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SUMMARY:Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science\, the Arts and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Mary Attwood\, John Cleese (via Zoom)\, John Krakauer\, Mervat Nasser\, Melissa Nelson\, John Pickering\, Jordi Pigem\, Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1995.00 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 August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nThere was a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. This initial vision was lost\, leading to a bifurcation of nature that has impeded human flourishing. In the medieval hilltop of a Tuscan town\, we will seek to explore and experience the underlying wholeness that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind\, and the sense of the sacred. \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 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\nThe 20th century composer of devotional music\, John Tavener\, has written of the “one simple memory\,” a deeply buried sense of a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. In that period the artisan\, miner\, metal worker and artist alike were considered as the midwives to nature\, aiding her in her striving to perfection. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli believed that this sprit was still alive in the 17th century when the quantitative science of Kepler and Galileo coexisted with a more deeply symbolic approach to nature and matter—each complementing the other. This later vanished in the hands of the followers of Descartes and Newton and\, for Wolfgang Pauli\, the ‘spirit in matter’ was banished for over two hundred years. Particularly in the twentieth century\, physics (and subsequently other major disciplines\, mirroring themselves in it) had lost its initial vision and become obsessed with a “will to power” as it sought control over nature. A “bifurcation of nature” —the harsh separation of reality as conceived by science and as experienced by humans (including scientists) —\, in the words of mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead\, is one of the greatest fallacies of modernity and a major impediment to human flourishing. However\, a “resurrection” of spirit within matter may be at hand today. Such wholeness can be explored in the medieval hilltop town of Pari\, Tuscany\, for in the Middle Ages nature\, beauty and the sacred were seen as one. The presenters and participants who come to Pari will bring together many skills to the discussions on the relationship of religious ritual to sacred theatre; of brain activity to the orders of music and mathematics; the ultimate nature of reality as seen from these various disciplines; limitations to knowing\, and questions of the origin of the universe. Topics move towards questions that stretch the limits and boundaries that are currently placed around science\, the sacred and the arts. We will discuss\, and hopefully experience\, the underlying unity that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind and the spiritual quest. We shall seek to “re-member” such one simple memory — indeed\, we have taken as our maxim a quotation from Carlo Levi “The future has an ancient heart.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Art of Seeing: Rediscovering the Four Senses HermeneuticMary Attwood \n\n\n\nThe Humanities as an Emergent Level of ExplanationJohn Krakauer \n\n\n\nThe Return of Hermopolis as Healing MemoryMervat Nassar \n\n\n\nThe Journey is the Goal and Beauty is our Guide John Pickering \n\n\n\nTowards a Postmaterialistic Worldview: Contributions from Contemporary Science and Eastern and Western PhilosophyJordi Pigem \n\n\n\nDante\, Blake and the Revelation of UnityMark Vernon \n\n\n\n\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:Benign Anarchy!
DESCRIPTION:Benign Anarchy! \n\n\n\nA gathering of members of AA and NA(mainly Irish!) but open to anyone interested in Dialogue..as developed by David Bohm and also Martin Bubers “I-Thou \n\n\n\nDates: September 9 – September 16\, 2023 \n\n\n\nOrganizers: Tom C.\,  Rose R.\,  Jim C. \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 890 euros for single occupancy\, 730 for shared occupancy (two-bedroom apartment\, shared bathroom) \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\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 Saturday September 9 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Saturday September 16 after lunch. \n\n\n\nRegistration and Information: Please contact Tom tcallagyp@gmail.com or Eleanor eleanor@paricenter.com or Chiara chiara@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA Pari gathering/retreat for members of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) plus family and friends will be held in Pari\, Tuscany from September 9-16\, 2023 (Saturday to Saturday). \n\n\n\nThe format will be a combination of closed AA and NA meetings and meditation\, and some open meetings which everyone can attend. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped to have discussion groups/workshops on the history of AA and NA; the influence of Carl Jung on Bill W; a talk on Bill W. and Jimmy K. by Irene C.; the deep wisdom of the 12 Steps and the profundity of the 12 traditions. \n\n\n\nIt is hoped the golden thread running through our week will be‘The Language of the Heart.’ \n\n\n\nAll of the above in magical Pari—the creation of David Peat and Maureen Doolan. Here we will have wonderful Italian food—and—talk\, talk\, talk in the outdoor café\, with music and dancing in the square\, soaking in the sulphur springs\, and joy and laughter! \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only attending meetings but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the local population\, eating local dishes\, 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. \n\n\n\nAdditional information about the Pari Center – pdf
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Tanya Luhrmann
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recoding\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnEcZxvB1WU\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Tanya Luhrmann and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday September 139:00am 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 ninth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday September 13\, 2023 with Tanya Luhrmann. Our conversation will orbit around “belief\, experience\, and how things come to feel real to people”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University\, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices\, visions\, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She has done ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women\, and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai\, Accra and the South Bay. She has also done fieldwork with evangelical Christians who seek to hear God speak back\, with Zoroastrians who set out to create a more mystical faith\, and with people who practice magic. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the way people feel their thoughts and imagine their minds in different social settings\, and what follows. At the heart of the work is the question of how things come to feel real to people. \n\n\n\nShe was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003\, received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007 and elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. When God Talks Back was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It was awarded the $100\,000 Grawemeyer Prize for Religion by the University of Louisville. She is also the author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft\, The Good Parsi\, Of Two Minds\, When God Talks Back\, Our Most Troubling Madness\, and How God Becomes Real\, and is currently at work on a book entitled Voices. \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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