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SUMMARY:Never Land: Culture\, Agriculture and the Striving after Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Jenkinson\n\n\n\nDates: May 12 – 15\, 2023 \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 725.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 3-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\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 Friday May 12 at 16:00 and ends on Monday May 15 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concept\n\n\n\nPeople half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age\, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so\, what did you do? \n\n\n\nThe most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t\, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes. \n\n\n\nWe are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not\, most of us\, belong. We inhabit\, we own\, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here\, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have\, voluntarily or not\, opted for the latter. \n\n\n\nIn this gathering —employing a format\, approach\, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance\, prejudice\, spirit work\, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Jenkinson is a poet of non-negotiable truths\, a whisperer of the unspeakable. \n\n\n\nCo-founder of the Orphan Wisdom school in Canada\, he is known as “griefwalker” in the “death trade”\, due to his insistence on avoiding the pervasive absurdity of the current cultural imperative to “die not dying”. He has also written books about elderhood and money and its corollary in the soul\, about the phenomenology of the pandemic. Relentlessly teaching about the very same untold reality\, he never says the same thing twice. His use of speech is masterfully and deliberately conjuring and sacramental. Democratizing whatever wisdom has come to him\, he means to keep nothing to himself. \n\n\n\nIn order to midwife his new book on culture and agriculture\, Stephen will do a residency at the Pari Center. The residency will culminate with a four-day teaching event\, when he will work his book out loud with participants. \n\n\n\nThe themes of the work are three-fold: our debt to the young and their obligation to life\, plant/animal domestication\, and the advent of the iron age and its contemporary edge\, the barbed wire fence\, and the obscenity of surplus. Along the way the session will consider the strange contradictory demand to return back to that land was never known by younger generations\, searching a kind of ab-solution\, a kind of neolithic restoration whose causes and consequences remain unexamined. Second\, the rather unavoidable psychic and poetic contradictions of animal domestication in farms. Third\, the strange sense of victory contemporary Western cultures revel in as estrangement from the natural order deepens and we begin flirt with our demise. \n\n\n\nStephen’s allegations are a dark pool of light – a harsh blessing that calls for reckoning in times of trouble. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Participants\n\n\n\nPeople will be challenged at a level typically unwelcome in gatherings covertly designed to find self-avowal. \n\n\n\nThis is how Stephen’s workshops and lectures work: We will address our limits\, frailties\, and endings. A mostly troubling radicalized hospitality will be provided. Seeking commitment rather than interest\, people will be vehemently minded. Instead of reaffirming an inarticulate longing that rests on associations devoid of grounding\, we will seek to do something that is real\, that can be lived\, and that it is consequential. \n\n\n\nStephen will dissolve the notion of an audience. His work aspires to be seminal\, not a display or summary of contents. He will summon something like a learning ceremony\, not entertainment. The criteria for inclusion is suspended. Participants should consider themselves the willing casualties of a sheer willingness to entertain subversion beyond decoration. \n\n\n\nIf you are up for something that never happened before\, please register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Format\n\n\n\nIt is perhaps appropriate that such attempt at a cultural redemption be explored in Pari. A small group of participants will gather in the small medieval village at the heart of Tuscany\, starting on a Friday evening\, and departing on Monday after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCoda\n\n\n\nBeing human and being humane are different things. \n\n\n\nIn the face of culture failure\, we will practice a method of inquiry that can reveal (and perhaps heal) our grief illiteracy and amnesia of ancestry beyond the pernicious triad of cope\, hope\, and dope. \n\n\n\nWe shall acknowledge our own ectopic ideas and cultural homelessness. Being radically contingent upon each generation and the troubles of their times\, wisdom is actually “too indigenous” and never indigenous-enough. \n\n\n\nThus\, this is not going to be an easy encounter. The so-called homo part of the sapiens etymologically stems from humus\, meaning earth\, ground\, soil\, and ultimately\, dirt. Celebrating Leonard Cohen’s genius verse\, “there is a crack in everything\, that’s how the light gets in”. Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with powdered gold. Dirt & grief are one portal for our very own “golden repair”.During this event we will be screening in the main piazza in Pari: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGriefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is a lyrical\, poetic portrait of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with dying people. The talk will be in English. Italian subtitles are made by Giulia Sbernini\, who will also be in attendance. \n\n\n\nWhen? Saturday\, May 13\, 2023 (8:30pm – 10:30pm followed by book signing) \n\n\n\nABOUT GRIEFWALKER ~ Filmed over a twelve year period\, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses\, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families\, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director while paddling a birch bark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die. This extraordinary film portrait reveals some of the cultural and spiritual roots that continue to shape his death and dying ideas and teachings. \n\n\n\nDying: the great blindspot in a culture awash in information\, the great arbiter in a culture adamant about extending the power of choice across all of our endeavours. Griefwalker is a feature length National Film Board of Canada documentary of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with and on behalf of dying people\, directed by Tim Wilson. It is also a profound mandate for creating sanity around the heart breaking and often toxic death fears and practices that gather at our dying time now. \n\n\n\nJenkinson asks\,”What does it take to fall in love with being alive?”\, and the answer that he offers\, both unwelcome and vitally necessary\, is\, “Being willing to see the end of what you love.” \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 1 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 2 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 3 \n\n\n\nVideo Clip 4 \n\n\n\nAvailable in DVD format in English with French subtitles\, or watch online in English\, Spanish and Hebrew versions. Note About the Watch Online Version: You can watch the online streaming version on any desktop\, tablet or mobile device that supports video while connected to a high-speed internet connection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about The Pari Center – the pdf
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/never-land-culture-agriculture-and-the-striving-after-belonging/
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SUMMARY:Mind and Life in the Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Mind and Life in the Cosmos \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Matthew David Segall \n\n\n\nSunday May 7\, 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\nContemporary physical cosmology describes a universe wherein the emergence of biological organisms can only be a fluke accident. Worse\, the very scientific minds who claim to have discovered the laws of physics are forced to explain away their own conscious intelligence as an anomaly so vanishingly improbable in an otherwise dead\, dumb cosmos that it requires the invention of an infinite number of unobservable multiverses to explain it (or rather\, to explain it away). This talk will explore an alternative but no less scientifically compatible cosmology that roots mind and life in cosmogenesis from the get go. Such an alternative allows us to coherently understand how our own type of human consciousness—which seems so alien to the universe described by materialism—is in fact just as natural as radiating stars and blooming flowers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew David Segall\, PhD\, is a transdisciplinary researcher\, author\, and teacher applying process philosophy across the natural and social sciences\, including the study of consciousness. He is a faculty member in the Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness graduate program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, CA. He is the author of several books including Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (2021) and Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (2023). Follow his work at Footnotes2Plato.com
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/mind-and-life-in-the-cosmos/
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SUMMARY:Incredible Minds
DESCRIPTION:Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual\, Virtual\, and Possible Minds Across Living Matter \n\n\n\nwith Paco Calvo\, Lars Chittka\, Audrey Dussutour\, Michael Levin\, Julia Mossbridge\, Matthew Segall \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nApril 22 – May 7\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \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\nDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities\, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin\, or not\, to ours. And\, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies\, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development\, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds\, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds\, a sister group to fungi and animals\, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What\, if anything\, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology\, and no less scientifically compatible\, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus\, at the end of the day\, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural\, and even more incredible\, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday April 22Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plantswith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSunday April 23The Mind of a Beewith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Naturewith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSunday April 30Human Thinking and Human Beingwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSaturday May 6The Use of Slime Molds in Promoting Science for and by the Peoplewith Dr. Audrey Dussutour \n\n\n\nSunday May 7Mind and Life in the Cosmoswith Dr. Matthew David Segall
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/incredible-minds-2/
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SUMMARY:Nexus with Dr Jeffrey Dunne
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phP9kecFbEc\n\n\n\n\n\nNexus \n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne in conversation with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marin \n\n\n\nTuesday April 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\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne is the President and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL)\, a charitable research organization established in the late 1990’s to build upon the foundation laid by Dr. Robert Jahn and Dr. Brenda Dunne in the research carried out at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory.  In addition to his role with ICRL\, Jeff is a researcher and systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University and an award-winning author and playwright.  In his recently published book\, Nexus\, Jeff brings unites three decades of scientific experience with four decades of pursuits in philosophy and metaphysics to weave a story that introduces the principle of syntropy and its importance of finding balance at every scale – personal\, societal\, and global.  Jeff’s driving passion is to help transform our world such that materialism gives way to the recognition of the crucial role that consciousness plays in the formation of reality. \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/nexus-with-dr-jeffery-dunne/
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SUMMARY:Reflections On Rupert Sheldrake’s “The Science Delusion”
