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Online Library

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.

War Yesterday and Today

Pari’s dialogues on science and religion will be running at two levels – open monthly meetings for people in the immediate area and smaller, closed meetings involving professional scientists and theologians. Since advertising its program the Center has had a very strong response and from a much wider area than anticipated – stretching from Naples […]

Origins and Creation

  • Author George V. Coyne, S.J., Vatican Observatory
  • On August 10, 2018
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Introduction It is arguably difficult to find a more heated topic of discussion than that concerning the origins of the universe, and especially of life and of intelligence, and whether such origins can be understand without evoking a Creator God. Responses range from the extremes of a Stephen Hawking or a Pope Pius XII to […]

The God of the Extra-Terrestrials

  • Author George V. Coyne, S.J., Vatican Observatory
  • On August 10, 2018
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Life in the Universe Evolution is an intrinsic and proper characteristic of the universe. Neither the universe as a whole nor any of its ingredients can be understood except in terms of evolution. And evolution is a daily happening. We, for instance, are constantly exchanging atoms with the total reservoir of atoms in the universe. […]

Appreciating a Scientist-Theologian: Some Remarks on the Work of John Polkinghorn

  • Author Edward B. Davis
  • On August 10, 2018
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Perhaps the greatest irony about the contemporary religion-science dialogue is the fact that, despite their own strongly articulated denials, many thinkers implicitly accept the “warfare” thesis of A. D. White—that is, they agree with White that traditional theology has proved unable to engage science in fruitful conversation. More than most others, John Polkinghorne understands just how badly White […]

Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s

  • Author Edward B. Davis
  • On August 10, 2018
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Recent controversies in Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states over the teaching of evolution have raised fundamental questions about science, its public image and its role in a religious society. Although debate has focused on our nation’s constitutional disestablishment of religion, the underlying issues are far broader. How is science related to religion and morality? Can scientists […]

Wolfgang Pauli: Resurrection of Spirit in the World

  • Author F. David Peat
  • On August 10, 2018
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The dialogue between religion and science takes place not only as an open debate between two disciplines. It is also a movement towards wholeness in an individual who seeks to reconcile inner and outer, subjective and objective, theory and experience. In considering this relationship between science and religion it is useful to turn to the […]

Synchronicity: The Speculum of Inscape and Landscape

  • Author F. David Peat
  • On August 10, 2018
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Introduction In exploring the notion of Synchronicity, that remarkable proposal of Carl Jung,1 I will be looking towards a liaison or bridge between two worlds. On the one hand we have the inner world of our direct experiences, of dreams and aspirations, memories and visions; the world of love and loss, of poetry, art, music and […]

Mind and the New Sciences

  • Author F. David Peat
  • On August 10, 2018
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(Essay based on talks given to the Chaos group at Lecco and Milan, Italy) What can the New Sciences tell us about the science of the mind and the nature of consciousness? Of what help can the metaphors of the New Sciences be to psychotherapeutic practice? As soon as we ask these questions we enter […]

Divine Contenders: Wolfgang Pauli and the Symmetry of the World

  • Author F. David Peat
  • On August 10, 2018
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A few years ago while I was researching material for a book, Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, I had occasion to write to a well-known physicist and student of the great Wolfgang Pauli. “Synchronicity,” came his reply, “is something which physicists do not know about, nor would they wish to.” His implication was […]

Cosmos and Inscape

  • Author F. David Peat
  • On August 10, 2018
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“Kosmos und Innenwelt” from “Am Fluss des Heralklit: Neue kosmologische Perspektiven: Insel Verlsag, 1993 Cosmology is generally considered to be the scientific study of the universe, a branch of physics and astronomy concerned with answering questions about the structure of matter and energy at the largest scale, and the nature of its ultimate origin. Within […]