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SUMMARY:The Science of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:Perspectives from Physics\, Ecology\, Psychology\, and Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday\, John Briggs\, Chamkaur Ghag\, Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Àlex Gómez-Marín\, Roger Nelson and Robert Toth \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nNovember 4 – 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nAcross the broad span of wisdom traditions\, one encounter is of key significance: some direct access or contact with the ground of being. \n\n\n\nEven in this secular age\, dominated as we are by the materialistic\, reductionist paradigm of western science\, these transcendent experiences still occur\, even amongst members of the scientific community. \n\n\n\nWhile this experience is always inexpressible in detail\, it commonly involves an overwhelming feeling of wholeness\, a blurring of the line between subject and object\, a melting away of divisions and an immersion in a state of participatory  consciousness. \n\n\n\nIf the underlying ground of reality is an inexpressible whole\, beyond aspects and distinctions\, we might expect some echo of this to emerge in our scientific investigations. David Bohm certainly had this intuition\, which coloured his approach to quantum theory especially and science and philosophy more generally. \n\n\n\nIn this series of workshops\, we will investigate the extent to which modern science has encountered aspects of wholeness\, non-local consciousness and the subject-object distinction. We will also consider what a post-reductionist science might look like\, drawing on the experiences of indigenous cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 4Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday November 5Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Datawith Roger Nelson \n\n\n\nSunday November 12Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)with Àlex Gómez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 18Holocentric Indigenous Consciousnesswith Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and John Briggs \n\n\n\nSunday November 19Universe as Processwith Chamkaur Ghag
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SUMMARY:Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 1/6: Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? (with Dr. Jonathan Allday)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoes Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality? \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday November 4\, 202310:00am PDT | 1:00pm EDT | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn the 1970s\, a series of books\, such as The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters\, explored the supposed synergies between quantum theory and the wisdom traditions. These well-meaning books spawned something of an industry and associated quantum hype where quantum theory was portrayed as supporting\, or worse justifying\, certain worldviews. \n\n\n\nTypically\, these approaches drew on the Copenhagen interpretation\, the idea that the mind causes quantum state collapse and the physics of entanglement and related them to the experience of non-duality\, wholeness and immersion in a universal mind characteristic of spiritual insight. \n\n\n\nIt is now time to look back on these ideas in the light of 50 years further thought on quantum theory and its philosophical implications and to draw some more nuanced conclusions. In the words of Eddington[1] “I have not suggested that either religion or free-will can be deduced from modern physics; I have limited myself to showing that certain difficulties in reconciling them have been removed.” \n\n\n\n[1] Eddington “New Pathways in Science”\, 1935\, p306 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
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SUMMARY:Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 2/6: Global Consciousness – Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data (with Dr. Roger Nelson)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlobal Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Roger Nelson \n\n\n\nSunday November 5\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is a long-term experiment using a world-spanning network of physical random number generators to collect data continuously\, 24/7\, since 1998. We have recorded parallel sequences of data from the network\, consisting of trials of 200 bits recorded each second at each node and sent to archiving servers in Princeton\, NJ. A formal experiment ran for 17 years and comprised 500 replications of fully specified and pre-registered event analyses. These tested a general hypothesis that engaging events of deep interest to large numbers of people around the world would correspond to departures of the random data from expectation. Compounded results across the 500 events confirmed the hypothesis (Z = 7.310) and provided a sound basis for further analysis to help understand the effects. A number of explanatory propositions have been suggested\, and of those\, two stand out\, a field-like model and an experimenter effect model. In this talk I will consider several independent analyses and applications using GCP data\, including analyses that examine all the data\, not just the identified formal events. Neuroscience tools for assessing evoked response potentials (ERP) are applied to the GCP data to look for possible structure from a stimulus-response perspective. All of these additional analyses and applications identify structure that cannot be explained by an experimenter effect or goal orientation model. They are\, however\, naturally encompassed by field-like models. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\nRoger Nelson\, PhD\, is Director of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP). He studied physics and sculpture at the University of Rochester\, and experimental psychology at New York University and Columbia. He is the author or co-author of 100 technical papers and three books: Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness\, Der Welt-Geist: wie wir alle miteinander verbunden sind\, and Die Welt-Kraft in Dir (German) with Georg Kindel. He was Professor of Psychology at Johnson State College in northern Vermont\, and in 1980 joined Princeton University’s PEAR lab to coordinate research. His focus is on mental interactions\, anomalous information transfer\, and effects on random systems by individuals and groups. He created the GCP in 1997\, building a world-spanning random number generator network designed to gather evidence of coalescing global consciousness. He lives in Princeton\, NJ\, USA\, and his website is https://global-mind.org
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SUMMARY:Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 4/6: Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter) with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExtending the Mind (and Intending Matter) \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nSunday November 12\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nMost neuroscientists are convinced that minds live in skull confinement — after all\, their metaphysical gospel (cloaked in brain scans) insists that minds are “nothing but” what brains do. Some occasionally let their minds stroll within the body\, acknowledging the importance of heart and gut\, while maintaining the brain as organ king. A few conservative radicals go further and claim that minds can also protract into the world\, much like the blind’s cane or everyone’s phone. Such an “extended mind” is seriously meant but often so rather metaphorically as a heterodox way to lessen the duality by spreading “mind” like butter in the bread of “matter”. I wonder if that’s sufficient\, or even necessary. We are still struggling with Descartes’ forced divorce between “res cogitans” and “res extensa”; extended stuff can’t think and thinking stuff can’t enjoy extension. I will argue for a possible dissolution/absolution of the problem and flesh such theoretical considerations with ongoing empirical work on the putative ability of living organisms for non-sensory perception and non-motor action\, stepping deep into heretical neuro-land. I will also discuss conceptual implications for the ever-failing quest to locate memories in the brain. Regardless of one’s preferred “-ism”\, we must heal such an ontological wound at the heart of science and of civilization. You can indeed separate the whole into parts (split a football\, dissect a dog)\, but you cannot do so without it changing in kind (the game is over\, the dog is dead). At the end of the day\, we need to think\, feel\, and practice a science of wholeness beyond New Age “woo-woo” and Old Rage “poo-poo”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\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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SUMMARY:Holocentric Indigenous Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 5/6: Holocentric Indigenous Consciousness (with Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and Dr. John Briggs)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHolocentric Indigenous Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and Dr. John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday November 18\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nTraditional Indigenous people the world over regularly employ a holistic mode of consciousness that affirms they are inseparable from the natural world. Their lives are guided by this mode. The holocentric mode is a natural feature of all human consciousness but has been suppressed in the last few thousand years by the rise of cultures organized from a second ancient mode of consciousness: the anthropocentric or human-centered mode. \n\n\n\nAnthropocentric consciousness\, which derives from perceptions that the world is made of separate things dominates the way most people living today perceive reality. By contrast\, holocentric consciousness focuses on the world as a source of unity\, relationships\, and beauty. The holocentric mode of consciousness continues to function as a “ground state consciousness” for traditional Indigenous people and\, in a different context\, for creative artists. \n\n\n\nThe anthropocentric and holocentric modes are roughly parallel to the awarenesses of the left and right brains functions as described by Ian McGilchrist. \n\n\n\nIndigenous cultures are shot through with an attention to the whole. The world is approached as a living being and a collection of fellow beings acknowledged in the Lakota phrase\, mitakuye oyasin\, “all my relations”— animal\, vegetable\, water\, wind\, land\, sun\, sky: all things which are not things\, but spirit. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will show\, a holocentered way of being is manifest in the traditional practice of reciprocity; in ceremonies; in metaphors shaped in stories\, art and dance\, and in engagement with what Leroy Little Bear\, borrowing from his friend David Bohm\, describes as the “holoflux”:  Shape shifting in the holoflux is a potent expression of Indigenous wholeness. Tiokasin says: “You will never know what is really there\, but you know something is there. As soon as you think you’ve got it\, it changes\, shape-shifts. You never get it.” \n\n\n\nWorking from material they have developed during the past seven years on Indigenous holistic consciousness\, the three presenters will sketch a picture of the original holistic mode of consciousness that has been buried and obscured by our virally growing anthropocentric knowledge and our obsessive cleverness at manipulating apparently separate