A Conversation with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - The Future Scientist Pari Center 2022-05-04 | The Future Scientist with Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin in Conversation with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.Recorded February 23, 2022.
Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays with Mark Vernon Pari Center 2024-10-09 | The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essaysby Owen BarfieldHost: Mark VernonEach month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Mark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio, as well as writing for the national and religious press, and online publications. He also podcasts, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy, and other degrees in physics and in theology, having studied at Durham, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield, and Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London, UK. Mark’s latest book is Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Amy Lemon and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-10-03 | A Conversation between Amy Lemon and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded September 18, 2024
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Alison Liebling and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-08-28 | A Conversation between Alison Liebling and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded August 26, 2024
Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial with Vandana Shiva and Àlex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-07-24 | Free Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s CentennialWith Vandana Shiva and Àlex Gómez-MarínThe Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) has been regarded as “the worst enemy of science” (Nature, 1987) but also a “breath of fresh air” (Science, 1979). He is the fourth iteration of the great philosophers of science of the 20th century, after Karl Popper (1902-1994), Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), and Imre Lakatos (1922-1974), standing as one of the most relevant thinkers ever in our understanding of what science really is and does. His works —Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975), Science in a Free Society (1978), and Farewell to Reason (1987), amongst other books, lectures, and essays— revealed that the so-called scientific method is not so well defined and stable as commonly thought or proclaimed, but crowded with notable anomalies. In fact, the history of science shows that progress often takes place when scientists actually break (rather than follow) the methodological rules and standards we so much venerate. He also denounced that science is too often entangled with politics while pretending it isn’t, which enables its misuse for ideological and authoritarian reasons. He deliberately promulgated his famous motto “anything goes” in order to point to another kind of rationality (which some disdain as irrationalism), beyond the dogmatic mechanistic deductive order that seeks to dominate nature and people. Cartesian-Baconian rationality is one (but not the only) valuable tradition in science. One must address the relation between Reason and Practice.In order to celebrate the centennial of his birth (and three decades since he passed away), Vandana and Alex will be in dialogue for about one hour, reflecting on Feyerabend’s legacy and its impact today. They discussed current pernicious monotheisms of the mind and, based on general principles and concrete examples, entertain and illustrate alternatives in physics, neurobiology, agriculture, and economy. Science needs boundaries indeed, but they need to be porous. The role of scientists (and the authority of experts) in a genuine democratic society is at stake. The complex dynamics between truth, post-truth, and totalitarianism needs to be put on the table. The tension between dogmatism and anarchism can be resolved via an ecological pluralism applied to our minds and lives.Recorded July 23, 2024.
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Federico Faggin and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-07-18 | A Conversation between Federico Faggin and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded July 15, 2024
Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - Syntropy: The Spirit of Love with Jeffrey Dunne Pari Center 2024-07-08 | Syntropy: The Spirit of Loveby Ulisse Di Corpo and Antonella VanniniHost: Dr. Jeffrey DunneMany people are familiar with the concept of entropy, the dissipative process that indicates the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a closed physical system. Entropy is sometimes called ‘the arrow of time’, and describes a forward-in-time causal universe, but fails to account for many scientific paradoxes… such as life itself. The subject of this book is a complementary, albeit less well known, principle called syntropy. Syntropy describes aspects of reality that follow an increase in complexity through the action of attractors in the future, explaining the relationship of systems with their purposes. Rather than progressing towards disintegrated disorder, syntropy “draws together” through commonality and intertwined purposes. In a way, syntropy can be regarded as the life force that emanates from the unifying action of love.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Dr. Jeffrey Dunne is President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL, www.icrl.org), an organization dedicated to understanding the nature of consciousness for the betterment of humanity. Beyond his work with ICRL and several decades of research at the Johns Hopkins University in fields ranging from acoustics to data science and AI, Dr. Dunne is an award-winning playwright and author. His recently published novel, Nexus, weaves the concept of syntropy with the implications of the nature of consciousness into a story that speaks to the challenges humanity is facing, sharing a vision for finding a healthier, more balanced future.Recorded July 5, 2024.
