.  Accepting these constraints leads to a model of mind tethered to and constrained by  various biological systems and processes and gives us a larger repertoire of tools for explaining teenage daughters\, MAGA\, Brixet\, Ukraine and Gaza.  I will discuss these ideas in the context of the “us and them” phenomenon. \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\n\nBoth assumptions are discussed in the this manuscript entitled “Us And Them: Insights From Evolution\, Neurodevelopment\, And The Tethered Mind” which is currently in review.  (My apologies for the length of the ms but the reviewers keep asking for more details…. but over half of it is bibliography.)\n\n\n\nI have also made a one hour YouTube video for my students about the tethered mind that discusses the problem with the second assumption and my proposed solution.  Here is the link:https://youtu.be/zb2Z7P7CCKg\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Keeley \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“The weird epistemology of conspiracy theories.” \n\n\n\nIn the late ‘90s\, when it looked like nobody wanted to hire a philosopher who studied the neuroscience of electric fish\, I wrote a random paper on the philosophy of conspiracy theories (CTs)\, because almost no one else had. That got published in the Journal of Philosophy\, which got me a job. Then 9/11 happened and lots of people became interested in CTs to the point that there’s now a thriving cottage industry in the academic study of this social and epistemic phenomenon. Since this is not a crowd of conspiracy theory theorists\, I’ll introduce the topic and explain what topics are currently driving me and others who study the current landscape. Please come prepared to discuss and defend the conspiracy theory you most want to believe. \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\nThe opening chapter of political scientist\,  Joe Uscinski’s Conspiracy Theories: A Primer\, 2nd edition\, 2023\, available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17CchevMUC4bBi_OR6zowfeJH5Efk3GwY/view?usp=share_link \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Kennedy \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEwan Paton \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Must Judges Be Human?” \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\n“Algorithms and adjudication” – William Lucy (2024) Jurisprudence\, 15:3\, p251-281 \n\n\n\nFull article: Algorithms and adjudication \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarney Pell \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYair Pinto \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Conscious comprehension enables non-algorithmic capabilities.” \n\n\n\nIn this talk I present an argument against the computational theory of mind. In short\, the argument states that human comprehension plus volition enables capabilities that exceed the capabilities of finite algorithmic systems. I will shortly outline how the current argument is similar to the Lucas-Penrose argument. Moreover\, an empirical research line is deduced from this argument. The first tasks within this research line have recently been finalized. Performance on these tasks of humans\, and of various large language models (Grok\, Claude 4\, o3\, etc.)\, will be discussed. \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: TBA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Polito \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“How to perceive BS with AI. (It’s not what you’re thinking\, it’s what your hearing)” \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\nHere are a couple quick blurbs that might get everyone closer to the topic than my presentation title (which will be explained!). \n\n\n\n\nhttps://leader.pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/leader.FTR1.12042007.6\n\n\n\nhttps://medium.com/@joydesdevises/auditory-perception-understanding-and-applying-its-principles-09c3b2be58b8\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Bohm’s pilot wave theory and its philosophical implications” \n\n\n\nBohm’s pilot wave theory has been one long-term focus of my interaction with Ron\, and he has provided valuable criticisms of it over the years. Assuming that many of the other participants are not familiar with the theory\, I will first present it. I will then move on to discuss its philosophical implications\, hoping to engage in a debate with Ron and others. For philosophers the Bohm theory offers the possibility of a new kind of ‘physicalism’ where information is assumed to be fundamental\, leading to the notion that ‘meaning is a key factor of being’. If this is correct\, it will be valuable to give more attention to the role that meaning plays both in nature and in our lives individually and socially. I will explain what meaning meant for Bohm and look forward to a lively discussion. \n\n\n\nSuggested reading: \n\n\n\nBohm\, D. (1990) A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter\, Philosophical Psychology\, 3:2-3\, 271-286\, DOI: 10.1080/09515089008573004. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T7_BBDPLIQBOT-VPMU7Qlt7uhRV8KH5Z/view?usp=share_link \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOliver Sharpe \n\n\n\nPresentation: \n\n\n\n“Portfolism – Reasoning well given the logical limits of rationality” \n\n\n\nIn the 20th century our rational\, calculative tools showed us their own limits\, from Russel’s paradoxes of set theory; through Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; to the unresolved tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity. With Wittgenstein\, Derrida and others the limits of language also became clear. For some these conclusions painted a hopeless state of affairs from which the very notion of reasoned progress became an impossibility. Others simply ignored or forgot these limits.  \n\n\n\nIn my talk I’ll explain the route through this tension that I’ve been exploring for the last decade\, a framework of ideas I call “portfolism”. It provides a way to understand what we count as good reasoning\, while also holding on to the benefits of our rational tools without ignoring the implications of their own limits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAvery Wang \n\n\n\nTBA
