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SUMMARY:At the Edges of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:At the Edges of Consciousness \n\n\n\nDates: June 6 – 13\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Allan Leslie Combs\, Etzel Cardeña\, Paul Grof\, Sarah Janes\, Jeffrey Kripal\, Roderick Main\, Dean Radin (via zoom)\, Tanya Sacramento\, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1975.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday June 6 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday June 13 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center with world-renowned scholars as we deepen our insights into the ‘exceptional’ experiences we have all encountered. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \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\nThrough presentations and informal discussions in a convivial atmosphere you will learn about and have opportunities to discuss the insights and research findings of world-renowned experts on what are called ‘exceptional’ experiences. \n\n\n\nThe subject fits under the umbrella of consciousness research\, which is currently enjoying a huge renaissance in terms of general interest and academic momentum. \n\n\n\nThe study of consciousness requires that we take seriously the many flavors of human experience\, even those—ranging from psychedelics and lucid dreaming to synchronicities\, near death experiences and mystical phenomena—that could be said to enter through the ‘backdoors of perception.’ Such experiences have until now been largely avoided by academia and left to lie beyond the border of what is typically explored scientifically and discussed in public. \n\n\n\nHowever\, now it is more openly being asked whether such experiences can actually inform—and even transform—not just neuroscience and fundamental physics but also our very understanding of the nature of reality and our collective and individual place in the world. \n\n\n\nThe scientific study of consciousness is now acknowledging that it has reached a stage where such parcels of human subjectivity have to be taken seriously. In fact\, it is playing an important role in the recognition that such ‘backdoors of perception’ have the potential to profoundly impact our current state of knowledge in many fields. \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a variety of disciplines to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and bases of such experiences\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such a constellation into a coherent understanding. You are cordially invited to join us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Evolutionary Ascent of ConsciousnessAllan Leslie Combs \n\n\n\nA Review of the Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological PhenomenaEtzel Cardeña \n\n\n\nLocal and Non-local Consciousness ComponentsPaul Grof \n\n\n\nDivine Dreams: The History and Culture of the Dream as Medicine in the Western Esoteric TraditionSarah Janes \n\n\n\nArchives of the Impossible: The Further Reaches of the Imagination and the Future HumanJeffery Kripal \n\n\n\nThe Hermeneutics of Exceptional ExperiencesRoderick Main \n\n\n\nDean Radin \n\n\n\nThe Subtle Art of Mediumship: Effectively Communicating with ConsciousnessTanya Sacramento \n\n\n\nMetaphysics\, Mysticism\, and Psychedelic ResearchPeter Sjöstedt-Hughes \n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf
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SUMMARY:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Common Experience
DESCRIPTION:Gentle Action: A Gathering of Common Experience \n\n\n\nDates: June 14 – 20\, 2023 \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 850 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 6-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Wednesday June 14 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday June 20 after breakfast. \n\n\n\n“The world is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. If you tamper with it\, you’ll ruin it… \n\n\n\nCan you see things as they are\, without trying to control them? \n\n\n\nCan you let them go theirown way while remaining centered?” \n\n\n\nLao Tse\, Dao De Jing #29(Mitchell & MacDonald Combined) \n\n\n\nJoin us for a week of living in the moment\, for the moment\, surrounded by the peaceful hills of the Tuscan landscape in Pari. With its beautiful palazzo\, rustic bar\, and numerous quiet places\, the medieval village of Pari serves as an alchemical vessel for growth and personal transformation. \n\n\n\n“The idea of bringing people in. They could be business people\, they could be environmentalists\, whatever\, and bringing them in without any sort of fixed program\, without them giving talks and powerpoint presentations. Just to sit in the room and see what emerges\, because they are in a container\, it’s in an alchemical vessel which allows something transformative to take place. So that was the idea of Pari as a container.”David Peat w/ Jena Axelrod in The Absurdity of Certainty. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week you will have plenty of opportunities to cultivate connections with Nature\, others\, and — perhaps most importantly — yourself. Explore the medieval village and its surroundings\, or take in the beauty of the landscape from Pari’s expansive palazzo. Dialogue with others in a supportive atmosphere and experience what it feels like to have others truly listen to your unique perspectives and experiences from a place of genuine interest and curiosity. Set aside thoughts of forcing or striving and experience how insights and interconnections naturally bubble up during dialogue. \n\n\n\nBecome more responsive and less reactive by learning to actively listen\, not only to others but also to yourself. As F. David Peat\, one of the founders of the Pari Center states in his autobiography\, Pathways of Chance: \n\n\n\n“Much depends upon how we react when the unexpected occurs and a new door temporarily opens. Do we compensate as best we can and attempt to remain on our own predetermined track\, or do we ask ‘What is life trying to tell me? In what direction could this new possibility take me? Is it worth suspending what I am doing at the moment to explore something new?”1 \n\n\n\nSomewhat paradoxically\, setting aside striving and engaging in gentle action often gives rise to the types of benefits that many people often seek\, but seldom find in a sustainable form. Along with feelings of openness\, trust\, joy\, and a childlike sense of wonder\, gentle action often gives rise to a deeper sense of engagement with yourself\, others\, and the Universe. \n\n\n\n1. Pathways of Chance\, pp. 1-2. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Story (and an invitation) Several years ago\, a small group of us were sitting outside the bar in Pari\, Italy when the idea came up to bring a group of very open-minded people together for a gathering without any agenda\, topic\, intention\, or specific purpose. After leaving Pari\, we continued to meet monthly through an online Zoom dialogue\, where our small group of three individuals gradually grew in a most organic manner. More than a year of online meetings led to our first “Gentle Action Gathering” back at Pari in September of 2022. Our original group of Jena\, Manfred\, and Tom\, who hail from New York\, Germany\, and Ireland were joined by several additional members of our online community. Stefan\, Rose\, and Todd\, traveled from Sweden\, Germany/Canada\, and Alaska to finally meet everyone in person. Two of our members\, Lisa\, from Italy\, and Michael\, from Connecticut\, were unable to meet in person\, but are quite active in our online meetings and the preparations for our gathering in June of 2023. Over the course of time\, we have come to discover that we have much to share with one another due to\, rather than despite\, our differing backgrounds. And yet\, we have also found that we also have much in common. Perhaps most importantly\, we all share a genuine interest in one another’s perspectives on the world\, quite reminiscent of Rumi’s quote: “Out beyond ideas of right and wrong\, there is a field. I will meet you there.”  \n\n\n\nThis June we have chosen to meet once again in Pari\, Italy. This medieval village\, nestled in the the Tuscan landscape\, provides the perfect backdrop for new insights and explorations. During our “Gentle Action Gatherings”\, participants are largely free to roam around as they please. Meet in the newly renovated Palazzo\, take part in a yoga class\, explore the area’s hot springs\, or just sit down to have an espresso at the charming and peaceful square. Set aside your daily routine and begin to reconnect with your own innermost nature by setting aside the expectations of the outer world. Communicating and interacting in the moment\, for the moment has enabled each of us to interact with ourselves\, each other\, and the world at large in a much more playful manner. Over time\, we have noticed that an almost childlike curiosity tends to emerge\, unforced and unbidden “beyond the ideas of right and wrong” allowing us to experience the innate beauty of the present moment and our interactions. More than anything\, our gatherings have given us a deep sense of connection and friendships that endure beyond the limits of time and space. This June we get to come home again.  \n\n\n\nIt would be wonderful if you could join us\, Jena\, Lisa\, Manfred\, Michael\, Rose\, Stefan\, Todd\, & Tom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nCommunity Activities – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about The Pari Center – the pdf
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SUMMARY:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:East and West Philosophy in Dialogue – From Worldview to Sustainable Order \n\n\n\nCommencing at the Pari Center 20-25 June 2023 and concluding at the Vatican 27-28 June 2023. \n\n\n\nA gathering of world leading philosophers to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. \n\n\n\nEngendering a new chapter in East and West communication especially in relation to pressing global challenges. \n\n\n\nThe Pari Center is pleased to host the June 2023 symposium East and West Philosophy in Dialogue—From Worldview to Sustainable Order. At the eight-day symposium\, leading philosophers from the East and the West will gather to explore how traditionally Eastern emphases on holism may inform the global commons. The symposium will convene in Pari at the Pari Center and conclude in Rome at the Vatican with two days of dialogue on the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\nSome of the pertinent questions to be addressed include: \n\n\n\n\nHow does Eastern holism relate to the modern Western philosophical schools of Continental Philosophy\, Analytic Philosophy\, and Process Philosophy?\n\n\n\nWhether and to what extent a holistic vision also can be found in the West?\n\n\n\nWhether the diverse philosophical paths may complement each other and to what extent a Perennial Philosophy exists?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to global sustainability?\n\n\n\nHow does worldview relate to local and global order?\n\n\n\n\nThrough substantive discussions\, the Symposium hopes to engender a new chapter in East and West communication\, especially insofar as it relates to pressing global challenges.
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Jennifer Banks
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrhQT8ATjY\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Jennifer Banks and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday June 289:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guest\, the session will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe sixth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday June 28\, 2023 with Jennifer Banks. Our conversation will orbit around “natality\, birth\, and new beginnings”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Banks is the author of Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth\, published in May 2023 by W.W. Norton and selected as a May Must-Read title by the Next Big Idea Club.  Her work has been featured in The Washington Post\, Lithub\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, Current\, Comment\, Big Think\, The Boston Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and more.  A graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press where she has acquired books on literature\, religion\, and philosophy since 2007.  She has also worked at International Creative Management\, the Continuum International Publishing Group\, and Harvard University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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