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SUMMARY:An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:An Armchair Guide to Quantum Mechanics \n\n\n\nPresented by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nA semi-serious approach to one of the most important fundamental theories in physics \n\n\n\n10 sessions from October 28 – November 18 \n\n\n\n7 one-hour lectures and 3 sessions of group conversation and Q&A  \n\n\n\n9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is quantum mechanics? \n\n\n\nMore than 100 years ago\, the founding fathers were faced with a series of experimental results that confounded their understanding regarding the nature of reality. Einstein never forgave Nature for doing this to him. Heisenberg had to run away to an island to figure it out. Pauli ended up going to Jung for analysis. \n\n\n\nGradually\, they came to a new understanding—Quantum Mechanics—but in the process\, they had to throw away virtually all of the old physical picture of particles colliding and interacting like tiny billiard balls. Instead\, we now have shifting probability waves existing in an implicate layer of reality and manifesting in explicate results. Our very language and concepts struggle to cope with expressing in words what is clear mathematically. Bohr had to invent a new form of double-think\, complementarity\, to try and ride the paradox: Nature expressing herself in both wave and particle forms\, within the same experiment. \n\n\n\nWhy is it important? \n\n\n\nQuantum mechanics\, and the theories built from its foundations\, is our fundamental theory of matter and forces. It underpins everything we understand about the nature of our universe. In the earliest moments of creation\, fractions of a second into the Big Bang\, quantum theory governed the structure and evolution of our young cosmos. Delicate measurements of the universal ‘heat map’ spread across the sky\, reveal aspects of this quantum driven period. \n\n\n\nAlong with the awe-inspiring beauty and depth of the physics involved\, quantum theory also has profound implications for our technology: from computer chips\, MRI scans\, communications and quantum computers. \n\n\n\nFundamentally\, quantum mechanics is the most radical recasting of the nature of reality that we have ever experienced. The world is far stranger\, and more supple\, than we are led to believe. \n\n\n\nWhy should people have a basic understanding of QM? \n\n\n\nIt seems clear that the rigidly materialistic paradigm is crumbling\, and we don’t yet know what is going to replace it. \n\n\n\nWe’re at a delicate time. On the one hand some of our political masters seek to undermine the expertise and results of the scientific community\, replacing Truth with Story. On the other\, enthusiastic and well-meaning groups working to assemble new paradigm thinking are promoting quantum ideas as a universal panacea for mind\, body\, spirit and anomalous experience. \n\n\n\nWider groups are trying to ride the turbulent waves and look for some understanding they can hold to. In order to steer between rigid scientism on one side and some of the flakier philosophies on the other\, it helps to know a little of what quantum theory is really saying about the world \n\n\n\nWho are our audience? \n\n\n\nHigh school students \n\n\n\nRetirees looking for new areas of interest or wanting to brush up on the latest thinking and developments \n\n\n\nPeople who enjoy reading popular science books and periodicals \n\n\n\nPeople who experienced poor teaching in their science classes at school and would like to start over in their physics education \n\n\n\nPeople who just enjoy learning \n\n\n\nHow do these presentations differ from other online QM series? \n\n\n\nIt’s a no-math introduction—sigh of relief! \n\n\n\nIn addition to the weekly talk with Q&A there will be a weekly ‘conversation bar’ where participants can discuss the ideas of the week with each other and the course presenter\, if available. \n\n\n\nThere will be no keeping away from philosophical issues—the nature of reality is in question here! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJONATHAN ALLDAY took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge\, then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University. For a period\, he worked at the particle physics research centre\, CERN\, but not as a cleaner. \n\n\n\nFor 30 years Jonathan taught physics to high-school students in a range of schools across the UK. In addition\, he ran summer schools for the Open University\, helped devise new physics curricula and a new course in the history and philosophy of science for 16–18-year-olds. For a period\, he was co-editor of Physics Education magazine and has contributed more articles to Physics Review than anyone else in its 35-volume history. \n\n\n\nHe is an author of science textbooks\, has contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists\, and has written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nSession 1: Not even wrong… \n\n\n\nTuesday 28th October \n\n\n\nThe fall of classical physics and the rise of the quantum world. \n\n\n\nAmplitudes/wave functions\, and the probable outcomes of experiments. \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 30th October \n\n\n\nSession 2: Come on everybody\, let’s do the twist… \n\n\n\nSaturday 1st November \n\n\n\nThe mysterious quantum property known as ‘spin’. Particles have it\, photons have it\, but do we really understand what it is? \n\n\n\nSession 3: Spooky action at a distance \n\n\n\nTuesday 4th November \n\n\n\nWhen the left hand implicately knows what the right hand is doing. Einstein’s problem with quantum theory. The work of John Bell and the radical undermining of reductionism. \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 6th November \n\n\n\nSession 4: The Measurement Problem \n\n\n\nSaturday 8th November \n\n\n\nIs quantum theory a 32 regular or a 36 long? Or more seriously… \n\n\n\nWhy does anything happen in the quantum world? The astonishing fact is that quantum theory relies on a mysterious process that is not fully understood and is not present in the standard mathematics. \n\n\n\nSession 5: Interpretations \n\n\n\nTuesday 11th November \n\n\n\nMore than 100 years later\, we still can’t agree what it means. Some people feel that quantum theory can only be understood in the context of many partially overlapping worlds. Others think that there is an unbridgeable and unknowable divide between the classical and quantum worlds. Most just ‘shut up and calculate.’ We\, however\, are made of sterner stuff so we ask the question: ‘What does quantum theory tell us about the nature of reality?’ \n\n\n\nConversation and Q&A \n\n\n\nThursday 13th November \n\n\n\nSession 6: Bohm and Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday 15th November \n\n\n\nIn which our heroes seek to replace the traditional approach to quantum theory with something more satisfying\, from an ontological perspective. \n\n\n\nSession 7: Quantum Snake Oil \n\n\n\nTuesday 18th November \n\n\n\nWould you buy a used quantum computer from this man? What are quantum computers? Why are they attracting so much funding and have they been over-promised?
