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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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/re-visioning-consciousness/
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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:The Brain and our Encounter with the World
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZNDD77in8\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain and our Encounter with the World \n\n\n\nwith Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nSaturday September 49:00 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\nAt the very least\, our brains help to shape our consciousness. Can an examination of the way in which they do so help us to reconcile different visons of ourselves and of our world?  There is nothing reductionist about asking such a question: rather\, McGilchrist shall suggest\, it helps us to transcend the limitations of reductionism itself.  Importantly it may\, for the first time\, give philosophy a basis for judging certain views on the world as worthier of acceptance than others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford\, an Associate  Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford\, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital\, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital\, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature\, philosophy\, medicine and psychiatry.  He is the author of a number of books\, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009)\, and is shortly to publish a book on epistemology and ontology called The Matter with Things.  He lives on the Isle of Skye\, and has two daughters and a son.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2: Closing Session
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2: Closing Session \n\n\n\nwith Leroy Little Bear\, Beth Macy\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday August 29\, 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\nIt may be “auspicious coincidence” – or otherwise – but the first five of the sessions in Beyond Bohm 2 are in one way or another related to participatory consciousness. This overlap occurred without any intention on the part of the individuals who put together each of the sessions. It is likely then\, that this topic will figure into our final summary session\, though any of the topics addressed in the preceding weeks may come to the fore – especially in the extended discussion and Q &A with those attending this final segment of Beyond Bohm. And in the spirit of dialogue\, something completely new may emerge\, unforeseen by any plan or agenda. \n\n\n\nPlease join us as we gather and look toward the future of Bohm-inspired inquiries and explorations\, with an eye toward genuine transformations in consciousness. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear\, PhD. Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, Canada. \n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (Kainai First Nation)\, approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge\, Alberta. One of the first Native students to complete a program of study at the University of Lethbridge\, Little Bear graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. He continued his education at the College of Law\, University of Utah\, in Salt Lake City\, completing a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975. \n\n\n\nFollowing his graduation\, Little Bear returned to his alma mater as a founding member of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department. He remained at the University of Lethbridge as a researcher\, faculty member and department chair until his official retirement in 1997. \n\n\n\nIn recent years Little Bear has continued his influential work as an advocate for First Nations education. From January 1998 to June 1999 he served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Upon his return to Canada\, he was instrumental in the creation of a Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge—the only program of its kind in the country. \n\n\n\nIn the spring of 2003\, Little Bear was awarded the prestigious National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education\, the highest honour bestowed by Canada’s First Nations community. Little Bear is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge and the University of Northern British Columbia. Along with his wife\, Amethyst First Rider\, Little Bear brought about the historic Buffalo Treaty between First Nations on both sides of the USA-Canada border in 2014. Little Bear was inducted into the Alberta Order Excellence and the Order of Canada in 2016 and 2019 respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Bohm collaborator\, editor\, educator \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 is currently at work on a new book – Entering Bohm’s Holoflux – to be released in July 2021 by Pari Publishing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve’s practice encompasses live art\, philosophy\, drawing\, David Bohm’s ‘Dialogue’ and social sculpture. \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the relationship between critical thinking and human agency in everyday life\, particularly when it is risked through the figure of ‘the artist’ (where what constitutes an artist is broadly conceived and not exclusive to art school training). \n\n\n\nRecent public works have been staged at Tanzquartier\, Vienna\, Tate Britain (working under the umbrella of The Emily Davison Lodge with Olivia