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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
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/love-in-the-time-of-crisis-2/
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SUMMARY:Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love with Vincent Colapietro€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love \n\n\n\nwith Vincent Colapietro \n\n\n\nSaturday May 7\, 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\nA. N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro will seize this occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic\, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and\, for a time\, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘ immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time\, above all\, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists (including Einstein) and the conception of time implicit in the activity of physicists themselves. Are physicists in time in the same sense that they so often conceive time (specifically\, time as a reversible process or even an illusory phenomenon)? That is\, is the dominant understanding of time among theoretical physicists compatible with what physicists do as agents? Colapietro will argue that agential time is an irreducible phenomenon and any attempt to explain it away (or to render it illusory) is mistaken. \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\nVincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is presently at the Center for the Humanities (University of Rhode Island). One of his main areas of research is pragmatism\, with emphasis on Peirce. Though devoted to developing a semiotic perspective rooted in Peirce’s seminal work\, Colapietro draws upon a number of other authors and perspectives (including Bakhtin\, Jakobson\, and Bourdieu as well as such movements as phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, and deconstruction).  He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989)\, A Glossary of Semiotics (1993)\, Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003)\, and Acción\, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020) as well as numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics\, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction\, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. He has served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society\, the Metaphysical Society of America\, and the Semiotic Society of America.
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources with Rabbi Neal Rose€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources \n\n\n\nwith Rabbi Neal Rose \n\n\n\nSunday May 8\, 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\nThe foundational literature of many societies contains reflections on the nature of love. These sources come in the form of stories\, aphorisms\, and even theoretical discussions. Ancient Greek literature has a variety of philosophical reflections on the nature of love and narcissism. Classical Hebraic literature\, biblical and rabbinic\, evidences a lack of theoretical discussions in favor of more concrete expressions. This literature contains moral rules and regulations\, wisdom teachings\, and a great variety of stories. My presentation will center primarily on the narratives of love in both biblical and rabbinic sources. The many dimensions of love and narcissism are enacted by an array of characters such as Moses\, Sarah\, Queen Jezebel\, the Messiah\, and above all God. The theoretical aspects of the presentation are informed by the work of Martin Buber\, Franz Rosenzweig\, and Erich Fromm. (Have a Bible at hand so we can look at the material together). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\nRabbi Neal Rose taught at the University of Manitoba from 1967 to 2000. He was a member of the Departments of Judaic Studies and Religion. He also was an instructor in family therapy at the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Spiritual Care. He and his wife currently live in St. Louis\, MO where he serves as rabbinic scholar in residence at Congregation Bnai Amoona and community Chaplain.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with John Horgan
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xojiLfdukI\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between John Horgan and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday May 119:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nThe idea that the end of science “as we know it” is near may sound absurd to many. And yet\, in the era of “Big Data and Artificial Intelligence” the limits of human insight seem to saturate\, as scientific revolutions and revelations stall. In this instalment of The Future Scientist series\, we will reflect upon the limits of knowledge\, the idea of scientific progress\, and current exciting directions in both in fundamental physics and consciousness studies. We will also discuss the role of science journalism in shaping the public perception of science in the age of selfies\, outlining future challenges and present opportunities at the intersection of science and society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Horgan is an award-winning science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. His books include The End of Science\, a 1996 bestseller translated into 13 languages\, and Mind-Body Problems\, published online in 2018. A frequent contributor to Scientific American\, he has also written for The New York Times\, National Geographic and many other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-john-horgan/
