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SUMMARY:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue – From Worldview to Sustainable Order \n\n\n\nCommencing at the Pari Center 20-25 June 2023 and concluding at the Vatican 27-28 June 2023. \n\n\n\nA gathering of world leading philosophers to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. \n\n\n\nEngendering a new chapter in East and West communication especially in relation to pressing global challenges. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center is pleased to host the June 2023 symposium East and West Philosophy in Dialogue—From Worldview to Sustainable Order. At the eight-day symposium\, leading philosophers from the East and the West will gather to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. The symposium will convene in Pari at the Pari Center and conclude in Rome at the Vatican with two days of dialogue on the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\nSome of the pertinent questions to be addressed include: \n\n\n\n\nHow does Eastern holism relate to the modern Western philosophical schools of Continental Philosophy\, Analytic Philosophy\, and Process Philosophy?\n\n\n\nWhether and to what extent a holistic vision also can be found in the West?\n\n\n\nWhether the diverse philosophical paths may complement each other and to what extent a Perennial Philosophy exists?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to global sustainability?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to local and global order?\n\n\n\n\nThrough substantive discussions\, the Symposium hopes to engender a new chapter in East and West communication\, especially insofar as it relates to pressing global challenges.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/east-and-west-philosophy-in-dialogue/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Jennifer Banks
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrhQT8ATjY\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Jennifer Banks and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday June 289:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe sixth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday June 28\, 2023 with Jennifer Banks. Our conversation will orbit around “natality\, birth\, and new beginnings”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Banks is the author of Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth\, published in May 2023 by W.W. Norton and selected as a May Must-Read title by the Next Big Idea Club.  Her work has been featured in The Washington Post\, Lithub\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, Current\, Comment\, Big Think\, The Boston Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and more.  A graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press where she has acquired books on literature\, religion\, and philosophy since 2007.  She has also worked at International Creative Management\, the Continuum International Publishing Group\, and Harvard University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-jennifer-banks/
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Edi Bilimoria
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXtitI_wsVc\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Edi Bilimoria and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday July 129:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nThe seventh conversation in this series will be on Wednesday July 12\, 2023 with Edi Bilimoria. Our conversation will orbit around “consciousness and perennial philosophy”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdi Bilimoria (DPhil\, FIMechE\, FEI\, FRSA). \n\n\n\nBorn in India and educated at the universities of London\, Sussex and Oxford\, Edi Bilimoria presents an unusual blend of experience in the fields of science\, the arts and philosophy. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Edi was a consultant engineer to the petrochemical\, oil and gas\, transport\, and construction industries. He was Project Manager and Head of Design for major innovative projects such as the Channel Tunnel\, London Underground systems\, and offshore installations. He also worked in safety and environmental engineering and management for several Royal Navy projects\, including the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier and the fleet of River-class offshore patrol vessels. Edi’s Rolls-Royce funded doctoral research paper on gas turbine thermofluids was awarded the Thomas Lowe Gray Prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has also received industry ‘recognition of achievement’ and ‘impact achievements’ awards for safety and environmental management of petrochemical complexes and defence projects. \n\n\n\nA student of the perennial philosophy for over half a century\, Edi has given courses and lectured extensively in the UK\, and internationally in California\, the Netherlands\, India\, and Australia. He has organized and chaired conferences in order to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas in the fields of science\, religion and practical philosophy. He worked as Education Manager for the Theosophical Society in Australia developing courses and study papers\, researching\, lecturing and organizing international conferences; as well as supervising the Research Library\, National Media Library\, National Members Lending Library and the development of the website. \n\n\n\nEdi has published many informative articles and papers in the disciplines of science\, engineering\, and esoteric philosophy. In 2007\, his book The Snake and the Rope was awarded the Book Prize by the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN). In 2023\, this present work\, consisting of four volumes\, was awarded the SMN’s Grand Prize. Applauded by many\, it is considered to be the most penetrating and all-embracing work on consciousness written in decades. \n\n\n\nFor many years Edi was a Board Director of the SMN. He now serves as a Trustee of the SMN and in an advisory capacity to both the Board and the SMN’s Galileo Commission\, a project set up to find ways to expand science and open up public discourse on the subject. \n\n\n\nEdi is also a Trustee and Council Member of the Francis Bacon Society. \n\n\n\nAn enthusiastic glider pilot for many years\, Edi is a choral singer and a dedicated pianist of concert standard. \n\n\n\nThe outcome of Edi’s involvement in music and the perennial philosophy is a discernment of the higher laws governing all life and existence\, at all levels\, and the necessity of striving to live with integrity according to this realization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-eli-bilimoria/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2023
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2023: Part 1 – Changing Meaning / Changing Being\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 2: Science and Philosophy\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 field of physics to include philosophy\, psychology\, language\, religion\, art\, creativity\, thought\, and education. Underlying his innovative approach to these many different issues was the fundamental idea that beyond the visible\, tangible world there lies a deeper\, implicate order of undivided wholeness. \n\n\n\nDuring July and August the Pari Center is offering a unique opportunity to hear and dialogue with those involved in the many aspects of David Bohm’s work and to discuss the implications of his ideas for the future. All sessions include audience participation in the form of Q&A and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 1 – Changing Meaning / Changing Being \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nJuly 16 – 30\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nNow in its third year\, Beyond Bohm aims to use multiple aspects of David Bohm’s work as jumping-off points for ongoing inquiry and experiential probings. We are especially happy with this year’s offerings\, and are honored to have more than 30 guest participants for Part 1 (July 16 – 30). \n\n\n\nOur first weekend will open up significant new territory while exploring perennial questions regarding meaning\, consciousness\, dialogue\, and the nature of experience. While organicism\, panpsychism\, and temporal flux are marbled throughout the work of David Bohm\, further perspectives – particularly those of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead – are brought to bear in our opening session. The following day\, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake brings his own unique perspective to some of these process-oriented questions\, asking\, “Is the Sun Conscious?” \n\n\n\nOur second weekend puts forth multiple perspectives regarding Bohm’s proposals about holoflux and holomovement. These concepts – and what they imply – are foundational for any experiential sense of Bohm’s overall metaphysics. The various perspectives shared across two sessions draw from years of experimentation with the relevance of this aspect of Bohm’s work\, within the actual movement of daily life. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend is a bounty of dialogue. The group of ten women partaking in the Saturday session collectively bring hundreds of years of experience with various dialogical modes. The following day\, Blackfoot elder Leroy Little Bear and multiple guests will once again share with us Leroy’s unique approach to dialogue\, rooted in indigenous world views and sensibilities. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSunday July 16Bohm/Bergson/Whitehead: Life as Movementwith Àlex Gómez-Marin\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nMonday July 17Is the Sun Conscious?with Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nSaturday July 22Holoflux: The Qualitative Infinity of Naturewith Lee Nichol\, Cheryl Brant\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 23Holoflux: Codexwith Richard Burg\, Eva Casey\, Sky Hoorne\, Maria Hvidbak\, Beth Macy\, Hester Reeve\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSaturday July 29The Heart of DialogueDialogue with Jessica Ball\, Trine-Line Biong\, Eva Casey\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Marie-Eve Marchand\, Melissa Nelson\, Marjorie Parker\, Susanna Ruebsaat \n\n\n\nSunday July 30The Hidden Science: What Western Science Metrics Don’t Know – And Can’t KnowIndigenous Dialogue with Leroy Little Bear and Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Marie-Eve Marchant\, Kent Monkman\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 2 -Science and Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday\, Jens Allwood\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, Michael Richter\, William Seager\, David Schrum\, Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nAugust 5 – 6\, 12 – 13\, 26 – 27\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023 Part two focuses on scientific and philosophical themes.  After an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, the topics include pluralism in science and the relation between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend; the role of mind and consciousness in Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics and in Hugh Everett’s “many worlds” theory; Bohm’s view of the self and the observer; Bohm’s notion of an order between and beyond; and Bohm’s process-oriented view of language. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 5Introduction to Bohm’s Physicswith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday August 6Bohm’s Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation between Bohm and Paul Feyerabendwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSaturday August 12Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind & Consciousnesswith William Seager \n\n\n\nSunday August 13Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observerwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 26David Bohm and an Order Between and Beyond:Toward a New Mind and a New Human Beingwith David Schrum
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2023-2/
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SUMMARY:Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead:  Life as Movement
DESCRIPTION:Bohm / Bergson / Whitehead:  Life as Movement \n\n\n\nwith Àlex Gómez-Marin\, Hester Reeve\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 16\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nProcess\, movement\, time\, flux\, consciousness\, memory\, recurrence\, relationality – these elements and more occur in mutually reflective ways in the work of David Bohm\, Henri Bergson\, and Alfred North Whitehead. What resonances emerge when we hold these three bodies of work together? What variances do we discover? In this opening session of Beyond Bohm 2023\, our panel will explore these and other questions. Of particular significance is the fact that all three men intended their insights to be applied and tested in daily life\, rather than remaining purely theoretical. We then pose a further question: How do we make the shift from the abstract idea to the concrete lived quality? \n\n\n\nPlease join us as we initiate new lines of inquiry in the Pari community\, drawing from three profoundly original yet complementary philosophical perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live 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. \n\n\n\nhttps://hester-reeve.squarespace.com/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, Holoflux: Codex – Form / Movement / Vision inspired by David Bohm (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. Lee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/bohm-bergson-whitehead-life-as-movement/
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SUMMARY:Is the Sun Conscious?