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wA4KEjxYo\n\n\n\n\n\nReflections On Rupert Sheldrake’s “The Science Delusion” \n\n\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of his banned TED talk   \n\n\n\nDr. Rupert Sheldrakein conversation with Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nTuesday March 1410:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nIn January 2013 Rupert Sheldrake gave a talk at TEDx Whitechapel entitled “The Science Delusion” where he questioned ten fundamental beliefs of mainstream science. The event was called “Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world)”. After protests from two militant materialists\, P.Z. Myers and Jerry Coyne\, and in consultation with an undisclosed Scientific Board\, TED declared: “we feel a responsibility not to provide a platform for talks which appear to have crossed the line into pseudoscience.”  \n\n\n\nThe irony (and tragedy) was twofold. First\, Sheldrake’s questioning of dogmatism was met with a dogmatic canceling of his questioning. Second\, despite TED’s famed ethos of “ideas worth spreading”\, they deemed other ideas worth canceling\, especially when challenging TED’s sanctioned narrow worldview. Mislaying their reputation\, TED’s decision refuted itself. \n\n\n\nTen years after the controversy\, Dr. Sheldrake will reflect together with Dr. Gomez-Marin on the effectiveness of heterodox critiques of mainstream scientific thinking. Did they make a difference? What has changed\, if anything\, after such clashes?  \n\n\n\nNowadays’ media landscape affords new opportunities to expose and share different worldviews through podcasting and blogging. However\, curricula remain unchanged\, as students continue to be indoctrinated with the materialist mechanistic reductionist program. In addition\, venues such as Wikipedia profess the same unexamined prejudices\, and so do major newspapers\, TVs\, and grant agencies. In the meantime\, scientific breakthroughs stagnate. \n\n\n\nIn this free online event we will ask what has to really change for things to really change. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nYou can view the censored TEDx talk here:https://youtu.be/hO4p3xeTtUA \n\n\n\nAs well a recent animation by After Skool on “Exposing Scientific Dogma”:https://youtu.be/sF03FN37i5w \n\n\n\nTED’s justification and Sheldrake’s reply:https://blog.ted.com/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/ \n\n\n\nSheldrake’s book “The Science Delusion”:https://sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-science-delusion-science-set-free \n\n\n\nAnd a conversation between Sheldrake and Gomez-Marin on scientific dogmatism:https://youtu.be/nFQWgnVrmZU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than ninety technical papers and nine books\, including The Science Delusion (called Science Set Free in the US). 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 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex 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 in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is 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 high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/reflections-on-rupert-sheldrakes-the-science-delusion/
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SUMMARY:Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:Entanglement: Physics\, Mind and Worlds \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Jonathan Allday\, Basil Hiley\, José Latorre\, Dean Radin\, Vandana Shiva \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nFebruary 18 – March 5\, 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\nGiven the recently awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect\, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for the experiments with entangled photons\, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”\, the mysterious notion of entanglement has come back with renewed force not only to the Olympus of mainstream science\, but also to the lives of laypeople\, recapturing our imagination as to the fundamental interconnected nature of the cosmos. \n\n\n\nIn a spirit of celebration\, this online series brings together world-experts to discuss what entanglement entails\, from a theoretical perspective\, along with the experiments that have confirmed “spooky action at a distance” and closed increasingly implausible loopholes that might provide another explanation. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will also address the impact of entanglement beyond physics\, and its promise for technological applications in quantum computing. \n\n\n\nWe intend to cover in relative depth some of the following questions: What is entanglement? What experimental evidence is there for entanglement? Is entanglement the distinctive difference between classical and quantum physics? How does entanglement impact on conventional notions such as ‘part’ and ‘whole’? Does entanglement point to a different conception of space and time? How might entanglement impact on areas of conventional science – e.g.\, quantum biology\, consciousness studies? Is entanglement anything more than a useful analogy in areas of less conventional science – e.g.\, parapsychology? Has entanglement been anticipated in the worldviews of other cultures? Does entanglement radically undermine the prevailing materialist western worldview? \n\n\n\nAs physicist David Bohm proposed\, “the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth\, but because their separateness is an illusion. . . . At some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities\, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 18Entanglement for Amateurswith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday February 19Quantum Computingwith Prof. José Latorre \n\n\n\nSaturday February 25Spooky Action at a (Temporal) Distancewith Dr. Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSunday February 26My Entanglement with Entanglementwith Prof. Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday March 4Entangled Minds and Matterwith Dr. Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSunday March 5Living in a Non-Local World: Entanglement Meets Ecologywith Dr. Vandana Shiva
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entanglement-2/
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist: A Recapitulation
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording \n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoyZM4-94g&t=1s\n\n\n\n\n\nA Recapitulation and Conversation between the Audience and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday December 219:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist conversation series is reaching an end. After a whole year of monthly encounters with prominent\, deep\, and visionary scholars\, the project will complete the first phase of a greater journey. In this last event of the year\, at the heart of the winter solstice\, Alex will revisit the initial intention of the series\, briefly recapitulate each of the twelve sessions we have had so far\, and seek comments and feedback from the participants in an extended Q&A. He will then introduce the rationale for bringing The Future Scientist to a close and evolve it into The Future Human conversation series\, which will begin in January 2023 as a natural continuation of the 2022 quest. Paraphrasing one of our very mottos\, this will be a virtual encounter to understand where the series is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86553137353 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex 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 in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is 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 high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps
DESCRIPTION:With the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35kzTlV1LxI\n\n\n\n\n\nSpiritual Intelligence – what is it\, how can it be cultivated\, and why does it matter? \n\n\n\nMark Vernon in conversation with Beth Macy \n\n\n\nFriday December 1611:00am PST  | 2:00pm EST  | 7:00pm GMT  |  8:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the release of his new book Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps\, we have invited Mark Vernon\, to talk about his new work. Mark’s book will be out in time for Christmas (December 9) and would make an excellent gift. He will be in conversation with Beth Macy followed by Q&A and discussion from the audience.  \n\n\n\n“In Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps\, Mark Vernon draws on the understanding of numerous individuals and cultures\, weaving them into a text that leads the reader on a journey into the very heart of their self and\, at the same time\, to the reality that lies behind and is expressed as the world. Like the journey which his mentor\, Dante\, undertakes\, each chapter guides us more and more deeply into the perennial understanding that lies at the foundation of our civilisation.” Rupert Spira \n\n\n\n“Compellingly readable\, urgently important\, kind\, wise and scholarly. This is a manual for living and dying that begins with the usually overlooked questions: ‘What are we?’ and ‘Where did we come from?’ Unless we have informed answers we can’t begin to say how we should behave\, or what makes us thrive\, or speculate on our prognosis as a species\, let alone about the therapy that might avert catastrophe. Vernon’s gentle\, humble and powerful book needs to be widely read before it’s too late for us all.” Charles Foster \n\n\n\n“The world is desperately in need the kind of spiritual intelligence which Vernon presents\, based on humility\, insight\, compassion and\, above all\, joy. His attempt to talk about it in a way which is not circumscribed by specific religious belief\, but rather draws upon the wisdom of all the great spiritual traditions as well as the contemporary psychology and science\, is both original and immensely helpful for those who wish to cultivate these qualities in themselves.” Jane Clark \n\n\n\n“As entertaining and passionate as it is profound\, this book is a treasure trove of spiritual insight and guidance. Expertly interweaving the wisdom of mysticism\, philosophy and psychology\, Mark Vernon shows that spiritual awakening is the most urgent need of our time.” Steve Taylor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81518521680 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com. \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\nBeth is a contributor in the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/spiritual-intelligence-in-seven-steps/
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SUMMARY:Weaving a Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Deep Interrelatedness Lays a Path to Sustainable Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/T_dUhQE6TlM?si=JlXotccW7_WMoCpj\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Jeremy Lent \n\n\n\nSunday November 27\, 20229:00am 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\nOur dominant worldview tells us we’re split between mind and body\, separate from each other\, and at odds with the natural world. This worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings. In this talk\, based on themes from his recent book\, The Web of Meaning\, author Jeremy Lent will discuss how another worldview is possible—recognizing our deep interrelatedness with all of life. \n\n\n\nShowing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures\, the talk weaves together findings from modern systems thinking\, evolutionary biology\, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism\, Taoism\, and Indigenous wisdom. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Recovering the Sacred Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy Lent\, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as ‘one of the greatest thinkers of our age\,’ is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis\, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning books\, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning\, and The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe\, trace the historical underpinnings and flaws of the dominant worldview\, and offer a foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision of\, and pathways toward\, an ecological civilization and is founder of the Deep Transformation Network.
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5irBZhy15s\n\n\n\n\n\nReflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things \n\n\n\nIain McGlichristwith Mary Attwood | Sharon Dirckx | Alex Gómez-Marín | Jürg Kesselring | David Lorimer | Martin Rossor | Jonathan Rowson | Jan Zwicky \n\n\n\nTuesday November 8\, 20221-3pm EST | 6-8pm GMT | 7–9pm CET  \n\n\n\nFREE EVENT \n\n\n\nAnniversary event\, hosted by The Pari Centerin conjunction with Channel McGilchrist\, Perspectiva\, The Scientific and Medical Network and The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre. \n\n\n\nTrouble Registering: just send us an email and we will send you the link! eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nTo mark the one year since the publication of The Matter with Things\, this free online event will reflect on its first year of being in the world. Dr. McGilchrist will be interviewed by the publisher of the book\, Perspectiva’s Jonathan Rowson\, followed by a discussion with experts for the sciences and humanities. The final part of the event will give you a chance to put a question to Dr. McGilchrist. \n\n\n\nYou can view the footage of The Matter with Things launch party in 2021 by Perspectiva Press in the following link:  https://youtu.be/ibI0mRLgMI8
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/reflections-on-iain-mcgilchrists-the-matter-with-things/
