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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:Creativity and the Artist
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nCreativity And The Artist with Jessica Ball\,  Alison Churchill\, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreativity and the Artist \n\n\n\nwith Jessica Ball\,  Alison Churchill\, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday August 14\, 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\nDavid Bohm’s writing on creativity was not directed exclusively at art works\, instead it sought to outline a more foundational capacity in any one of us – or in any human discipline – for new orders of perception and understanding. First and foremost\, he explained\, we need to awaken the necessary ‘creative mind state’ which is supressed by the unrecognized “boss reality” of Western thought\, language and the associated entrapment of the self-image. Bohm’s is a dynamic model of creativity open to entanglements of mind\, body\, language\, conceptual abstraction\, non-human matter and infinity\, the nature of which is to be continually unfolding\, to be generative. His expanded notion of what constitutes an ‘artform’ is radical and speaks to contemporary\, speculative approaches towards ever opening up an animate world of which we are a participant. \n\n\n\nFour artists\, all of whom recognise first-hand the creative potential of Bohm Dialogue to individual and social transformation\, will explore their concerns\, ideas and experiences together. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Ball is a creative facilitator dedicated to working towards positive social and environmental change through transformative learning\, dialogue and the value of creativity. With a background in fine art\, textile design (Chelsea College of Art and Design\, BA) and sustainable fashion (London College of Fashion\, MA)\, she grounds her work in design thinking and creative methods to support people to engage\, connect\, reflect and express. Her approach to  workshop design and facilitation encourages participants to explore various themes such as culture\, identity and values\, gender equality and the relevance of sustainability to their lives.  Her work aims to provide a creative and engaging space for participants to better understand themselves; improve their relationships with other people; and become more aware and engaged in the world around them. Jessica has worked with a diverse range of organisations across sectors from corporate and international development to education and charities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlison Churchill is a visual artist in Sheffield with a practice exploring the creative force contained in water and the patterns of disruption\, coherence and emergence which play out on its surface. She is developing an online collaborative art practice with artists in the UK\, which comes out of an over ten-year experiment with four female artists based in the US and Israel exploring the creative process beyond the individual. \n\n\n\nChurchill has been involved in a number of projects exploring intersubjective consciousness\, including Scott Peck’s Community Building\, Bohm Dialogue and Emergent Dialogue. \n\n\n\nChurchill is a junior Rinzai Zen teacher and lead regular Zen Brushwork sessions in Sheffield\, which involve meditation\, energy-raising exercises and calligraphy using a large brush. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Emma Cocker is a writer-artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art\, Nottingham Trent University\, whose research focuses on artistic processes and practices\, and the performing of ‘thinking-in-action’ therein. Her practice unfolds restlessly along the threshold between writing/art\, including experimental\, performative and collaborative approaches. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought; Stillness in a Mobile World; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art; Reading/Feeling; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice\, and the solo collection\, The Yes of the No. Emma was co-researcher on the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2014–2017); a contributing artistic researcher in Ecologies of Practice\, Research Pavilion\, Venice\, (2019); and is co-founder of the Society of Artistic Research Special Interest Group on Language-based Artistic Research. \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.