DESCRIPTION:Is the Sun Conscious? \n\n\n\nwith Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nMonday July 17\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWe are very happy to have Rupert Sheldrake with us this year\, discussing his landmark paper\, “Is the Sun Conscious?” In Dr. Sheldrake’s reckoning: \n\n\n\nThe recent panpsychist turn in philosophy opens the possibility that self-organizing systems at all levels of complexity\, including stars and galaxies\, might have experience\, awareness\, or consciousness. The organismic or holistic philosophy of nature points in the same direction. Meanwhile\, field theories of consciousness propose that some electromagnetic fields actually are conscious\, and that these fields are by their very nature integrative. When applied to the sun\, such field theories suggest a possible physical basis for the solar mind\, both within the body of the sun itself and also throughout the solar system. If the sun is conscious\, it may be concerned with the regulation of its own body and the entire solar system through its electromagnetic activity\, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It may also communicate with other star systems within the galaxy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupert Sheldrake\, PhD\, is a biologist and author of more than a hundred technical papers and nine books\, including The Science Delusion. As a fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge\, he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology\, and was also a research fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad\, India\, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)\, and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010\, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities\, funded by Trinity College\, Cambridge. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma\, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington\, Devon. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce\, with whom he has two sons. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/is-the-sun-conscious/
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SUMMARY:Holoflux: The Qualitative Infinity of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Holoflux: The Qualitative Infinity of Nature \n\n\n\nwith Lee Nichol\, Cheryl Brant\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSaturday July 22\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWhile Bohm’s work in physics and dialogue is well-established\, new threads are emerging that attempt to take us deeper into the living substance and import of his metaphysics. What do we find when we peer beyond his foundational terms holoflux / holomovement? Is it possible to move out from the texts of Bohm’s books\, and into the living world? Is there something that can be directly engaged through ongoing experimentation? In this session we will propose that there is a living actuality pointed to by Bohm\, akin to what he described as “the qualitative infinity of nature.” We will explore two aspects of a multi-year holoflux inquiry — rheosoma (the flowing body) and holosoma (the body of the whole). From the outset\, however\, it is important to keep such terms experimental\, enigmatic. What then emerges is not a model\, system\, or practice\, but a process of open-ended embodiment in which the path is created while walking. \n\n\n\nThis session will serve as an introduction to a two-day program of the same name\, offered by the Pari Center on September 23 and 24\, 2023\, open to people who have not participated in any previous Holoflux programs through Pari. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, Holoflux: Codex – Form / Movement / Vision inspired by David Bohm (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 Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheryl Brant \n\n\n\nCheryl’s work finds her at the intersection of art and science. Her formal education began with a Bachelor of Science in Art\, and then continued with an MFA in sculpture. Her professional life has been in engineering for the past 36 years. First\, in geotechnical engineering with Herbst & Associates\, and for the past 22 years in Structural\, Civil\, and Coastal engineering with Moffatt & Nichol. The last six years have focused on visualizations for ship simulations. Her artwork has been exhibited in small galleries through the years. Cheryl is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAja Bulla Zamastil is an architectural and landscape architectural designer\, public artist\, and educator. As a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism graduate program at the University of Southern California\, she leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and socio-cultural forces. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive\, she is responsible for managing and designing landscape projects and educational programs throughout California. These projects explore how we can transform monolithic systems into resilient ecological cycles that re-enchant everyday experience and promote alternative cultural practices. \n\n\n\nAja is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm(Pari Publishing 2022). She is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments.
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SUMMARY:Holoflux: Codex
DESCRIPTION:Holoflux: Codex \n\n\n\nwith Richard Burg\, Eva Casey\, Sky Hoorne\, Maria Hvidbak\, Beth Macy\, Hester Reeve\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 23\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn late summer of 2020\, through the Pari Center\, a small group of people began an applied experiment into the nature of David Bohm’s holoflux (see session description for July 22\, 2023). Midway through this inquiry\, a number of the group formally presented some of their experiences regarding holoflux\, rheosoma\, and holosoma. These accounts led to the publication of a book\, Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing\, 2022)\, that carried the inquiry one step further. In this session\, the contributors to the book will share some of that work and discuss their creative process. The conversation\, however\, will not be limited to an artifact (the book)\, but will also address the ongoing process of engaging with the holoflux experiment. What is the nature of this inquiry? What impact does it have in daily life? What has inspired people to sustain this inquiry? Where does it stand after three years? \n\n\n\nThe editor’s introduction to Holoflux: Codex is available as here: https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/pp.5-9-15.pdf \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEva Casey is a freelance artist who works in ceramics\, metal\, paint media\, and graphic design. A detail of her painting “Heliac” is featured as the cover of Holoflux: Codex. Eva formerly taught at Cañada Community College and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute\, both in Berkeley\, California. She is a mother of two\, and a grandmother of two. She lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with her husband\, Lee Nichol. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSky Hoorne holds a MS in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and attended LUCA School of Arts Ghent. She is a graphic artist\, creator of comic strips\, and a dedicated scholar of the work of David Bohm. Currently she is focused on ceramic sculptures\, drawings\, paintings\, and on making complex issues digestible to a broader\, non-academic public. Rooted in her life philosophy of ‘active context’/’contexting’\, Sky attempts to make ‘inscendental’ works of art\, in which the viewer is invited to step into the subject by appealing to their primal imagination and subtle participation. This approach involves free play with clichés\, perspectives\, and polarities. Despite her background in IT\, her main interests include psychology\, eastern philosophy\, science of mind\, no-nonsense metaphysics and kiko/qi gong. https://www.antihype.be/ \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\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy  The common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues: organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live 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. \n\n\n\nhttps://hester-reeve.squarespace.com/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAja Bulla Zamastil is an architectural and landscape architectural designer\, public artist\, and educator. As a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism graduate program at the University of Southern California\, she leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and socio-cultural forces. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive\, she is responsible for managing and designing landscape projects and educational programs throughout California. These projects explore how we can transform monolithic systems into resilient ecological cycles that re-enchant everyday experience and promote alternative cultural practices. \n\n\n\nAja is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm(Pari Publishing 2022). She is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments.