Plender) and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. \n\n\n\nHester Reeve is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. \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:Beyond Bohm: Science\, Order and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Physics and Metaphysics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: Contemplation and Creativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1: Physics and Metaphysics \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Basil Hiley\, Paavo Pylkkänen and Giuseppe Vitiello \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nJuly 10 – 11\, 17 – 18 and Closing Panel 25\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo hour sessions on 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\nDavid Bohm has given a fundamental contribution to the still ongoing debate on the interpretation of quantum physics\, a contribution largely ignored by the mainstream physics community for decades\, but now being rediscovered and taken into consideration both in philosophical debate and in mathematical and experimental developments. \n\n\n\nThis first sequence of Beyond Bohm: Science\, Order and Creativity will explore some outer edges of these investigations. \n\n\n\n\nIt will describe how contextuality (one of the most puzzling features of the quantum world) is represented in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum physics and compare it to various alternatives.\n\n\n\nIt will follow up Bohm’s investigation of consciousness in terms of a dialogue between the self and its Double (the representation it constructs of its surroundings).\n\n\n\nIt will outline the Dirac-Bohm picture\, a very significant recent mathematical result that provides a different physical intuition with which to understand quantum phenomena.\n\n\n\nIt will illustrate some of Bohm’s key philosophical contributions to a scientific metaphysics and sketch how they could be further developed in future research.\n\n\n\n\nTake this unique opportunity to participate in an exploration of what Bohm’s ideas mean for the future\, by former colleagues of David Bohm and scholars of his work. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 10Contextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyondwith Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSunday July 11The Brain and its Mindful Doublewith Giuseppe Vitiello \n\n\n\nSaturday July 17The Dirac-Bohm Picture: Bohm’s 1952 Approach in a Wider Contextwith Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday July 18Understanding the Nature of Reality and Consciousness: Bohm’s Philosophical Projectwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday July 25Closing Panel – Physics and Metaphysicswith Emily Adlam\, Basil Hiley\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and David Schrum \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: Contemplation and Creativity \n\n\n\nwith more than 25 guest presentersChaired by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nAugust 14 – 15\, 21 – 22\, 28 – 29\, 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\nDavid Bohm’s work has been highly influential in the world of physics\, but his philosophical ideas crossed multiple disciplines with a holistic approach. This sequence of presentations will follow some of these ideas\, and explore new threads of inquiry inspired by Bohm: \n\n\n\nHow can artistic expression and philosophical inquiry complement one another? What is the role of imagination in exploring the polarity between participatory consciousness and literal thought? What can we learn from Indigenous cultures about enfoldment and unfoldment in the natural order? Can Bohm’s insight into participatory understanding\, along with Buddhist principles\, point the way through our collective human sorrow to what may lie beyond? What does the lineage of those who influenced Bohm’s dialogue tell us about the transmission and evolution of participative consciousness in today’s world? \n\n\n\nEach of these questions will be addressed in this six-part sequence of presentations. We hope you can join us as we attempt to stand on Bohm’s shoulders and peer into the future. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be in ’roundtable’ format\, with each having a core group of guest presenters in conversation and dialogue. In most case\, the presentations will be followed 30 minutes of discussion and Q & A with all those attending the session. In total\, we have more than 25 guest presenters bringing their insights to ‘Beyond Bohm\, Part 2.’ \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 14Creativity and the Artistwith Jessica Ball\, Alison Churchill\, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSunday August 15Imagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexuswith James Peat Barbieri\, Hester Reeve\, Mark Vernon. Facilitated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday August 21Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialoguewith David Begay (Navajo)\, Angelita Borbon (Yaqui)\, Greg Cajete (Tewa)\, Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot)\, Rose Imai (Tuscarora)\, Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot)\, Nancy Maryboy (Navajo)\, Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis)\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday August 22Changing Consciousnesswith Sandra Fiegehen\, David Schrum and Stephen Smith \n\n\n\nSaturday August 28Dialogue’s Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousnesswith Beth Macy\, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday August 29Beyond Bohm 2: Closing Sessionwith Leroy Little Bear\, Beth Macy\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve and David Schrum