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SUMMARY:Portrayals of Love in Literature and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nPortrayals of Love in Literature and Culture with John Briggs€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPortrayals of Love in Literature and Culture \n\n\n\nwith John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday May 14\, 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\n‘Love makes the world go round\,’ according to a song from the Broadway musical Carnival. Certainly the theme of love stands out as a central force motivating poetry\, fiction\, film\, and popular culture. \n\n\n\nThis session will explore selected familiar works of literature and popular culture in order to consider what clues these they contain to the implicit meanings of love that haunt us. What secret does the song suggest when it tells us: \n\n\n\nLove makes the world go ‘roundLove makes the world go ‘roundSomebody soon will love youIf no one loves you now \n\n\n\nIn the 1960s people were advised to make love not war. Still\, why is it that war makes for the best romantic love stories? Do our literary and popular portrayals of love provide insights into the tangled thickets of love where narcissism\, domination\, betrayal\, disillusion and conflict accompany expressions of infinite tenderness and care? \n\n\n\nTypes of love portrayed in this sessionRomantic and Erotic LoveLove of Friends\, FamilyLove and the Innocence of ChildhoodLove of God and Country\, Cosmos\, Knowledge and Other AbstractionsLove of Life\, Love of Earth \n\n\n\nThe feelings of love expressed in literature from the Native American context will provide a contrast to the feelings and ideas of love for those of us raised in anthropocentric (human-centered) cultures. \n\n\n\nFred Rogers\, host of the public television children’s show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood articulated the vital importance of love to children\, as you can see in these two YouTube clips: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtsLoA1nBDQ&list=TLPQMTQwMzIwMjJFAj-eQEew9A&index=3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIG5rroOv5I \n\n\n\nScientists have shown that without love a child becomes psychologically damaged and may even die. But love and death are woven together\, so literature tells us. \n\n\n\nParticipants are urged to review several short YouTube clips from film versions of one of the most intense romantic love stories every written: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. \n\n\n\nAn overview montage of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqwS3614J7Q \n\n\n\nDramatic moments \n\n\n\nCathy reflects on love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmWXt-8J1U \n\n\n\nCathy remembering her childhood castle with Heathcliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbCsNzr-L8 \n\n\n\nHeathcliff reacting to Cathy’s death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nB84L4aIZo \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLC0be13Ks\n\n\n\n\nHeathcliff reaching for the ghost of Cathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABx-JZPSM10 \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\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts.
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SUMMARY:Power of Love
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nPower of Love with Satish Kumar€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPower of Love \n\n\n\nwith Satish Kumar \n\n\n\nSunday May 15\, 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\nAs gravity holds the physical world together\, love holds the metaphysical world together.  Love permeates through all our activities and gives us a sense of joy\, fulfilment and contentment. Satish Kumar will speak about personal love\, love of people\, love of nature; love at all levels. \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\nPeace-pilgrim\, life-long activist and former monk\, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9\, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering Jain monks. Inspired by Gandhi\, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back in the world and soon undertook a peace-pilgrimage\, walking without money from India to America in the name of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s\, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration\, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. \n\n\n\nSatish founded Schumacher College as well as The Resurgence Trust\, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. To join Satish in protecting people and planet\, become a member of Resurgence (with 20% off)\, entitling you to this charity’s change-making magazine\, Resurgence & Ecologist. \n\n\n\nSatish appears regularly on podcasts\, radio and television shows. He has been interviewed by Richard Dawkins\, Russell Brand and Annie Lennox\, appearing as a guest on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs\, Thought for the Day and Midweek. Satish presented an episode of BBC2’s Natural World documentary series\, which was watched by 3.6 million people. An acclaimed international speaker and author\, Satish’s autobiography sold over 50\,000 copies\, inspiring change around the world.