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SUMMARY:The Heart of Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:The Heart of Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Jessica Ball\, Trine-Line Biong\, Eva Casey\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Marie-Eve Marchand\, Melissa Nelson\, Marjorie Parker\, Susanna Ruebsaat \n\n\n\nSaturday July 29\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWhat is the heart? In physiology\, as far back as human records go\, heart has been thought of as the core of the physical body\, the sine qua non of life. Metaphorically\, the heart has been considered as that which brings about the coursing of spirit\, meaning and emotion throughout one’s person\, one’s relationships and one’s community. It is the flow of life at both individual and collective spheres. David Bohm’s description of dialogue also refers to an essential flow: that of “meaning moving through.” Does dialogue\, as well\, have a heart\, an essential core\, through which a developing meaning flows? What might emerge as our all-women dialogue gestates this question? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Ball is a creative facilitator dedicated to working towards positive social and environmental change through transformative learning\, dialogue and the value of creativity. Jessica has worked with a diverse range of organisations across sectors from corporate and international development to education and charities. She is currently studying a PhD in ecolinguistics at the University of Gloucestershire\, under the supervision of Professor Arran Stibbe\, author and founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. Jessica is researching ‘the body\, nature and dialogue’\, an exploration of ecological identity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrine-Line Biong\, a trained actor\, director and coach\, joined as chief editor in the Flux Foundation in 1997. Initially\, her main role was the publication of Flux Magazine\, and subsequently the books that would come out under the Flux imprint. In 2009 Trine-Line and Christian Valentiner\, an experienced facilitator and organisational development consultant\, decided to turn some of the subject matter on dialogue into experiential programs. Over the course of the following years hundreds of people have been trained as dialogue practitioners and facilitators under the Flux brand. \n\n\n\nToday\, she is the general manager of flux www.flux.no \, which is a publishing house and also works with courses and programs around dialogue. Important areas for all work in Flux are awareness-raising and communication. Some of the ongoing projects are prison dialogue and from autumn 2023\, Flux will also become a collaboration partner with the Nobel Peace Center and will deliver dialogue courses on a regular basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEva Casey is a freelance artist who works in ceramics\, metal\, paint media\, and graphic design. A detail of her painting “Heliac” is featured as the cover of Holoflux: Codex. Eva formerly taught at Cañada Community College and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute\, both in Berkeley\, California. She is a mother of two\, and a grandmother of two. She lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with her husband\, Lee Nichol. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna and her husband\, Don Factor\, were longtime friends and supporters of David Bohm and the process of dialogue he envisioned. Don had first met Bohm in the 1970s in London\, and the two continued their friendship from that time on. It was their early acquaintance that led to inviting Bohm to be interviewed by Don at the Human Unity Conference – a large gathering of people from many different spiritual traditions – held at Warwick University\, in March of 1983. Following the enthusiastic response to this interview\, Bohm was invited to present more of his thinking at a weekend conference held in Mickleton\, England. It was during the ensuing weekend that what is considered to have been the very first Bohmian dialogue occurred. The transcript of the weekend has been preserved by Don Factor in the book\, Unfolding Meaning. \n\n\n\nFollowing that weekend\, Anna and Don began offering their home for dialogues among those who had been so inspired by the initial dialogue idea\, and along with Peter and Jenny Garrett and David and Saral Bohm\, they organized public dialogues at many locations across western Europe\, Scandinavia\, and Israel during the late 1980s. Stemming from these early dialogues is the well-known publication by Bohm\, Don Factor and Peter Garrett\, “Dialogue\, A Proposal” which still is considered a cornerstone description of Bohm’s intention for dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Jeffery was introduced to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti while a young undergraduate in Sociology. Through involvement with his international school in England\, she met and was deeply impressed by David Bohm (a founding trustee of the school) and\, later\, his proposals for dialogue. \n\n\n\nOver three decades\, she has taken part in dialogue in many settings\, including prisons and her local (Lancaster) dialogue group. Involvement in two online dialogue groups began in 2018/19\, but since the pandemic and through the Lancaster group website\, others have been in contact\, expressing interest and wanting to start new ​online groups to explore David Bohm’s thinking in practice.  \n\n\n\nDuring this same period\, Sally was employed as a body work therapist\, including over 20 years working with people who’d had a cancer diagnosis\, along with their families. A leaning to such work might suggest she would take less readily to online dialogue\, missing the physical presence of the other participants. After initial hesitation\, this has proved not to be the case. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy  The common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues: organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarie-Eve Marchand has a Ph.D. in adult education\, a field she studied while in charge of the professional development of Executives in the Public Service of Canada. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Bohm’s dialogue based on an action-research with a group of senior managers. She joined forces with a colleague at Laval University in Quebec\, Canada\, who had also written his dissertation on Bohm dialogue. For 14 years\, they created and taught courses aimed at helping managers lead more consciously by introducing them to meditation\, stages of human development\, theories of complexity and Bohm dialogue. Marie-Eve considers the skills of dialogue as essential in our world battling unprecedented challenges of high complexity. Her view is that Bohm dialogue –in the form he himself proposed — is more appropriate for people who have done a good measure of psycho-spiritual work. However\, she considers that dialogue skills ought to be taught and exemplified in many different ways in order to reach people with different levels of self-knowledge and openess. She is the author of Vivre en dialogue à l’ère du texto\, published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval\, in 2019. The same year\, the Academy of Professional Dialogue published an English translation of the book The Spirit of Dialogue in a Digital Age. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Parker: Fifty years ago\, en route to New York after doing volunteer work in Palestine\, I made a quick pitstop in Norway to visit a friend. I never left. Funnily enough as fate will have it\, I met a Norwegian\, not here in Norway\, but at a creativity conference in Buffalo\, N.Y.  He later became my husband and business partner. \n\n\n\nI have been officially retired for several years\, but I often have conversations around the kitchen table with consultants searching for new ways to support dialogue and creativity in their client organizations. A few years ago\, Anna Pool and I co-authored Creating Futures that Matter Today – Facilitating Change through Shared Vision. We described methodologies and experiences with integrating dialogue and processes for creating shared vision\, and the exciting breakthroughs achieved when using these in combination. \n\n\n\nOtherwise here in Norway\, my life as a soon-to-be 85 year old is enriched by having a son with family nearby\, a mountain cabin\, a loving dog\, access to cultural activities\, a long-standing dialogue group\, good friends and legs that still allow for hiking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusanna Ruebsaat\, PhD\, BCATR\, RCC\, RCC-ACS (Provisional) is a registered art therapist and clinical counselor\, supervisor and doctoral mentor at City University\, Vancouver\, BC. She has been in practice for 25 years. She has a background in Jungian theory and practice and is also interested in further exploring Existential Psychoanalysis in its endeavour to engage rather than fear the unknown\, understanding the unknown as the necessary condition for creativity. \n\n\n\nSusanna has one book published: Mourning the Dream/Amor Fati. An Illustrated Mythopoetic Inquiry\, and is working on her second: I Myself am a Dream. Growing Down into Our Mythological Roots. \n\n\n\nShe writes\, ”Our demons hold\, as do our dreams\, deep pools of our archetypal life to be reflected upon. Archetypal would include ancestral. If we can be with our own hauntings those of other people might seem less ferocious.
