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SUMMARY:How to Think Impossibly
DESCRIPTION:How to Think Impossibly:A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human \n\n\n\nJune 28 – July 1\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jeffrey J. Kripal \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 725.00 euros\, which includes: \n\n\n\n\na 3-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\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\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 Friday June 28 at 16:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday July 1 after lunch. \n\n\n\nFrom precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences\, UFO encounters\, and beyond\, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality\, but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions for this course. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nHow to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human\, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both.  \n\n\n\nThinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable\, open\, and often humorous ways\, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to develop an awareness that the fantastic is real\, the supernatural is super natural\, and the impossible is possible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Kripal’s new book\, How to Think Impossibly\, will be published on July 3rd\, 2024. \n\n\n\nAs complimentary preparation material\, participants will receive an exclusive digital copy of the Prologue and Introduction of the book before its publication\, as well as a signed physical copy of the book while in Pari. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means 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\nSCHEDULE \n\n\n\nIntro (Friday afternoon): Thinking-with experiencers… \n\n\n\nPart 1 (Saturday morning): World of the dead and the nature of soul \n\n\n\nPart 2 (Saturday afternoon): Praying mantises\, flying sauces and professional comedians \n\n\n\nPart 3 (Sunday morning): Neuro-diversity and multi-verses \n\n\n\nPart 4 (Sunday afternoon): Time travel\, quantum physics  \n\n\n\nOutro (Monday morning): How to pull it all together \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California and sits on numerous advisory boards in the U.S. and Europe involving the nature of consciousness and the human\, social\, and natural sciences. Most recently\, Jeff is the author of The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents\, Moral Objections\, New Realities (Chicago\, 2022)\, where he intuits an emerging order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories and futures. His forthcoming book is How to Think Impossibly: About Souls\, UFOs\, Time\, Belief\, and Everything Else (Chicago\, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences\, modern esoteric literature\, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com  He thinks he may be Spider-Man.  \n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional information on this program (PDF) \n\n\n\nTerms and conditions (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/how-to-think-impossibly/
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SUMMARY:Book-A-Month Club - Syntropy: The Spirit of Love
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSOwD8r3S0o\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSyntropy: The Spirit of Loveby Ulisse Di Corpo and Antonella Vannini \n\n\n\nHosts: Dr. Jeffrey Dunne \n\n\n\nFriday July 5\, 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\n\n\n\n\nMany people are familiar with the concept of entropy\, the dissipative process that indicates the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a closed physical system. Entropy is sometimes called ‘the arrow of time’\, and describes a forward-in-time causal universe\, but fails to account for many scientific paradoxes… such as life itself. The subject of this book is a complementary\, albeit less well known\, principle called syntropy. Syntropy describes aspects of reality that follow an increase in complexity through the action of attractors in the future\, explaining the relationship of systems with their purposes. Rather than progressing towards disintegrated disorder\, syntropy “draws together” through commonality and intertwined purposes. In a way\, syntropy can be regarded as the life force that emanates from the unifying action of love. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne is President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL\, www.icrl.org)\, an organization dedicated to understanding the nature of consciousness for the betterment of humanity.  Beyond his work with ICRL and several decades of research at the Johns Hopkins University in fields ranging from acoustics to data science and AI\, Dr. Dunne is an award-winning playwright and author.  His recently published novel\, Nexus\, weaves the concept of syntropy with the implications of the nature of consciousness into a story that speaks to the challenges humanity is facing\, sharing a vision for finding a healthier\, more balanced future.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/book-a-month-club-syntropy-the-spirit-of-love/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024