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SUMMARY:Recovering the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Recovering the Sacred \n\n\n\nwith Anne Baring\, Bernard Carr\, Matthijs Cornelissen\, Alex Gomez-Marin\, Jeremy Lent\, David Lorimer\, Iain McGilchrist\, Peter Reason\, Mary-Jayne Rust \n\n\n\nCurated by John Pickering \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nNovember 5 – 27\, 20229:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n8-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nWe are living in a time of anxiety and uncertainty. As more environmental damage is done\, the means to repair it seems to be getting less. It is increasingly difficult to know what to trust in politics and the media. Spiritual traditions survive\, but the authority they once had has passed to science and so it might seem that the idea of ‘The Sacred’ has disappeared. \n\n\n\nBut as science reveals more and more about the place of the earth in the cosmos there is a growing awareness of how precious our living world is and of how inter-dependent we are with it. Perhaps this is not only a scientific discovery but also the re-appearance of the sacred in a form fit for our times. \n\n\n\nHow the living world came to be and how it persists is the business of the sciences.  How cultures appear and develop is the business of the humanities. Powerful though those styles of inquiry are\, they offer little comfort to those anxious about the destructive direction in which our globalised culture is going. What appears to be missing is some way of restoring our sense of spiritual interdependence with the living world. \n\n\n\nThis series of talks is an opportunity to hear from people concerned with these ideas and to participate in a dialogue on how they might help us to keep hope alive and decide what to do for the best in our challenging times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 5Recovering the Soulwith Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nSunday November 6The Sacred and the Evolution of Consciousnesswith Matthijs Cornelissen \n\n\n\nSaturday November 12Finding our Way Home to Nature as Sacredwith Mary-Jayne Rust \n\n\n\nSunday November 13The Sacred as Immanent in a Sentient Worldwith Peter Reason \n\n\n\nSaturday November 19Towards a Transmaterialist Science of the Sacredwith Bernard Carr and Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nSunday November 20The Loss and Recovery of the Sacredwith Anne Baring \n\n\n\nSaturday November 26Recovering a Sense of the Sacred – an Evolutionary Imperativewith David Lorimer \n\n\n\nSunday November 27Weaving a Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Deep Interrelatedness Lays a Path to Sustainable Flourishingwith Jeremy Lent
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/recovering-the-sacred-2/
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SUMMARY:Il Processo della Trasformazione
DESCRIPTION:Date: settembre 10 – settembre 11\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Max Bindi\, Gloria Nobili\, Martina Stolzlechner\, Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrezzo: 420 euro \n\n\n\nSeminario teorico-esperienziale alla scoperta delleteorie quantistiche di David Bohm e di alcune sue applicazioni \n\n\n\nIl seminario si articola in un’alternanza di momenti di spiegazione e altri di sperimentazione pratica delle idee del fisico quantistico David Bohm: la vita e lo sviluppo del suo pensiero\, la tecnica metamorfica riletta alla luce del concetto di ordini di realtà\, la connessione tra fisica e senso della vita\, e la ricerca del superamento della coscienza individuale attraverso il dialogo bohmiano. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSabato 10 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 10-11 \n\n\n\nSaluti iniziali. Presentazione del Workshop \n\n\n\nOre 11-13 \n\n\n\nFisica e metafisica di David Bohm: la sua vita e le sue ideecon Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nIl fisico americano David Bohm è stato una figura estremamente significativa nel panorama scientifico del secolo scorso e le sue idee ed intuizioni hanno contribuito a una trasformazione profonda e radicale dell’immagine della realtà.Aspetti fondamentali delle teorie di Bohm sono i concetti di processo\, di olismo e di totalità\, che nelle sue mani diventavano dei potenti strumenti di indagine e interpretazione della realtà e grazie ai quali Bohm è riuscito a creare un vero ponte con il mondo del misticismo\, raggiungendo moltissime persone anche al di fuori del mondo scientifico. \n\n\n\nOre 15 -18.30 \n\n\n\nL’ordine implicato a portata di manocon Martina Stolzlechner\n\n\n\nLa Tecnica Metamorfica\, sviluppata da Gaston Saint Pierre negli anni 70\, consiste in leggeri sfioramenti ai piedi\, alle mani e alla testa e opera oltre spazio\, tempo e materia\, raggiungendo il livello dell’Unità paradossale dell’Essere e del Non-Essere\, ossia l’ordine implicato di David Bohm. Per Gaston Saint-Pierre\, in ogni cosa c’è un’intelligenza innata che a partire da questo livello si manifesta in tempo\, spazio e materia. E’ come una ghianda che\, quando il tempo è maturo\, si trasforma proprio in una quercia perché dentro contiene questa coscienza\, questa intelligenza Nella prima parte del suo intervento\, Martina Stolzlechner ci presenta la Tecnica Metamorfica\, un semplice rituale dove viene riconosciuto il potere di trasformazione\, di metamorfosi\, che proviene dall’interno e si manifesta all’esterno\, proprio\, come l’onda quantistica diventa particella. E così interno ed esterno risultano avviluppati in un continuo divenire.Nella seconda parte del pomeriggio avremo modo di mettere in pratica questa tecnica e sperimentare l’essere semplicemente presenti ai fatti che emergono. \n\n\n\nOre 21 \n\n\n\nProiezione di un dialogo tra David Bohm e Jiddu Krishnamurti \n\n\n\nDomenica 11 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 9-11 \n\n\n\nMente e materia tra matematica\, fisica e concezioni del mondocon Gloria Nobili\n\n\n\nNegli ultimi anni della sua vita\, David Bohm aveva allargato la ‘lettura’ della Fisica quantisitca secondo la sua interpretazione a connessioni molto più ampie\, che esulavano dalla stretta trattazione attraverso la formulazione matematica e le teorie scientifiche. Il suo sguardo si ricollegava all’uomo\, alle grandi domande che l’uomo si pone riguardo al senso della propria vita\, oltre alla relazione tra la parte impalpabile mentale e quella materiale connessa con le nostre percezioni sensoriali. \n\n\n\nOre 11.30-12.30Introduzione al dialogo bohmiano previsto nel pomeriggio. \n\n\n\nOre 14.30-17.30 \n\n\n\nIl dialogo bohmianocon Max Bindi\n\n\n\nGrazie alla facilitazione di Max Bindi il gruppo farà un’esperienza di dialogo bohmiano: una forma di dialogo libero dagli schemi dove si dà spazio al flusso della comunicazione e nel quale i partecipanti cercano di raggiungere una comprensione comune\, sperimentando il punto di vista di tutti completamente\, allo stesso modo e senza giudicare. \n\n\n\nOre 17.30-18 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConclusioni\n\n\n\n Il costo dell’evento è di 420 euro. Sono previsti dei prezzi di favore per chi completa l’iscrizione secondo il seguente calendario: -I primi 12 iscritti entro il 15 luglio 2022 potranno usufruire di un prezzo agevolato di 380 euro. Dopo il 15 luglio il prezzo sarà quello intero di 420 euro. Il prezzo comprende: partecipazione alle attività previste dal programma\, alloggio in stanza privata nel caratteristico Borgo di Pari\, il pranzo e la cena di Sabato 10 settembre e la colazione e il pranzo di Domenica 11 settembre presso il Bar-Ristorante “Le Due Cecche”\, nella suggestiva piazzetta del Paese. Al momento dell’iscrizione dovrà essere versata una caparra di 200 euro\, da saldare entro il 01 di settembre. L’evento inizierà Sabato 10 settembre alle ore 10:00 e terminerà Domenica 11 settembre alle ore 18:00.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/il-processo-della-trasformazione/
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SUMMARY:The Enchanted Universe
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Jessica Ball\, Bernard Carr\, Patrick Curry\, Alex Gomez-Marin\, Ruth Kastner\, Alison MacLeod\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nChaired by Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nEnchantment is the experience of sheer wonder. It returns us to a state of mind\, and condition of the world\, as undivided concrete magic: equally natural and cultural\, material and spiritual\, inner and outer.Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Monday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nWhile technology is occupying an ever growing place in our modern world and the predominance of abstraction gets us farther and farther removed from the living world\, an increasing longing is developing for a return to our roots in nature\, to the enchantment and awe of existence\, to the fantastic realms of imagination\, to the symbolic richness of myth and fairytale. \n\n\n\nWe are meaning-making creatures\, we are explorers and adventurers of the symbolic dimension. We feel that our life is worth living only when our experiences speak to us\, when we live in conversation with the mystery\, when we commune with it. \n\n\n\nCome join us in this journey through the forests of imagination\, reclaiming a territory we once roamed\, recovering the soul of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Body\, Nature and Dialogue with Jessica Ball \n\n\n\nThe View Beyond: Magic and Enchantment at the Frontiers of Physics with Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nWhat is Enchantment\, and What Follows? with Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nScience and Magic: A Disturbing Charming Braid with Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nQuantum Physics and the Return of Enchantment with Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nThe Deep Imagination\, Metaphor\, and “All’s One” Vision with Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nBrain Seed: Planting the Mind in the Non-Human Universe with Hester Reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Aristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohm
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/RZtVgSeG7Vo?si=9BeaWhbcMXq-MDM5\n\n\n\n\n\nAristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila \n\n\n\nSunday August 28\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIt is well known that David Bohm’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and its development with Basil Hiley offers a realist ontological view of particles\, waves\, quantum potential\, and active information (Bohm 1952\, 1985\, 1988\, 1989\, 1990; Bohm and Hiley 1975\, 1987\, 1993). However\, the other epistemological and metaphysical underpinnings of the causal interpretation are still in need of detailed scrutiny. This presentation will explore two other realist components in Bohm’s thinking which bear some resemblance to Aristotle’s philosophy. The familiar argument from laws to the existence of the quantum objects and the reality of their properties will be only briefly mentioned. The focus will be on Bohm’s peculiar methodology of intuitive intelligibility (II)\, and his argument for the two metaphysical properties of causal powers\, which bear clear similarities to Aristotle’s epistemology and metaphysics. \n\n\n\nThe first part of the talk presents the (II) methodology. It is developed and applied it to demonstrate the reality of the strange properties of quantum causation\, such as\, non-locality\, self-activity\, and holism\, by showing that they are similar to phenomena in our daily life and thus familiar in common experience (Bohm and Hiley 1987\, 1993). In this manner Bohm and Hiley respond to the challenges of physicists to develop an intuitively comprehensible interpretation of quantum mechanics (see Pylkkänen 2017). The argument here will be that the (II) methodology has a systematic role in the causal interpretation. \n\n\n\nThe epistemological approach underlying the (II) methodology truly differs from the then popular empiricist epistemology\, according to which observations and observations merely\, form a foundation of scientific research. Observations\, though an important source and criteria of knowledge\, constitute a mere subset of what can be taken as common experience. However\, one may point to interesting similarities between the epistemological background assumptions of the (II) methodology and Aristotle’s methodology of saving the appearances (SA) (Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics\, for (SA) see Nussbaum 1986). In spite of important methodological differences\, both saving the appearances position and the (II) methodology adopt the epistemological stand that common experience is a valuable source of scientific and philosophical knowledge. \n\n\n\nThe second part of the presentation discusses the metaphysical properties of active information as a causal factor. A closer look at how Bohm speaks about active information as a causal factor in connection with the radio\, for instance\, reveals the power concept of causation (Meincke 2020). This forms a clear contrast to the empiricist view of causation as consisting merely of regularities between concomitant events. In talking about the functioning of the radio\, for instance\, one can identify two traditional metaphysical properties of causal powers (Bohm 1989\, Bohm and Hiley 1987\, 1993). These are the distinction between actuality and potentiality and the idea of full power as constituting of a pair of partner powers\, one active and the other a receiver of the activity of the other (Aristotle Metaphysics book IX chs. 1-7). \n\n\n\nThe claim that the causal interpretation involves classical elements of power metaphysics\, may sound somewhat puzzling\, since Bohm and Hiley do not explicitly speak about powers and their metaphysical properties. This can be explained in a natural way\, however\, by referring to Aristotle’s argument against Megaric philosophers for the necessity of potentialities (Metaphysics book IX ch. 3). My claim is that while Aristotle shows that the reality of potentialities is a necessary precondition of human action and causal relations in general\, the epistemological approach of the causal interpretation is quite similar. Power metaphysics is adopted as a chief element underlying our common experience. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarja-Liisa Kakkuri-Kuuttila has been professor of Philosophy of Management at the Aalto University Business School. She has taught courses in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and other philosophy courses for business students. She has worked on the dialogue method and philosophy of science in Aristotle and contemporary notions of dialogue. This interest has inspired her recently to investigate methodology and ontology in David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2022