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Science:  What Western Science Metrics Don’t Know – And Can’t Know
DESCRIPTION:The Hidden Science:  What Western Science Metrics Don’t Know – And Can’t Know \n\n\n\nIndigenous Dialogue with Leroy Little Bear and Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Marie-Eve Marchand\, Kent Monkman\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 30\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n3-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this third annual Indigenous Dialogue\, facilitated by Leroy Little Bear. This year we will have an extended dialogue session – two full hours of dialogue\, a short break\, then another hour of Q&A with Leroy and his guests. Our topic this year promises to be no less provocative than those of previous years\, as we find ourselves in the interface of western and indigenous world views. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear\, PhD. Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, Canada \n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (Kainai First Nation)\, approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge\, Alberta. One of the first Native students to complete a program of study at the University of Lethbridge\, Little Bear graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. He continued his education at the College of Law\, University of Utah\, in Salt Lake City\, completing a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975. \n\n\n\nFollowing his graduation\, Little Bear returned to his alma mater as a founding member of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department. He remained at the University of Lethbridge as a researcher\, faculty member and department chair until his official retirement in 1997. \n\n\n\nIn recent years Little Bear has continued his influential work as an advocate for First Nations education. From January 1998 to June 1999 he served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Upon his return to Canada\, he was instrumental in the creation of a Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge—the only program of its kind in the country. \n\n\n\nAlong with his wife\, Amethyst First Rider\, Little Bear brought about the historic Buffalo Treaty between First Nations on both sides of the USA-Canada border in 2014. Little Bear was inducted into the Alberta Order Excellence and the Order of Canada in 2016 and 2019 respectively. After a lifetime of educational service\, Little Bear remains a dedicated and dynamic teacher and mentor to students and faculty at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to pursue new research interests including North American Indian science and Western physics\, and the exploration of Blackfoot knowledge through songs\, stories and landscape. \n\n\n\nDr. Little Bear is the co-author of several books on self-government and Aboriginal rights\, including Pathways to Self Determination\, Quest For Justice\, and Governments in Conflict. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeannette Armstrong\, Syilx Okanagan\, is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy at UBC Okanagan Campus. She is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Nsyilxcn Okanagan language\, and a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation.  She is a founder of En’owkin\, the Okanagan Nsyilxcn language and knowledge institution of higher learning of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures. \n\n\n\nJeannette is the recipient of the Eco Trust USA Buffett Award in Indigenous Leadership\, and in 2016 received the BC George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an author whose published works include poetry\, prose and children’s literary titles\, and academic writing on a wide variety of Indigenous issues.  She currently serves on Canada’s Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Jeannette was recently named to the class of 2021 as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. \n\n\n\nJeannette Armstrong was made Officer of the Order of Canada\, as announced by Governor General of Canada\, Mary Simon\, on June 30\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSome of her publications include: \n\n\n\n\nSlash. Theytus\, 1987; revised edition\, 1998.\n\n\n\nWhispering in Shadows. Theytus Books\, 1999.\n\n\n\nBreathtracks. Theytus\, 1991.\n\n\n\nEnwhisteetkwa; Walk in Water (for children). Theytus\, 1982.\n\n\n\nNeekna and Chemai (for children)\, illustrated by Barbara Marchand. Theytus\, 1984.\n\n\n\nwith Douglas Cardinal. The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse. Theytus\, 1992.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGregory Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo\, New Mexico. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete is a practicing ceramic\, pastel and metal artist. He is extensively involved with art and its application to education. He is also a scholar of herbalism and holistic health. Dr. Cajete also designs culturally-responsive curricula geared to the special needs and learning styles of Native American students. \n\n\n\nHe worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico for 21 years. While at the Institute\, he served as Dean of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange\, Chair of Native American Studies and Professor of Ethno- Science.  He is the former Director of Native American Studies (18 years) and is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Language\, Literacy and Socio Cultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.  In addition\, he has lectured at colleges and universities in the U.S.\, Canada\, Mexico\, New Zealand\, Italy\, Japan\, Russia\, Taiwan\, Ecuador\, Peru\, Bolivia\, England\, France and Germany. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete has authored 10 books: “Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education\,” (Kivaki Press\, 1994); “Ignite the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Curriculum Model”\, (Kivaki Press\, 1999); “Spirit of the Game: Indigenous Wellsprings (2004)\,”  “A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living\,” and “Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence” (Clear Light Publishers\, 1999 and 2000).   “Critical Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom\,” Don Jacobs (Four Arrows)\, Gregory Cajete and Jongmin Lee) Sense Publishers\, 2010.  “Indigenous Community: Teachings of the Seventh Fire\,” (Living Justice Press\, 2015). His most recent books are edited volumes entitled: “Native Minds Rising” and “Sacred Journeys” (John Charlton Publications\, 2020). Dr. Cajete also has chapters in 36 other books along with numerous articles and over 350 national and international presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarie-Eve Marchand is a system entrepreneur who dedicates her life to bring culture\, conservation sciences\, communications\, and policy together for better relationships between Peoples and Nature. Over the last decade\, she has successfully coordinated the Bison Belong Initiative to bring back Bison in Banff National Park and is actively supporting The Buffalo: A Treaty of Cooperation\, Renewal and Restoration as the Executive Director of the Indigenous-led International Buffalo Relations Institute. She is also a member of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and of the Species Commission\, Bison Specialist Group and was the Business and Strategies Manager for the IUCN WCPA Post-2020 Task Force to support an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework. \n\n\n\nMarie-Eve is the Chair of the IUCN Green List Expert Assessment Group in Quebec\, the first in Canada to improve effective management and governance for different relations to conservation in protected and conserved areas. She previously received the national Golden Leaf Award for her work on protecting the last undammed river in Southern Quebec\, Dumoine River\, and played a key role in the Quebec government’s commitment to protect at least half of Northern Quebec. She is from Lac-St-Jean\, Quebec and she lives with her husband Harvey Locke in Banff National Park. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKent Monkman (b. 1965) is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba)\, he lives and works in Dish With One Spoon Territory (Toronto\, Canada). \n\n\n\nKnown for his thought-provoking interventions into Western European and American art history\, Monkman explores themes of colonization\, sexuality\, loss\, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across painting\, film/video\, performance\, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-traveling\, shape-shifting\, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. \n\n\n\nMonkman’s painting and installation works have been exhibited at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Musée d’artcontemporain de Montréal; The National Gallery of Canada; Crystal Bridges Museumof American Art; Hayward Gallery; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; Musée d’art Contemporain de Rochechouart; Maison Rouge; Philbrook Museum of Art; and Palais de Tokyo. He has created site-specific performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Royal Ontario Museum; Compton Verney\, Warwickshire; and The Denver Art Museum. Monkman has had two nationally touring solo exhibitions\, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (2017-2020)\, and The Triumph of Mischief (2007-2010). \n\n\n\nMonkman’s short film and video works\, collaboratively made with Gisèle Gordon\, have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale (2007\, 2008) and the Toronto International Film Festival (2007\, 2015). Monkman is the recipient of the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017)\, an honorary doctorate degree from OCAD University (2017)\, the Indspire Award (2014)\, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2014). \n\n\n\nKent Monkman was made Officer of the Order of Canada\, as announced by Governor General of Canada\, Mary Simon\, on June 30\, 2023 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, Holoflux: Codex – Form / Movement / Vision inspired by David Bohm (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 Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; 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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-hidden-science-what-western-science-metrics-dont-show-and-cant-know/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Bohm’s Physics
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Bohm’s Physics \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday August 5\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm made very important contributions to a range of different areas in physics. Amongst these\, his work on quantum theory is possibly the most relevant to Pari discussions. In this talk I will attempt to outline Bohm’s ontological interpretation of quantum theory\, which has since been developed by Basil Hiley amongst others. I will also discuss Bohm’s development of the Einstein-Podalsky-Rosen (EPR paradox) paper which led to John Bell’s work and our current understanding of entanglement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Program\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 2000 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/introduction-to-bohms-physics/
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SUMMARY:Bohm's Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation Between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend
DESCRIPTION:Bohm’s Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation Between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend \n\n\n\nwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nChaired by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 6\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nQuantum mechanics is often regarded as an important case for pluralism in science\, as the theory allows for a plurality of interpretations. This talk shows that scientific pluralism is also historically connected to quantum mechanics: in particular\, the philosopher of science\, Paul Feyerabend developed his arguments for pluralism in the context of debates on quantum mechanics and in conversation with David Bohm. \n\n\n\nIn 1952\, Bohm published an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics\, demonstrating the possibility of non-standard interpretations. Bohm himself regarded this interpretation merely as a starting point for a more thorough rethinking of the foundations of quantum physics\, and argued that what was needed was the development of new concepts\, which could form the basis for a genuinely new theory yielding new predictions. In this context\, Bohm developed general arguments for pluralism in science: he argued that to avoid being trapped within a conceptual scheme\, scientists should always actively try to develop alternatives to current theories. In 1957\, Feyerabend and Bohm became colleagues in Bristol\, where they regularly discussed physics and philosophy. Bohm had a large influence on the development of Feyerabend’s pluralistic philosophy of science: Feyerabend in fact attributed one of his main arguments for pluralism to Bohm. Feyerabend saw pluralism as particularly urgent in quantum physics: in his perception\, Bohm’s alternative account of quantum physics was dogmatically rejected by the community of quantum physicists. \n\n\n\nHowever\, as Feyerabend’s understanding of the complexities of quantum physics and its historical development grew\, his criticism of the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics gradually became weaker\, and his views on pluralism changed: whereas pluralism remained an important virtue for Feyerabend\, he no longer thought that it should be imposed on science as a methodological requirement. Meanwhile\, Bohm’s attempts to develop a new conceptual framework for quantum physics remained largely unsuccessful\, and from the late 1970s\, he returned to his original interpretation from 1952. This interpretation has become increasingly popular\, but it is not the genuinely new theory which Bohm envisioned: it largely uses classical concepts and has not yielded new predictions. Despite the plurality of interpretations of quantum mechanics which one can find nowadays\, it is hard to find one which presents a new theoretical framework of the kind Bohm and Feyerabend envisioned. It thus seems that the pluralism for which Feyerabend and Bohm argued turned out to be hard to realize in practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarij van Strien is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. After studying physics and history and philosophy of science at Utrecht University\, she obtained a PhD at Ghent University. Her research focusses on the relation between physics and philosophy\, and in particular the philosophical implications that have been drawn and can be drawn from theories in physics.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/bohms-views-on-pluralism-in-science-and-the-relation-between-bohm-and-paul-feyerabend/