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SUMMARY:An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics \n\n\n\nPresented by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nA semi-serious approach to one of the most important fundamental theories in physics \n\n\n\n10 sessions from October 28 – November 18 \n\n\n\n7 one-hour lectures and 3 sessions of group conversation and Q&A  \n\n\n\n9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is quantum mechanics? \n\n\n\nMore than 100 years ago\, the founding fathers were faced with a series of experimental results that confounded their understanding regarding the nature of reality. Einstein never forgave Nature for doing this to him. Heisenberg had to run away to an island to figure it out. Pauli ended up going to Jung for analysis. \n\n\n\nGradually\, they came to a new understanding—Quantum Mechanics—but in the process\, they had to throw away virtually all of the old physical picture of particles colliding and interacting like tiny billiard balls. Instead\, we now have shifting probability waves existing in an implicate layer of reality and manifesting in explicate results. Our very language and concepts struggle to cope with expressing in words what is clear mathematically. Bohr had to invent a new form of double-think\, complementarity\, to try and ride the paradox: Nature expressing herself in both wave and particle forms\, within the same experiment. \n\n\n\nWhy is it important? \n\n\n\nQuantum mechanics\, and the theories built from its foundations\, is our fundamental theory of matter and forces. It underpins everything we understand about the nature of our universe. In the earliest moments of creation\, fractions of a second into the Big Bang\, quantum theory governed the structure and evolution of our young cosmos. Delicate measurements of the universal ‘heat map’ spread across the sky\, reveal aspects of this quantum driven period. \n\n\n\nAlong with the awe-inspiring beauty and depth of the physics involved\, quantum theory also has profound implications for our technology: from computer chips\, MRI scans\, communications and quantum computers. \n\n\n\nFundamentally\, quantum mechanics is the most radical recasting of the nature of reality that we have ever experienced. The world is far stranger\, and more supple\, than we are led to believe. \n\n\n\nWhy should people have a basic understanding of QM? \n\n\n\nIt seems clear that the rigidly materialistic paradigm is crumbling\, and we don’t yet know what is going to replace it. \n\n\n\nWe’re at a delicate time. On the one hand some of our political masters seek to undermine the expertise and results of the scientific community\, replacing Truth with Story. On the other\, enthusiastic and well-meaning groups working to assemble new paradigm thinking are promoting quantum ideas as a universal panacea for mind\, body\, spirit and anomalous experience. \n\n\n\nWider groups are trying to ride the turbulent waves and look for some understanding they can hold to. In order to steer between rigid scientism on one side and some of the flakier philosophies on the other\, it helps to know a little of what quantum theory is really saying about the world \n\n\n\nWho are our audience? \n\n\n\nHigh school students \n\n\n\nRetirees looking for new areas of interest or wanting to brush up on the latest thinking and developments \n\n\n\nPeople who enjoy reading popular science books and periodicals \n\n\n\nPeople who experienced poor teaching in their science classes at school and would like to start over in their physics education \n\n\n\nPeople who just enjoy learning \n\n\n\nHow do these presentations differ from other online QM series? \n\n\n\nIt’s a no-math introduction—sigh of relief! \n\n\n\nIn addition to the weekly talk with Q&A there will be a weekly ‘conversation bar’ where participants can discuss the ideas of the week with each other and the course presenter\, if available. \n\n\n\nThere will be no keeping away from philosophical issues—the nature of reality is in question here! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJONATHAN ALLDAY took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge\, then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University. For a period\, he worked at the particle physics research centre\, CERN\, but not as a cleaner. \n\n\n\nFor 30 years Jonathan taught physics to high-school students in a range of schools across the UK. In addition\, he ran summer schools for the Open University\, helped devise new physics curricula and a new course in the history and philosophy of science for 16–18-year-olds. For a period\, he was co-editor of Physics Education magazine and has contributed more articles to Physics Review than anyone else in its 35-volume history. \n\n\n\nHe is an author of science textbooks\, has contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists\, and has written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nSession 1: Not even wrong… \n\n\n\nTuesday 28th October \n\n\n\nThe fall of classical physics and the rise of the quantum world. \n\n\n\nAmplitudes/wave functions\, and the probable outcomes of experiments. \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 30th October \n\n\n\nSession 2: Come on everybody\, let’s do the twist… \n\n\n\nSaturday 1st November \n\n\n\nThe mysterious quantum property known as ‘spin’. Particles have it\, photons have it\, but do we really understand what it is? \n\n\n\nSession 3: Spooky action at a distance \n\n\n\nTuesday 4th November \n\n\n\nWhen the left hand implicately knows what the right hand is doing. Einstein’s problem with quantum theory. The work of John Bell and the radical undermining of reductionism. \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 6th November \n\n\n\nSession 4: The Measurement Problem \n\n\n\nSaturday 8th November \n\n\n\nIs quantum theory a 32 regular or a 36 long? Or more seriously… \n\n\n\nWhy does anything happen in the quantum world? The astonishing fact is that quantum theory relies on a mysterious process that is not fully understood and is not present in the standard mathematics. \n\n\n\nSession 5: Interpretations \n\n\n\nTuesday 11th November \n\n\n\nMore than 100 years later\, we still can’t agree what it means. Some people feel that quantum theory can only be understood in the context of many partially overlapping worlds. Others think that there is an unbridgeable and unknowable divide between the classical and quantum worlds. Most just ‘shut up and calculate.’ We\, however\, are made of sterner stuff so we ask the question: ‘What does quantum theory tell us about the nature of reality?’ \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 13th November \n\n\n\nSession 6: Bohm and Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday 15th November \n\n\n\nIn which our heroes seek to replace the traditional approach to quantum theory with something more satisfying\, from an ontological perspective. \n\n\n\nSession 7: Quantum Snake Oil \n\n\n\nTuesday 18th November \n\n\n\nWould you buy a used quantum computer from this man? What are quantum computers? Why are they attracting so much funding and have they been over-promised?