DESCRIPTION:Solidarity tickets available. Click for Part 1 and Part 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2024  \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13 – Sunday August 25\, 2024 The Beyond Bohm 2024 series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm. Now in our fourth year\, we are continuing that tradition with an array of new faces and presenters that we are especially excited about. \n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nOur first weekend begins with some “basics”: a roundtable discussion of a foundational Bohm text\, Thought as a System. We are pleased to welcome members of the David Bohm Society into this discussion. The following day\, we will hear from Dr. Elizabeth Henderson\, whose 40 years of work in education suggest multiple perspectives for establishing wholeness in human beings\, from their earliest years. Dr. Henderson uses autoethnography to help illustrate the possibilities and tensions facing practitioners as they try to help children build their interior worlds. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend opens by taking us directly into the “deep time” geology of Dr. Marcia Bjornerud. Here we are asked to sense Earth through the fourth dimension of time\, as a living\, moving\, process-oriented phenomenon. The next day\, abstract artist Pam Harris shares with us the nature of her experience in contemplating scientific and philosophical questions\, and how that experience translates to canvas. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend continues the thread of artistic and scientific complementarity. Artist-engineer Cheryl Brant walks us through the unfolding of her own 40-year artistic process\, and its culmination in questions of consciousness and the living world. Finally\, closing out the series\, Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Métis) and friends will share indigenous perspectives on a variety of culturally-oriented issues and concerns.  \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nAfter an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, we will explore the relations between Russellian monism\, William James’s radical empiricism and Bohm’s implicate order; some traditional and recent (e.g.\, Johanna Seibt’s) work on process philosophy and how it connects with Bohm’s ideas; the idea of quantum properties of matter as potentialities in Bohm’s early thought; the influence of Hegel on Bohm’s ideas about fragmentation and wholeness; and whether Bohm’s notion of active information is a candidate for a unifying notionof information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters.Tickets are available for the whole series\, for three presentations of your choice\, or for single presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13Thought as a Systemwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 14Inner Freedom and Early Childhoodwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSaturday July 20Discovering the Deep Logic of Earthwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSunday July 21Finding David Bohm – and Beyondwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSaturday July 27Science and Art: Squaring the Circlewith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSunday July 28Vortex of Indigenous CosmologiesWith Melissa Nelson and Friends \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nSunday August 4Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 11The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James’s Radical Empiricism and Bohm’s Implicate OrderWilliam Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 17A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics & Indeterminate Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process TheorySamuli Isotalo and Thelma Nylund\, with comments by Paavo PylkkänenSunday August 18Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum TheoryPaavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 24Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. HegelBoris Koznjak \n\n\n\nSunday August 25 Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?  Jens Allwood\, with comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024 - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:The Beyond Bohm series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm. Now in our fourth year\, we are continuing that tradition with an array of new faces and presenters that we are especially excited about. \n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nOur first weekend begins with some “basics”: a roundtable discussion of a foundational Bohm text\, Thought as a System. We are pleased to welcome members of the David Bohm Society into this discussion. The following day\, we will hear from Dr. Elizabeth Henderson\, whose 40 years of work in education suggest multiple perspectives for establishing wholeness in human beings\, from their earliest years. Dr. Henderson uses autoethnography to help illustrate the possibilities and tensions facing practitioners as they try to help children build their interior worlds. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend opens by taking us directly into the “deep time” geology of Dr. Marcia Bjornerud. Here we are asked to sense Earth through the fourth dimension of time\, as a living\, moving\, process-oriented phenomenon. The next day\, abstract artist Pam Harris shares with us the nature of her experience in contemplating scientific and philosophical questions\, and how that experience translates to canvas. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend continues the thread of artistic and scientific complementarity. Artist-engineer Cheryl Brant walks us through the unfolding of her own 40-year artistic process\, and its culmination in questions of consciousness and the living world. Finally\, closing out the series\, Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Métis) and friends will share indigenous perspectives on a variety of culturally-oriented issues and concerns.  \n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters.Tickets are available for the whole series\, for three presentations of your choice\, or for single presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 13Thought as a Systemwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 14Inner Freedom and Early Childhoodwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSaturday July 20Discovering the Deep Logic of Earthwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSunday July 21Finding David Bohm – and Beyondwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSaturday July 27Science and Art: Squaring the Circlewith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSunday July 28Vortex of Indigenous CosmologiesWith Melissa Nelson and Friends