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SUMMARY:Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind and Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind and Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith William Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 12\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm and Hugh Everett were both mavericks in physics\,  bucking the Copenhagen trend (which was exceptionally  powerful during their formative years and long after). They each developed a surprising and novel interpretation  of quantum mechanics\, which shared some features but were  also radically dissimilar\, almost as dissimilar as their  personalities and outlook on life. Their views have been much  discussed\, but less has been said of the place of mind  and consciousness within their interpretations. Bohm wrote  more explicitly about this\, but Everett said very little about  the nature of mind. Here\, I want to explore their views\, to outline Bohm’s approach to the mind and to see how mind can  be integrated with the so-called Many-Worlds interpretation we owe to Everett. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Seager is Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has been working on the the philosophy of mind and especially the problem of consciousness for about 45 years\, but still hasn’t gotten very far. Two recent books of his are Theories of Consciousness (2nd ed. 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (2020).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/maverick-minds-bohm-and-everett-on-mind-and-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observer
DESCRIPTION:Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observer \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 13\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThis talk considers Bohm’s view of the self and the observer in the light of the recently published Bohm’s letters to Jeffrey Bub. (C. Talbot ed. (2020) David Bohm’s Critique of Modern Physics. Letters to Jeffrey Bub\, 1966-1969. Cham: Springer).  Bohm’s view is influenced on the one hand by the situation in quantum physics\, where the role of the observer is an important topic.  But there are also influences from his discussions with Krishnamurti. According to Bohm the plain fact in the mental domain is that observation is going on\, but there is no separate observer inside the mind\, who would be “doing the looking”.  Is this view plausible and consistent\, and how does it relate to other contemporary views of the self? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, Ph.D.\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/bohms-view-of-the-self-and-the-observer/
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Mauro Biglino
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtyPeSbULM\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Mauro Biglino and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday August 239:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe eighth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday August 23\, 2023 with Mauro Biglino. Our conversation will orbit around “the literal translation of the Bible and the oldest secret in history”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Biglino is an Italian biblical scholar\, translator\, popularizer and best-selling author for Mondadori\, one of the major publishing houses in Italy. During his career\, Biglino has directed and supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo\, Italy’s main Catholic publisher. Mauro’s books take the reader by the hand and – free of any preconceptions or theological filters – accompany them through a fascinating narration of biblical verses\, which are analysed in their original form in ancient Hebrew.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-mauro-biglino/
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SUMMARY:David Bohm and An Order Between and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:David Bohm and An Order Between and Beyond: Toward a New Human Being and a New Culture\n\n\n\nwith David Schrum \n\n\n\nand guests Steven Rosen and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 26\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was a physicist and an explorer of mind who probed deeply the question of what might bring about a transformation of consciousness in the individual and in society as a whole. Such a renaissance he perceived could arise as humanity awakened to what he termed orders between and beyond\, new orders of cognition within which thought would operate in a movement subtle and creative. One approach that he brought to opening this understanding to others was to bring attention to how new orders of perception may be formed by bringing together and transcending orders already present. \n\n\n\nWe will look into several such transformations of order to develop a feeling for this\, following which we will focus on the ubiquitous orders of understanding which Bohm terms ‘literal’ thought and ‘participatory’ thought. The processes involved in these two sorts of comprehension\, we nowadays recognize as corresponding respectively to left hemisphere- and right hemisphere-dominated activities of the brain. Considering these orders brings out David Bohm’s approach to exploration of consciousness\, and it opens into his perception of truth as a process. This latter view brings questions as to its possible relevance to metaphysics and to cognitive science. \n\n\n\nWe will explore what it is to enter into these issues not only conceptually but also in movements subtle beyond words\, as it is in the liminal region beyond the poles of concepts on one hand and felt movement on the other\, that we may participate in a vital order between. \n\n\n\nAfter the presentation\, a roundtable discussion with Paavo Pylkkanen\, Steven M. Rosen\, and David Schrum will consider these issues. This will be followed and continued by participation of the group as a whole. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory at Queen’s University\, following which he spent two post-doctoral years with David Bohm at Birkbeck College. Here\, he entered Bohm’s world of creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics and his enquiry into consciousness and what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum continues in these explorations\, in physics developing a new approach to relativistic quantum theory and\, through the dialogue process\, going into what it is to bring to light that which lies enfolded within our individual and collective consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven M. Rosen is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. After receiving his Ph.D. in psychology from the City University in 1971\, he began exploring the foundations\, frontiers\, and poetics of science\, his work becoming transdisciplinary and philosophical in nature. Rosen’s essays have appeared in journals and collections spanning the fields of philosophy\, psychology\, theoretical physics\, education\, semiotics\, and ecology. His published books include Science\, Paradox\, and the Moebius Principle (1994)\, Dimensions of Apeiron (2004)\, Topologies of the Flesh (2006)\, and The Self-Evolving Cosmos (2008). Rosen’s website is embodyingcyberspace.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, Ph.D.\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
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SUMMARY:Bohm and Language
DESCRIPTION:Bohm and Language \n\n\n\nwith Jens Allwood\, Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 27\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThere was “a linguistic turn” in Bohm’s thinking\, particularly as a result of interaction with Donald Schumacher.  Among other things this led Bohm to propose a new language mode\, the rheomode which gives the verb a central role in language structure.  In this session Bohm’s proposals will be considered and critically examined. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJens Allwood is professor of Linguistics at the University Gothenburg. He is also professor of communication studies at Strömstad Academy. He is born in Moline\, Illinois\, USA in 1947. He is active as a researcher and professor emeritus in projects at the University of Gothenburg and in the Company Communication Development J.A. & E.A. HB. He is the director of Marston Hill Intercultural Center for Quality of Life\, chairman of the board of the Immigrant Institute and editor in chief of the Journal of Intercultural Communication (on-line\, open access). He has worked as researcher and teacher in linguistics\, specialized in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, multimodal communication and intercultural communication. He has coordinated and participated in a large number of national and international research project in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, studies of spoken language\, multimodal communication\, intercultural communication and development of research and research education. He has been the chairman of the department of linguistics\, section manager of the Interdisciplinary center SCCIIL (semantics\, cognition\, communication\, information\, interaction). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Richter is a Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig University (Department of Natural Language Processing)\, and at the Institute of Applied Computer Science (InfAI) in Leipzig. His fields of research include Models of Communication in natural language; information theory;corpus linguistics\, lexical semantics; text mining; application of information theory in digital humanities; andsyntax models of natural language. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, Ph.D.\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science\, the Arts and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Mary Attwood\, John Cleese (via Zoom)\, John Krakauer\, Mervat Nasser\, Melissa Nelson\, John Pickering\, Jordi Pigem\, Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1995.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich 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\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nThere was a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. This initial vision was lost\, leading to a bifurcation of nature that has impeded human flourishing. In the medieval hilltop of a Tuscan town\, we will seek to explore and experience the underlying wholeness that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind\, and the sense of the sacred. \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 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\nThe 20th century composer of devotional music\, John Tavener\, has written of the “one simple memory\,” a deeply buried sense of a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. In that period the artisan\, miner\, metal worker and artist alike were considered as the midwives to nature\, aiding her in her striving to perfection. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli believed that this sprit was still alive in the 17th century when the quantitative science of Kepler and Galileo coexisted with a more deeply symbolic approach to nature and matter—each complementing the other. This later vanished in the hands of the followers of Descartes and Newton and\, for Wolfgang Pauli\, the ‘spirit in matter’ was banished for over two hundred years. Particularly in the twentieth century\, physics (and subsequently other major disciplines\, mirroring themselves in it) had lost its initial vision and become obsessed with a “will to power” as it sought control over nature. A “bifurcation of nature” —the harsh separation of reality as conceived by science and as experienced by humans (including scientists) —\, in the words of mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead\, is one of the greatest fallacies of modernity and a major impediment to human flourishing. However\, a “resurrection” of spirit within matter may be at hand today. Such wholeness can be explored in the medieval hilltop town of Pari\, Tuscany\, for in the Middle Ages nature\, beauty and the sacred were seen as one. The presenters and participants who come to Pari will bring together many skills to the discussions on the relationship of religious ritual to sacred theatre; of brain activity to the orders of music and mathematics; the ultimate nature of reality as seen from these various disciplines; limitations to knowing\, and questions of the origin of the universe. Topics move towards questions that stretch the limits and boundaries that are currently placed around science\, the sacred and the arts. We will discuss\, and hopefully experience\, the underlying unity that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind and the spiritual quest. We shall seek to “re-member” such one simple memory — indeed\, we have taken as our maxim a quotation from Carlo Levi “The future has an ancient heart.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Art of Seeing: Rediscovering the Four Senses HermeneuticMary Attwood \n\n\n\nThe Humanities as an Emergent Level of ExplanationJohn Krakauer \n\n\n\nThe Return of Hermopolis as Healing MemoryMervat Nassar \n\n\n\nThe Journey is the Goal and Beauty is our Guide John Pickering \n\n\n\nTowards a Postmaterialistic Worldview: Contributions from Contemporary Science and Eastern and Western PhilosophyJordi Pigem \n\n\n\nDante\, Blake and the Revelation of UnityMark Vernon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf
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SUMMARY:Benign Anarchy!