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm 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\nPart 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nJuly 9 – 10\, 16 – 17\, 23 – 24\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn this second year of our Beyond Bohm series\, we will emphasize three themes–one for each of three weekends in July. \n\n\n\nThe first weekend will explore imagination. How might we enter it? How might we inhabit it? On July 9 we will inquire into how David Bohm worked with imagination\, while improvising upon and extending Bohm’s approach. On July 10 we will explore Tim Ingold’s radical anthropology and his new book\, Imagining for Real\, while touching upon some of the linkages with Bohm’s “participatory consciousness.” We are delighted that Prof. Ingold will join us for this session. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend will take up questions of creativity and the artistic process. On July 16 and 17 we will engage with the work of four different artists\, and the way this work complements and illuminates the work of David Bohm. Themes will include wholeness and fragmentation\, the artistic movement from implicate to explicate\, the nature of perception\, and the relation of consciousness to the “art object.” \n\n\n\nOur final weekend has the theme of dialogue. On July 23 our roundtable will open up the many questions and concerns regarding the shift from ‘in person” dialogue to on-line dialogue during the time of Covid-19. We will also take into consideration some of the more general questions about the human-digital-technological interface. Finally\, on July 24 we will have our second annual Indigenous Dialogue\, facilitated by Leroy Little Bear. This year’s theme is “Walk in Beauty\,” and will consider various approaches to ecology\, the environment\, and the Anthropocene”–the time of the new human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 9Imagining Imaginationwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 10Imagining for Realwith Tim Ingold\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 16 and Sunday July 17Processes of Creation\, Part One and Twowith Steven Breaux\, Aja Bulla-Richards\, Sky Hoorne and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 23Dialogue in the Age of Zoomwith Julie Arts\, Richard Burg\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Lee Nichol and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday July 24Indigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beautywith Leroy Little Bear\, Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Amethyst First Rider\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Melissa Nelson\, John Briggs\, Harvey Locke and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm and Philosophy\n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley\, Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila\, Petteri Limnell\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, William Seager and Marij van StrienCurated by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nAugust 6 – 7\, 20 – 21\, 27 – 28\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was concerned with providing a description of reality – at the quantum level\, and more generally\, a unified description of matter\, life\, and consciousness\, all adding up to a general concept of reality or a metaphysical theory. This concern with reality did not mean that he ignored the role of the mind (language\, perception\, etc.) in his attempts to describe reality. In other words\, he did not ignore epistemological issues or questions that concern the nature of our knowledge and the problems of justifying it. On the contrary\, his broad philosophical work includes extensive studies of various epistemic issues: physics and perception\, the notions of truth and understanding\, a view of science as “perception-communication”\, experimentation with the structure of language\, study of knowledge understood as process\, and discussions of topics such as communication\, creativity\, art\, religion and so on. This series discusses various aspects of Bohm’s philosophical thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 6Bohm and Philosophy: An Introductionwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 7Creativity and the Generative Orderwith Petteri Limnell interviewed by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 20The Role of Philosophy in Bohm and Hiley’s Research in Physicswith Basil Hiley interviewed by Petteri Limnell \n\n\n\nSunday August 21Consciousness\, Bohm and the Quest for Intelligibilitywith William Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 27Why Bohm was Never a Deterministwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSunday August 28Aristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohmwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila
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SUMMARY:Psyche and Time
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: The Pari Center and ISAPZURICH \n\n\n\nDates: June 14 – 20\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Frédérique Dambreville\, Deborah Egger\, Andrew Fellows\, Christopher Hauke\, Mathew Mather\, Shantena Sabbadini and Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1400.00 euros (This fee includes 6-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals\, sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n[W]e cannot apply our notion of time to the unconscious. Our consciousness can conceive of things only in temporal succession\, our time is\, therefore\, essentially linked to the chronological sequence. In the unconscious this is different\, because there everything lies together\, so to speak.C.G. Jung \n\n\n\nTime is integral to many of C.G. Jung’s remarkable insights into the nature and dynamics of the psyche\, from individual development to the unus mundus—the invisible and timeless foundation of reality. \n\n\n\nJoin ISAPZURICH and the Pari Center for an in-depth exploration of the ubiquitous yet mysterious phenomena of Psyche and Time from the perspectives of science\, philosophy\, symbolism\, mythology\, therapeutic practice\, and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA defining characteristic of Carl Jung’s extraordinary life’s work is his engagement across all scales\, from the cosmic and metaphysical to the personal and psychological. Another is his breadth of influences\, from Hermetic to quantum worldviews. This is the context for our exploration of two ubiquitous phenomena that\, like fish in water\, we take for granted\, but which on closer examination are profoundly puzzling: psyche and time. Our perspectives will be scientific\, philosophical\, symbolic and mythological\, clinical and cultural as we zoom in from the universe to the practice room\, and end with a trip to the cinema! \n\n\n\nIn the first two days we will explore the fundamental nature of time with theoretical physicist Shantena Sabbadini\, and of psyche with applied physicist and Jungian Analyst Andrew Fellows. The next day we will enter the world of astrology—a lifelong interest of Jung’s that connects psyche and cosmos through time—with Jungian Analyst and professional astrologer Frédérique Dambreville. We will also explore synchronicity and the turning of the age through the symbolism of the scarab with Jungian scholar and educator Mathew Mather. On the fourth day\, Jungian Analyst Deborah Egger will delve into the vital role of time in the psychotherapeutic process\, and Mathew will follow up his previous presentation with an experiential workshop. On the last whole day\, Jungian Analysts Yuriko Sato and Christopher Hauke will\, respectively\, present an Eastern view of psyche and time\, and show how predominantly Western views have been depicted\, and sometimes deconstructed\, in film. The final morning will feature a dialogue among all the presenters responding to further questions and those aspects of the event which have generated most interest. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1400.00 euros. The event fee includes a 6-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Tuesday June 14 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday June 20 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Nature of Time with Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nThe Nature of Psyche with Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nThe Infinity of the Cosmos and the Depth of Psyche with Frédérique Dambreville \n\n\n\nA Green Gold Scarab: Symbol for the Turning of an Age? with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nTime and Timing in Therapy with Deborah Egger \n\n\n\nAnima Mundi: Synchronicity and the Soul of the World with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nLived Time in Japan with Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nScreen Time: Movies\, Mind and the Experience of Time with Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor more information about ISAPZURICH see https://www.isapzurich.com \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Re-Visioning Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Dates: June 5 – 12\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Harald Atmanspacher\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, John Pickering\, William Seager\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Angelita Valencia Borbon and Beverley Zabriskie. Guests Federico Faggin and Roberto Miller \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event:\n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by recognizing the primacy of consciousness\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. How do we understand matter\, time and space\, individual consciousness\, birth and death\, free will? Are all things alive and conscious in some sense? \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center and let us explore together the tip of the iceberg of these challenges\, perhaps the closest that philosophical enquiry comes to our existential questions and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted and honoured to announce that Federico Faggin\, inventor of the microprocessor and delver into the science of consciousness\, will be with us in Pari for this event. We will also be hosting Roberto Miller the filmmaker of the documentary The Four Lives of Federico Faggin.  Following a screening of the film\, there will be a panel discussion with Federico and other presenters and then an open discussion and Q&A with all participants of ‘Re-visioning Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Sunday June 5 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Sunday June 12 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.Schrödinger \n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by abandoning the tacit premises of materialism and physicalism\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. \n\n\n\nIs consciousness indeed\, as Schrödinger suggests above\, the primal experience\, the elementary primary fact all our philosophy and all our science are built upon? \n\n\n\nDoes consciousness arise in the world\, according to the physicalist view (e.g.\, when a sufficiently complex nervous system evolves)\, or does the world arise in consciousness? And\, if the latter is the case\, how does that happen? If the world is a dream arising in consciousness\, why does it arise? And why is the dream structured as it is\, why is it a cosmos\, not a chaos? \n\n\n\nMatter and spacetime appear to have their own order\, their own laws that govern our experience. Are those laws intrinsic to consciousness? Are they in turn a creation of consciousness? \n\n\n\nAnother possible approach is that of pantheism. In this perspective the world exists and consciousness exists\, they are both primary. But the world is infused with consciousness\, everything is conscious to some degree\, from the most elementary (say\, an elementary particle) to the cosmic scale of the universe itself. \n\n\n\nIf that is so\, why are we not aware of it? The reason might be that we recognize consciousness only when it is close enough to our own level. I am aware of the consciousness of my dogs and cats\, but the consciousness of an atom and that of a solar system both elude me\, they are too different. \n\n\n\nOr you might say matter and consciousness are just two sides of one coin. Dual aspect monism suggests that mind and matter are the dual manifestation of one substance\, which is perceived from the inside (in the first person) as consciousness\, from the outside (in the third person) as things. \n\n\n\nIn Re-Visioning Consciousness\, we will explore together the tip of the iceberg of these profound questions\, perhaps the closest philosophical enquiry comes to our existential and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nDoes “Consciousness” Exist? with Harald Atmanspacher \n\n\n\nAwakening Conciencia and The Path With Heart with Angelita Valencia Borbon \n\n\n\nDreaming Ahead of Time with Gary Lachman \n\n\n\nValue and Purpose with Dr. Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nWhy Re-vision Consciousness? with John Pickering \n\n\n\nThe Problem of Consciousness in Philosophy\, Or What’s All the Fuss About? 
