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We are in the process of transferring the Library content from the old PCNL website. When complete, the Library will contain Essays and Papers, Audio and Video clips, Book Reviews and Suggested Reading Lists and an archive of the Pari Center Newsletters. Topics will range from ethics, economics, new science, religion, philosophy, creativity, education and general cultural issues. A series of audio clips will be available taken from historic interviews with leading scientists including Heisenberg, Dirac, Rosenfeld, Uhlenbeck, Prigogine, Bohm, Wheeler, Salam and Penrose. Video clips will include discussions on David Bohm, Cezanne and the Implicate Order. Blackfoot language and the Newtonian world view. Non-locality and the EPR paradox. The Interpretation of Quantum Theory.

From the Lab to the Battlefield?

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Introduction In Disarmament Diplomacy No. 65, Sean Howard warned of the dangers of enhanced or even new types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) emerging from the development of ‘nanotechnology’, an umbrella term for a range of potentially revolutionary engineering techniques at the atomic and molecular level.1 Howard called for urgent preliminary consideration to be […]

Nanotechnology and Mass Destruction: The Need for an Inner Space Treaty

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“I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.” Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, April 2000 […]

Parallel Lines: Faraday and Pasteur

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I recently came across a quotation of Michael Faraday. Writing to Ada Lovelace (Lord Byron’s daughter and programmer of Charles Babbage’s “analytical engine” -the ancestor of all computers) Faraday said, “I do not think it at all necessary to tie the study of the natural sciences & religion together and in my intercourse with my […]

Against the Institution of War

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As we start the 21st century and the new millennium, our scientific and technological civilization seems to be entering a period of crisis. Today, for the first time in history, science has given to humans the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of infectious […]

A Dialogue between Three Communities and Science

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28-30 June 2002 On June 28, 2002 a number of participants gathered in the small village of Pari, Italy to take part in a dialogue surrounding the traditions of science and the three Abrahamic religions- Jews, Christians and Muslims. At a time when religions are so often seen as instruments of discord and the seat […]

The Alchemy of Love

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Talk given at the conference “Works of Love: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Altruism” Villanove University, June 2003. In this talk I would like to employ the metaphor of the alchemical vessel in which transformation takes place so that gold is born out of base metal. An essential feature of all alchemical processes is the […]

Creator and Creation

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Introduction Paul Gauguin’s largest work, and probably his masterpiece, shows a group of Tahitian’s against a green-blue background of forest. It’s title “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” sums up the questions that have been asked by all peoples from the dawn of time. Where do we come from? […]

Three Religions — and Science A Position Paper for the Pari Meetings

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Belief Systems in the Developed World So far, our dialogue has been centred mainly around the three great monotheistic religions — Islam, Judaism and Christianity — perhaps rightly so because they have given so much to humankind in the way of beliefs, inspiration and progress. But they have also inspired much antagonism, intolerance, hatred and […]

Spiritual Renewal and the move towards Peace

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Edy Altes was the former Dutch ambassador to Poland and to Spain. He resigned from this position in order to take a public stand on what he felt was the “madness” of the arms race and what he considered to be outdated notions of national security. Since then he has worked on East-West relations, Third […]

Prince Charles as “Defender of Faiths: A dialogue in India”

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This first appeared in The Tablet and has been posted here by kind permission of the Editor, John Wilkins. PRINCE CHARLES had asked that during his visit to India he should meet representatives of the country’s many different faiths to discuss how religion can contribute to a harmonious society, and avoid the strife which gives it a […]