DESCRIPTION:Benign Anarchy! \n\n\n\nA gathering of members of AA and NA(mainly Irish!) but open to anyone interested in Dialogue..as developed by David Bohm and also Martin Bubers “I-Thou \n\n\n\nDates: September 9 – September 16\, 2023 \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Tom C.\,  Rose R.\,  Jim C. \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 890 euros for single occupancy\, 730 for shared occupancy (two-bedroom apartment\, shared bathroom) \n\n\n\nwhich 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\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Saturday September 9 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Saturday September 16 after lunch. \n\n\n\nRegistration and Information: Please contact Tom tcallagyp@gmail.com or Eleanor eleanor@paricenter.com or Chiara chiara@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA Pari gathering/retreat for members of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) plus family and friends will be held in Pari\, Tuscany from September 9-16\, 2023 (Saturday to Saturday). \n\n\n\nThe format will be a combination of closed AA and NA meetings and meditation\, and some open meetings which everyone can attend. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped to have discussion groups/workshops on the history of AA and NA; the influence of Carl Jung on Bill W; a talk on Bill W. and Jimmy K. by Irene C.; the deep wisdom of the 12 Steps and the profundity of the 12 traditions. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped the golden thread running through our week will be‘The Language of the Heart.’ \n\n\n\nAll of the above in magical Pari—the creation of David Peat and Maureen Doolan. Here we will have wonderful Italian food—and—talk\, talk\, talk in the outdoor café\, with music and dancing in the square\, soaking in the sulphur springs\, and joy and laughter! \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only attending meetings but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the local population\, eating local dishes\, 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. \n\n\n\nAdditional information about the Pari Center – pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/benign-anarchy/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Tanya Luhrmann
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recoding\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnEcZxvB1WU\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Tanya Luhrmann and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday September 139:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ninth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday September 13\, 2023 with Tanya Luhrmann. Our conversation will orbit around “belief\, experience\, and how things come to feel real to people”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University\, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices\, visions\, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She has done ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women\, and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai\, Accra and the South Bay. She has also done fieldwork with evangelical Christians who seek to hear God speak back\, with Zoroastrians who set out to create a more mystical faith\, and with people who practice magic. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the way people feel their thoughts and imagine their minds in different social settings\, and what follows. At the heart of the work is the question of how things come to feel real to people. \n\n\n\nShe was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003\, received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007 and elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. When God Talks Back was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It was awarded the $100\,000 Grawemeyer Prize for Religion by the University of Louisville. She is also the author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft\, The Good Parsi\, Of Two Minds\, When God Talks Back\, Our Most Troubling Madness\, and How God Becomes Real\, and is currently at work on a book entitled Voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-tanya-lurhmann/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Luca Possati
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orWU_MLoK54\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Luca Possati and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday October 189:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe tenth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday October 18\, 2023 with Luca Possati. Our conversation will orbit around “AI and psychoanalysis”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuca M. Possati is a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). Educated as a philosopher\, he has been researcher and lecturer at the University of Porto (Portugal) and Institut Catholique (France)\, and associate researcher of the Fonds Ricoeur and EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). His research focuses on philosophy of technology and AI\, technology assessment\, AI ethics\, and ethics of quantum technologies. He also works in the field of software studies. He has published numerous papers and books on phenomenology\, and history of contemporary philosophy. He is the author of The Algorithmic Unconscious. How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge\, 2021). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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SUMMARY:Galileo at 400
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recordings\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66cS8XoQ2A\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4btmqCOYhpk\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOeqgq4ymIY\n\n\n\n\n\nGalileo at 400 \n\n\n\nLooking Through 21st Century Telescopes \n\n\n\nwith Avi Loeb\, Dean Radin\, David Lorimer\, Athena Potari\, Marjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nCurated by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nFree Program in 3 Parts \n\n\n\nTuesday October 3110:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nPart 1 – The Assayer – To Watch the recordingA reading together of Galileo’s seminal book with Àlex Gómez-Marín and James Peat BarbieriFriday October 20 at 12:00-13:30 EDT\, 17:00-18:30 BST\, 18:00-19:30 CEST \n\n\n\nPart 2 – Exploring Outer and Inner Spaces- To Watch the RecordingA conversation between Avi Loeb and Dean Radin with Àlex Gómez-MarínWednesday October 25 at 13:00-14:30 EDT\, 18:00-19:30 BST\, 19:00-20:30 CEST \n\n\n\nPart 3 – Expanding the Scope of Science with the Galileo CommissionA dialogue between David Lorimer\, Marjorie Woollacott\, Athena Potari\, and Àlex Gómez-MarínTuesday October 31 at 12:00-13:30 EDT\, 17:00-18:30 GMT\, 18:00-19:30 CET \n\n\n\nIn this online series we will revisit Galileo’s book\, The Assayer\, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication this very month of October. \n\n\n\nWritten as a letter in a controversy about the nature of comets\, such a foundational text in the history of modern science deserves to be more widely known and read. It contains one of the first and clearest articulations of the scientific method\, the famous claim about the mathematical intelligibility of nature\, and Galileo’s emphasis on epistemic humility in the face of dogma and authority. Remarkably\, in the book we also find Galileo’s programmatic exclusion of consciousness from the purview of science\, whose consequences we are still wrestling with today. \n\n\n\nCelebrating “Galileo at 400” shall inspire us to dare to look through current “telescopes” in order to continue exploring our inner and outer spaces while expanding the scope of science as we know it. \n\n\n\nGalileo’s indelible legacy can be grasped directly from his own words. We encourage attendees to get first-hand experience with The Assayer before the event\, via the free material linked below. \n\n\n\nREFERENCES \n\n\n\n(1)    ABRIDGED ENGLISH TRANSLATION: G. Galilei\, in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618\, S. Drake\, C. D. O’Malley\, Transl. (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press\, 1960). You can read it for free here: https://web.stanford.edu/~jsabol/certainty/readings/Galileo-Assayer.pdf \n\n\n\n(2)    ORIGINAL TEXT IN ITALIAN: G. Galilei\, Il Saggiatore [Works of Galileo Galilei\, Part 3\, Volume 15\, Astronomy: The Assayer] (Giacomo Mascardi\, 1623). You can read it for free here: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666740/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird\, Jr.\, Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Die Zeit\, Der Spiegel\, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986)\, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988)\, and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books\, including most recently\, Extraterrestrial\, and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 119 and i10-index of 543) on a wide range of topics\, including black holes\, the first stars\, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project(2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, the American Physical Society\, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House\, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a current member of the Advisory Board for “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible” of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012\, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb’s commentaries on innovation and diversity. \n\n\n\nPersonal website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, and chairman of the genetic engineering company\, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University (an accredited university in Bangalore\, India). He served for five terms as President of the Parapsychological Association (PA)\, a professional society affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS))\, and in 2023 received the PA’s Outstanding Career Award. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the IONS research staff in 2001\, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs\, Princeton University\, University of Edinburgh\, and SRI International. He has given over 750 talks and interviews worldwide\, and he is author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles\, four dozen book chapters\, and nine books\, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997\, HarperCollins)\, Entangled Minds (2006\, Simon & Schuster)\, Supernormal (2013\, RandomHouse)\, and Real Magic (2018\, PenguinRandomHouse). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lorimer\, MA\, PGCE\, FRSA is a writer\, lecturer\, poet\, editor and spiritual activist who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland\, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society (www.swedenborgsociety.org.uk). He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org)  and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every year since the late 1980s. \n\n\n\nOriginally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College\, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books\, including Survival? Death as Transition (1984\, 2017) Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One) (1990/2017)\, The Spirit of Science (1998)\, Thinking Beyond the Brain (2001)\, The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about the Bulgarian sage Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov): Prophet for our Times (1991\, 2015)\, The Circle of Sacred Dance\, and Gems of Love\, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince (2003) – has been translated into Dutch\, Spanish and French. His new book of essays\, A Quest for Wisdom was published in 2021. \n\n\n\nDavid is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the expand the evidence base of science of consciousness beyond a materialistic world view. \n\n\n\nIn 2020 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader by the Visioneers International Network and the 2021 Aboca Human Ecology Prize. He is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest. His website is www.davidlorimer.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Athena Potari is Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford\, specializing in Political Philosophy\, and her MA in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is recipient of the Academy of Athens Award of Philosophy (2020)\, author of A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities published by the Galileo Commission\, and Member of the Galileo Commission Committee. In 2019\, she founded Athenoa\, a School of Hellenic Philosophy based in Athens\, Greece where Hellenism is approached as a living wisdom tradition whose very essence consists in the inextricable combination of science\, reason and spirituality. Her work aims to revive the deeper spiritual and experiential dimensions of Hellenic Philosophy\, combining discursive rigor and embodied spiritual and meditative practices with the aim of awakening to our true Self. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Woollacott\, Ph.D.\, was Professor\, and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology\, and member of the Inst. of Neuroscience\, at the U. of Oregon for 35 yrs. She is Co-director of the Galileo Commission\, President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences (AAPS) and Research Director for the Intl. Assoc. of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). She has received over 7.2 million dollars in research funding and published more than 200 scientific articles on her research in medicine\, meditation and spiritual awakening. Her book\, Infinite Awareness (2015) pairs Woollacott’s research as a neuroscientist with her self-revelations about the mind’s spiritual power. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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SUMMARY:The Science of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:Perspectives from Physics\, Ecology\, Psychology\, and Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday\, John Briggs\, Chamkaur Ghag\, Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Àlex Gómez-Marín\, Roger Nelson and Robert Toth \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nNovember 4 – 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nAcross the broad span of wisdom traditions\, one encounter is of key significance: some direct access or contact with the ground of being. \n\n\n\nEven in this secular age\, dominated as we are by the materialistic\, reductionist paradigm of western science\, these transcendent experiences still occur\, even amongst members of the scientific community. \n\n\n\nWhile this experience is always inexpressible in detail\, it commonly involves an overwhelming feeling of wholeness\, a blurring of the line between subject and object\, a melting away of divisions and an immersion in a state of participatory  consciousness. \n\n\n\nIf the underlying ground of reality is an inexpressible whole\, beyond aspects and distinctions\, we might expect some echo of this to emerge in our scientific investigations. David Bohm certainly had this intuition\, which coloured his approach to quantum theory especially and science and philosophy more generally. \n\n\n\nIn this series of workshops\, we will investigate the extent to which modern science has encountered aspects of wholeness\, non-local consciousness and the subject-object distinction. We will also consider what a post-reductionist science might look like\, drawing on the experiences of indigenous cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 4Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday November 5Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Datawith Roger Nelson \n\n\n\nSunday November 12Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)with Àlex Gómez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 18Holocentric Indigenous Consciousnesswith Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and John Briggs \n\n\n\nSunday November 19Universe as Processwith Chamkaur Ghag
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SUMMARY:Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 1/6: Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? (with Dr. Jonathan Allday)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoes Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday November 4\, 202310:00am PDT | 1:00pm EDT | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn the 1970s\, a series of books\, such as The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters\, explored the supposed synergies between quantum theory and the wisdom traditions. These well-meaning books spawned something of an industry and associated quantum hype where quantum theory was portrayed as supporting\, or worse justifying\, certain worldviews. \n\n\n\nTypically\, these approaches drew on the Copenhagen interpretation\, the idea that the mind causes quantum state collapse and the physics of entanglement and related them to the experience of non-duality\, wholeness and immersion in a universal mind characteristic of spiritual insight. \n\n\n\nIt is now time to look back on these ideas in the light of 50 years further thought on quantum theory and its philosophical implications and to draw some more nuanced conclusions. In the words of Eddington[1] “I have not suggested that either religion or free-will can be deduced from modern physics; I have limited myself to showing that certain difficulties in reconciling them have been removed.” \n\n\n\n[1] Eddington “New Pathways in Science”\, 1935\, p306 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\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:Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 2/6: Global Consciousness – Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data (with Dr. Roger Nelson)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlobal Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Roger Nelson \n\n\n\nSunday November 5\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is a long-term experiment using a world-spanning network of physical random number generators to collect data continuously\, 24/7\, since 1998. We have recorded parallel sequences of data from the network\, consisting of trials of 200 bits recorded each second at each node and sent to archiving servers in Princeton\, NJ. A formal experiment ran for 17 years and comprised 500 replications of fully specified and pre-registered event analyses. These tested a general hypothesis that engaging events of deep interest to large numbers of people around the world would correspond to departures of the random data from expectation. Compounded results across the 500 events confirmed the hypothesis (Z = 7.310) and provided a sound basis for further analysis to help understand the effects. A number of explanatory propositions have been suggested\, and of those\, two stand out\, a field-like model and an experimenter effect model. In this talk I will consider several independent analyses and applications using GCP data\, including analyses that examine all the data\, not just the identified formal events. Neuroscience tools for assessing evoked response potentials (ERP) are applied to the GCP data to look for possible structure from a stimulus-response perspective. All of these additional analyses and applications identify structure that cannot be explained by an experimenter effect or goal orientation model. They are\, however\, naturally encompassed by field-like models. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\nRoger Nelson\, PhD\, is Director of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP). He studied physics and sculpture at the University of Rochester\, and experimental psychology at New York University and Columbia. He is the author or co-author of 100 technical papers and three books: Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness\, Der Welt-Geist: wie wir alle miteinander verbunden sind\, and Die Welt-Kraft in Dir (German) with Georg Kindel. He was Professor of Psychology at Johnson State College in northern Vermont\, and in 1980 joined Princeton University’s PEAR lab to coordinate research. His focus is on mental interactions\, anomalous information transfer\, and effects on random systems by individuals and groups. He created the GCP in 1997\, building a world-spanning random number generator network designed to gather evidence of coalescing global consciousness. He lives in Princeton\, NJ\, USA\, and his website is https://global-mind.org