with William Seager \n\n\n\nInside Out and Outside In with Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nThe Four Lives of Federico Faggin – Screening of the Film followed by Roundtable with the filmmaker Roberto Miller\, Federico Faggin and Presenters from this event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Strangers on the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nStrangers in the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy with Will Buckingham€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrangers on the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Will Buckingham \n\n\n\nSunday May 29\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 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 philosophy? Why do we philosophise? And why\, in a time of crisis\, does philosophy matter?A familiar answer might be that philosophy is the love of wisdom\, that we philosophise out of a hunger for wisdom\, and that this deep need for wisdom is all the greater when we navigate through times of crisis. But for the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas\, this gets things back to front. Philosophy\, Levinas writes\, is not the love of wisdom. It is\, instead\, the wisdom of love in the service of love. Why do we philosophise? Why do we awaken to philosophical questions? Levinas’s answer is clear: we philosophise\, or awaken to love’s wisdom\, because we are called to do so by another – by the proximity of a stranger on the threshold\, by someone who is not us.In a time of crisis\, the temptation is often to withdraw\, to fall back on our own resources\, or to batten down the hatches. But in this talk\, writer and philosopher Will Buckingham will explore how Levinas sets out a more challenging\, and more fruitful\, path. Weaving together philosophy and storytelling\, he will argue that in a time of crisis\, the greatest philosophical demand may be this: to open up the door. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWill Buckingham is a writer from the UK with a PhD in philosophy and an MA in anthropology. He has previously been associate professor of writing and creativity at De Montfort University\, Leicester\, and visiting associate professor in the School of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University. He now works as a freelance writer\, and is on the visiting faculty at Parami University\, Myanmar. His most recent book is Hello\, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Granta 2021). https://www.willbuckingham.com
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SUMMARY:Love in the Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Love in the Time of CrisisFrom Separation to Interbeing \n\n\n\nwith John Briggs\, Will Buckingham\, Jane Clark\, Vincent Colapietro\, Satish Kumar\, Ramona Rolle-Berg\, Renée Rolle-Whatley\, Rabbi Neal Rose and Mark Vernonand Special guest poet Richard Berengarten \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nMay 7 – 8\, 14 – 15\, 21 – 22\, 28 – 29\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n8 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nBlessed be the covenant of love between what is hidden and what is revealed.Leonard Cohen \n\n\n\nWe live in a challenging time of transition which promises both hope and peril.  How are we to navigate a course that will take us from a story of separation\, competition\, and distrust to a new narrative of inter-being\, cooperation\, and love? How do we begin to give up and move beyond an incoherent and too often destructive structure of consciousness and a world which seems rarely to see the mediating presence of what has been called ‘evolutionary love’? \n\n\n\nThis program approaches these questions and others from a wide variety of perspectives: \n\n\n\nOn our journey we explore the concept of ‘evolutionary love’ in the context of the metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce with Vincent Colapietro. We travel into and through the rich imagery of love in literature and culture with John Briggs. We enter energy and mind-body medicine with Renee Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg\, each of whom holds a PhD in Mind Body Medicine\, as we explore parental love. With Mark Vernon we will address the need for a deeper awareness of love that becomes particularly acute in times of crisis\, though times of crisis also offer moments to understand love move fully. \n\n\n\nSatish Kumar brings us to ecology\, approached from a love which finds its expression in a reverence for nature—which he strongly feels should be at the heart of every political and social debate. Jane Clark and Mark Vernon take us with them in a journey which explores the meaning of divine love. \n\n\n\nIn this program\, we will approach love from multiple perspectives of how to go about restoring the power of love—the power of a positive mediating force\, to enliven\, re-enchant\, and re-invigorate our world. We seek pathways that restore reason as a guide to the expansion of knowledge and understanding\, and we see love as a guide\, bringing goodness and order to their application. From within the midst of present chaos\, we look to love in its varied dimensions to bring quiescence within\, and creativity and intelligence in its outer expression. \n\n\n\nWe are again fortunate to have poet\, Richard Berengarten\, as part of our series on the theme of love. Richard will be read short poems from several of his collections\, including The Blue Butterfly\,  Notness\, Changing \, and a new sequence of villanelles in honour of Tao Yuanming\, entitled The Wine Cup. Richard will briefly introduce himself and his work and each session will begin with his reading from one of these books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday May 7Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Lovewith Vincent Colapietro \n\n\n\nSunday May 8Tales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sourceswith Rabbi Neal Rose \n\n\n\nSaturday May 14Portrayals of Love in Literature and Culturewith John Briggs \n\n\n\nSunday May 15Power of Lovewith Satish Kumar \n\n\n\nSaturday May 21Parenting as a Journey towards Awakening: Exploring Self-growth through the Hidden Guidance of the Heartwith Ramona Rolle-Berg and Renée Rolle-Whatley \n\n\n\nSunday May 22Love In A Time of Crisiswith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday May 28Love Across Traditionswith Jane Clark and Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSunday May 29Strangers on the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophywith Will Buckingham
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SUMMARY:Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNDpL1S2fLY\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual \n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans in conversation with Julie Arts \n\n\n\nWednesday April 13 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nDonna’s latest book Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides the roadmap builders and rebuilders—of society and of enterprise—with the tools to rethink\, redesign and revitalize their organizations and to remain relevant and sustainable in a new and very different future. Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kinds—businesses\, governments\, non-profits\, community initiatives and social institutions. We’ve reached a turning point and it’s time to evolve\, or we go the way of the dinosaurs. We all need to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate change)\, how can leaders find a new way forward? How can enterprises re-invent themselves to make capitalism work better for more people? These are some of the compelling and timely issues that Donna and Julie will tackle in their conversation. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 13\, Donna and Julie will be in conversation followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85176061107 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser\, adding value throughout her career to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors: as an energy insider rooted in Alberta’s oil patch; founding a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen; serving as an elected politician and cabinet minister; holding leading roles on boards of directors; and helping to steward the family farm enterprise. She is a political commentator\, community builder\, writer and speaker\, weighing in on energy\, leadership\, governance\, community and integrity issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. \n\n\n\nJulie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy.
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SUMMARY:Music and Numbers\, Part II
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG0La1b-QuQ\n\n\n\n\n\na webinar produced\, presented\, and performed by \n\n\n\nDr Donna Coleman \n\n\n\nStreaming from Studio OutBach® Santa Fe\, situated in the heart of the deep Indigenous history of Native New Mexico\, from ancient Paleoindians to Keres- and Tanoan-speaking peoples who were raided by the Comanches. \n\n\n\nWednesday April 6 \n\n\n\n9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CESTThursday April 7 at 2:00am AEST (Australia) \n\n\n\n“What is above is as what is below.”The Book of Thoth \n\n\n\nThis session will continue the journey we began in Music and Numbers\, Part I. Having embarked upon the landscape comprised of dissonant intervals and avoidance of tonality\, we will explore the music of composers working with the so-called Twelve-Tone System: Riccardo Malipiero\, Anton Webern\, and Luigi Dallapiccola\, for whom numbers provided the pathway to their idiosyncratic musical languages. We will begin by considering the way interval relationships in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sinfonia in F minor create what we know as consonance and compare it to Riccardo Malipiero’s (1914 Milan – 2003 Milan) Invenzione #7\, a dissonant work that is modelled upon it. Dr Coleman will demonstrate the way Webern created 144 possible versions of his twelve-tone row using the Magic Square. \n\n\n\nRepertory to be explored on this leg of the Quintessence of Music journey: \n\n\n\nJohann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in F minor\, BWV 795 (1723)Riccardo Malipiero: Invenzioni\, No. 7 (1949)Anton Webern: Variationen für Klavier\, opus 27 (1936)Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952) \n\n\n\nThe discussion will also dwell upon traditional number attributes\, delving back to the Sephiroth of the ancient Qabalah\, the significance of the ten numbers assigned to the branches of the Tree of Life\, its seven planes\, twenty-two intersections\, and the hermetic adaptation of these into the Tarot. As always\, we will look for the meaning behind all of these inter-related manifestations of the Ethereal Universe. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday April 6\, Donna will open our monthly monthly musical and philosophical journey  with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83082713624 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested Reading\n\n\n\n\nCrowley\, Alistair. The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians\, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V. Newburyport MA: Samuel Weiser\, Inc.\, 1974. https://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/egyptosophy/fragments-book-thoth\n\n\n\n———. Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck. http://www.thule-italia.net/esoterismo/Aleister%20Crowley/Crowley%20Thoth%20Tarot%20Deck.pdf\n\n\n\nMorris\, Robert. Mathematics and the Twelve-Tone System. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/229011/mod_resource/content/1/Mathematics%20and%20the%20Twelve-Tone%20System%20(Morris%202007).pdf\n\n\n\nPapus. The Tarot of the Bohemians. https://www.labirintoermetico.com/02tarocchi/papus_the_tarot_of_the_bohemians.pdf\n\n\n\nTufts University Faculty (unnamed). Twelve-Tone Technique: A Primer. https://sites.tufts.edu/markdevoto/files/2015/10/12TonePrimer.pdf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Coleman is a multi-award-winning concert pianist\, recording artist\, author\, performance researcher and philosopher\, and master teacher whose career spans a half-century\, of which more than half has been based in Australia. She is also an accomplished weaver and photographer and an amateur but passionate astronomer and archaeologist with a keen interest in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the United States. As Head of Keyboard and of Postgraduate Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne\, she convened weekly thought-provoking seminars that explored relationships between music and other disciplines. Donna is writing a book entitled Dancing with the Piano\, a collection of essays distilled from these sessions and from her many years of phenomenological engagement with her ultimate dance partner\, the piano.
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePJVhhOELA\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind \n\n\n\nwith Jon Goodbun \n\n\n\nWednesday March 2310:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nJon Goodbun’s research focuses on ‘ecological thinking’—both in terms of how we think about ecological systems\, and how ecological systems themselves think—drawing in particular on his extensive study of the work of the ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson. In this talk Goodbun will introduce some of the history and thinking of this important theorist\, drawing in particular upon some of the ideas contained within his first collection of essays: Steps to an Ecology of Mind\, as well as his later synthesis: Mind and Nature—A Necessary Unity\, and his final incomplete text\, published after his death by daughter Mary Catherine Bateson\, called Angels Fear—Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred\, and will situate these ideas in relation to more recent research\, and the wider research interests of the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday March 23\, Dr. Goodbun will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jon Goodbun is mostly based in Athens\, Greece where he runs Rheomode\, a small experimental studio working and writing at the intersection of art\, architecture\, and ecological pedagogy\, although he also contributes to the MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London and the architecture and landscape programmes at University College London. His 2011 PhD\, ‘Critical Urban Ecologies: The Architecture of the Extended Mind\,’ drew together thinking on ecological and complex systems theory\, together with cognitive science and consciousness studies\, in relation to aesthetic theory\, spatial perception and ecological empathy\, and he is currently working on a book called The Ecological Calculus\, which builds on this work. He spent some time at the Pari Center in 2010\, interviewing David Peat about his own work\, and the work of his collaborator David Bohm (from whose work Goodbun borrowed the name ‘rheomode’ for his blog and studio!).