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/an-armchair-guide-to-quantum-mechanics/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung - Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Jung –Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology \n\n\n\nwith Andrew Fellows PhD \n\n\n\nSaturday November 22\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2025\, Session 1 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSynergies between Jungian psychology\, systems dynamics\, Gaia theory\, dual-aspect monism and deep ecology can prepare and guide us to counter the existential threat of the Anthropocene. Moreover\, Jung’s Stages of Life “cradle-to-grave” developmental theory can be scaled up to show that our entire civilisation is in mid-life crisis\, and responding to it with a toxic mix of inertia\, nostalgia and hubris. Instead\, the essential transition from development to individuation at this point in our personal psychology translates into an urgently needed metanoia away from our collective ecocidal behaviour. The consilience that I establish lays the foundations of a radically different worldview—a fundamental shift from anthropocentric inflation to biocentric holism—with which to address global heating\, the sixth mass extinction\, and other unprecedented challenges of our time.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Fellows is a Training Analyst and former Program Director at ISAP Zurich\, independent researcher and author\, and deep ecologist. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics (Dunelm)\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (UK). He enjoyed two decades of international engagement with renewable—especially wind—energy\, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving to train as a Jungian Analyst in Zürich in 2001. His passion draws on his expertise from these two very different careers\, extending Jungian Psychology to address global social and environmental problems. His first book\, Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Routledge\, 2019) was joint winner of the Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. He has lectured around this topic to audiences in Europe (including the Pari Center)\, Asia and the United States. Andrew lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-gaia-psyche-and-deep-ecology/
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SUMMARY:Experiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art
DESCRIPTION:International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present: \n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness: Inner Knowing Through Art \n\n\n\nwith Jeff Dunne \n\n\n\nSunday January 4\, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET \n\n\n\nThis event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nNo background in art is required for this workshop\, only an interest in trying something different in a safe\, welcoming online group setting. \n\n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness\n\n\n\n\nRegister now to reserve your place! \n\n\n\nAs 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! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: 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. \n\n\n\nYou 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/experiencing-consciousness-inner-knowing-through-art/
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SUMMARY:Experiencing Consciousness: Remote Viewing
DESCRIPTION:International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present: \n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness: Remote Viewing \n\n\n\nwith David Harker \n\n\n\nSunday February 15\, 202610:00AM PST | 1:00PM EST | 6:00PM GMT | 7:00PM CET \n\n\n\nThis event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid 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. \n\n\n\nNo 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. \n\n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness\n\n\n\n\nRegister now to reserve your place! \n\n\n\nAs 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! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: 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. \n\n\n\nYou 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/experiencing-consciousness-remote-viewing/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - Mind and Multiverse (Session 1 and 2 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:Mind and Multiverse \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 1 and 2 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr. \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday March 7-8\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUp 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. \n\n\n\nThis topic is split into two parts: \n\n\n\nSaturday March 7\, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nWe will discuss the evidence for the Big Bang and various topics to do with the Multiverse. \n\n\n\nSunday March 8\, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nIn this conversation we’ll venture into higher dimensions and where Bernard sees mind fitting in to an expanded physics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nShortly 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. \n\n\n\nSince 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nDuring 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). \n\n\n\nIn January 2026\, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.  \n\n\n\nHe is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes.  \n\n\n\nBeyond 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-mind-and-multiverse-session-1-and-2-of-6/
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SUMMARY:An Armchair Guide to Jung and God