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Patrick Harpur and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-06-22 | A Conversation between Patrick Harpur and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded June 19, 2024
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Ida Cuéllar and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-06-20 | A Conversation between Ida Cuéllar and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded May 30, 2024
Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - The Anomaly by Hermé Le Tellier with Beverley Zabriskie Pari Center 2024-05-16 | The Anomaly by Hervé Le TellierHosted by Beverley ZabriskieThe Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, is a novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of Air France 006 will find out. About to start their descent to JFK, they hit a shockingly violent patch of turbulence, emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange. As it charts the fallout of this logic-defying event, The Anomalytakes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House and a top-secret hangar.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst in New York City, a founding faculty member and former President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA), where she teaches Jungian theory and practice, theories of emotion, psychological interpretation of Egyptian Mythology, and alchemical imagery. She is past Vice-President of the Philemon Foundation which produced The Red Book, and other unpublished volumes by C.G. Jung. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Analytic Psychology, and on The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation Executive Committee. Her publications include: ‘The Spectrums of Emotion,’ in Volume 1, Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical and Cross-Cultural Research (2018); ‘Time and Tao in Synchronicity’ in The Pauli-Jung Conjecture and Its Impact Today (2014); ‘Synchronicities: Riddles of Time and Emotion’ (2012); ‘Synchronicity and the I Ching: Jung, Pauli, and the Chinese Woman’ (2005); Imagination as Laboratory,(2004); ‘A Meeting of Rare Minds.’ Preface to Atom and Archetype, The Pauli-Jung Correspondence, (2001).Recorded May 3, 2024.
Consciousness and the Brain with Liad Mudrik Pari Center 2024-05-16 | Consciousness and the Brain: Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of ConsciousnessWith Liad MudrikFor centuries, consciousness was considered to be outside the reach of scientific investigation. Yet in recent decades, more and more studies have tried to probe the neural correlates of conscious experience, and several neuronally-inspired theories for consciousness have emerged. In this talk, Mudrik focused on four leading theories of consciousness: Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW), integrated Information Theory (IIT), Recurrent Processing Theory (RPT) and Higher Order Theory (HOT). Mudrik first presented the guiding principles of these theories, and compare them. She then provide a bird’s-eye view of the field, using the results of a large-scale quantitative and analytic review we conducted, examining all studies that either empirically tested these theories or interpreted their findings with respect to at least one of them and then described the first results of the Cogitate consortium – an adversarial collaboration aimed at testing GNW and IIT.Prof. Liad Mudrik is a researcher at the school of psychological sciences and Sagol school of neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on conscious experience, its neural mechanisms and functions. Mudrik completed two Ph.D. dissertations at Tel Aviv University, in cognitive psychology and in philosophy. She then continued to a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, in Christof Koch’s lab. In 2019, she was selected as a member of the young Israeli academy of sciences. She is also one of the leaders of the Cogitate consortium, an international adversarial collaboration aimed at arbitrating between theories of consciousness, and a Tenenbaum fellow of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.Recorded on February 11, 2024 as part of the series Theories of Consciousness.
It’s About Time with Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday Pari Center 2024-05-04 | It’s About Time: A Conversation on the Subject of Timewith Bernard Carr and Jonathan AlldayTime is one of the central mysteries of existence. It is also a profound puzzle in physics.We understand how the passage of time ‘expands’ or ‘contracts’ depending on how fast you are travelling compared to an observer. There is also conclusive evidence that time distorts in the presence of mass, leading to the effects we used to ascribe to a force of gravity. Some even believe that they understand how time morphs into existence, along with the universe, out of some quantum pre-stuff. This, however, is all ‘physical time’; the relationship between the physics and the experience of ‘psychological time’ is far from clear.Is there a “block universe”, where all of time is laid out to God’s eye-view, with humans only perceiving a small slice as they advance along their world-lines? Or is the future not yet written, but exists in some quantum level of possibility and probability? In this conversation we will touch upon the physical aspects of time, attempting to make the physics clear to non-scientists. Undoubtedly, this will lead us to psychological, and perhaps spiritual time. Who knows where the thoughts will take us, but it seems very likely that the specious present and the multiverse will also come up…Recorded April 24, 2024.