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 – Thought as a System
DESCRIPTION:Thought as a System\n\n\n\nwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSaturday July 139:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThought as a System is David Bohm’s ur-text pertaining to his views regarding the nature of collective thought. It elucidates core themes of awareness\, collective assumptions\, social conditioning\, dialogue\, fragmentation\, the self-image\, insight\, meaning\, the observer and the observed\, proprioception of thought\, thinking vs. thought\, and many more. \n\n\n\nIn this session our roundtable will open up these various facets of Bohm’s perspective\, both theoretically as well as in terms of direct personal experience. We will invite members of the audience to contribute to the session\, based on their own experience of the many issues raised in this seminal Bohmian text. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Capowski works in the field of child protection\, with a background in psychology. He is  a lifelong student of Ayurveda. As a teenager he encountered a book that contained interviews with David Bohm\, and would go on to become a serious student of Bohm’s work pertaining to the problems of humanity.  This would lead him to found the David Bohm Society in 2012\, both to ensure preservation of Bohm’s invaluable legacy and to attempt to realize some of Bohm’s proposals by creating living examples.  \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\nIgor Topilsky is an active participant in poetic arts\, music and theatre\, and has spent numerous years working with David Bohm’s dialogue proposals. He has been serving on the board of directors for the David Bohm Society since 2015.  \n\n\n\n\n\nAja Bulla Zamastil is an architectural and landscape architectural designer\, public artist\, and educator. As a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism graduate program at the University of Southern California\, she leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and socio-cultural forces. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive\, she is responsible for managing and designing landscape projects and educational programs throughout California. These projects explore how we can transform monolithic systems into resilient ecological cycles that re-enchant everyday experience and promote alternative cultural practices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAja is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022). She is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments\, and was formerly a student at the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California\, and Brockwood Park in England.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-thought-as-a-system/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 - Inner Freedom and Early Childhood
DESCRIPTION:Inner Freedom and Early Childhood\n\n\n\nwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSunday July 149:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe constraints and limitations on inner freedom imposed by contemporary society run broad and deep. As adults\, many of us struggle to establish any significant degree of such freedom\, any enduring sense of true individuality. There are\, however\, strategies and skills which\, if inculcated at an early age\, significantly increase the prospects for inner wholeness and the flowering of creative individuality. In this session\, Dr. Elizabeth Henderson will share with us aspects of her 20 years of engagement with Early Years (Early Childhood) education\, oriented toward a process of nurturing that is fundamentally different from contemporary quantitative educational systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Henderson is an experienced practitioner\, manager\, lecturer\, trainer\, and author with more than 40 years of experience in education. For the last 20 years\, she has focussed on the early childhood sector. Using autoethnography as a methodology\, Elizabeth seeks to humanise data to reveal the multiple complexities at work in a practitioner’s relationship with young children and their families. Her current research is on sustainability\, indigenous pathways\, and their relationship to Early Years work. \n\n\n\nAfter completing her Doctorate in Early Childhood Education and Care in 2016 at Sheffield University\, England\, she went on to publish the first book in the Early Years sector on autoethnography – Autoethnography in Early Childhood Education Care: Narrating the Heart of Practice. She has also published further work on sustainability\, outdoor work with young children\, arts-based research in early childhood\, and inclusion and diversity. \n\n\n\nElizabeth is the founder of several innovative projects in Scotland which include: Nature Nurture a project for children under the age of three years from challenging backgrounds\, offering the opportunity to be in Nature and to connect therapeutically with the cycle of the year; and WIGLS\, a Community of Practice to help support practitioners working with Nature and the outdoor context in their Early Years settings. Elizabeth also sowed the seeds that initiated the opening of the first Outdoor Nursery in her local authority\, in Aberdeen\, Scotland. \n\n\n\nElizabeth’s work is underpinned by love and the understanding that we build interior worlds with our children during their early development. She is a mother to two adopted children and grandmother to eight little people.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-inner-freedom-and-early-childhood/