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SUMMARY:The Screen and the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TRmZBZIpo\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Screen and the Soul: Virtual Reality\, Real Reality and How It Is \n\n\n\nwith Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\nSaturday July 39:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe Covid pandemic has required us to keep a broader social distance from one another; for psychotherapists this should be less of a problem. With reliable broadband making therapy sessions (and presentations like this one) possible online\, why do so many people still find the virtual session falls so far short of the ‘real’ meeting in person? Maybe our assumption that there is a ‘real’ version and there is an inferior ‘virtual’ version is wrong to begin with. Christopher Hauke will lay out three approaches to this question. \n\n\n\nThe first derives from quantum theorist David Deutsch and his book The Fabric of Reality (Deutsch\, 1997). The second approach digs further into philosophical implications around the idea that material reality is not an objective fact and consciousness is all there is. This is known as metaphysical idealism as analysed by Bernardo Kastrup’s (Kastrup 2020\, 2021) work especially his understanding of Jung’s metaphysics. \n\n\n\nLastly\, film narratives\, as well as factual ‘reality’ films\, have long been delivering ‘reality’ to us on screens in their own virtual way. So Chris will finish by discussing the bio-evolutionary ideas around visual perception\, affordance (Gibson\, 1979) and the central role of meaning in both film and the therapy session. In doing so\, he will bring us back to the definition of ‘virtual’ which flagged it as something in essence or effect. In this way he brings a new perspective to the idea of ‘real reality’ and ‘virtual reality’ in our new way of working. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday July 3\, Chris 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/83111513487 \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\nChristopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice and Senior Lecturer emeritus at Goldsmiths\, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena including film. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities\, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the  Soul  (2005) Visible Mind. Movies\, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co-edited two collections of Jungian film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image(2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return (2011). \n\n\n\nHis short films\, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama  Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona\, Zurich and Montreal. \n\n\n\nIn addition to new film projects he is now researching the limits of rationality\, and the place of the irrational in our lives.
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SUMMARY:Closing Panel: What is Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOg8shXLAqM\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Panel: What is Consciousness? \n\n\n\nwith Valerie Gray Hardcastle\, Gary Lachman\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nSunday June 279:00 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\nWe are sorry to announce that Iain McGilchrist is indisposed and will be unable to give what was to be the final presentation in our ‘What Is Consciousness?’ series. Iain is rescheduling his talk for September\, and we will be notifying everyone once we have confirmed the date. In its place we have gathered together a number of our presenters for a final panel. \n\n\n\nWe have now reached the end of our ‘What is Consciousness?’ event. We have explored the many aspects of the topic through the eyes of scholars some of whom had opposing viewpoints but all of whom were both compelling and enlightening. We are pleased that so many of them have agreed to take part in a final panel to explore and deepen some of the themes that have emerged in the presentations. \n\n\n\nWe will begin with the panelists responding to prepared questions on such topics as the relationship of matter and consciousness\, how quantum mechanics might shed light on the ‘block universe’ conceptualization\, and how patterns of activation of the human brain during cognitive performancemight shed light on consciousness. \n\n\n\nThis will be followed by a Q&A session open to everyone. Make sure you have your questions and comments ready. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Epistemic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Epistemic Justice \n\n\n\nReflections on Past\, Present and Future – from an African Perspective With Dr. Baba Buntu (PhD) \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16\, 23 and 30 – 1 hour sessions10:00 am PDT  |  1:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm BST  |  7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis seminar-series is a presentation of reflections on justice\, liberation and transformation. It is a fragmented story\, inspired by the presenter’s tri-continental life-journey\, interpreted through a trans-disciplinary lens and motivated by finding strategies for change through epistemic disobedience. \n\n\n\nRooted in African worldviews\, each session will explore aspects of history that has had a devastating impact on human development. Literary references will be used as navigation points in order to interrogate complex problems and stimulate philosophical introspection. \n\n\n\nMore than providing the answers\, the seminar-series will seek to disrupt common thinking and encourage a transdisciplinary approach to transformation. Realizing that our views of the world have been greatly impacted by exclusion and silencing\, the series is an attempt to speak the unspoken and envision the righteous. \n\n\n\nThe seminar-series will be scheduled along 12 key-concepts\, structured through four dimensions: Physical\, cognitive\, social and metaphysical. 