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Carlos Eire and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-04-26 | A Conversation between Carlos Eire and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded April 17, 2024
Pari Center Book-A-Month Club- The Passion of the Western Mind with David Lorimer and Richard Tarnas Pari Center 2024-04-15 | The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard TarnasHosted by David Lorimer and Richard TarnasAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Recorded: April 9, 2024
Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse with David Schrum and Caroline Pawluk Pari Center 2024-03-22 | Steppenwolf by Herman HesseHosted by David Schrum and Caroline PawlukAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Recorded: March 19, 2024
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Pim van Lommel and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-03-22 | A Conversation between Pim van Lommel and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded March 20, 2024
How to Think Impossibly with Jeffrey Kripal - June 28 – July 1, 2024 at Pari, Italy Pari Center 2024-03-13 | How to Think Impossibly:A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally humanJune 28 – July 1, 2024Speakers: Jeffrey J. KripalCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-MarínLocation: Pari, ItalyEvent: The event starts on Friday June 28 at 16:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday July 1 after lunch.From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality, but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real.How to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to develop an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.Participating in an event at the Pari Center means living for a week in a medieval village, mingling with the tiny local population, eating local dishes and drinking local wines, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.paricenter.com/event/how-to-think-impossibly
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Christof Koch and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-03-04 | A Conversation between Christof Koch and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded February 28, 2024
The Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - Quantum Questions Edited by Ken Wilber with Host Jonathan Allday Pari Center 2024-02-23 | Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great PhysicistsEdited by Ken WilberHosted : Jonathan AlldayAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Recorded: February 15, 2024
A Field for the Future: The 10th Anniversary of the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science” Pari Center 2024-02-23 | A Field for the Future: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science”with Karalee Kothe, Lisa Miller, Lorne Schussel, Gary E. Schwartz, Laurel Waterman and Marjorie WoollacottHosted by Àlex Gómez-MarínIn collaboration with:The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN);The Academy for the Advancement of PostMaterialist Sciences (AAPS).Recorded on February 21, 2024.
The Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - Quantum Questions Edited by Ken Wilber with Host Jonathan Allday Pari Center 2024-02-20 | Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great PhysicistsEdited by Ken WilberHosted : Jonathan AlldayAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Recorded: February 15, 2024
The Future Mind – A Conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Alex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2024-02-03 | A Conversation between Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Àlex Gómez-MarínThe conversation will explore “a landscape of consciousness”, toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications.In 2024, Àlex will curate and host conversations to address The Future Mind, seeking to gain clarity and insight into important contemporary matters that require both urgent action as well as deep reflection.Recorded January 31, 2024
The Pari Center Book-A-Month Club - The Balckwinged Night by F. David Peat with Host Alison MacLeod Pari Center 2024-01-27 | The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mindby F. David PeatHosted : Alison MacLeodFor the first meeting of the Pari Center Book-a-Month Club, award-winning novelist and short story writer Alison MacLeod has chosen F. David Peat’s The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind. Peat defines creativity not only as the act of making something new, original or unexpected, but also of renewing and sustaining what already exists, and of healing and making things whole..An informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community.Each month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy, the work of David Bohm, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Jungian Concepts, Gentle Action, Creativity, the Arts, Ethics, Community, the Sacred.Recorded: January 26, 2024
The Big Questions in Science with Rupert Sheldrake in conversation with Àlex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2024-01-13 | A dialogue between Dr Àlex Gómez-Marín and Dr Rupert SheldrakeIn his 12-part online course, recently launched in an online on-demand format, Rupert Sheldrake argues that the sciences are being constricted by ten assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. In this course he turns the dogmas into questions and examines them scientifically in the light of advances in the sciences themselves. For example, the dogma that nature is mechanical becomes the question “Is nature mechanical?”; the dogma that matter is unconscious becomes “Is matter unconscious?”; the dogma that minds are confined to brains becomes “Are minds confined to brains?” This mind-transforming course is based on Rupert’s award-winning bestselling book The Science Delusion (called Science Set Free in the US) and makes these ideas accessible to scientists and non-scientists alike. Alex and Rupert will discuss some of the ways in which the sciences could be liberated and revitalized.Recorded on January 11, 2024.
The Future Human with Michael Murphy and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-12-30 | The Future Human – Michael Murphy in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín. Recorded on December 20, 2023.
The Future Human with Melissa Nelson and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-12-01 | Indigenous Ways of Knowing - The Future Human – Melissa Nelson in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín. Recorded on November 30, 2023.
Galileo At 400 - Expanding the Scope of Science with the Galileo Commission Pari Center 2023-11-04 | Part 3 – Expanding the Scope of Science with the Galileo CommissionA dialogue between David Lorimer, Marjorie Woollacott, Athena Potari, and Àlex Gómez-MarínIn this online series we will revisit Galileo’s book, The Assayer, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication this very month of October.Written as a letter in a controversy about the nature of comets, such a foundational text in the history of modern science deserves to be more widely known and read. It contains one of the first and clearest articulations of the scientific method, the famous claim about the mathematical intelligibility of nature, and Galileo’s emphasis on epistemic humility in the face of dogma and authority. Remarkably, in the book we also find Galileo’s programmatic exclusion of consciousness from the purview of science, whose consequences we are still wrestling with today.Celebrating “Galileo at 400” shall inspire us to dare to look through current “telescopes” in order to continue exploring our inner and outer spaces while expanding the scope of science as we know it.Galileo’s indelible legacy can be grasped directly from his own words. We encourage attendees to get first-hand experience with The Assayer before the event, via the free material linked below.Recorded on October 31, 2023.