DESCRIPTION:The Armchair Guide to Jung and God \n\n\n\nPresented by Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nWhat did Carl Jung really think about God\, religion\, and the inner life? \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nCourse Format\n\n\n\nThe course includes 9 sessions: \n\n\n\n\n6 one-hour recorded lectures\n\n\n\n3 live group conversation and Q&A sessions\n\n\n\n\nBeginning 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. \n\n\n\nThe weekly live group conversations are an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nReflect on the week’s two lectures\n\n\n\nAsk questions\n\n\n\nExplore your own responses and insights\n\n\n\nLearn from the perspectives of others\n\n\n\n\nLive Group Conversation Dates: \n\n\n\nWednesdays: April 15\, 22\, 2910am PDT/1pm EDT/6pm BST/7pm CEST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarl 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? \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nWhy is this important? \n\n\n\nHe 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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? \n\n\n\nWho Is This Series For? \n\n\n\nThis course will appeal to: \n\n\n\n\nStudents and practitioners of psychotherapy and depth psychology\n\n\n\nReligious professionals interested in psychological flourishing and how Jung might inform their work.\n\n\n\nThose considering psychotherapy or spiritual direction as a second career\n\n\n\nPeople who enjoy reading about spirituality and have a spiritual practice\n\n\n\nAnyone who enjoys reflecting on religious questions and the inner life\n\n\n\n\nHow will this presentation differ? \n\n\n\nAssuming 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.  \n\n\n\nLecture Titles\n\n\n\nLecture 1A Call From The UnconsciousAn outline of Jung’s life and how he came to see his vocation. \n\n\n\nLecture 2After The Split With FreudJung’s own analytical psychology in outline. \n\n\n\nLecture 3The Spiritual Problem of TodayHow Jung understood psychotherapy to be a response to a modern crisis. \n\n\n\nLecture 4The Failure of ReligionJung had a sharp critique of the failures of Christianity.  \n\n\n\nLecture 5The Fabric of RealityPhenomena like synchronicities suggested a complete metaphysic to Jung. \n\n\n\nLecture 6Jung and GodAn exploration of Jung’s theology: its genius and constraints. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr 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.  \n\n\n\nHe 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
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/an-armchair-guide-to-jung-and-god/
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SUMMARY:Experiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present: \n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Robin Rice \n\n\n\nSunday April 12\, 202610:00AM PDT | 1:00PM EDT | 6:00PM BST | 7:00PM CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is restricted to 40 participants. There will be no recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow 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. \n\n\n\nNo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin 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. \n\n\n\nExperiencing Consciousness: Storytelling and Consciousness on ICRL website \n\n\n\nSpaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot! \n\n\n\nAs 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. \n\n\n\nNote: 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: 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. \n\n\n\nYou 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/experiencing-consciousness-storytelling-and-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Matter\, Mind and Multiverse
DESCRIPTION:Matter\, Mind and Multiverse: Incorporating Mind into Physics \n\n\n\nPari\, Italy – May 15-18\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Bernard Carr with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe event will start on Friday May 15 at 16:00 and end on Monday May 18 after lunch. \n\n\n\nPrice: 825.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\na 3-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner.\n\n\n\n\nPlease read the Terms and Conditions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysics 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. \n\n\n\nThere 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. \n\n\n\nMost 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. \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, 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. \n\n\n\nIt is time to seriously discuss how physics might be extended to accommodate consciousness\, mind and spirit. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nProfessor 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.  \n\n\n\nHe is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes.  \n\n\n\nBeyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nShortly 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. \n\n\n\nSince 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. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nDuring 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. \n\n\n\nHis 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. \n\n\n\nAll of them can do sport\, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well). \n\n\n\nIn January 2026\, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.
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SUMMARY:Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES \n\n\n\nPaths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality: From the Indigenous to the Academic \n\n\n\nMay 20–27\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: 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 \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with on Wedensday May 20 at 17:00 and ends after lunch on Wednesday May 27. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nHumanity’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. \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nWhat 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. \n\n\n\nDuring 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: \n\n\n\n\nThe history of western science’s approach to understanding the universe\, and where the scientific world stands today;\n\n\n\nHow the process of connecting with nature has been developed over thousands of years of living with nature\, and where it stands today;\n\n\n\nThe evolution of ancient energetic traditions such as Qigong and Shamanism into modern practices;\n\n\n\nAlternate experiences of reality—or even alternate realities—that can be experienced through dreaming and other ways of experiencing; and ultimately…\n\n\n\nHow we can leverage all of this into a set of coherent practices and worldviews.\n\n\n\n\nBut 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. \n\n\n\nPlease be part of the science\, the magic\, the experience. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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SUMMARY:Creation and Life Itself