3 sessions will be held each month of May\, June\, July and August at 7:00 CEST of 1 hour. \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive\n\n\n\nJune 16 – Violence: What is the script of violence\, beyond physical aggression?June 23 – Economy: How do we manage a world where “to have” is a privilege?June 30 – Leadership: Is there a universal script for how to lead? \n\n\n\nWhat people have said….\n\n\n\n\nThis program is -in my eyes- an absolute prerequisite for everyone aspiring to bring change in the world\, for everyone who claims to believe in change\, equality and justice. You cannot not listen to Baba Buntu’s work on (in)justice. Julie Arts \n\n\n\nUsing evocative questions and images\, engaging around both the mind and lived experience\, Dr. Buntu opens the potential for understanding at a deep and enduring level.  Sharon Landes \n\n\n\nDr. Baba Buntu strikes the perfect balance between personal experience and in-depth academic research in this eye-opening series. This course should be mandatory for people of all colours to become aware and hopefully start to fight the inherent systemic injustices both in our daily lives and at a larger scale. Rose Vervenne \n\n\n\n\nFollowing months…..\n\n\n\nJuly: SocialJuly 14 – Family: Who is the teacher of familyhood?July 21 – Youth: Why do we hate youth so much?July 28 – Gender: Is gender a concept of violence? \n\n\n\nAugust: MetaphysicalAugust 11 – Spirit: Who defines truth beyond the physical world?August 18 – Unity: What are the mechanics of reuniting a fragmented world?August 25 – Balance: Whose responsibility is it to restore what was broken? \n\n\n\nPrevious month…..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay: The PhysicalMay 12 – Skin: How did appearance become punishable?May 19 – Presence: What does it mean to exist in this world?May 26 – Representation: Who can represent who\, and why? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Baba Amani Olúbánjọ Buntu is a Community/Activist Scholar with more than 30 years of experience in conceptualizing and implementing programs on social development\, innovative entrepreneurship\, youth empowerment and indigenous knowledge – particularly suited for Afrikan applicability. He has background from Anguilla\, grew up in Norway and has lived in South Afrika since the 90’s. \n\n\n\nIn Norway he founded Afrikan Youth In Norway (AYIN)\, started Norway’s first Afrikan-centered retail shop\, Afrikan Excellence\, and co-founded Afrikan History Week (AHW). He is the Founder and Co-Director of eBukhosini Solutions\, a community based company in Johannesburg\, focusing on Afrikan-Centered education and decolonial transformation. He holds a Doctoral and a Master Degree in Philosophy of Education from University of South Africa and has also studied social work\, group therapy and political science. As a Pan-Afrikan educator\, writer\, mentor and practitioner\, with broad experience from work in Afrika\, the Caribbean and Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe Image Above: MMRA KRADO belongs to the family of Adinkra conceptual symbols created by the Bono and Akan civilizations\, in today’s Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. \n\n\n\nIn the literal sense\, mmra means law while krado means padlock. Together they can be translated to mean the seal of the law. This symbol represents justice and authority. When there is a desire for law and order\, citizens must resolve to be law abiding for a peaceful and harmonious community.
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SUMMARY:The Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12raflNx6g\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning \n\n\n\nwith Melanie Rein \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16  9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nOnline Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThis talk will focus on the unconscious patterns which run through families and generations of families\, as one generation inherits\, responds and reacts to the complexes and archetypal energies of the previous generation—and even of the generation before that—parents\, grandparents and in some cases\, great-grandparents. Drawing on mythology and other cultural experiences\, the presenter will explore the symbolic nature of the genogram\, or psychological genealogy tree\, and its connection to the Tree of Life as a visual image for eliciting\, revealing and deepening insights into family and ancestral patterning. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday June 16\, Melanie 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/84239833716 \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\nMelanie Rein PhD.\, is a Jungian analyst and supervisor with a practice in Cambridge\, UK. She is a senior member of the Guild of Analytical Psychologists\, London\, where she originally trained\, and of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. Many moons ago\, Melanie worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker\, using family therapy in her work with children and families. Later\, following her PhD.\, and as a social scientist\, she directed a number of British Government and EU projects in Central and Eastern Europe\, as well working on a collaborative research project with colleagues in Zambia and Kwa Zulu Natal\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nImage Above:Israhel van MeckenemOrnament with the Tree of Jesse\, 1480–90With kind permission of The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