The Science of Wholeness: Perspectives from Physics, Ecology, Psychology, and Philosophy Pari Center 2023-10-31 | The Science Of Wholeness: Perspectives from Physics, Ecology, Psychology, and Philosophywith Jonathan Allday, John Briggs, Chamkaur Ghag, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Roger Nelson, Malcolm Rushton and Robert TothNovember 4 – 19, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT | 6:00pm CET6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and SundayAcross the broad span of wisdom traditions, one encounter is of key significance: some direct access or contact with the ground of being.Even in this secular age, dominated as we are by the materialistic, reductionist paradigm of western science, these transcendent experiences still occur, even amongst members of the scientific community.While this experience is always inexpressible in detail, it commonly involves an overwhelming feeling of wholeness, a blurring of the line between subject and object, a melting away of divisions and an immersion in a state of participatory consciousness.If the underlying ground of reality is an inexpressible whole, beyond aspects and distinctions, we might expect some echo of this to emerge in our scientific investigations. David Bohm certainly had this intuition, which coloured his approach to quantum theory especially and science and philosophy more generally.In this series of workshops, we will investigate the extent to which modern science has encountered aspects of wholeness, non-local consciousness and the subject-object distinction. We will also consider what a post-reductionist science might look like, drawing on the experiences of indigenous cultures.
Galileo At 400: Looking Through 21st Century Telescopes - Part 2 – Exploring Outer and Inner Spaces Pari Center 2023-10-30 | Part 2 – Exploring Outer and Inner SpacesA conversation between Avi Loeb and Dean Radin with Àlex Gómez-MarínIn this online series we will revisit Galileo’s book, The Assayer, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication this very month of October.Written as a letter in a controversy about the nature of comets, such a foundational text in the history of modern science deserves to be more widely known and read. It contains one of the first and clearest articulations of the scientific method, the famous claim about the mathematical intelligibility of nature, and Galileo’s emphasis on epistemic humility in the face of dogma and authority. Remarkably, in the book we also find Galileo’s programmatic exclusion of consciousness from the purview of science, whose consequences we are still wrestling with today.Celebrating “Galileo at 400” shall inspire us to dare to look through current “telescopes” in order to continue exploring our inner and outer spaces while expanding the scope of science as we know it.Galileo’s indelible legacy can be grasped directly from his own words. We encourage attendees to get first-hand experience with The Assayer before the event, via the free material linked below.Recorded on October 25, 2023.
Galileo At 400: Looking Through 21st Century Telescopes - Part 1 – The Assayer Pari Center 2023-10-22 | Part 1 – The AssayerA reading together of Galileo’s seminal book with Àlex Gómez-Marín and James Peat BarbieriIn this online series we will revisit Galileo’s book, The Assayer, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication this very month of October.Written as a letter in a controversy about the nature of comets, such a foundational text in the history of modern science deserves to be more widely known and read. It contains one of the first and clearest articulations of the scientific method, the famous claim about the mathematical intelligibility of nature, and Galileo’s emphasis on epistemic humility in the face of dogma and authority. Remarkably, in the book we also find Galileo’s programmatic exclusion of consciousness from the purview of science, whose consequences we are still wrestling with today.Celebrating “Galileo at 400” shall inspire us to dare to look through current “telescopes” in order to continue exploring our inner and outer spaces while expanding the scope of science as we know it.Galileo’s indelible legacy can be grasped directly from his own words. We encourage attendees to get first-hand experience with The Assayer before the event, via the free material linked below.Recorded on October 20, 2023.
The Future Human with Luca Possati and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-10-22 | AI and Psychoanalysis - The Future Human – Luca Possati in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín. Recorded on October 18, 2023.
The Future Human with Tanya Luhrmann and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-09-14 | Belief, experience, and how things come to feel real to people - The Future Human – Tanya Luhrmann in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín. Recorded on September 13, 2023.
The Future Human with Mauro Biglino and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-08-25 | The literal translation of the Bible and the oldest secret in history - The Future Human – Mauro Biglino in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín Recorded on August 23, 2023.
Pari Insights with Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes Pari Center 2023-08-24 | A series of intimate conversations in person in Pari with prominent guests who share their insights about life, the universe, and consciousness.Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes with Àlex Gómez-Marin.Recorded in June 2023 in Pari, Italy.
Pari Insights with Roderick Main Pari Center 2023-08-10 | A series of intimate conversations in person in Pari with prominent guests who share their insights about life, the universe, and consciousness.Roderick Main with Àlex Gómez-Marin.Recorded in June 2023 in Pari, Italy.
