Events

Plato’s metaphor of the cave, an underground vault where back-lit humans observe life’s goings on as a play of shadows on a wall, has long held a fascination for thinkers. It suggests that the world we experience in our day-to-day business is not all that there is. Rather it arises from structures that are less substantial to our senses, but equally real, existing in a layer of reality beneath the commonplace. Philosophically, the mainstream has moved away from Neo-Platonism, but suggestions from quantum mechanics, mathematics and other aspects of science, along with the philosophy of mind and some modern thinking on aesthetics, ethics and morality, suggest that Plato’s ideas are worth revisiting.

In a time riven by fragmentation, dislocation and conflicting narratives, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land, body and consciousness meet.

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

In resonance with Pari, its landscape, history, and community, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight, relationship and action can emerge.