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SUMMARY:What Is Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Click here to watch the recordings \n\n\n\n\n\nwith Richard Baker Roshi\, Valerie Hardcastle\, Basil Hiley\, Bernardo Kastrup\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkänen and Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n8 two-hour online sessions\, one every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nJune 5 – 27\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nConsciousness is the primary and most immediate experience we all have. Before knowing our name or who we are\, before being able to recognize any specific experience we are undergoing\, the immediate realization that “I am” is always there. \n\n\n\nYet this fundamental first person experience sits uneasily within the context of our scientific third person description of the world. No doubt consciousness has somehow to do with the brain\, since physical or chemical changes in the brain affect the contents of consciousness. But the contents of consciousness\, e.g. the experience of the color red\, are qualitatively different from and irreducible to patterns of excitation in the brain. This irreducible difference has been dubbed “the hard problem of consciousness.” \n\n\n\nWhat has been dubbed ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ is much deeper than mere neurophysiology. It involves the sense we have of ourselves and our destiny\, the issue of life after death and the distinction between animate and inanimate. What are the boundaries (if any) of consciousness? Is consciousness everywhere (as mystical traditions teach) or nowhere (as materialists claim)? \n\n\n\nEach session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue\, discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nAnalytic Idealism with Bernardo KastrupSaturday June 5 \n\n\n\nCan Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?with Basil Hiley and Paavo PylkkänenSunday June 6 \n\n\n\nMundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung’s Late Thoughts About Consciousness\, Ego\, and Selfwith Roderick MainSaturday June 12 \n\n\n\nEmotion\, Synchronicity and Surprisewith Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 13 \n\n\n\nBeyond the Robot: Consciousness and Existentialismwith Gary LachmanSaturday June 19 \n\n\n\nWhat Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness?with Valerie Gray HardcastleSunday June 20 \n\n\n\nThe Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousnesswith Richard Baker RoshiSaturday June 26 \n\n\n\nClosing Panel: What is Consciousnesswith Valerie Hardcastle\, Gary Lachman\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 27
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SUMMARY:Hope and Delusion
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTF4n-mRXM\n\n\n\n\n\nHope and Delusion: Critical Storytelling for Difficult Times \n\n\n\nwith Robert Norris \n\n\n\nSunday May 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nWhen we realise just how much hangs on our attitudes towards the various forms of crisis we are exposed to\, we may come to see what our work really is. Hope has a curious story to tell. It reminds us of the wealth we carry within us\, but also of how easily we are persuaded to give it all up. This talk attempts to string together disparate stories relating to\, but not necessarily about\, hope\, and aims specifically to raise more questions than it answers. Accompanying the talk there will be breakout and plenary sessions in which participants will be able to articulate their thoughts and responses. \n\n\n\nOn Sunday May 16\, Robert 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/84842167052 \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\nWhen asked once to provide a blurb for a book on the philosophy of language\, the question of how to describe Robert professionally had to be addressed. It was decided to describe him as an independent researcher\, and this is more or less how Robert has viewed himself ever since. Robert teaches English as a foreign language\, but his interests and experience are wide-ranging. Born to British parents in Modena\, Italy\, he studied Classics at school\, English at Aberdeen University and General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. He has travelled and worked in various parts of Europe\, the Middle East\, the Far East\, Southeast Asia\, Australasia and the United States. In 2014\, he completed a Permaculture Design Course in Vang Vieng\, Laos\, and holds a second degree black belt in the art of aikido. He is indebted to many teachers in the fields of aikido and meditation\, especially Vipassana meditation\, and in 2018 completed a Mindfulness Teacher Training Course at the Mangalam Meditation Centre in Germany. He now lives with his beloved wife in Zürich\, Switzerland\, where he plans to embark on training as a Jungian Analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychologists.