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SUMMARY:Imagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexus
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nImagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexus with Lee Nichol\, James Peat Barbieri\, Hester Reeve\, Mark Vernon€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexus \n\n\n\nwith James Peat Barbieri\, Hester Reeve\, Mark VernonFacilitated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday August 15\, 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\nFor those who have surveyed David Bohm’s version of dialogue and the larger theoretical context from which it emerged\, a trove of concepts and definitions will be familiar: participatory thought\, literal thought\, thought of type “A” and type “B”\, representations\, collective representations. \n\n\n\nWhat is less familiar is the extent to which Bohm imported these concepts from his long relationship with the philologist Owen Barfield\, whose lifework centered around what he called “the evolution of consciousness.” In this view\, human consciousness has shifted from a dispersed\, widely focused consciousness (original participation) to the pinpoint\, individualized consciousness that we experience today. Barfield proposed that this atomistic\, individualized consciousness has the potential to now open into a transformed participatory mode\, deriving from the “interiority\,” or selfhood\, that is a correlate of individuated consciousness. \n\n\n\nOur roundtable will survey the relationship between the two men\, and the mutually informing nature of their respective bodies of work. We aim to develop a kind of “binocular vision\,” in which the overlapping insights of Bohm and Barfield yield greater depth and understanding than either one standing alone. This will lead us to a key point of reference the two men shared – the nature of imagination as outlined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We will attempt to indicate what this kind of imagination has to offer contemporary humanity – and the prospect of moving from a theory of imagination to its practical engagement and flowering. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\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\nJames Peat Barbieri studied at a professional dance school\, Ateneo della Danza\, Siena\, and then moved on to academic studies. He graduated from King’s College\, University of London in Physics and Philosophy in 2019. \n\n\n\nHe is on the Board of Directors of the Pari Center\, a member of the Editorial Board of the Pari Perspectives journal\, and a member of the Programming Committee. He is also the host of many of the Pari Center’s webcasts. In addition to physics\, his 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. \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\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including his latest\, which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield: A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
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SUMMARY:Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith David Begay (Navajo)\, Angelita Valencia Borbon (Yaqui)\, Greg Cajete (Tewa)\, Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot)\, Rose von Thater Braan-Imai (Tuscarora)\, Nancy Maryboy (Navajo)\, Melissa Nelson (Anishanaabe/Metis)\, Lee Nichol.Facilitated by Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot)  \n\n\n\nSaturday August 21\, 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\nReaching back through recorded history\, into the multivalent worlds of oral tradition\, Indigenous people have long indicated knowledge of how the world comes into being\, and how humans can live in accord with this perpetual ”coming into being.” This knowledge is expressed through origin stories\, ceremonial activity\, ritual enactment and renewal\, paradoxical language play\, and trickster humor – it permeates all aspects of daily life in traditional cultures. \n\n\n\nWhen Leroy Little Bear first read David Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order\, he recognized many reflections of his traditional Blackfoot worldview\, albeit expressed in different language. David Peat\, a friend of both Little Bear and Bohm\, arranged for the two of them to meet. There was a natural affinity\, and all three concurred that dialogue between Indigenous and Western worldviews was in order. \n\n\n\nThis program marks a new phase in that ongoing dialogue process\, which is not strictly “Bohmian\,” nor strictly traditional. It is a new form\, ever-evolving\, now finding its place in the world of Zoom. \n\n\n\nAmong the potential topics:  Can shared cultural meaning bridge the polarity between analytic thought and holistic perception? How does our understanding of whole and part affect our action in daily life?  Is it possible to step beyond theory to inhabit the implicate orders of the natural world and the living land? What part do language\, art\, creativity\, and silence play in such investigations? What role do tacit cultural infrastructures play in forming the “worlds” we inhabit? \n\n\n\nAs Little Bear says\, “We may have these starting points\, but where we will end up\, nobody knows. The best part of dialogue is the opportunity to shed our tacit infrastructures. Prepare yourselves accordingly!” \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\nAfter a lifetime of educational service\, Little Bear remains a dedicated and dynamic teacher and mentor to students and faculty at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to pursue new research interests including North American Indian science and Western physics\, and the exploration of Blackfoot knowledge through songs\, stories and landscape. \n\n\n\nWhile his educational achievements are remarkable\, Little Bear’s contribution to the First Nations community extends well beyond the classroom. He has served as a consultant to local and national organizations including the Blood Tribe\, Indian Association of Alberta and the Assembly of First Nations of Canada. His notable reputation has also earned him a place on numerous government commissions and boards including the Task Force on the Criminal Justice and Its Impact on the Indian and Metis Peoples of Alberta (1990-91). Little Bear’s legal advice is widely sought on such significant issues as land claims\, treaties\, and hunting and