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SUMMARY:Parenting as a Journey Towards Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nParenting as a Journey Towards Awakening with Ramona Rolle-Berg and Renée Rolle-Whatley€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParenting as a Journey Towards Awakening \n\n\n\nExploring Self-growth through the Hidden Guidance of the Heart \n\n\n\nwith Ramona Rolle-Berg and Renée Rolle-Whatley \n\n\n\nSaturday May 21\, 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\nA well-known wisdom teaching from de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince mirrors what Vedic rishis\, Sufi and Christian mystics alike have imparted for millennia: ‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.’ \n\n\n\nHow then do we perceive this unseen field of potential-filled guidance? And how\, once aware of it\, can we engage with it in a conscious and coherent way? That’s what researcher-clinicians and integrative medicine practitioners Ramona Rolle-Berg\, Ph.D. and her sister\, Renée Rolle-Whatley\, Ph.D. will discuss using the results of their published and ongoing research about parental love. \n\n\n\nRolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley suggest that experiencing parenting over time may eventually reveal the existence of a fundamental invisible awareness— a ubiquitous orthogenetic vibration acting upon humanity—guiding individuals towards heart-centered evolution. \n\n\n\nThe daily choices we make direct our lives. Choosing to actively parent is one such choice. As parents\, we become more devoted\, more loyal\, and more humble. We transformation. Through the vehicle of active parenting\, Rolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley propose that egocentric perceptions give way. Over time\, integration of new parenting behaviors evolves perceptions and ultimately\, our heart’s capacity to love unconditionally. \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\nRamona Rolle-Berg\, Ph.D. describes herself as an intuitive\, an integrative medicine practitioner-clinician\, and scholar. Her clinical approach is based on healing through trust and compassion. With the aid of energetic and evidenced-based healing modalities\, she promotes client-realized self-awareness growth and a reclaiming of self. As a scholar\, she is focused on using CAQDAS (computer-assisted qualitative data analysis systems) to conceptually reveal deeper process-based relationships\, grounded in data\, exemplified by parental behaviors. Her original published research presented devotion as a process of change used by parents of Autistic children to both strengthen self-induced physical/psychological limitations and to reclaim life. She has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister\, her current research explores how loyalty\, devotion & humility interact to provide parents with life experiences that promote integration to higher levels of consciousness via non-judgmental compassion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRenée Rolle-Whatley\, Ph.D. takes a two-prong approach to health and wellness: as a practitioner-clinician\, she provides intuitive guidance and evidence-based energetic-and integrative-modality supports for clients seeking mind-body-spirit healing and health care around chronic and/or long-term physical and emotional health challenges.  As a scholar she is focused on revealing the theoretical concepts and behavioral processes between physical and non-physical vibratory experiences of love through study of the lived experiences of parents that actively parent.  Her original published research presented relational loyalty as an underlying process adopted by parents towards individuated growth in self-acceptance and self-awareness. She has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister\, her current work explores the intersection of self-awareness and self-acceptance as revealed thru the impact of non-judgmental compassion.
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SUMMARY:Love In A Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording \n\n\nLove in a Time of Crisis with Mark Vernon€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove In A Time of Crisis \n\n\n\nwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSunday May 22\, 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\nLove is often used in nebulous or ill-defined ways\, which means that its nuanced perceptions and mature forms can be hard to grasp. The need for a deeper awareness of love becomes particularly acute in times of crisis\, though times of crisis also offer moments to understand love move fully. In this talk\, Mark Vernon will explore the links between love and personal development\, different types of power\, its relationship with freedom and mind\, as well as erotic yearning\, suffering and loss\, and so also to the knowledge of the ways in which reality itself is shaped by love. \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\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/love-in-a-time-of-crisis/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Love Across Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nLove Across Traditions with Jane Clark and Mark Vernon€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Across Traditions \n\n\n\nwith Jane Clark and Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday May 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 often noted that the ancient Greeks had an advantage in possessing several words for love. Eros\, philia\, agape and others allowed them to be nuanced about love and navigate its differences. So is there benefit in considering how love has been understood in different wisdom traditions\, too? This conversation will explore how love has been understood in various faith contexts and across time\, looking at Christian\, Sufi\, Platonic and other insights. The aim will be to tease out similarities and differences so as to deepen and refresh the felt presence of love in our lives. \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\nJane Clark is a teacher and independent researcher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying the Islamic mystical tradition for more than forty years and has given many lectures and courses both in the UK and internationally for organisations such as The Beshara Trust\, Oxford University Department for Continuous Education and Temenos Academy. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society\, and also the editor of Beshara Magazine\, in which capacity she is able to pursue her particular interest in the relevance of the spiritual traditions to contemporary life. Jane originally studied science\, and first came across David Bohm’s ideas during her PhD studies when she was working on  magnetism. She went on to do a series of dialogues with him in London in the 1980s/90s\, and interviewed him for Beshara Magazine https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/david-bohm-wholeness-timelessness-and-unfolding-meaning/. She also did a piece on Infinite Potential with Paul Howard https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/david-bohm-infinite-potential-paul-howard/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/love-across-traditions/
LOCATION:Online
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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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