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SUMMARY:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Wisdom Transforming Tomorrow \n\n\n\n4-part series: Saturday May 8\, 15\, 22\, 299:00am PDT  |  12:00pm EDT  |  5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  |   6:00pm SAST \n\n\n\nEach session is 2.5 hours \n\n\n\nwith Gavin Andersson\, Rutendo Ngara and Godelieve Spaasand special guests Ela Manga and Keith Mparana \n\n\n\nThis programme features meditation\, drawing\, music\, stories\, dialogues and experiences and is limited to 20 active participants. \n\n\n\nWe find ourselves in a world in crisis. While theories abound\, to some humanity is at the edge of the apocalypse. We are at a time of reckoning\, a time of turning. We are both actors and spectators in the time foretold by ancient prophecy. \n\n\n\nThere has been no greater symbol of this in recent history than the global health emergency due to Covid-19. As a consequence of the virus\, borders have been closed\, millions of sources of livelihood have been lost\, systems have been stifled\, economies have suffered\, and all the ills of the world have been accentuated. At the peak of the pandemic\, the world was stopped in its tracks and activity—as we knew it—and was locked down. Some point out that this may just be the first such pandemic\, and that it is merely a harbinger of the crises to come with climate change. \n\n\n\nAt this watershed moment humanity is asked to re-think\, re-imagine\, re-define\, re-act\, re-store\, re-generate and re-new. \n\n\n\nCan the current Western economic thinking solve everything? What lessons can we learn from Ancient Wisdom? \n\n\n\nThis series of dialogues aims to bring to light concepts from African Indigenous Knowledge Systems as catalysts for reimagining how to approach issues in our current reality in an interrelated and unbounded way. \n\n\n\nBy enlarging the space\, we can move beyond the existing dominant paradigms and rethink the fictions that shape the modern world. We explore four different Indigenous principles\, allowing other ways of knowing to expand our ways of doing—our activity. We create a container for unbounded organising in a time of transition. We traverse the bridge between remembering and imagining and paint the world as we would wish it to become. \n\n\n\nEach session addresses one principle: \n\n\n\nUbuntu (Southern Africa)Ubuntu is the principle of interrelatedness\, interconnectedness and interdependence.  It asserts that: ‘A person is a person through other persons. I am because you are. You are because we are. We are because it is. It is because All that is is.’ This is the root of identity. \n\n\n\nSankofa (West Africa)Sankofa tells us to ‘go back and fetch it.’ It is a concept of ‘historical recovery\,’ moving us to reflect on and reclaim Indigenous cultural ideas and principles in order to advance towards a co-created future. \n\n\n\nKemetic Tree of Life (Ancient Egypt)The Tree of Life tracks the process of creation from the Void to All That Is. It is a cosmological principle describing the ancient wisdom about the nature of the cosmos: from the unmanifest to the manifest\, the infinite to finite. \n\n\n\nAncestors (throughout)African spirituality holds that there is no separation between the living\, those who have walked before and those who are to come. Death is a complementary of life and the beginning of the communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. \n\n\n\nHow do we look back to move forward\, what new insights seek to emerge and what transformative activity fractals can we manifest? \n\n\n\nPre-readingGavin Andersson (2021) ‘Unbounded Organising’ Pari Perspectives\, Issue 7\, ‘The Common Good’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Andersson\, PhD\, is a development practitioner and activity theorist whose life work has focused on strengthening community organisation\, and leadership development within civil society. \n\n\n\nGavin was founder and co-ordinator of CORDE\, which worked with farmer groups and community enterprises in Botswana. He later consulted in organisational development across southern Africa and in the Caribbean. Returning to South Africa at the inception of democracy he led a development advocacy organization and worked in the fields of corporate social responsibility\, civil accountability\, and leadership development. Gavin has helped to develop methodologies for citizen-based monitoring of government programmes. \n\n\n\nGavin is an executive coach\, senior fellow of the Chair for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg and was a distinguished fellow of the Chair in Development Education housed at the University of South Africa UNISA. He is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town where he hosts critical conversations on Macroeconomics\, Ethics and Organizing. Gavin lives with three of his five children\, is passionate about agroecology\, and follows African spirituality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher whose professional interests have spanned from clinical engineering\, healthcare technology management\, socio-economic development\, mathematics\, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science\, culture\, cosmology and paradigms of healing. With a passion for integrating art\, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole\, she is a spiritual coach\, priestess and counsellor\, who engages several modes of healing. She consults in workshop facilitation in areas such as leadership\, personal development\, health and wellness. Rutendo is a co-founder of Ancient