DESCRIPTION:Science\, Art and the Sacred Series \n\n\n\nCreation and Life Itself \n\n\n\nSeptember 1 – 8\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Sarah Churchwell\, Lauren Cole\, Nicholas Colloff\, Isabel Hawkins\, Angie Hobbs\, Karina Miotto\, Shelly Valdez. Curated and Chaired by: John Pickering \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with dinner on Tuesday September 1 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Tuesday Setpember 8. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nAt its best\, being ‘human’ means being creative. Here\, ‘creative’ means more than just poetic language or beautiful images. It speaks to something primordial in nature\, since life itself is creation. Our meeting will look at the complementary ways in which science\, the humanities and spiritual traditions recognise this and how that might inform the lives we lead\, singly or collectively. \n\n\n\nAll human cultures have Creation stories. They reflect our wonder at life itself and the enchanting diversity of Creation that it brings forth. To tell and re-tell the stories is part of being human. \n\n\n\nScience is sometimes accused of disenchanting Creation; in fact\, it has enhanced it\, since the wonder remains. Scientists like David Attenborough express as much love for living things as poets or mystics have done down the ages and as people living in animistic cultures do now. \n\n\n\nAnimistic Creation stories are of a transformative relation between beings of all kinds that continually and reciprocally bring one another into existence. So\, in that view\, simply living and being human is to be creative\, where ‘creative’ means more than just making poetic language or beautiful images.  \n\n\n\nLuckily\, we live in a time when science\, the humanities and the arts are becoming more open\, in complementary ways\, to recognising this. Our meeting will look at how that might inform the lives we lead\, singly or collectively. \n\n\n\nWe will investigate what ‘being human’ and ‘being creative’ might have meant in the past\, what it means in our time. We will look at creativity in science\, in the arts and humanities and in spiritual traditions\, paying particular attention to women’s voices\, those heard and those not. We will\, for example\, hear from speakers on Hildegarde of Bingen and Julian of Norwich\, as well mystical traditions from South American cultures. \n\n\n\nBeing human\, all too human\, is difficult. Being more than human\, particularly so. Creativity in some sense extends\, even transcends the human condition\, and we will explore what philosophy and the humanities have to say about that. \n\n\n\nNow is a particularly appropriate time to do it\, as both creativity and what it is to be human are brought into question by the rise of the machine. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and sessions\n\n\n\nClick on a title to expand \n\n\n\n\n\nFinding Meaning with Medieval Women Mysticswith Lauren Cole\n\n\n\n\nIt may seem on the surface that our modern secular society has little in common with the stringent religious culture of medieval Europe. As the story goes\, we have moved from a “Dark Age” of superstition to an enlightened age of reason. But look a little closer\, and we find that in trying to make sense of the world\, we inevitably fall back on the same tools. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we examine these sense-making tools in the writings of medieval women mystics and their counterparts today. The writings of mystics such as Hildegard von Bingen\, Julian of Norwich\, Catherine of Siena\, and Mechthild of Magdeburg provide us with frameworks for environmentalism\, feminist thought\, and natural medicine today. Parallels we will explore include Hildegard von Bingen’s lapidary and today’s crystal healing\, beguines’ practices of care and today’s care homes\, and mystical astrology and today’s horoscopes. Ultimately\, this session will consider what we have already learned from medieval women mystics\, and what we can continue to learn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Cole is a PhD History Candidate and Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University. Her research centres on medieval mystics\, medicine\, and manuscripts in Europe\, with a particular focus on Hildegard von Bingen. Lauren is also a public historian\, creating videos on medieval history for over 95’000 followers on her Instagram and TikTok accounts (@MedievalLauren). Lauren splits her time between London\, Mainz\, and Chicago. You can find more on her website: https://medievallauren.wordpress.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeeing with the Eye of the Heartwith Nicholas Colloff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoth the painter\, Cecil Collins\, and the poet\, Edwin Muir\, enjoyed paradisial childhoods\, which\, though rudely interrupted\, provided a sustaining sense of innocence and wonder through which they subsequently beheld the world and wove artistic practices that sought to widen and deepen consciousness into a ‘second\, renewing innocence’ that was a paradise regained\, which Collins referred to as the “great happiness”. \n\n\n\nThey both employed artistic\, spiritual practices that deepened attention\, reverenced\, and used dreams and other imaginal states\, and cultivated good memory to develop works of great originality and of gently transforming power that they felt could take people on a pilgrimage to their originating light\, where “that strange quarry you scarcely thought you sought” would reveal itself and you would find  “Yourself\, the gatherer gathered\, the finder found.”   \n\n\n\nBoth worked\, broadly\, within the ‘Western tradition’\, but with an openness to the Spirit that bloweth where it will\, and both were sustained\, nurtured\, and challenged in their long\, loving marriages to Elizabeth Collins and Willa Muir\, both themselves artists. Both in their practices and their work\, they have much to inspire us about the potential for a creative\, spiritual life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Colloff\, when not posting art on Facebook or walking through the woods\, is the Director of the Argidius Foundation\, a Swiss family foundation that helps develop social and environmental enterprises\, principally in Africa and Latin America. He studied theology\, philosophy\, and the psychology of religion at university\, after which he helped found the Prison Phoenix Trust that teaches meditation and yoga to people in prison\, and from this discovered a gift for starting things (and leaving them in better hands so that they flourished).  \n\n\n\nThis has included a microfinance bank in the Balkans\, a charity focused on community mental health in poor communities in the Global South\, and a social investment fund. Through the auspices of Temenos and the friendship of the poet and Blake scholar\, Kathleen Raine\, he was privileged to meet and know Cecil Collins in the latter years of his life\, and through Kathleen to know one of Edwin and Willa Muir’s closest friends. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlato and the Pregnant Philosopherwith Angie Hobbs\n\n\n\n\nPlato stimulates creative thought in a variety of ways\, all aimed at stimulating our non-rational as well as our rational faculties. In order to explore fundamental ethical questions about how to live and what sort of person to be\, he creates dialogues involving a vibrant cast of characters (never himself)\, and the conversations invite us to see the connections between belief\, character and life. We are enabled to form a sense of the shape\, structure and narrative of a life — both models to emulate and models to avoid. The dialogues often deploy vivid imagery — such as the Allegory of the Cave in the Republic — and in much of this imagery Plato plays with gender expectations\, such as the pregnant philosopher (male as well as female) in the Symposium and philosophical statecraft as the art of weaving in the Statesman. In several dialogues imaginary utopias also encourage us to envisage different ways of thinking\, living and being. It is intriguing how often this agent-centred\, dialogic approach\, which embeds individuals in their social contexts\, has appealed to women philosophers\, particularly during the last 70 years\, and this is a topic we shall explore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngie Hobbs is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Sheffield. She gained a degree in Classics (First Class) and a PhD in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge\, and her chief interests are in ancient philosophy and literature\, and ethics and political theory from classical thought to the present\, and she has published widely in these areas\, including Plato and the Hero; Why Plato Matters Now was published by Bloomsbury in 2025.  She contributes regularly to TV\, radio\, podcasts and other media around the world\, including 27 appearances on In Our Time on Radio 4.  She works in a number of policy sectors\, including the U.K. Civil Service\, National Health Service and Health Research Authority. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum at Davos\, the Athens Democracy Forum\, the Symi Symposium\, the Houses of Parliament\, the Scottish Parliament and Westminster Abbey\, and been the guest on Desert Island Discs and Private Passions. She was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 and was on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council 2018-9 for Values\, Ethics and Innovation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough the Fire: How Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects Saved My Activist Heartwith Karina Miotto\n\n\n\n\nIn her talk in Paris\, Karina Miotto will share her powerful journey as an environmental activist in the Brazilian Amazon — a path shaped by purpose\, but also by burnout and PTSD after years of frontline work. She will speak about the transformative role Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects played in her healing\, restoring not only her strength but also her faith in humanity. Karina will also share personal conversations she had with Joanna\, highlighting how this body of work continues to deeply influence her life\, her worldview\, and her approach to changemaking. \n\n\n\nHer presentation will be both motivational and inspiring. As part of her session\, Karina will guide the audience through a simple experiential practice from the Work That Reconnects\, inviting participants to reconnect with themselves\, with each other\, and with the living Earth. She believes Joanna Macy’s work offers essential tools for this moment in human history\, and her talk aims to open a space of clarity\, courage\, and collective renewal for all who attend. Karina will also explore the vital role of Systems Thinking in the Work That Reconnects — showing how a systemic view of life deepens our understanding of interdependence\, resilience\, and the complexity of the times we are living through. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarina Miotto is a journalist\, eco-philosopher\, changemaker mentor\, and speaker coach. She lived for many years in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and worked with major NGOs. As editor of the website O Eco\, she covered the nine countries of the Amazon Basin. She studied the Deep Ecology movement directly with pioneers such as Satish Kumar\, John Seed\, and Stephan Harding. She studied The Work That Reconnects directly with Joanna Macy. \n\n\n\nShe holds a Master’s degree in Holistic Science from Schumacher College\, England. In her dissertation\, titled “Reconnecting the Amazon: Awakening Deep Feelings for the Rainforest\,” she developed ten different pathways to help people emotionally connect with the forest. Her findings can be applied to any landscape or environment on the planet. Her name has been cited in books and scientific articles around the world. \n\n\n\nKarina has given talks in countries such as England\, the United States\, Germany\, New Zealand\, Chile\, Australia\, Portugal\, Spain\, and Brazil\, impacting hundreds of people worldwide. Deep Ecology is currently the foundation of all her work. She lead a project on climate adaptation and community resilience in the Australian Alps using as methodology WTR and Deep Ecology for La Trobe University\, Melbourne. \n\n\n\nIn 2024\, she published her first book: Changemakers – the courage to transform the world: it’s beautiful\, challenging\, and possible to do without burning out\, released by Bambual Editora (Brazil). In 2025\, the same book was published in Portugal under the title A coragem de mudar o mundo – changemakers\, by the same publisher. \n\n\n\nDuring the same year\, she collaborated with The Wellbeing Project\, supporting line up curation and speaker preparation for the Hearth Summit\, a global event for 1\,200 changemakers from 89 countries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeing Human: Enlarging Lifewith Sarah Churchwell\n\n\n\n\nOur culture treats innovation as self-justifying—as if speed\, scale\, and automation were enough to define progress. The humanities center imagination instead\, asking not only what we can do\, but what we are becoming as we do it. Through literature\, philosophy\, history\, art\, they enlarge the inner life\, teaching us how to live with complexity without collapsing into cynicism or fantasy.  \n\n\n\nWhen John Adams wrote during the American Revolution that he studied war and politics so later generations could study philosophy and poetry\, he was sharing an Enlightenment logic: the humanities as the point of self-government\, not a luxury. The same settlement produced mass literacy\, the modern university\, the professional middle class\, and the novel—a form that trained readers in moral judgment and imaginative recognition. These developments sustained one another. \n\n\n\nThat settlement is now under assault. The “dark enlightenment” and its tech patrons explicitly call for replacing democracy with neo-feudal hierarchy\, governed like a corporation and insulated from public accountability. AI sits at the center of this program: prediction in place of judgment\, privatized platforms in place of public institutions\, and the enclosure of knowledge as a condition of power. \n\n\n\nImaginative literature makes the stakes legible. Poets from Coleridge onward distinguish world-making imagination from mechanical recombination\, a useful lens for generative AI. Novelists like Charlotte Brontë and F. Scott Fitzgerald make imagination the predicate of liberty and autonomy\, and trace what happens to hope in cultures structured by injustice. Philosophers like Hannah Arendt supply the political hinge: imagination is a precondition for politics\, because politics depends on the ability to envision alternatives. \n\n\n\nIn a world of accelerating technologies and shallow attention\, how do the humanities enlarge human life—and what would it take to rebuild the conditions that let them flourish? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Churchwell is Chair of Public Humanities and Professor of American literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, where she directs the UK’s national festival of humanities research\, the Being Human Festival.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of several acclaimed books\, most recently The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022). She comments widely on politics\, culture\, and art in print\, television\, radio\, and film. She has been a winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award\, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top 50 World Thinkers.  \n\n\n\nShe is co-host with historian David Olusoga of the Goalhanger podcast Journey Through Time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
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LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place
DESCRIPTION:Inscendence: A Participatory Enquiry into Awareness\, Presence and Place \n\n\n\nSeptember 10 – 17\, 2026 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Code and Alistair Duncan \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices: \n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 1800.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1650.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed lectures\, activities and materials\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts with dinner on Thursday September 10 at 19:00 and ends after lunch on Thursday September 17. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nWhy Inscendence?\n\n\n\nIn a time riven by fragmentation\, dislocation and conflicting narratives\, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land\, body and consciousness meet.  \n\n\n\nInscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness\, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.   \n\n\n\nIn resonance with Pari\, its landscape\, history\, and community\, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight\, relationship and action can emerge. \n\n\n\nInscendence—the impulse not to rise above the world but to climb into it\, to seek its core.Thomas Berry\, via Robert Macfarlane \n\n\n\nProgramme Themes and Practices\n\n\n\nOver the course of a week in Pari\, we will engage with:  \n\n\n\nEmbodied and Perceptual Investigation: \n\n\n\n\nExplorations into how breath-work\, movement and posture can expand and transform perceptual awareness\n\n\n\nWorking with our experience of the traditional elements of nature: earth\, water\, fire\, air and ether in a contemporary way\n\n\n\nHeightening the sensitivity of our physical senses: sight\, sound\, touch\, taste\, smell\, as entry points into deeper experience \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the body-mind as a phenomenological instrument\n\n\n\n\nFieldwork in the More-than-Human World: \n\n\n\n\nImmersive sessions engaging with the plants\, stones\, weather and landforms of the Tuscany landscape\n\n\n\nExploration of a range of ways of knowing including Goethean observation and nature-connection practices\n\n\n\nAttending to artefacts\, stories and built structures as relational presences\n\n\n\n\nCreative and Collaboratives Explorations:  \n\n\n\n\nCreative writing\, journaling\, and drawing as practices of attending to lived experience\n\n\n\nSitting in Council / dialogue will allow us to share insights and integrate personal experience into collective understanding. \n\n\n\nConversational ‘tutorial-style’ sessions will be used to explore the intersection between experience and theory\n\n\n\n\nDaily Rhythms—each day will include four main elements: \n\n\n\n\nOutdoor sessions exploring a range of practices and experiences\n\n\n\nThe seeding of ‘micro-practices’ that will provide the opportunity for moments in the day to become an opportunity for conscious awareness\n\n\n\nSitting in Council\, ‘tutorial’ circles and creative sessions to collectively reflect on our unfolding experience and its implications \n\n\n\nPersonal reflection time supported by the quiet rhythms of the village\n\n\n\n\nTheoretical Context: \n\n\n\nWith an emphasis on experiential forms of enquiry\, Inscendence is nevertheless inspired by the insights and practices of a wide range of thinkers from both East and West. These perspectives provide lenses