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Issue 23 contains a selection of F. David Peat’s essays that reflect some of his wide-ranging interests and concerns: David Bohm, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, Gentle Action, consciousness, Paul Cézanne […]

Issue 22 of Pari Perspectives is dedicated to the memory of the Pari Center’s long-time friend, the physicist and mathematician Basil Hiley who died earlier this year. Many of you will know him from Pari Center webinars and the in-person events in Pari where he entertained us his boyish delight in matters that many of…

Despite its ubiquitousness, many of the contributors to this issue of Pari Perspectives propose that time does not exist, though they admit that our sense of time does. It’s just that our understandings don’t keep up with the science.  The evidence from physics is at odds with how life feels. Our shared idea of what…

Given the major challenges faced at this point in human history, which could arguably be attributed to a reductionist, materially focused worldview, it was felt that exploring the challenge of overcoming the limitations of Newtonian mechanics and seeking a new ‘organismic’ approach was warranted. Since the 1920s and 30s, relativistic quantum mechanics has become the dominant…

In the fields of economics and entrepreneurial practice, there is little room to examine and critically question its foundations, let alone propose alternatives that are fundamentally different from today’s reality. Pari, the Pari Center, and David Peat were not only the starting point of this exploration for a fair and sustainable economy, but also serve…

How can organizations and individuals transform themselves so that they can become as subtle, sensitive, intelligent and fast-responding as the world around them? David Peat’s work on Gentle Action provides insights into how we can collaborate to orchestrate a better life for everyone. Fundamentally, this encapsulates the essence of our day-to-day economy: managing our collective…

Having defined anomalous experiences as ‘any paranormal phenomena that occur without rational explanation and seemingly defy our current scientific understanding of the world,’ we invited experts and researchers plus members of the public to contribute to this issue. Part 1 is a collection of eleven essays written by experts and researchers in the field. More Perspectives is a short story by award-winning fiction writer Alison MacLeod.…

Return of the Sacred: Seven Encounters between Science, the Arts, and the Sacred is a late offering by holistic philosopher-scientist and writer F. David Peat. The author brings the reader […]

Message from John Pickering,curator of the ‘Recovering the Sacred’ online series The ‘Recovering the Sacred’ series was prompted by Maureen’s remark that ‘Pari has done well by Science but somehow […]

‘Consciousness Revisited’ is the title we have given to the current issue of Pari Perspectives, having initially probed this seemingly inexhaustible topic in December 2021. In this issue we are […]

Welcome to issue 13, September 2022, of Pari Perspectives, which explores the topic of Love in a Time of Crisis. In May of this year we ran an online series […]

Welcome to issue 12 of Pari Perspectives, which explores the topic of Mythologies. Today the word ‘myth’ is largely derogatory, used as it is to designate a narrative which is untrue but […]

Welcome to issue 11 of Pari Perspectives, which explores the topic of Creativity.  The idea for an issue on Creativity began in August 2021 when the Pari Center hosted an online series […]

Welcome to issue 10, December 2021, of Pari Perspectives, which explores the topic of Consciousness. It includes contributions from Valerie Hardcastle, Gary Lachman and Beverley Zabriskie who were presenters during […]

In a world that seems to be becoming more and more polarized, we chose as our September 2021 issue the theme of ‘Dualities’ leading with a very thoughtful contribution from […]

Welcome to issue 8 of Pari Perspectives. The theme of our June issue is ‘Synchronicity’. ‘Synchronicity, Mind and Matter’ was the theme of our March 2021 online series featuring such luminaries in the […]

Our March 2021 issue of Pari Perspectives has as its theme ‘The Common Good,’ a concept that has been an important concern of moral and political philosophy since ancient times. […]

Welcome to issue 6, December 2020, of Pari Perspectives: Ideas in Science, the Arts, Spirit and Community. This is a 220-page special anniversary issue commemorating the life and work of David […]

Welcome to issue 5, September 2020, of Pari Perspectives: Ideas in Science, the Arts, Spirit and Community. This is a special anniversary issue commemorating 20 years of The Pari Center. We […]

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Pari Center journal Pari Perspectives, Ideas in Science, the Arts, Spirit and Community. In this issue we explore language, communication and dialogue with a […]