Wisdom Africa\, a forum that seeks to gather knowledges and voices of Ancient Wisdom and see how these can illuminate the present; as well as a member of the Assegaia Alliance—a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary group of experts dedicated to the protection of the Earth’s Sacred Natural Sites. She serves on a number of boards\, advisory and convening committees\, including the Credo Mutwa Foundation\, the South African Wushu Federation\, Earthrise Collective and Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage. Rutendo is a practitioner of a number of physical disciplines\, including Wushu/Kung Fu/Tai Ji for which she has represented South Africa as an international silver medallist. She holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering\, an MSc in Medicine in Biomedical Engineering\, and is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy of Education. The quest for harmony\, co- existence and complimentarity underpins her endeavours. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGodelieve Spaas is a professor of Sustainable Strategy and Innovation at Avans University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. She is a researcher and also creates and makes performances and podcasts about new ways of entrepreneurial organizing where ecology\, society\, and the economy all benefit from and interact seamlessly with each other. Her aim is to increase diversity in organizational and entrepreneurial models and realities with a view to the development of a fairer\, more sustainable and robust entrepreneurial space. She combines art\, science\, entrepreneurial practices and indigenous knowledge. \n\n\n\nGodelieve also creates new businesses that are collaborative\, inclusive and work in harmony with nature. She is associate Director of the Pari Center and a regular guest in Pari\, a place where she writes\, participates in dialogues\, and follows and gives courses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor with an ancient vision for the future. Amongst the gifts she offers\, she is a specialist in energy management\, author and speaker who uses Breathwork as a tool for self-empowerment\, healing and transformation. For those who have had the privilege of experiencing the transformative power of the breath under her facilitation\, it was a source of inspiration and expiration. Last year she ran a podcast series called ‘Threads of Healing\,’ where she expanded the notion of healing through different voices and wove it back together into a tapestry of beauty. Apart from her medical practice\, she is the Founder of Breathwork Africa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeith Mparana is an avid student of African-based systems of knowledge that he translates into artwork through studying the thought processes that are depicted in ancient cosmologies.
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SUMMARY:Flickering Reality: Persona: Masks that Conceal\, Masks that Reveal
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfvfb_3G4c\n\n\n\n\n\nFlickering Reality: Exploring Ideas in Film and Television \n\n\n\nPersona: Masks that Conceal\, Masks that Reveal \n\n\n\nwith Kevin Lu \n\n\n\nSunday May 2\, 20219:00 am PDT  |  12:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nA monthly get-together to examine the thought-provoking\, the philosophical\, and the ones that take risks. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will use three films as our springboard to exploring Jung’s notion of the persona:  Wall Street (1987)\, The Mask (1994) and The Farewell (2019).  While each film highlights the potentially pathological relationship one can have with one’s personas\, they also convey the important role played by this archetypal imperative in personality development. As with all archetypes\, the persona is bipolar in nature and entering into a more integral relationship with its various qualities and characteristics is central to the project of individuation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Lu\, BA (Hons) (University of Toronto); MA (Heythrop College\, University of London); PhD (University of Essex)\, is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies\, University of Essex. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and a member of Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  Kevin’s publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history\, Arnold J. Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology\, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes\, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora\, racial hybridity\, and Jungian perspectives on graphic novels and their adaptation to film. \n\n\n\nThis series is free and open to everyone!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88085841173 \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\nWhat do Films and Television say about our world? What ideas can be examined through the moving image? From Science Fiction\, to Comedy\, Drama and Documentaries\, the Seventh Art has been a mirror of our society\, from the stories they portray to the method in which they’ve been produced\, a mirror that is sometimes difficult to understand. \n\n\n\nThis monthly series will reveal the message behind different Films and TV Series\, exploring the themes through the lens of physics\, psychology\, philosophy and sociology. Each session will have a guest speaker who will analyse these themes\, which will then be discussed with our community\, and lead us to a better understanding of film and reveal the deeper truths of our world.