fishing rights. \n\n\n\nDr Little Bear is the co-author of several books on self-government and Aboriginal rights\, including Pathways to Self Determination\, Quest For Justice\, and Governments in Conflict. His credits also include a variety of influential articles such as\, ‘A concept of Native Title\,’ which was cited in a Canadian Supreme Court decision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Begay\, Ph.D. is currently Associate Research Professor with the University of New Mexico\, Albuquerque\, in the College of Pharmacy\, Community Environmental Health Program\, working with several federally-funded health research projects. David is former adjunct faculty at Northern Arizona University\, Flagstaff\, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  He is also a former professor and academic dean for Dine’ (Navajo Nation) College. He is currently VP for the Indigenous Education Institute\, Friday Habor\, WA. He has worked with National Science Foundation and other federal projects\, including NASA\, for 20 plus years\, as well as JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Goddard Space Flight Center on Heliophysics educational outreach. David is considered a tribal elder and provides cultural consultant services to many organizations and corporations both in the United States and internationally. He is raised with the deep cultural knowledge\, tradition\, and language of the Dine’ (Navajo) people.  He is a member of the Dine’ Hatallii (Spiritual and Herbal Healers) Association. David is a disabled combat Vietnam veteran. He is also currently a member of the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board (IRB) appointed by the Navajo Nation Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngelita Valencia Borbón (Yaqui) I am living my life paying attention\, observing and listening\, looking for patterns and feeling resonance. I have a whole world of mentors teaching me what I know and remember. Some say I am like a rez dog with a bone: persistent\, relentless and focused. My Grandfather told me I am responsible for helping the Sonoran Desert and Los Yaquis survive. My Father told me to remember and practice how we think so our People do not forget\, and so others may awaken their Conciencia/Knowing that we are all connected through our relationship with our Mother Earth\, and the Laws of Nature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGregory Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo\, New Mexico. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete is a practicing ceramic\, pastel and metal artist. He is extensively involved with art and its application to education. He is also a scholar of herbalism and holistic health. Dr. Cajete also designs culturally-responsive curricula geared to the special needs and learning styles of Native American students. \n\n\n\nHe worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico for 21 years. While at the Institute\, he served as Dean of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange\, Chair of Native American Studies and Professor of Ethno- Science.  He is the former Director of Native American Studies (18 years) and is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Language\, Literacy and Socio Cultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.  In addition\, he has lectured at colleges and universities in the U.S.\, Canada\, Mexico\, New Zealand\, Italy\, Japan\, Russia\, Taiwan\, Ecuador\, Peru\, Bolivia\, England\, France and Germany. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete has authored 10 books: “Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education\,” (Kivaki Press\, 1994); “Ignite the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Curriculum Model”\, (Kivaki Press\, 1999); “Spirit of the Game: Indigenous Wellsprings (2004)\,”  “A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living\,” and “Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence” (Clear Light Publishers\, 1999 and 2000).   “Critical Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom\,” Don Jacobs (Four Arrows)\, Gregory Cajete and Jongmin Lee) Sense Publishers\, 2010.  “Indigenous Community: Teachings of the Seventh Fire\,” (Living Justice Press\, 2015). His most recent books are edited volumes entitled: “Native Minds Rising” and “Sacred Journeys” (John Charlton Publications\, 2020). Dr. Cajete also has chapters in 36 other books along with numerous articles and over 350 national and international presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRose von Thater Braan-Imai (Tuscarora) is a self-taught artist. Her surrealist figurations explore the exquisiteness of our connections to the Earth expressing the sensuality and intimacy of the natural world as experienced through the human body. She works primarily in oils enjoying the depth and range of feeling she finds in their texture and in the way they carry light. She is the Founding Director of The Native American Academy\, leading creative projects (Sculpture Garden of Native Science and Learning) and transcultural dialogues between Indigenous and Western worldviews to forward the potential for new knowledge using the lens of the Native paradigm\, indigenous learning processes and Native science. \n\n\n\nFrom 1989 to 2000 she served as the Director of Education at University of California (UC) Berkeley’s Center for Particle Astrophysics\, presenting at national and international forums\, including the National Academy of Sciences\, the Banff Centre\, Goddard Space Flight Center and The National Science Foundation. Prior to 1989\, Rose worked in theater (the American Conservatory Theater)\, television (KQED-TV)\, and as Liason and Assistant to  writer/critic/producer Ralph J. Gleason\, co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine before heading her own production company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmethyst First Rider is a member of the Kainai Nation\, Blackfoot Confederacy\, Alberta\, Canada and married to Leroy Little Bear. She is a leader in the performing arts community for more that 20 years\, producing and directing plays depicting Aboriginal stories and culture. Her experience in the arts has included dance productions\, consulting for the University of California\, Berkeley’s planetarium\, as well as narration and production in the National Film Board’s documentary: Kainayssini Imanistaiswa\, The People Go On.  