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Pari Perspectives
This is a list of articles taken from the published issues of Pari Perspectives. To read more, subscribe and support this initiative: www.paricenter.com/membership
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Indigenous Ways of Knowing
See also: Our Focus > Indigenous Ways of Knowing Western Science is certainly one of the great stories of human intellectual achievement and its offshoots are represented by many spectacular advances in technology. On the other hand it also conceals a form of what could perhaps be called unconscious colonialism, as when Western Science is…
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Science and the Sacred
Though science and religion may have had a thorny history, nevertheless science has retained a sense of the sacred, seen in the work of many modern scientists such as Einstein, David Bohm, Wolfgang Pauli, and Erwin Schrödinger. Science has its origins in wonder and awe, even reverence, in the face of the natural world. It…
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Science and the Arts
“Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves towards the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language…
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Ethics and Security
The crisis of civilization, which we face today, has been produced by the rapidity with which science and technology have developed. Our institutions and ideas adjust too slowly to the change. The great challenge which history has given to our generation is the task of building new international political structures, which will be in harmony…
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Ethics and EconomicsÂ
Complementary currencies, globalization, sustainability, chaos theory, neoliberalism
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Gentle Action
See also: Our Focus > Gentle Action The origin of the Pari Centers concern with ethics dates back to 1989 when David Peat was invited to give the keynote address to the Royal Society of Canada. This led to their report The Cost of Inaction. Peat’s 1989 address explored implications inherent in chaos theory for…
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C.G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 –1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious…
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David Bohm
See also: Our Focus > David Bohm David Bohm was a physicist and thinker who proposed an alternative approach to the conventional version of quantum theory, as well as proposing that a new Implicate Order lay behind what could be thought of as our surface perception of reality. Bohm’s ideas extended beyond theoretical physics and…
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Psychology
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Education and the Internet
Education, Digital publishing, Global Universities, Future of the Universities, Use of the Internet, Copyright and Copyleft
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Creativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a printed literary work, or a painting). As an illustration, one definition given by Dr E. Paul Torrance (American psychologist…
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Culture, Philosophy and Science
Education, Gentle Action, Music, Philosophy, Creativity, Development, Art and Science
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Chaos Theory and its Applications
Non-linear Systems, Chaos Theory, Post Modernism, Gentle Action
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Metanexus Local Initiatives Program
Dialogues in Science and Religion Between 2003 and 2005, the Pari Center was chosen for a three-year Local Initiatives Award from the Metanexus Institute and Templeton Foundation to encourage dialogues between science and religion. In addition, for each of these three years, the Pari Center was given the annual award for ‘organizational excellence, creative programming and spirited…
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Economics, Ethics and Globalization
Changing Economic Paradigms, Globalization, Diplomacy, The Welfare State, Philanthropy, Sustainability, Liberalism and Neo-liberalism, Development For many years, F. David Peat held discussions, via personal meetings and exchanges of emails and telephone calls, on a number of topics clustered around issues of ethics, trust and loyalty in business and finance, economics in a globalized word, the…
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Consciousness
Consciousness is one of the last outposts of pure mystery in our understanding of the brain. Undoubtedly there is plenty to learn about how the brain’s physiology controls our bodies, emotions and enables thoughts. Yet even these so-called easy problems are extraordinarily daunting, as scientists struggle to discern the detailed workings of sensory perÂception, memory,…