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SUMMARY:The Future Mind – A Conversation with Federico Faggin
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYa6OFqPm64\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Federico Faggin and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nMonday\, July 159:00am 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\n\n\n\n\nFederico Faggin is a physicist born and educated in Italy who co-invented and developed the MOS Silicon Gate Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor and designed the world’s first microprocessor at Intel. Faggin also co-founded and led Zilog and Synaptics\, two successful high-tech companies\, before founding the non-profit Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation\, dedicated to the science of consciousness. He received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-mind-a-conversation-with-federico-faggin-2/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 - Discovering the Deep Logic of Earth
DESCRIPTION:Discovering the Deep Logic of Earth\n\n\n\nwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSaturday July 209:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nRocks as verbs? Stones with subtle wisdom? Experiencing Earth with the fourth dimension of Deep Time? Marcia Bjornerud is doing in geology what Tim Ingold has done in anthropology and David Bohm has done in physics: make new levels of embodied meaning available to non-specialists while challenging our reflexive perceptions of the world. \n\n\n\nIn this two-hour session\, Dr. Bjornerud will discuss her forthcoming book\, Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks\, as well as her current book\, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcia Bjornerud (she/her/hers) is Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geosciences at Lawrence University. She is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. She combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. She has done research in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island)\, as well as mainland Norway\, Italy\, New Zealand\, and the Lake Superior region.   \n\n\n\nBjornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Oslo\, Norway and University of Otago\, New Zealand.   A contributing writer to The New Yorker\, Wired\, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times\, she is also the author of several books for popular audiences — Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth;  Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World and Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities.  Timefulness was longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing\, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Science and Technology.  \n\n\n\nEducation:B.S.\, Geophysics\, University of Minnesota\, 1983M.S.\, Structural Geology\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, 1985Ph.D.\, Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, 1987
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-discovering-the-deep-logic-of-earth/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 - Finding David Bohm - and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Finding David Bohm – and Beyond\n\n\n\nwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSunday July 219:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPam Harris is a contemporary abstract painter with a special interest in the nature of our existence and its intrinsic connectedness to the universe.  Philosophy\, poetry\, and science – particularly quantum physics – inform her explorations. She has exhibited in France\, the Netherlands\, and Italy and her work is held in many private and corporate collections\, including the Irish State Collection.  \n\n\n\nIt has been remarked of Pam’s work\, “In the anti-intellectual climate of today\, it is refreshing to find an artist who is not afraid to ask the big questions and give them some form of visual reality through painting. Although seeing has been the privileged sense in Western aesthetics\, Harris’ art brings the rationalism usually associated with scientific and philosophical concepts into direct contact with aesthetics\, the intuitive and deeply emotional. \n\n\n\n\n…Her achievement is to produce paintings that are not only visually compelling using the minimal means of line and colour\, but that she also manages to convey the fragility of existence in the Heraclitean flux.” \n— (Extract from “Enfolded” by Brenda Moore-McCann\,  Art Historian\, Dublin 2008.  From the catalogue “Enfolded”).\n\n\n\nIn this session\, Pam will share with us some of her contemplations of scientific and philosophical questions—including those of David Bohm—and how those contemplations translate to canvas. If contemporary abstract painting has eluded you\, this is an opportunity to get a first-hand sensibility of how one artist creates such works. \n\n\n\nwww.pamharris.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘Union Painting no. 7’.  1999.  Oil on canvas.  66 x 66 x 7.5cm.\n\n\n\n‘Subject and Object’ diptych 2003\noil on canvas with lead\n21 x 21 x 5cm (each square).\n\n\n\n‘Subject and Object’ diptych 2003\noil on canvas with lead\n21 x 21 x 5cm (each square).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-finding-david-bohm-and-beyond/
