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SUMMARY:Book-A-Month Club - The Passion of the Western Mind
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFpmyLHRYnM&t=1s\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World Viewby Richard Tarnas \n\n\n\nHosts: David Lorimer with Guest and Author Richard Tarnas \n\n\n\nTuesday April 9\, 20249:00am 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\nAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community. \n\n\n\nThe Passion of the Western Mind – understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view – is\, along with its sequel Cosmos and Psyche – one of the most seminal and original books in the history of ideas. I read Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy in 1973 at the age of 21\, and Rick covers the same territory with enormous elegance\, clarity and style. However\, his vision is very different from the positivism of Russell and in his epilogue he unfolds his understanding of the co-creative and  participatory nature of reality that values the feminine and where ’the autonomous individual self has been forged and is now reunited with the ground of its being. Understanding how and where we have arrived enables us to understand our transformative potentials and possibilities. Join our dialogue on April 9th! \n\n\n\nEach month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy\, the work of David Bohm\, Indigenous Ways of Knowing\, Jungian Concepts\, Gentle Action\, Creativity\, the Arts\, Ethics\, Community\, the Sacred. \n\n\n\nRichard Tarnas\, PhD\, is Distinguished Rockefeller Faculty\, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology\, at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, and is director of its programme in Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness. A graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook Institute\, he was formerly director of programmes and education at Esalen Institute. \n\n\n\nDavid Lorimer\, MA\, PGCE\, FRSA is a writer\, lecturer\, poet\, editor and spiritual activist who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland\, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network (www.scientificandmedical.net) and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society (www.swedenborgsociety.org.uk). He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorersince 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 (www.beyondthebrain.org)  and has co-ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every year since the late 1980s. \n\n\n\nOriginally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College\, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books\, including Survival? Death as Transition (1984\, 2017) Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One)(1990/2017)\, The Spirit of Science (1998)\, Thinking Beyond the Brain(2001)\, The Protein Crunch(with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about the Bulgarian sage Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov): Prophet for our Times (1991\, 2015)\, The Circle of Sacred Dance\,and Gems of Love\,which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince (2003) –has been translated into Dutch\, Spanish and French. His new book of essays\, A Quest for Wisdom was published in 2021. \n\n\n\nDavid is also Chair of the Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) which seeks the expand the evidence base of science of consciousness beyond a materialistic worldview. \n\n\n\nIn 2020 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader by the Visioneers International Network and the 2021 Aboca Human Ecology Prize. He is a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest. His website is www.davidlorimer.co.uk
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SUMMARY:The Future Mind – A Conversation with Carlos Eire
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGJCJ9DJfNI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Carlos Eire and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday April 179:00am 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\n\n\n\n\nCarlos Eire is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe at Yale University who focuses on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; the history of the supernatural\, and the history of death. At Yale he has served as chair of the Religious Studies Department and the Renaissance Studies Program. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996\, he taught at St. John’s University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia\, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for two years. He is the author of War Against the Idols (1986); From Madrid to Purgatory(1995); A Very Brief History of Eternity (2010); Reformations: The Early Modern World (2016); The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (2019)\, and They Flew: A History of the Impossible (2023). He is also co-author of Jews\, Christians\, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (1997). In 2003 he won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his first memoir\, Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003)\, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His second memoir\, Learning to Die in Miami (2010)\, explores his early years in exile. His book Reformations won the R.R.Hawkins Prize for Best Book of the Year from the American Publishers Association\, as well as the award for Best Book in the Humanities. It was also awarded the Jaroslav Pelikan Prize by Yale University Press. All of his books are banned in Cuba\, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state – a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors. \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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SUMMARY:It’s About Time
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRnig-KI2U\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s About Time: A Conversation on the Subject of Time \n\n\n\nWednesday April 24\, 20249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST  \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nA free\, online\, live event at the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nTime is one of the central mysteries of existence. It is also a profound puzzle in physics. \n\n\n\nWe understand how the passage of time ‘expands’ or ‘contracts’ depending on how fast you are travelling compared to an observer. There is also conclusive evidence that time distorts in the presence of mass\, leading to the effects we used to ascribe to a force of gravity. Some even believe that they understand how time morphs into existence\, along with the universe\, out of some quantum pre-stuff. This\, however\, is all ‘physical time’; the relationship between the physics and the experience of ‘psychological time’ is far from clear. \n\n\n\nIs there a “block universe”\, where all of time is laid out to God’s eye-view\, with humans only perceiving a small slice as they advance along their world-lines? Or is the future not yet written\, but exists in some quantum level of possibility and probability?  \n\n\n\nIn this conversation we will touch upon the physical aspects of time\, attempting to make the physics clear to non-scientists. Undoubtedly\, this will lead us to psychological\, and perhaps spiritual time. Who knows where the thoughts will take us\, but it seems very likely that the specious present and the multiverse will also come up… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse?and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \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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