things. \n\n\n\nHere’s an Indigenous story of wholeness: \n\n\n\nOne day when we were visiting her on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in southern Arizona\, our friend\, elder Ofelia Rivas said\, “My mother told me the story of how this farmer was working in the fields. He was really tired and grumpy. He came home\, did his normal things. He went to bed early and expected to go back to the fields. He had a dream in which these warriors came and said he was being called to a meeting; so he got ready. \n\n\n\n“At the time they had these little lanterns you could light and carry. I think it was kerosene they used. So he took his little light and went with the warriors. In the story he was being brought to a meeting in which he was told that he did something wrong. Did he know what he did and that people were suffering because he did something wrong. He claimed ‘I don’t know what I did wrong. Can you tell me please what it is?’ In that pleading he woke up. \n\n\n\n“He got his lantern and he walked the trail he always walked\, and he followed his footsteps all the way back to his fields. He finally found a big ant mound. When he was grumpy and was haphazardly walking on that trail\, he had accidentally kicked a pebble into the anthill’s entrance hole. Around the whole anthill were dead ants. \n\n\n\n“So he removed the pebble from the opening and he left the lantern. He told the ants\, ‘The lantern will help you warm up and you can go back in. I’m sorry this happened.’ \n\n\n\n“That’s the lesson I tell the young people. Be very careful how you walk on this land\, you don’t know what is there. You may have missed something that was important and you may have affected it in some way. Those are the kinds of lessons I learned. It’s the same way in ceremony. You regard everything as sacred.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota)\, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota.  Tiokasin is a survivor of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man\,” and the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge\, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations. He has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy.  He is a guest lecturer at many universities and international speaker and on Peace\, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspectives\, cosmology\, ecology and forestry and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of western society. Tiokasin is the founder\, host and executive producer of the 30 year-old “First Voices Radio”\, a one-hour live program syndicated to 70 radio stations in the US and Canada. \n\n\n\nHe was awarded Staten Island’s Peacemaker Award in 2013 and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 by The International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children.  He is a master musician and teacher of magical\, ancient and modern sounds and has performed for audiences worldwide.  A Sun dancer in the Lakota Nation tradition\, he describes himself as a “perfectly flawed human being.”   www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert G. Toth served as Executive Director the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living from 1998 to 2010. He co-edited Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton\, a popular series designed for small group dialogue. He is an active member of The Contemplative Alliance\, an initiative of the Global Peace Initiative of Women\, which organizes dialogues and programs around the world to advance contemplative approaches to issues affecting the welfare of all being. He also serves on the Board of the Lake Erie Institute which offers holistic ecological leadership programs to individuals engaged in creating flourishing\, regenerative\, and socially just communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Universe as Process
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 6/6: Universe as Process (with Prof. Chamkaur Ghag)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniverse as Process \n\n\n\nwith Prof. Chamkaur Ghag \n\n\n\nSunday November 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWe will explore the relationship between apparent dichotomoies through which we perceive our universe and place within it. From wave particle duality\, to the left and right hemispheres of the brain\, to the Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity divide that plays out in the quest to understand Dark Matter\, it is becoming ever clearer that the way forward is to evolve past subjective/objective divides and come recognise the Universe as process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist leading the research at University College London (UCL) to experimentally detect dark matter in our galaxy. Prior to joining UCL in 2012 he held positions at the University of California\, Los Angeles and the University of Edinburgh\, where he completed his PhD in 2006. Chamkaur is the Spokesperson of the international LZ Collaboration\, operating the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment ever constructed. Chamkaur collaborates widely outside fundamental physics within the arts\, neuroscience and Earth sciences.
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Melissa Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0Xu9EVfbw\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Melissa Nelson and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nThursday November 309:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \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\n\nThe eleventh conversation in this series will be on Thursday November 30\, 2023 with Melissa Nelson. Our conversation will orbit around “Indigenous ways of knowing”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\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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