August 28, 2021 – From the perspectives of the history of thought, Jungian psychology, mythology, and Barfield’s participatory consciousness, panel members explored the following questions:

• What is the potential impact that early trauma and later professional alienation might have had on lineage members’ connection to a higher form of consciousness?
• What about Bohm’s assertion that with sufficient capacities of suspension and proprioception an individual could experience direct perception and participation with the intelligence of the universe? Is that really possible?
• Bohm also suggests that if a group of individuals have developed this capacity of direct perception, then together their consciousness can form one “consensual mind” which vastly expands the power of participation with universal intelligence.
• Did the recurring evolution of participative consciousness which occurred through the lineage happen solely by chance? Or, was there a higher intention that guided each of their efforts? Were their ideas part of one, intentional flow? If so, is that higher intention perhaps still transmitting of an even further evolution of participative consciousness today?

Length: 2 hours