She co-conceived Iniskim an immersive puppet lantern performance celebrating the reintegration of Bison into the natural ecosystem of Banff National Park. She is central to the development and success of The Buffalo: A Treaty of Cooperation\, Renewal and Restoration signed by over 30 First Nations and Tribes in Canada and the USA.  It is the biggest modern Treaty amongst First Nations.  Its purpose is to “one again welcome the Buffalo to live among us” and it recognizes “Buffalo as a wild free-ranging animal and as an important of the ecological ecosystem.” She is also a founding-advisor to the Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Nancy C. Maryboy is the President and Executive Director of the Indigenous Education Institute\, (IEI) located in the San Juan Islands\, in Washington\, and on the Navajo Nation. IEI is an all Indigenous institution with a mission to preserve\, protect and apply traditional Indigenous knowledge in contemporary settings. She is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington\, in the School of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. She has been a Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation funded projects including the Cosmic Serpent\, Native Universe and Co-PI for additional NSF projects. Dr. Maryboy is a PI for NASA’s Space Science Education Consortium\, and has worked with both Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She works with the University of New Mexico Superfund program. She has written several books and numerous articles on collaboration between Indigenous communities and science centers\, with a focus on Navajo astronomy. She works with Indigenous schools around the world. She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Tribal Archives\, Libraries and Museums. Dr. Maryboy is Navajo and Cherokee. She comes from a family of traditional and medical healers\, on the Navajo Nation and in the Pacific Northwest. \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.
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SUMMARY:Changing Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nChanging Consciousness with Sandra Fiegehen\, David Schrum and Stephen Smith€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChanging Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Sandra Fiegehen\, David Schrum and Stephen Smith \n\n\n\nSunday August 22\, 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\nHuman consciousness is a shared space. As individuals\, we are born into an inherited socio-cultural matrix from which almost all of what we think and do derives.  As Bohm points out\, thought is a material process which pervades and dominates us. \n\n\n\nWe need to realise that we are participants.  We must make a basic shift: from literal thought to participatory thought\, a process in which we partake of consciousness. This can then become a kind of “food” which\, in our times\, we so desperately need. \n\n\n\nDialogue provides the opportunity for listening and sharing\, out of which a sense of communion may arise\, operating to nourish our spirit and open us to luminous intelligence.  Thought may then find its proper\, natural place; it is a guest in our house\, not a usurper. \n\n\n\n– Stephen Smith \n\n\n\nAlthough we most often experience ourselves as separate islands of consciousness operating independently of that which surrounds us\, our sense of separateness is constructed and illusory. \n\n\n\nThis separate self sense is a mere representation of the dynamic and unfolding process of conscious experience\, a kind of alienated existence characterized by various degrees of narcissistic wounding acquired throughout the course of our development. We each play out these wounded\, ‘separate’ selves in ways that create more suffering\, both for ourselves and for others. \n\n\n\nHow can we find our way to realizing and embodying our common consciousness authentically and creatively?  I will briefly explore some key Buddhist principles and how to bring them into practice in daily life. \n\n\n\n– Sandra Fiegehen \n\n\n\nTo understand our lives and to live intelligently\, creatively\, and compassionately\, David Bohm indicates\, we must meet those dimensions of mind which for us are hidden. Beyond the surface of our consciousness\, as personal memories\, attitudes\, and dispositions\, we come upon that which is subtle: both as a flow of great momentum that is vast and ancient\, and as a spacious field which is always new. These depths are common to us all\, but we tend to be unaware. How are we to awaken? \n\n\n\nBohm offers us what he terms ‘participatory understanding’. This understanding is not ‘conceptual understanding’\, which seeks to have understood and to lodge an understanding in memory. Rather\, it is a living movement. It is embodiment; it is presence. \n\n\n\nOur journey together is an invitation to explore this deeper inner world. \n\n\n\n– David Schrum \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Sandra Fiegehen is a retired Psychologist presently obsessed with growing raspberries. She has practiced and taught Chan (Zen) meditation for the last 15 years. Throughout her life\, she has pursued a variety of psycho-spiritual approaches to the question of who and what she is – and is pleased to report that her investigations have resulted in near-absolute uncertainty. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory at Queen’s University\, following which he spent two post-doctoral years with David Bohm at Birkbeck College. Here\, he entered Bohm’s world of creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics and his enquiry into consciousness and what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum continues in these explorations\, in physics developing a new approach to relativistic quantum theory and\, through the dialogue process\, going into what it is to bring to light that which lies enfolded within our individual and collective consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Smith has been Acting Principal\, Academic Director\, and for twenty years a teacher at Brockwood Park School in England\, where he met Krishnamurti and knew David Bohm personally.  His interest in dialogue took a decisive turn when he moved to California in 1994 and began to facilitate dialogue groups.  He sees dialogue as a means of mirroring the psyche so that we can move from being thought-bound individuals\, embrace the collective\, and awaken intelligence.