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SUMMARY:Dualities and Non-Duality
DESCRIPTION:Dualities and Non-Duality \n\n\n\nwith Mauro Bergonzi and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSunday March 6\, 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 CET \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 ultimate nature of reality? In our contemporary scientific culture reality appears to consist of a multiplicity of interacting parts. That multiplicity exhibits some fundamental dualities: being and becoming\, particle and field\, mind and matter. \n\n\n\nOn the other hand the main stance of non-duality (advaita in sanskrit) points to the simple fact that in reality there are endless differences\, but no separation at all: reality is regarded as an indivisible whole\, while the perception of isolated entities is just a mental construct without any cogent ontological foundation (including the idea of a separate ‘ego’ dwelling ‘within’ a single body/mind). \n\n\n\nNot even the boundary between subject and object is real: according to non-duality\, the opposing terms ‘consciousness’ and ‘world’ are just two different conceptual descriptions (in terms of the ‘first’ or of the ‘third’ person) of one and the same indivisible reality\, just as ‘ascent’ and ‘descent’ are two different words for the same slope\, depending which way one is going. So the alleged separation between ‘subject’ and ‘object’ is only an illusory mental construct. \n\n\n\nThis non-dual perspective has unfolded through a wide range of different forms not only in Eastern thought (mahāyāna buddhism\, advaita-vedānta\, tantrism\, daoism\, etc)\, but also in Western philosophical tradition\, albeit frequently in more implicit forms (e.g Parmenides\, Plotinus\, Cusanus\, Berkeley\, Spinoza\, Shelling or even Hegel)\, which may engender new prospects of dialogue with some challenging issues of contemporary scientific thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Dualities Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Bergonzi taught “Religions and Philosophies of India” and “General Psychology” from 1985 to 2017 at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.  He is also a member of  I.A.A.P. (International Association for Analytical Psychology) and of C.I.P.A. (Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica). He is author of academic essays and articles on Oriental Philosophies\, Comparative Religion\, Comparative Philosophy\, Psychology of Mysticism and Transpersonal Psychology. Since 1970\, for about 25 years he has been practicing  meditation (mainly within Buddhist\, Taoist and Vedānta traditions)\, always preserving a non-confessional and non-dogmatic approach\, until only a radical non-duality prevailed. From then on\, he has been regularly invited to lead spiritual groups in Italy. A survey of his non-dual communication is available in his book Il sorriso segreto dell’essere (Mondadori) and in his website: https://sites.google.com/site/ilsorrisodellessere/. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShantena Augusto Sabbadini graduated from the University of Milan in 1968 and was awarded his PhD in physics from the University of California in 1976. In Milan he researched the foundations of quantum physics\, laying the base for what is currently known as the decoherence interpretation of quantum physics. At the University of California\, he contributed to the theoretical work behind the first identification of a black hole\, the X-ray source Cygnus X-1. In the 1990s he was scientific consultant for the Eranos Foundation\, an East-West research center founded under the auspices of C.G. Jung in the 1930s. In that context he produced various translations and commentaries of Chinese classics in Italian and English\, including the Yijing and the trilogy of Daoist classics\, the Laozi\, the Zhuangzi and the Liezi. From 2002 onwards he collaborated with F. David Peat running the Pari Center for New Learning and in 2017 he succeeded his friend and colleague as director of the center. \n\n\n\nShantena leads workshops and courses on the philosophical implications of quantum physics\, on Daoism\, and on using the Yijing as a tool for introspection. His most recent book in English\, Pilgrimages to Emptiness: Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics\, was published by Pari Publishing in 2017.
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SUMMARY:Dualities
DESCRIPTION:Dualities: The Marriage of Opposites\n\n\n\nwith Jena Axelrod\, Mauro Bergonzi\, Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows\, Gary Goldberg\, Basil Hiley\, Ruth Kastner\, Shantena Sabbadini\, Mark Saban and David Schrum \n\n\n\nand 4 Sunday sessions with Mark Vernon onDualities on Spiritual Paths: Oppositions and Contraries in Plato\, Dante\, William Blake and Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nFebruary 5 – 6\, 12 – 13\, 19 – 20\, 26 – 27\, March 5 – 6 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 CET \n\n\n\n10 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 5A Conversation about Duality and Non-duality in East and Westwith Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSunday February 6The Way of Love: Plato and Participation in the Good\, Beautiful and Truewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 12Duo Duels on Non-duality\, the Quantum Potential\, and the Nature of Consciousnesswith Jena Axelrod and Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday February 13The Way Up and the Way Down: Dante and the One Path from Hell to Paradisewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 19Connecting the Actuality of Things in Space-Time to the Reality of Possibility in QuantumLand: Convergences in Quantum Physics\, Brain Science\, Philosophy and Mystical Thoughtwith Gary Goldberg and Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nSunday February 20Contraries and Human Existence: William Blake and Cleansing the Doors of Perceptionswith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 26Beyond Dualistic Mind: Journeying Together on David Bohm’s ‘No Road’with David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday February 27The Master and the Emissary: Dualities in the Philosophy of Iain McGilchristwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday March 5Jung’s Two Personalities: Psychological Implicationswith Mark Saban \n\n\n\nSunday March 6Dualities and Non-Dualitywith Mauro Bergonzi and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us online at the Pari Center to explore the fascinating and seemingly endless topic of dualities where together with experts and scholars we will examine the meaning of dualities in physics\, philosophy\, spirituality\, literature\, psychology and reality. \n\n\n\nThe opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels BohrAs quoted by his son Hans Bohr in ‘My Father\,’ published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work. \n\n\n\nBeauty is the harmony of opposing things.Sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife is full of dualities. Things coexist\, oppose\, contrast and parallel every day. Duality teaches us that every aspect of life is created from a balanced interaction of opposite and competing forces. Yet these forces are not just opposites; they are complementary. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Cambridge Dictionary the word dual means ‘with two parts’ and duality ‘the state of combining two things.’ In philosophy ‘mind-body dualism’ was first formulated by the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes who stated that there exists a clear distinction between physical and mental phenomena.. \n\n\n\nIn many of the theologies and religions of the world we also find the pervasive idea that the forces of good and evil are equally balanced in the universe. Another common idea is that of the dual nature of human beings\, existing in both body and spirit. Christian dualism refers to the belief that God and creation are distinct and also a belief in the dual personality of Christ (human and divine). Traditional Chinese philosophy similarly believes that there is both an active male and passive female principle in the universe\, which is embodied in the symmetric yin-yang. \n\n\n\nIn 1933\, C.G. Jung wrote that duality is a fact of human nature and that we cannot achieve wholeness without integrating the dark or shadow side of the self. According to Jung it is the lack of awareness of our duality and inner contrasts that may lead to uncontrolled outbursts of the shadow\, as in the time of the Nazis. \n\n\n\nSeveral political theories also show evidence of a kind of dualistic thinking. In Marxism\, for example\, we find a dialectical view of the relationship between the theory and empirical practice (praxis) of society and political systems\, the thesis and anti-thesis\, a continual tension between capitalism and socialism\, as well as between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA key notion of quantum mechanics is the complementarity of incompatible observables\, which are both needed to fully describe a quantum system\, but cannot be measured simultaneously. An example is the complementarity of position and momentum of a particle and more generally of ‘particle’ and ‘wave’ behaviour of quantum systems. \n\n\n\nDuality is explored in such fictional writings as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\, Romeo and Juliet\, The Picture of Dorian Grayand even in the contrasting characters of Harry Potter and Voldemort. Films such as Black Swan and Fight Club explore the dualism of human nature. Batman and Joker are the polar opposites of order and chaos\, light and darkness. And it is the two-sided nature of the Force that propels the storyline in Star Wars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the visual arts\, The Kiss\, by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) depicts a nearly indistinguishable man and woman as two figures become one as they emerge from a single block of material. Dutch artist M.C. Escher was fascinated by duality and symmetry. \n\n\n\nIn Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching we read: \n\n\n\nWhen in the world all appreciate beauty as beauty\,then ugliness is already there;when all appreciate good as good\,then bad is already there. \n\n\n\n Therefore being and non-being generate each other\,difficult and easy complete each other\,long and short define each other\,high and low lean towards each other\,voice and music harmonise with each other\,before and after follow each other.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Words
DESCRIPTION:A Film Trilogy: Giving Form to the Ineffable \n\n\n\nwith director\, writer and producer Hugh PidgeonRoundtable Guests: Eelco de Geus\, Gary Goldberg\, Donna Kennedy-Glans\, Jacob Raz\, Yuriko Sato and David SchrumModerated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday January 8\, 2022 \n\n\n\nThree Short Films9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nRoundtable Conversation10:00am PST  | 1:00pm EST  | 6:00pm GMT  |  7:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue\n\n\n\nI first heard of Hugh Pidgeon’s Beyond Words trilogy from Hugh himself\, when he sent me a link to view the three films. Not realizing these were short films\, I put off viewing them for some time\, assuming an hour or more for each film. When I realized they were not lengthy\, I opened them right away\, beginning with A Moment of Clarity. \n\n\n\nAt the end of Clarity\, there was a simple state of silence. Eventually I began to reflect on what I had seen\, and was taken aback to realize that not once\, in 15 minutes of film about David Bohm\, did Bohm’s image ever appear. And yet\, the very essence of Bohm was everywhere\, distilled and concentrated with great artistry and a true sense of love. \n\n\n\nAs it turns out\, all these qualities are to be found in The Wall within Our Minds and Negotiating with Gravity\, the other two films in the trilogy. But it is from within the wholeness of the three films\, seen in their original intended sequence\, that the true import of Hugh’s work emerges. The overlapping\, interlaced meanings of the trilogy evoke a sense of mystery and beauty that transcends any of the individual films. These qualities linger\, and indeed work to rearrange one’s interiority\, one’s very being. \n\n\n\nIt was with great joy to learn from Hugh – who has kept these films rather close for a number of years – that he was enthusiastic about sharing them with the larger Pari community. This prospect has now come to fruition. Please join us for this very special\, one-time-only event! \n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Moderator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Saturday January 8\, 2022\, we are offering all our friends at the Pari Center the unique opportunity to view Hugh Pidgeon’s trilogy Beyond Words followed by a panel discussion. \n\n\n\nOur invited guests at the table will come together to discuss the ideas\, the beauty\, and the overall sense of Wholeness that is portrayed throughout. They will examine the interconnections between David Bohm\, Martin Buber\, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra of young Palestinians and Israelis\, and the artist Andy Goldsworthy. \n\n\n\nThe films (with a combined running time of 32 minutes) can be viewed at leisure in a 60-minute window prior to the 90-minute roundtable discussion between our panelists. There will not be Q&A during this event. \n\n\n\nIt is essential that you get your ticket above in order to receive the necessary links. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nPlease get your ticket for this event at the top of the page and you will be sent the links to the films and to the roundtable conversation.  \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center on Saturday January 8\, 2022 for a screening of Hugh Pidgeon’s trilogy Beyond Words followed by a panel conversation. This is a unique opportunity to not only view Hugh’s films but to hear a ninety-minute roundtable conversation on the ideas presented in the films. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks to creator and director Hugh Pidgeon\, it is our privilege to screen the Beyond Words trilogy\, Hugh’s stunning short films\, free of charge\, for the Pari Center community. \n\n\n\nThe Beyond Words trilogy opens with The Wall in Our Minds which introduces Arab and Jewish young musicians from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra\, with founder and conductor Daniel Barenboim who believes the orchestra is a metaphor for what could be achieved in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nThese young people were brought together as a one-off scratch orchestra in 1999 (yet is still giving performances) by Barenboim and the philosopher and writer\, the late Edward Said. The name chosen for the orchestra The West-Eastern Divan was the title of a collection of lyrical poems by Goethe. One hundred years earlier\, Martin Buber prefaced two lines from the very same collection in his book I and Thou. \n\n\n\nNegotiating With Gravity\, the second film in the trilogy\, was the outcome of an invitation to the director to lead a plenary at an international conference of Gestalt therapists on Martin Buber’s contribution to the core notions of dialogue that inform Gestalt psychotherapy. \n\n\n\nFor Buber the first of what he called the ‘spheres of relation’ was our life with Nature. Going beyond words\, the photographic essay that became the film followed conversations with a botanist from Kew Gardens\, a professor of physics at Oxford\, a professor of mathematics at Warwick University\, a resident ecologist at Schumacher College\, and an artist whose paintings feature in the film\, the better to understand the five perspectives that featured in the passage from Buber’s book and begins ‘I consider a tree.’ \n\n\n\nThe third in the series A Moment of Clarity was conceived as a sister film to bring David Bohm and Martin Buber together for the first time in the same space. In Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order the physicist includes extensive reference to the Ancient Greek notions of measure in music and the visual arts. \n\n\n\nHugh drew his inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy\, a site-specific sculptor whose work he has long admired and is featured on the cover of the Routledge edition of Bohm’s On Dialogue edited by Lee Nichol. It is Andy Goldsworthy who speaks of a moment of clarity at the close of the film. \n\n\n\nHugh presents an entirely new configuration of Goldsworthy’s film Rivers and Tides brought into conjunction with David Bohm’s writing on process from Wholeness and the Implicate Order\, and the extraordinary Ice Music of Norwegian musician Terje Isungset. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHugh Pidgeon is an organisational consultant\, an academic and a practicing Gestalt psychotherapist. He has been as much influenced in his work by the teaching of Martin Buber on dialogue as he has been by that of David Bohm .  Drawn by the commonality of insight they shared with each other\, Hugh created the trilogy Beyond Words\, several years in the making\, that features the two of them for the first time in the same space. \n\n\n\nA number of years living and working in Thailand and China and often visiting Japan have also proved a significant influence on Hugh personally.  He was first introduced to David Bohm’s work by fellow US consultants Roger Harrison and Peter Block while he was representing a Kansas City-based consultancy in Europe and was intrigued from the beginning by the interest David Bohm developed in the parallels in Buddhist teaching to his own work as a physicist. \n\n\n\nHugh’s primary interest is the contribution a dialogic orientation yet might make to the fractious collisions of opinion on how best to address our seemingly insatiable determination as the human race to sacrifice the ecological balance of the planet in pursuit of our own economic development – the outcome of the fragmentation in the way we think that David Bohm anticipated over 40 years ago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEelco de Geus met the work of David Bohm in his Dialogue Training in Germany with Freeman Dhoritiy. He is inspired by the integration of Bohm’s Thinking\, the relational approaches in the works of Martin Buber\, the process work of Arnold Mindell and different community building practices. Eelco applies this integration in a proces- oriented approach on dialogue\,  that inquires beyond words into the essence of human connection. He is co- founder of the Dialogue Academy Vienna\, which provides learning spaces for dialogue process work and systemic constellations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary Goldberg received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and then a Medical Degree from McMaster University.  He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine.  In 2020\, he retired from clinical practice after over 35 years working in the field of brain injury rehabilitation at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Pittsburgh and Richmond in the USA.  He now is focused on drawing on this work experience to seek a means of conjoining faith and science into a coherent conceptual framework of holistic inquiry. \n\n\n\nGary is an energetic member of the Pari Center\, actively participating in our online events and is a member of the Pari Center Advisory Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Kennedy-Glans is a boundary-crosser. As a Canadian\, she has worked on the ground to add value to enterprising projects in over thirty-five countries\, in the public\, private and non-profit sectors. Donna began her career as a lawyer in the energy sector\, where she held several unique and pioneering roles involving corporate integrity\, transparency and sustainability. She founded a non-profit to build the capacity of women in Yemen\, served as an elected politician and cabinet minister in the province of Alberta\, has held leading roles on boards of directors\, and participates with her siblings in the stewardship of a family farm enterprise. \n\n\n\nDonna’s book about her work with women in Yemen—Unveiling the Breath: One Woman’s Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality–was published by Pari Publishing in 2009. Donna’s latest book—Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance: Moving Beyond Business as Usual—will be released in March 2022; see teachingthedinosaur.com for details. Donna blogs at https://beyondpolarity.blog and is active on several social media platforms. She is an amateur photographer and delighted grandmother to two-year-old Kennedy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO. \n\n\n\nLee has recently released – Entering Bohm’s Holoflux – which can be downloaded for free at: https://paricenter.com/product/entering-bohms-holoflux-by-lee-nichol/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJacob Raz is Professor Emeritus\, East Asian Studies\, Tel Aviv University. He translates and writes on Buddhism\, Zen Buddhism\, and Japanese Culture and poetry\, as well as his own haiku. Raz lived many years in Japan and travelled extensively in Asia. He has long been a practitioner and teacher of Zen. \n\n\n\nRaz has taught seminars and workshops on Martin Buber and Buddhism\, and wrote the Afterword in the new translation of Martin Buber’s book I and Thou into Hebrew [2014]. He has been active in the Consciousness Laboratory\, Tel Aviv University\, and wrote extensively on the subject. \n\n\n\nHe is also the father of Yoni\, a loving person with DS.  They speak ‘Yonish’\,  a language they have been creating over a lifetime through constant\, embodied dialogue. Consequently\, Raz became a social activist\, and has led a national movement toward a paradigmatic change in the life and dialogue with people with disabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYuriko Sato is a Japanese Jungian analyst and psychotherapist\, and a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. She studied medicine and worked as a psychiatrist in Osaka and Kyoto. She has private psychotherapy practices in Zürich and Bern\, and is a training/supervising analyst at ISAPZURICH (International School of Analytical Psychology Zürich)\, where she teaches on topics such as the Eastern (Japanese) psyche\, narcissism\, and psychiatry. \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.
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SUMMARY:The Consciousness of Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxG7_rMpnuk\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Consciousness of Neuroscience \n\n\n\nwith Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 610:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe scientific study of consciousness used to be taboo just a few decades ago\, but it is now in its heyday. Consciousness research captures the imagination of laypeople\, attracts research funding\, and sells books. Amongst neuroscientists\, the dominant position is this: whatever consciousness is\, it must somehow emerge somewhere in the brain. Where else could it be? The challenge then is to find out how subjective experience springs from neural activity. But does it? By what kind of modern alchemy is the water of the matter supposed to be transformed into the wine of experience? We are never told. Instead\, materialism excels at selling old metaphysical commitments as new scientific data. In addition\, materialism is promissory by necessity: the grand resolution is at hand but always lies ahead – the best is yet to come. Moreover\, and despite the impressive tools available\, such a conception of the physical world dates back to the nineteenth century – ironically\, physicalism is embraced by virtually everyone except physicists themselves. In sum\, the blind spot of the neuroscience of consciousness is paradoxical: a mind studies other brains and declares itself illusory\, epiphenomenal\, or emergent at best. Here\, rather than trying to answer how “matter makes mind”\, Alex Gomez-Marin questions whether it does\, and what this entails for science writ large. He argues that the science of consciousness is at a sweet crossroads: either we continue doing science as usual with ever fancier tools and bigger data or we seize the opportunity to craft a new idea of science. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday November 6\, Alex will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89671398135 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Gomez-Marin is a theoretical physicist turned cognitive neuroscientist. He was awarded his PhD in physics in 2008 by the University of Barcelona. He also holds a Masters in Biophysics from the same university. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the EMBL-CRG Centre forGenomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown\, where he studied worms\, flies and mice. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante\, Spain. The mission of his group is to establish neuro-ethological principles across species. His latest research concentrates on machines and humans in real-world situations\, combining computational techniques with theoretical biology and continental philosophy. You can follow him at @behaviOrganisms and read his work here: https://behavior-of-organisms.org/read-us
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-consciousness-of-neuroscience/
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SUMMARY:Closing Panel: Multiple Universes
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MqWMqeslk\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Panel: Multiple Universes \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina\, Ruth Kastner\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz\, Paul Tappenden and Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSunday October 24\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nA panel discussion with some of the speakers of the Multiple Universes series will close the event\, reflecting on the various perspectives that have emerged in the presentations and comparing different world views. \n\n\n\nThe session will begin by posing the panelists a few key questions to start the discussion. It will continue as a Q&A session open to everybody. You are invited to have your questions and comments ready\, and in formulating them please be mindful of other people’s need to ask their own questions! The best questions are often the most concise ones. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth E. Kastner earned her M.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Maryland. Since that time\, she has taught widely and conducted research in Foundations of Physics\, particularly in interpretations of quantum theory. She is the author of 3 books: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Reality of Possibility (Cambridge University Press\, 2012; 2nd edition forthcoming in Fall 2021)\, Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (Imperial College Press\, 2015); and Adventures In Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality (World Scientific\, 2019).  She has presented talks and interviews throughout the world and in video recordings on the interpretational challenges of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Tappenden’s first degree was in philosophy and psychology but he has long taken an interest in physics and was particularly fascinated by the philosophical problems associated with quantum mechanics. His PhD from King’s College\, London\, was an attempt to relate an important current debate in philosophy of mind with ideas in the so-called Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Since then he has taught philosophy of science to physics students in Grenoble\, France\, and has pursued the ideas in his doctorate in a series of papers\, the most recent being in the journal Synthese\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-François Vezina is a clinical psychologist in Quebec and author of 6 books including Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters That Transform Us by Pari Publishing. He was president of the Jungian society of Quebec for seven years and the animator and producer of the radio show Projections: Psychology and Cinema about symbols in the movies. He is also an international lecturer and a musician. www.jfvezina.net/
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SUMMARY:Imagined Problems: Real Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0CxUbY3iY\n\n\n\n\n\nImagined Problems: Real Opportunities \n\n\n\nwith Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert and Gary Goldberg \n\n\n\nWednesday October 209:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe science of perception tells us that our problems are subjective and socially constructed. So what is a “real” problem\, and what solutions become available to us?  In this engaging session\, Drs. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert\, MAPP\, PhD and Gary Goldberg\, MD discuss the nature of perception and “reality” in our VUCA world (volatile\, uncertain\, complex\, and ambiguous). They will also discuss how to move from feelings of overwhelm and despair to inspiration and agency by accessing our deep\, inner wisdom. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey will be presented as a timeless\, increasingly relevant\, and useful frame for our individual and collective pursuit of meaning and authentic\, impactful action\, especially in light of our modern challenges. Personal stories and anecdotes will be used to illustrate how we can create our own sagas akin to Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) and Luke Skywalker (Star Wars). Participants will be invited to envision\, and then pursue their own achievable\, unique\, and deeply authentic solutions to achieve the beautiful new world that we all desire. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday October 20\, Susanna and Gary will open our monthly Community Call followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86035064521 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert is a 26-year veteran of higher education\, first starting at Virginia Commonwealth University where she was a faculty member in the School of Pharmacy\, Department of Pharmaceutics\, and Director of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program for 11 years.  She joined the Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Georgia in 2016 as the inaugural Director of Programming\, where she supported faculty success and wellbeing\, and leadership and organizational development for the 2300 faculty across the UGA campuses.  In 2018\, she founded the Foundation for Family and Community Healing\, who focuses on creating vibrant connections between individuals and their families\, communities\, and with Earth to promote wellbeing for all. \n\n\n\nSusanna has a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Texas\, Austin\, a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania\, a PhD in pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California\, San Francisco and a postdoctoral fellowship in dermatology\, also at UCSF.  During her career she has published almost 100 journal articles\, books\, and book chapters\, and has written hundreds of blogs for the Silver Lining blog (www.findingpositiveperspective.wordpress.com) and through FFCH.   She has several coaching credentials including Clifton StrengthsFinders\, Growth Edge Coaching\, Arbinger Institute\, and the Leadership Circle\, and is trained as a life coach.  Her passion is in helping individuals and organizations find and pursue their calling and the highest versions of themselves. \n\n\n\nFor more information on Susanna and her work www.HealingEdu.org and  www.SusannaCalvert.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gary Goldberg received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and then a Medical Degree from McMaster University.  He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine.  In 2020\, he retired from clinical practice after over 35 years working in the field of brain injury rehabilitation at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Pittsburgh and Richmond in the USA.  He now is focused on drawing on this work experience to seek a means of conjoining faith and science into a coherent conceptual framework of holistic inquiry. \n\n\n\nGary is an energetic member of the Pari Center\, actively participating in our online events and is a member of the Pari Center Advisory Board.