through which our lived experience can be shared and articulated. \n\n\n\nSome of these sources of inspiration include: \n\n\n\n\nThe Implicate / Explicate / Holoflux (David Bohm) \n\n\n\nThe implications of brain hemisphere modes of attention (Iain McGilchrist) \n\n\n\nThe nature of participatory consciousness (Owen Barfield\,)\n\n\n\nThe idea of Authentic Wholeness (Henri Bortoft\, J.W. Goethe)\n\n\n\nThe unity of Mind and Matter from (Gregory Bateson) \n\n\n\nThe explorations of language\, sensory perception and the new animism (David Abram\, Robin Kimmerer)\n\n\n\nPhilosophical Taoism\n\n\n\nNon-dual Shaiva Tantra\n\n\n\n\nWhat May Emerge: \n\n\n\n\nA refined capacity for attentional flexibility and resonance\n\n\n\nA deeper sense of participation in the implicate wholeness of the cosmos\n\n\n\nInsight into how perception constructs (and reconstructs) the world\n\n\n\nA felt understanding of new grounds for coherent action and relationship\n\n\n\nA more integrated experience of self within the context of a conscious whole.\n\n\n\n\nOur aim is not to provide answers to the complex challenges of our time but to cultivate a new ground of exploration—a place from which thought\, relationship and creativity may unfold with greater coherence and sensitivity. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center is more than joining a program\, it is entering an experience unlike any other. This is no ordinary conference in a city hotel\, nor a retreat hidden within a bustling resort. Instead\, it is an invitation to step into an unspoilt medieval village in the Tuscan hills\, where time slows and life unfolds at a rhythm that allows you to think\, feel\, and reconnect. \n\n\n\nAt the Pari Center\, learning becomes a way of being. David Peat often described Pari as an alchemical vessel—a transformative space designed for reflection\, renewal\, and personal growth. It is a rare and welcoming environment for anyone seeking something deeper. \n\n\n\nYou will share traditional Tuscan meals and conversation with presenters and fellow participants\, taste local wines\, mingle with the village’s tiny community\, and take in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. All of this unfolds within a gentle way of life\, far removed from the hurry of work and the noise of city living. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center gathers world-renowned thinkers\, scholars\, and innovators from diverse disciplines and traditions. Our mission is to explore the mysteries woven into everyday life: the subtle\, essential questions that shape who we are and who we are becoming. Through rigorous inquiry\, creative dialogue and participatory activities\, we aim to illuminate the origins\, nature\, and possibilities of human experience. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to discover why so many visitors regard the Pari Center not only as a place of learning\, but as a place of personal transformation. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Code \n\n\n\nDuring a childhood and youth spent in Southern Ontario\, regular immersion in and on the freshwater lakes of Frontenac Park fostered in me a deep ecological and place-based awareness of the natural world. I am to this day never more at home than in a canoe on a lake at dawn\, paddling out as the sun rises and the loons call forth the day. \n\n\n\nMy ecological interests grew and deepened through encounters with the work of Goethe\, Schumacher\, Vine Deloria Jr.\, and Steiner—whose contributions to education\, medicine\, human development\, and agriculture (Biodynamic farming) continue to inform my teaching\, research\, and writing to this day. \n\n\n\nI am particularly interested in the contribution that Goethe can make to ecological thinking (which I addressed in a study of Goethe’s method of exact imagination as applied to the Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)) and in how the Biodynamic preparations are not only stimulants for good composting processes but are also catalysts for a deepening of agricultural consciousness (which I address in Muck and Mind: Encountering Biodynamic Agriculture\, 2014). \n\n\n\nI am currently engaged in a study of traditional fire-craft and its affordances for educational philosophy and praxis. This study grows out of a deep concern for education in the twenty first century (see Crafting: Transforming Materials and the Maker\, 2019)—a concern that what is too often left out in many of our educational endeavors is a sense for who a human being is…and what we can (potentially) become. \n\n\n\nAlistair Duncan  \n\n\n\nAfter a first career as a systems programmer\, architect and programme manager in technology for a couple of global corporations\, fifteen years ago I jumped ship. Since then I  have worked as an eco-psychologist\, workshop facilitator/educator and therapist across a number of contexts particularly  in universities\, disadvantaged communities and with conservation organisations.  \n\n\n\nMy passion is weaving together concrete practices from contemporary psychology\, embodiment modalities and therapies as well as the spiritualities of east and west. Then\, using them to make experiential and practical\, the insights that arise from a range of fields across philosophy\, science and spirituality.  \n\n\n\nTo define my context with a few names. I would cite David Bohm\, Owen Barfield\, Martin Heidegger\, Gregory Bateson\, Henri Bortoff\, Michael Washburn\, David Abram and Kenneth White as my current key co-ordinates. And I am drawing practices from a wide palette\, but the core is found in indigenous tracking methods\, Non-dual Shaiva Tantrism\, Taoism\, and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). \n\n\n\nI have a first degree in Biology and a Masters in Philosophy\, and have trained in several coaching and therapeutic modalities. \n\n\n\nEverything I do nowadays is based in nature. It’s my current conviction that exploring a deeper sensorial resonance and reciprocity between the human body-mind and the more-than-human cosmos is the starting point for a lived experience of wholeness and a connection into the deep consciousness of the cosmos. And that\, from there\, we may be able to discern a better way to live in these times.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/inscendence-a-participatory-enquiry-into-awareness-presence-and-place/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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