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SUMMARY:Dialogue’s Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nDialogue’s Lineage and The Transmission Of Participative Consciousness with Beth Macy\, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDialogue’s Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Beth Macy\, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday August 28\, 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\nDip with Beth Macy into her research archives of the lineage of Bohm’s dialogue.  Pursue with her core aspects of each lineage member’s own early lifetime wounding as well as later cultural and professional alienation\, and the impact of these dynamics on lineage members’ resulting contributions to Bohm’s ideas of “participation” in dialogue.  And then\, explore the meaning as it flows through the whole of the lineage and those to whom dialogue’s participative spiral of meaning unfolds\, transforms and re-enfolds. \n\n\n\nFrom the perspectives of the history of thought\, Jungian psychology\, mythology\, and Barfield’s participatory consciousness\, panel members will explore the following questions: \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the potential impact that early trauma and later professional alienation might have had on lineage members’ connection to a higher form of consciousness?\n\n\n\nWhat about Bohm’s assertion that with sufficient capacities of suspension and proprioception an individual could experience direct perception and participation with the intelligence of the universe? Is that really possible?\n\n\n\nBohm also suggests that if a group of individuals have developed this capacity of direct perception\, then together their consciousness can form one “consensual mind” which vastly expands the power of participation with universal intelligence.\n\n\n\nDid the recurring evolution of participative consciousness which occurred through the lineage happen solely by chance? Or\, was there a higher intention that guided each of their efforts? Were their ideas part of one\, intentional flow? If so\, is that higher intention perhaps still transmitting of an even further evolution of participative consciousness today?\n\n\n\n\nSeminar participants are encouraged to read Beth’s article “The Backstory of David Bohm’s Dialogue” describing the dialogue’s lineage prior to the session: https://paricenter.com/library/pari-perspectives-issue-6-in-memoriam-david-bohm/the-backstory-of-david-bohms-dialogue/ \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\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\nMark B. Ryan is an historian of American thought and culture\, Mark Ryan was Dean of Jonathan Edwards College and a teacher of American Studies and history at Yale University for more than twenty years. Subsequently\, he was Titular IV Professor at the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla\, Mexico\, where he also served as Dean of the Colleges\, Regente (Head) of José Gaos College\, and Coordinator of the master’s degree program in United States Studies. He holds Ph.D. and M. Phil. degrees from Yale\, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin\, and a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas. Mark is author of A Different Dimension: Reflections on the History of Transpersonal Thought (Westphalia Press\, 2018)\, A Collegiate Way of Living (Yale University\, 2001)\, articles in various journals on higher education\, and articles in TheJournal of Transpersonal Psychology and related publications on the history of psychology. He is certified by Grof Transpersonal Training as a practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork\, served for fourteen years on the Board of Trustees of Naropa University\, is past chair of the Board of Directors of Wisdom University\, and current Chair of the Jonathan Edwards Trust at Yale. \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.
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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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