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SUMMARY:Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 4/6: Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter) with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExtending the Mind (and Intending Matter) \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nSunday November 12\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nMost neuroscientists are convinced that minds live in skull confinement — after all\, their metaphysical gospel (cloaked in brain scans) insists that minds are “nothing but” what brains do. Some occasionally let their minds stroll within the body\, acknowledging the importance of heart and gut\, while maintaining the brain as organ king. A few conservative radicals go further and claim that minds can also protract into the world\, much like the blind’s cane or everyone’s phone. Such an “extended mind” is seriously meant but often so rather metaphorically as a heterodox way to lessen the duality by spreading “mind” like butter in the bread of “matter”. I wonder if that’s sufficient\, or even necessary. We are still struggling with Descartes’ forced divorce between “res cogitans” and “res extensa”; extended stuff can’t think and thinking stuff can’t enjoy extension. I will argue for a possible dissolution/absolution of the problem and flesh such theoretical considerations with ongoing empirical work on the putative ability of living organisms for non-sensory perception and non-motor action\, stepping deep into heretical neuro-land. I will also discuss conceptual implications for the ever-failing quest to locate memories in the brain. Regardless of one’s preferred “-ism”\, we must heal such an ontological wound at the heart of science and of civilization. You can indeed separate the whole into parts (split a football\, dissect a dog)\, but you cannot do so without it changing in kind (the game is over\, the dog is dead). At the end of the day\, we need to think\, feel\, and practice a science of wholeness beyond New Age “woo-woo” and Old Rage “poo-poo”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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SUMMARY:Holocentric Indigenous Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 5/6: Holocentric Indigenous Consciousness (with Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and Dr. John Briggs)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHolocentric Indigenous Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and Dr. John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday November 18\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nTraditional Indigenous people the world over regularly employ a holistic mode of consciousness that affirms they are inseparable from the natural world. Their lives are guided by this mode. The holocentric mode is a natural feature of all human consciousness but has been suppressed in the last few thousand years by the rise of cultures organized from a second ancient mode of consciousness: the anthropocentric or human-centered mode. \n\n\n\nAnthropocentric consciousness\, which derives from perceptions that the world is made of separate things dominates the way most people living today perceive reality. By contrast\, holocentric consciousness focuses on the world as a source of unity\, relationships\, and beauty. The holocentric mode of consciousness continues to function as a “ground state consciousness” for traditional Indigenous people and\, in a different context\, for creative artists. \n\n\n\nThe anthropocentric and holocentric modes are roughly parallel to the awarenesses of the left and right brains functions as described by Ian McGilchrist. \n\n\n\nIndigenous cultures are shot through with an attention to the whole. The world is approached as a living being and a collection of fellow beings acknowledged in the Lakota phrase\, mitakuye oyasin\, “all my relations”— animal\, vegetable\, water\, wind\, land\, sun\, sky: all things which are not things\, but spirit. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will show\, a holocentered way of being is manifest in the traditional practice of reciprocity; in ceremonies; in metaphors shaped in stories\, art and dance\, and in engagement with what Leroy Little Bear\, borrowing from his friend David Bohm\, describes as the “holoflux”:  Shape shifting in the holoflux is a potent expression of Indigenous wholeness. Tiokasin says: “You will never know what is really there\, but you know something is there. As soon as you think you’ve got it\, it changes\, shape-shifts. You never get it.” \n\n\n\nWorking from material they have developed during the past seven years on Indigenous holistic consciousness\, the three presenters will sketch a picture of the original holistic mode of consciousness that has been buried and obscured by our virally growing anthropocentric knowledge and our obsessive cleverness at manipulating apparently separate things. \n\n\n\nHere’s an Indigenous story of wholeness: \n\n\n\nOne day when we were visiting her on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in southern Arizona\, our friend\, elder Ofelia Rivas said\, “My mother told me the story of how this farmer was working in the fields. He was really tired and grumpy. He came home\, did his normal things. He went to bed early and expected to go back to the fields. He had a dream in which these warriors came and said he was being called to a meeting; so he got ready. \n\n\n\n“At the time they had these little lanterns you could light and carry. I think it was kerosene they used. So he took his little light and went with the warriors. In the story he was being brought to a meeting in which he was told that he did something wrong. Did he know what he did and that people were suffering because he did something wrong. He claimed ‘I don’t know what I did wrong. Can you tell me please what it is?’ In that pleading he woke up. \n\n\n\n“He got his lantern and he walked the trail he always walked\, and he followed his footsteps all the way back to his fields. He finally found a big ant mound. When he was grumpy and was haphazardly walking on that trail\, he had accidentally kicked a pebble into the anthill’s entrance hole. Around the whole anthill were dead ants. \n\n\n\n“So he removed the pebble from the opening and he left the lantern. He told the ants\, ‘The lantern will help you warm up and you can go back in. I’m sorry this happened.’ \n\n\n\n“That’s the lesson I tell the young people. Be very careful how you walk on this land\, you don’t know what is there. You may have missed something that was important and you may have affected it in some way. Those are the kinds of lessons I learned. It’s the same way in ceremony. You regard everything as sacred.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota)\, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota.  Tiokasin is a survivor of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man\,” and the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge\, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations. He has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy.  He is a guest lecturer at many universities and international speaker and on Peace\, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspectives\, cosmology\, ecology and forestry and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of western society. Tiokasin is the founder\, host and executive producer of the 30 year-old “First Voices Radio”\, a one-hour live program syndicated to 70 radio stations in the US and Canada. \n\n\n\nHe was awarded Staten Island’s Peacemaker Award in 2013 and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 by The International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children.  He is a master musician and teacher of magical\, ancient and modern sounds and has performed for audiences worldwide.  A Sun dancer in the Lakota Nation tradition\, he describes himself as a “perfectly flawed human being.”   www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert G. Toth served as Executive Director the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living from 1998 to 2010. He co-edited Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton\, a popular series designed for small group dialogue. He is an active member of The Contemplative Alliance\, an initiative of the Global Peace Initiative of Women\, which organizes dialogues and programs around the world to advance contemplative approaches to issues affecting the welfare of all being. He also serves on the Board of the Lake Erie Institute which offers holistic ecological leadership programs to individuals engaged in creating flourishing\, regenerative\, and socially just communities. \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.
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SUMMARY:Universe as Process
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 6/6: Universe as Process (with Prof. Chamkaur Ghag)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniverse as Process \n\n\n\nwith Prof. Chamkaur Ghag \n\n\n\nSunday November 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWe will explore the relationship between apparent dichotomoies through which we perceive our universe and place within it. From wave particle duality\, to the left and right hemispheres of the brain\, to the Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity divide that plays out in the quest to understand Dark Matter\, it is becoming ever clearer that the way forward is to evolve past subjective/objective divides and come recognise the Universe as process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist leading the research at University College London (UCL) to experimentally detect dark matter in our galaxy. Prior to joining UCL in 2012 he held positions at the University of California\, Los Angeles and the University of Edinburgh\, where he completed his PhD in 2006. Chamkaur is the Spokesperson of the international LZ Collaboration\, operating the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment ever constructed. Chamkaur collaborates widely outside fundamental physics within the arts\, neuroscience and Earth sciences.
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Melissa Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0Xu9EVfbw\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Melissa Nelson and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nThursday November 309:00am 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\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe eleventh conversation in this series will be on Thursday November 30\, 2023 with Melissa Nelson. Our conversation will orbit around “Indigenous ways of knowing”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Michael Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrADU7-u5M\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Michael Murphy and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday December 209:00am 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\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nThe twelfth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday December 20\, 2023 with Michael Murphy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Murphy is a graduate of Stanford University\, co-founder of Esalen Institute in 1962\, and founder of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research. He is a key figure in the Human Potential Movement and author of The Future of the Body (1992)\, a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing\, hypnosis\, martial arts\, yogic techniques\, clairvoyance\, telepathy\, and feats of superhuman strength and extraordinary potential. He is an author of numerous books. His novels include The Kingdom of Shivas Irons\, Golf in the Kingdom\, Jacob Atabet\, and An End to Ordinary History. His latest nonfiction work is An End to Ordinary History: Comments on a Philosophical Novel. Other nonfiction work includes: God and the Evolving Universe\, co-authored with James Redfield and Sylvia Timbers; In the Zone\, an anthology of extraordinary sports experiences\, co-authored with Rhea White; The Life We Are Given\, a book about transformative practice\, co-authored with George Leonard; and The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation\, co-authored with Steve Donovan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-michael-murphy/
LOCATION:Online
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