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SUMMARY:Multiple Universes
DESCRIPTION:Multiple UniversesParallel Worlds in Quantum Physics\, Cosmology and Imagination \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina (Mapuche Descent)\, Ruth Kastner\, Tim Maudlin\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz (Otomi-Toltec)\, Paul Tappenden and Jean François Vézina \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nOctober 2 – 3\, 9 – 10\, 16 – 17\, 23 – 24\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo hour sessions every Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nIs the universe we live in unique? What lies beyond the boundaries of the universe we see? Was the process that we believe gave birth to our universe – the Big Bang –a singular event or are universes bubbling up all the time? Do we exist in different worlds and live parallel lives? \n\n\n\nSuch notions would have seemed outrageous a few decades ago: surprisingly\, as evidence begins to converge from different directions\, they are close to becoming scientific orthodoxy. \n\n\n\nThe Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann described a key motive in the evolution of scientific thought as “jettisoning excess baggage”. Ideas that were previously accepted as absolute truth (e.g. the idea that the Earth sits at the center of the cosmos) were later seen to be relative and simply a consequence of our particular perspective. Are we today on the edge of another such radical enlargement of our perspective by abandoning the notion of a single universe? \n\n\n\nIn this online course we will explore the idea of multiple universes (and multiple realities\, multiple selves) in science\, film\, science fiction\, indigenous wisdom\, etc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday October 2The Multiverse and the Limits of Sciencewith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSunday October 3Dendritic Quantum Mechanicswith Paul Tappenden \n\n\n\nSunday October 10May The Force Be Between Us Exploring our MultiVerse with the help of Star Wars and Otherswith Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSaturday October 16Discovering Multiple Possibilities in Quantum Theorywith Ruth Kastner \n\n\n\nSunday October 17Science\, Philosophy\, Evidence\, Explanation and Fine-Tuningwith Tim Maudlin \n\n\n\nSaturday October 23Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse?with Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSunday October 24Multiple Universes: Closing Sessionwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina\, Ruth Kastner\, Tim Maudlin\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz\, Paul Tappenden\, Jean-Francois Vezina
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/multiple-universes-2/
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Earth-Mind
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the Earth-Mind \n\n\n\n4-part series: Saturday and Sunday September 11- 12\, 18 – 199:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  | 6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nEach session is 2 hours \n\n\n\nwith John Briggs PhD\, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSUand coauthor of three books with F. David Peat \n\n\n\nFeaturing Guests:Robert Toth: Former Executive Director of the Merton Institute for Contemplative LivingOfelia Rivas: Elder of the Tohono O’odham NationShantena Augusto Sabbatini\, Director of The Pari CenterJames Peat Barbieri\, Associate Program Director of The Pari Center \n\n\n\nIndigenous peoples alive today are rooted in a consciousness of Earth that once provided the guiding mode of consciousness for humans but which at this point in time most of the rest of humanity has lost. The mainstream mode of consciousness is the “anthropocentric” or human-centered mode—a consciousness of objects\, causality\, competition and hierarchy that focuses on the individual self and on the conflict for survival of the individual. By contrast\, the holomorphic or Earth-Mind consciousness is a holistic awareness; it’s an awareness of living in dynamic balance with other beings as “relatives\,” including mountains\, trees\, rivers\, wind. It’s an awareness of the deeply metaphoric nature of our relationship to reality and of our obligation to engage in “reciprocity” with all beings\, animate or inanimate. \n\n\n\nEveryone comes to life naturally endowed with both modes of consciousness\, but the holistic Earth-Mind has been suppressed by the all-consuming anthropocentric structures of thought and self-interest that have moved to control nature since the Neolithic Revolution. In the words of one Native elder: “Instead of taking care\, we are taking over.” \n\n\n\nThe objective of the four sessions of this course is to alert participants to the existence of the Earth-Mind mode of awareness in their own consciousness and to explore the implication of this mode of awareness for their individual lives and the collective life of the planet. \n\n\n\nThe sessions will be interactive. Through simple activities\, participants will engage their Earth-Mind and report back to the group for discussion what they find. Guests will include Ofelia Rivas elder of the Tohono O’odam Nation in Southern Arizona and Mexico. Physicists Shantena Sabbadini and James Peat Barbieri will join the final session in a dialogue exploring how modern physics and ideas of the whole might find resonance with the holistic mode of consciousness that grounds traditional People. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSession 1: A Holistic Kind of Consciousness—Saturday September 11Climate change and catastrophic species extinction have resulted from a way of thinking that could be called anthropocentric or “human-centered.” This is thinking about the world and ourselves in terms of separate objects and interchangeable parts. The so-called “human enhancement project” exemplifies this kind of thinking that most people would conclude is\, for better and ill\, the only kind of human thinking there is short of enlightenment. However\, Indigenous people around the world are guided by another mode of consciousness\, a holomorphic or Earth-Mind  consciousness. This first session will sketch the characteristics of Earth-Mind consciousness. Short selections of reading will be assigned along with an activity. Both will be discussed on Sept. 18 in session 3. \n\n\n\nSession 2: A Conversation with O’odam Elder Ofelia Rivas—Sunday September 12Among the items Ofelia will discuss: her experience of reality as flux\, relations with other entities\, ceremony\, reciprocity\, balance\, the original instructions. What is the role of the feminine in maintaining balance in the flux of the world? What is it like for her to live under the pressures of a toxic anthropocentric society? This session will end with a recommendation that participants engage in two simple activities over the next week and come prepared to communicate their experiences on the 18th\, session 3. \n\n\n\nSession 3: Living with Our Relatives—Saturday September 18This session is devoted to participants’ thoughts about the reading selections and their experiences as they engaged the recommended “homework” activities.  Final assignment will be given to view two short videos on YouTube in preparation for the last session. \n\n\n\nSession 4: What Is the Whole?—Sunday September 19Physics has pursued the idea of a universe made of separate objects connected by forces and causality. But figuring out how the smallest objects come together to make the world eventually led to the discovery of a missing ingredient in scientific  theories: the whole. What is the whole according to chaos theory\, quantum mechanics and David Bohm’s implicte order? The final session will unfold as a dialogue with physicists Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and James Peat Barberi exploring physical conceptions of holism and their possible connections to Earth-Mind consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOphelia Rivas  My people are the O’odham from the desert\, O’odham means people. The O’odham oral history teaches us where and when we originated and how to live on the land and follow our way of life called the Him’dag.  My homelands are illegally occupied by the United States of America and the Republic States of Mexico—an International Boundary bisected my homelands.  Today we live on reservations “wards of the state”\, where the poverty levels are above national levels. My father’s community is in Cu:Wi I-gersk\, Sonora\, Mexico and my mother’s community is Ali Jegk\, Arizona\, USA. I hold my alliance with my Indigenous brothers and sisters and my traditional O’odham Elders and ceremony leaders. The traditional O´odham hold their alliance to Mother Earth. No written documents required.  I carry the words from my traditional elders and ceremony leaders.  They call for solidarity to defend the sacred places of our people for our survival.  They call to defend the source of our original birthplaces as people\, Mother Earth\, Father Sky and the sacred Water and Air. \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\nShantena Sabbadini graduated from the University of Milan in 1968 and was awarded his PhD in physics from the University of California in 1976. In Milan he researched the foundations of quantum physics\, laying the base for what is currently known as the decoherence interpretation of quantum physics. At the University of California\, he contributed to the theoretical work behind the first identification of a black hole\, the X-ray source Cygnus X-1. In the 1990s he was scientific consultant for the Eranos Foundation\, an East-West research center founded under the auspices of C.G. Jung in the 1930s. In that context he produced various translations and commentaries of Chinese classics in Italian and English\, including the Yijing and the trilogy of Daoist classics\, the Laozi\, the Zhuangzi and the Liezi. From 2002 onwards he collaborated with F. David Peat running the Pari Center for New Learning and in 2017 he succeeded his friend and colleague as director of the center. \n\n\n\nShantena leads workshops and courses on the philosophical implications of quantum physics\, on Daoism\, and on using the Yijing as a tool for introspection. His most recent book in English\, Pilgrimages to Emptiness: Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics\, was published by Pari Publishing in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Peat Barbieri is the Associate Programme Director at the Pari Center\, and host of the Pari Center online events. He studied at a professional dance school\, Ateneo della Danza\, Siena\, but moved on to academic studies. James is now a King’s College\, University of London graduate in Physics and Philosophy. His other interests include Film\, Art\, and Philosophy. He is interested in analysing cinema and works of art by applying philosophical approaches such as aesthetics and the Continental philosophies. \n\n\n\nJames has been taking part in conferences and courses at the Pari Center since he was 11. He was David Peat’s Teaching Assistant from the age of 15 and has since then given several presentations at the Pari Center\, including two mini-courses on Beauty and Mathematics\, dealing with the relationship of Nature and the Golden Section\, on Hegel’s philosophy and its symmetry with the works of David Bohm\, and the historical relationship between Art and Science.
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