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SUMMARY:Mindset - The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_N_1zQrG9M\n\n\n\n\n\nMindset \n\n\n\nSession 4 – The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Ruby Reed \n\n\n\nSaturday April 243:00pm BST  |  4:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\n‘Mindset’ is the sum of all the ideas\, preconceptions\, prejudices\, predilections and aversions in ‘the basement of our minds’ that we take for granted and rarely pull out for inspection—but inspection is at least salutary and indeed is necessary. The Great Re-Think discusses mindset under four headings: science\, morality\, metaphysics\, and the arts. Very briefly: \n\n\n\nScience is wonderful and necessary (of the right kind) but it can only ever be ‘the art of the soluble\,’ as Peter Medawar put the matter. Emphatically\, it is not the royal road to truth\, or the only game in town. Without dumbing down science should be seen and taught primarily as an aesthetic and spiritual pursuit—not as the means to control or indeed to ‘conquer’ nature but as an exercize in appreciation. Its role as a provider of high tech—some of which can help to achieve the goals of conviviality\, fulfilment\, and care of the Earth—is a definite bonus but not the raison d’etre. \n\n\n\nMorality should be an exercise not in utilitarian thinking as now\, but in virtue ethics\, as embraced by all the great religions. The bedrock principles are those of compassion\, humility\, and reverence for nature (underpinned by the concept of oneness and a sense of the sacred). \n\n\n\nMetaphysics asks what many have called ‘the ultimate questions’ which here are taken to be: What is the universe really like (is it just ‘stuf\,’ as materialist-atheists maintain\, or what)? What is the basis of goodness? How do we know what’s true? And\, How come? Science and standard western philosophy provide partial answers but metaphysics offers further insights—including the vital notion of transcendence and the sense of the sacred. Metaphysics is the core of all bona fide religions—and is very similar in all of them. \n\n\n\nThe Arts are the jokers in the pack. Follow the imagination and see where it leads. \n\n\n\nIn all this there are enough points for discussion to last a great many lifetimes—including ‘What\, in practice\, can we do?’  Colin has ideas on this—but what does everyone else think?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuby Reed co-founded transformative education initiative Advaya in 2015\, bringing people together to explore links between ecology\, society and wellbeing. In 2019 she co-founded educational platform EcoResolution\, linking social movements with new audiences\, and in 2021 co-founded ecosystem restoration charity Initiative Earth. Ruby is a Trustee of Resurgence Trust\, Talks Curator for Medicine Festival\, and excited to be part of BeTheEarth Foundation’s flow-funding network. In 2018-2019 she supported Extinction Rebellion\, curating programmes at London protests and Rebel Retreats across the UK. Ruby previously worked with art collectors and has a MA in the Renaissance Body from Edinburgh and a MA in Countercultural Art in Latin America from the Courtauld. She is a Freediver and Yoga Therapist with eight years training in yoga\, pranayama & Ayurveda.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/mindset-the-great-re-think/
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SUMMARY:The Practice of the I Ching
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Lad9o5wME\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Practice of the I Ching \n\n\n\nwith Shantena Sabbadini and Cruz Mañas Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSaturday March 2710:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nOnline Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe practice of the I Ching oracle is a form of introspection bridging different dimensions\, unconscious and conscious\, imaginal and rational\, heart and mind. The wild images from a shamanic tradition three thousand years old are framed in the rigorous system of yin and yang. And the intuitive practice of ‘rolling the words in one’s heart’ is grounded in the exact discipline of handling the forty-nine yarrow stalks or the three coins and reading one’s answer in the book. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar we will explore the practice of consultation in detail\, answering\, as far as possible\, all the questions concerning this mysterious activity\, from the appropriate formulation of the question to the specific function of the various sections of a hexagram in the answer. \n\n\n\nThe webinar is addressed both to newcomers and to ‘old I Ching hands.’ Our main reference will be the Eranos I Ching\, translated by Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Sabbadini\, but you are welcome to keep at hand your favourite I Ching and to compare passages. Often the ancient Chinese of the I Chingallows for multiple meanings. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday March 27\, Shantena and Cruz 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/82002877500 \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\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\nCruz Mañas Sabbadini\, is a clinical psychologist. She researched mental illness and gave treatment in jails. She works as a psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation and gives I Ching  seminars with Shantena Sabbadini. She founded El Cortijo de Gaia\, a deep psychology center in Lanjaron (Granada). She is author of the book Simplicidad Consciente and of a number of poetry books\, among which Todo lo Sabe la Tierra\, Mar de Fondo\, Noveno Planeta\, La Zarza Incandescente.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-practice-of-the-i-ching/
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