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SUMMARY:Free Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BruT-EHF-iE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial \n\n\n\nWith Vandana Shiva and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nTuesday July 23\, 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\n\n\n\n\nThe Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) has been regarded as “the worst enemy of science” (Nature\, 1987) but also a “breath of fresh air” (Science\, 1979). He is the fourth iteration of the great philosophers of science of the 20th century\, after Karl Popper (1902-1994)\, Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)\, and Imre Lakatos (1922-1974)\, standing as one of the most relevant thinkers ever in our understanding of what science really is and does.  \n\n\n\nHis works —Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975)\, Science in a Free Society (1978)\, and Farewell to Reason (1987)\, amongst other books\, lectures\, and essays— revealed that the so-called scientific method is not so well defined and stable as commonly thought or proclaimed\, but crowded with notable anomalies. In fact\, the history of science shows that progress often takes place when scientists actually break (rather than follow) the methodological rules and standards we so much venerate.  \n\n\n\nHe also denounced that science is too often entangled with politics while pretending it isn’t\, which enables its misuse for ideological and authoritarian reasons. He deliberately promulgated his famous motto “anything goes” in order to point to another kind of rationality (which some disdain as irrationalism)\, beyond the dogmatic mechanistic deductive order that seeks to dominate nature and people. Cartesian-Baconian rationality is one (but not the only) valuable tradition in science. One must address the relation between Reason and Practice. \n\n\n\nIn order to celebrate the centennial of his birth (and three decades since he passed away)\, Vandana and Alex will be in dialogue for about one hour\, reflecting on Feyerabend’s legacy and its impact today. They will discuss current pernicious monotheisms of the mind and\, based on general principles and concrete examples\, entertain and illustrate alternatives in physics\, neurobiology\, agriculture\, and economy. We would then open it up for questions and comments from the audience. \n\n\n\nScience needs boundaries indeed\, but they need to be porous. The role of scientists (and the authority of experts) in a genuine democratic society is at stake. The complex dynamics between truth\, post-truth\, and totalitarianism needs to be put on the table. The tension between dogmatism and anarchism can be resolved via an ecological pluralism applied to our minds and lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, activist\, and author. A food sovereignty advocate\, environmentalist\, and ecofeminist\, Shiva holds a PhD in physics and has written more than 20 books\, including Making Peace with the Earth\, Staying Alive\, Monocultures of the Mind\, Democratizing Biology\, Soil Not Oil\, and Stolen Harvest. Based in Delhi\, she is referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization\, and a figure of the anti-globalization movement. She has worked as a consultant for the Indian government and abroad\, and in NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalization\, Women’s Environment & Development Organization and Third World Network. She is a co-founder of the gender unit of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development\, and of the Women’s Environment & Development Organization. Shiva has received numerous international honors\, such as the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008)\, Sydney’s Peace Prize (2010)\, Calgary’s Peace Prize (2011)\, and the Right Livelihood Award (1993)\, which is regarded as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/free-science-in-a-free-society-celebrating-feyerabends-centennial/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 - Science and Art: Squaring the Circle
DESCRIPTION:Science and Art: Squaring the Circle\n\n\n\nwith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSaturday July 279:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheryl Brant’s work finds her working at the intersection of art and science. Her formal education began with a Bachelor of Science in Art\, and continued with an MFA in sculpture. Her professional life has been in engineering for the past 36 years—first in Geotechnical engineering\, and for the past 22 years in Structural\, Civil\, and Coastal engineering. Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous galleries through the years. She is a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments. \n\n\n\nOf her recent work\, Cheryl says\, “I hadn’t heard about David Bohm until I attended a conference at the Pari Center given by David Peat. At the time\, he (Peat) was working on the film ‘Infinite Potential.’ Since then\, Bohm’s work has become integral in my approach to art.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom her website: “Circle-Squaring is a process of finding ways for seemingly opposite things to work together. Squaring the circle has been thought of as ‘doing the impossible… turning one into its opposite.’ However\, circles and squares to me are complements much like earth and water or art and science. In seeing these as complements rather than opposites\, we can gain a more nuanced understanding of the microcosm\, macrocosm\, and ultimately ourselves. They work together to provide a more all-encompassing picture which should hopefully be closer to the truth.” \n\n\n\nIn this session\, Cheryl will share with us various aspects of her work spanning four decades\, culminating in current explorations of the nature of consciousness as an innate aspect of the living world. \n\n\n\nwww.circlesquaring.net