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/an-armchair-guide-to-quantum-mechanics/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung: Jung & Ecology
DESCRIPTION:With Gillian M Brown\, Susanna Bucher\, Andrew Fellows\, Jeffrey T. Kiehl\, Orsolya Lukács\, Dale Mathers.Curated and chaired by Andrew Fellows. \n\n\n\nNovember 22 – December 7\, 2025 \n\n\n\n6 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\n9:00am PST\, 12:00pm BST\, 5:00pm GMT\, 6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Jung: Jung & Ecology\n\n\n\nSix Jungian analysts and academics at the cutting edge of this exciting and crucial area of research and practice share their diverse modes of professional engagement. \n\n\n\nThis is the second set of talks in a new ‘Beyond Jung’ series hosted by the Pari Center\, honouring the seminal work and inspiration of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung. Our title\, ‘Jung and Ecology’\, refers to the contribution of Jung’s prescient insights\, and of his Analytical Psychology in general\, to the emerging discipline of ecopsychology. This can be summed up in his famous and alarming assertion that “The world hangs by a thin thread… and that thread is the psyche of man.”  \n\n\n\nEcopsychology is a broad church\, gaining momentum over recent decades as our awareness of the ecological crisis and our alienation from nature increase. It embraces a range of approaches\, from using psychology to address environmental issues to integrating the natural world into psychotherapeutic practice. Our six expert presenters will share their individual approaches across this spectrum\, five of them as practising Jungian analysts. Their professional backgrounds\, which include ecology\, education\, climate science and renewable energy\, inform and enrich their diverse perspectives.  \n\n\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be a highly topical and engaging series of presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 22\, 2025Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecologywith Andrew Fellows PhDSunday November 23\, 2025Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human worldwith Gillian M Brown PhD \n\n\n\nSaturday November 29\, 2025A Jungian Perspective on Climate Changewith Jeffrey T. Kiehl\, PhDSunday November 30\, 2025Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformationwith Susanna Bucher\, Dr. sc. nat. ETH \n\n\n\nSaturday December 6\, 2025Control\, Creation\, and the Future of Naturewith Orsolya Lukács PhD \n\n\n\nSunday December 7\, 2025 Time and Climate Change  with Dale Mathers MD
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-jung-and-ecology/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung - Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Jung –Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology \n\n\n\nwith Andrew Fellows PhD \n\n\n\nSaturday November 22\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2025\, Session 1 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSynergies between Jungian psychology\, systems dynamics\, Gaia theory\, dual-aspect monism and deep ecology can prepare and guide us to counter the existential threat of the Anthropocene. Moreover\, Jung’s Stages of Life “cradle-to-grave” developmental theory can be scaled up to show that our entire civilisation is in mid-life crisis\, and responding to it with a toxic mix of inertia\, nostalgia and hubris. Instead\, the essential transition from development to individuation at this point in our personal psychology translates into an urgently needed metanoia away from our collective ecocidal behaviour. The consilience that I establish lays the foundations of a radically different worldview—a fundamental shift from anthropocentric inflation to biocentric holism—with which to address global heating\, the sixth mass extinction\, and other unprecedented challenges of our time.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Fellows is a Training Analyst and former Program Director at ISAP Zurich\, independent researcher and author\, and deep ecologist. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics (Dunelm)\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (UK). He enjoyed two decades of international engagement with renewable—especially wind—energy\, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving to train as a Jungian Analyst in Zürich in 2001. His passion draws on his expertise from these two very different careers\, extending Jungian Psychology to address global social and environmental problems. His first book\, Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Routledge\, 2019) was joint winner of the Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. He has lectured around this topic to audiences in Europe (including the Pari Center)\, Asia and the United States. Andrew lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-gaia-psyche-and-deep-ecology/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung - Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human world
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Jung – Encountering the Eco-symbolic: A Jungian approach to the discovery of meaningfulness in the other-than-human world \n\n\n\nwith Gillian M Brown PhD \n\n\n\nSunday November 23\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2025\, Session 2 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs those working in outdoor settings will testify\, profound experiences can emerge from the dynamic interaction between an individual and the phenomena of the natural environment. These moments of meaning\, where psyche experiences itself reflected in the other-than-human world\, can hold profound personal significance\, might lead to important therapeutic insight and may even inspire a sense of interconnectedness with the containing ecosystem. To explore how Jung’s concept of the symbol can help us understand such encounters\, I follow his thinking from the symbolically constellated and ‘undifferentiated’ worldview of his ‘primitive’ man to the ‘transpsychic reality’ underlying the psyche\, as revealed by his researches into synchronicity. With reference to my own experience of working therapeutically in outdoor settings and my recent research into the symbol-like content found in immersive engagement with the natural environment\, I consider how a Jungian approach can offer us an effective framework for the ‘eco-symbolic’ and might\, ultimately\, guide us to discover a more ecosystemically integrated sense of self. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGillian M Brown is a psychotherapist and nature-based counsellor and educator with a longstanding interest in the field of ecopsychology. She has a PhD from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex where she researched the application of the Jungian concept of the symbol to meaningful encounters with other-than-human phenomena. Her paper ‘The tree that called my name: on the significance of encountering the constellated symbol in the natural\, other-than-human\, world’ was published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology’s special edition on our environmental and climate crisis and she is the author of ‘In Nature’s embrace: Emotional emplacement and the search for an ‘eco-symbolic’’\, a chapter based on her conference presentation for the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland\, in Routledge’s 2025 ‘Jungian and interdisciplinary interfaces between emotions individual and collective trauma’. An emeritus member and former Chair of the Cambridge Jungian Circle\, Gillian remains active in the organisation and is a co-facilitator of the circle’s ‘Eco-Jung’ discussion group.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-encountering-the-eco-symbolic-a-jungian-approach-to-the-discovery-of-meaningfulness-in-the-other-than-human-world/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung - A Jungian Perspective on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Jung – A Jungian Perspective on Climate Change \n\n\n\nwith Jeffrey T. Kiehl\, PhD \n\n\n\nSaturday November 29\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2025\, Session 3 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself. But since nobody seems to know what to do\, it might be worthwhile for each of us to ask himself whether by any chance his or her unconscious may know something that will help us.” C.G. Jung (CW 18\, par. 599) \n\n\n\n\nHuman caused climate change has placed life on the planet in a precarious state. It is imperative we address this situation as soon as possible for the longer we wait\, the more we commit future generations to catastrophic disruption. Jungian psychology provides a unique means to understand the problem of climate change for it recognizes the importance of the unconscious in our lives. In this presentation\, I explore how the dynamics of unconscious processes relate to climate change and how these processes provide pathways to addressing the problem. I consider current myths that lie at the root of our collective dissociation from Earth and how these myths relate to cultural complexes. The presentation concludes with a discussion of how to reconnect to the sacredness of Earth\, which is essential to address the issue of climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey Kiehl\, PhD\, is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst and senior training analyst for the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He originally trained in quantum physics before becoming a climate scientist. He has held faculty positions at a number of universities\, most recently at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and Pacifica Graduate Institute\, where he taught courses on ecopsychology. He is the author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future\, which provides a Jungian perspective on climate change. His most recent articles include: A Tale of Two Cultures: Climate Change & American Complexes in Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth\, Psyche and Politics; Mandala as Portal to Healing in ARAS Connections;  Engaging the Green Man: Breaking Our Spell of Enchantment in Depth Psychology and Climate Change; and The Nature of Uncertainty/The Uncertainty of Nature in Our Uncertain World: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dark Time.  Jeffrey lives in Boulder\, CO.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-a-jungian-perspective-on-climate-change/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Jung - Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Jung – Facing the Ecological Abyss: A Collective Search for Transformation \n\n\n\nwith Susanna Bucher\, Dr. sc. nat. ETH \n\n\n\nSunday November 30\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond Jung 2025\, Session 4 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “A Descent into the Maelström” (1841)\, three fishermen are trapped in a gigantic ocean whirlpool threatening to destroy them. This strikes me as an image of the abyss humankind is facing today\, threatened by a multi-dimensional ecological crisis in a world dominated by a one-sidedly materialistic collective consciousness that has lost its spiritual foundation\, as Carl Gustav Jung characterized it. Symbolically\, Poe’s story tells us that psychic transformation of the collective can be achieved by letting go of the old and embracing the new and unknown. Building on Erich Neumann and Dorothee Sölle\, I examine approaches toward a felt connection with something larger\, infinite\, all-encompassing\, or with nature. This can provide impulses for a more mystical relationship with our inner and outer nature\, rooted in the Self and oriented to the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusanna Bucher\, Dr. sc. nat. ETH is an environmental scientist holding a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. She also holds a diploma in analytical psychology\, is teaching at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAPZURICH) and elsewhere\, and has a private practice in Zürich. She wrote two articles on the ecological crisis from the perspective of Jungian psychology in the Journal of Analytical Psychology in November 2022. Her interests include ecology\, nature\, and mysticism.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-jung-facing-the-ecological-abyss-a-collective-search-for-transformation/
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