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-science-and-art-squaring-the-circle/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 1 – Vortex of Indigenous Cosmologies
DESCRIPTION:Vortex of Indigenous Cosmologies\n\n\n\nwith Melissa Nelson and friends \n\n\n\nSunday July 289:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \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\nTerrellyn Fearn is a Mi’kmaq scholar-practitioner\, Snake clan from Glooscap First Nation and a citizen of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Terrellyn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute\, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank (a learning lodge) grounded in Metuaptmumk: All Around Seeing\, a uniquely Indigenous approach to wholistic human development and systems transformation. \n\n\n\nHer work spans 30 years exploring the human dimensions of transformative change where systems science\, arts and the sacred meet by amplifying Indigenous languages\, ancient wisdom traditions and Ancestral sciences. She is a Research Associate with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience and holds a Masters degree in Education. She has worked with over 380 Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America) to advance wellbeing and create communities of practice dedicated to social change and heart centred leadership. Terrellyn is a mother and believes large-scale systemic change begins through restoring the sacred feminine and reawakening the human Spirit by connecting to self\, each other\, our Earth Mother and all of Creation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsabel Hawkins\, Senior Scientist (she/her/ella)\, grew up in Córdoba\, Argentina\, where the beauty of the night sky and a childhood visit to the Planetario charted the course of her career as an astronomer and science educator. Reaching for the stars\, Isabel came to the United States as an American Field Service exchange student when she was sixteen. In 1981\, she received a BS in physics from UC Riverside\, where she was asked to join Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently\, she obtained an MS and a PhD in astrophysics from UCLA. Before joining the Exploratorium in 2009\, she spent 20 years as an astrophysics researcher and science educator at the University of California\, Berkeley\, Space Sciences Laboratory. Isabel’s work at the Exploratorium is focused on NASA\, NSF\, and museum-funded efforts related to Latinx audience engagement\, such as Solar Eclipse\, GENIAL: Generating Engagement and New Initiatives for All Latinos\, and Cambio\, a professional development approach for building Latinx-focused cultural competence in museums. Through cultural astronomy\, she fosters science pluralism by making visible The Cultural Roots of STEM (science\, technology\, engineering\, and mathematics)\, a research synthesis effort that has been funded by the NSF. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific bestowed on her the prestigious Klumpke-Roberts Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy\, an honor that she shares with fellow awardees Carl Sagan\, Isaac Asimov\, Julieta Fierro\, and Tim Ferris\, among others. Isabel is also a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution\, a volunteer coordinator for the YAKANAL\, Indigenous Youth Cultural Exchange program\, and a 2018 to 2022 Fulbright US Global Scholar. Her interests include salsa and bachata dancing\, yoga\, drawing Maya classic period glyphs\, and the study of native languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Briggs-Cloud is a language revitalizer\, scholar\, and musician. He is co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv\, an off-grid\, climate-positive\, income-sharing Indigenous ecovillage community centered in Weogufka\, Alabama\, comprised of Maskoke persons who have returned to their ancestral homelands—after 180 years of having been forcibly removed—for the purpose of embodying sustainable lifeways through language/cultural revitalization\, ecological restoration\, regenerative agriculture\, and natural building. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School\, Marcus has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida\, where his work intersected ecology\, linguistics\, genetics\, ecofeminism\, and liberation theology. He received awards for his Maskoke hymn album Pum Vculvke Vrakkuecetv (To Honor Our Elders)\, and in 2012\, he served as composer and choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Indigenous Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke); they have two children\, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke\, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-1-vortex-of-indigenous-cosmologies/
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