Pari Insights with Paul Grof Pari Center 2023-08-09 | A series of intimate conversations in person in Pari with prominent guests who share their insights about life, the universe, and consciousness.Paul Grof with Àlex Gómez-Marin.Recorded in June 2023 in Pari, Italy.
Pari Insights with Etzel Cardeña Pari Center 2023-08-09 | A series of intimate conversations in person in Pari with prominent guests who share their insights about life, the universe, and consciousness.Etzel Cardeña with Àlex Gómez Marin.Recorded in June 2023 in Pari, Italy.
The Future Human with Edi Bilimoria and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-07-18 | Consciousness and Perennial Philosophy - The Future Human - Edi Bilimoria in conversation with Alex Gómez-MarínRecorded on July 12, 2023.
The Future Human with Jennifer Banks and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-07-04 | Natality, Birth, and New Beginnings - The Future Human - Jennifer Banks in conversation with Alex Gómez-MarínRecorded on June 28, 2023.
The Future Human with Graham Hancock and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2023-05-26 | Humanity’s Ancient Past - The Future Human - Graham Hancock in conversation with Alex Gómez-Marín.Recorded on May 23rd, 2023.
Incredible Minds: The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis with Dr. Michael Levin Pari Center 2023-05-17 | The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Nature with Michael Levin - Incredible MindsRecorded: April 29, 2023.Each of us takes a remarkable journey from physics to mind: we start as a blob of chemicals in an unfertilized quiescent oocyte and becomes a complex, metacognitive human being. The continuous process of transformation and emergence that we see in developmental biology reminds us that we are true collective intelligences – composed of cells which used to be individual organisms themselves. In this talk, I will describe our work on understanding how the competencies of single cells are harnessed to solve problems in anatomical space, and how evolution pivoted this scaling of intelligence into the familiar forms of cognition in the nervous system. We will talk about diverse intelligence in novel embodiments, the scaling of the cognitive light cone of all beings, and the role of developmental bioelectricity as a cognitive glue and as the interface by which mind controls matter in the body. I will also show a new synthetic life form, and discuss what it means for bioengineering and ethics of human relationships to the wider world of possible beings. We will discuss the implications of these ideas for understanding evolution, and the applications we have developed in birth defects, cancer, and traumatic injury repair. By merging deep ideas from developmental biophysics, computer science, and cognitive science, we not only get a new perspective on fundamental questions of life and mind, but also new roadmaps in regenerative medicine, biorobotics, and AI.Michael Levin received dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and biology, followed by a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard. He did his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, and started his independent lab in 2000. He is currently the Vannevar Bush chair at Tufts University, and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard. He serves as the founding director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. His lab uses a mix of developmental biophysics, computer science, and behavior science to understand the emergence of mind in unconventional embodiments at all scales, and to develop interventions in regenerative medicine and applications in synthetic bioengineering. They can be found at www.drmichaellevin.org
Nexus with Dr Jeffrey Dunne in conversation with Alex Gomez-Marin Pari Center 2023-04-22 | Dr. Jeffrey Dunne is the President and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), a charitable research organization established in the late 1990’s to build upon the foundation laid by Dr. Robert Jahn and Dr. Brenda Dunne in the research carried out at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. In addition to his role with ICRL, Jeff is a researcher and systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University and an award-winning author and playwright. In his recently published book, Nexus, Jeff brings unites three decades of scientific experience with four decades of pursuits in philosophy and metaphysics to weave a story that introduces the principle of syntropy and its importance of finding balance at every scale – personal, societal, and global. Jeff’s driving passion is to help transform our world such that materialism gives way to the recognition of the crucial role that consciousness plays in the formation of reality.Recorded on April 18, 2023.
Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual, Virtual, And Possible Minds Across Living Matter Pari Center 2023-04-21 | Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual, Virtual, And Possible Minds Across Living Matterwith Paco Calvo, Lars Chittka, Audrey Dussutour, Michael Levin, Julia Mossbridge, Matthew SegallPari Center Online SeriesApril 22 – May 7, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST | 6:00pm CEST6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and SundayDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin, or not, to ours. And, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds, a sister group to fungi and animals, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What, if anything, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology, and no less scientifically compatible, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus, at the end of the day, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural, and even more incredible, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all.
The Future Human with Dr. John Krakauer and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2023-04-18 | Brains and Minds, Sciences and the Humanities - The Future Human - John Krakauer in conversation with Alex Gómez-MarínRecorded on April 12th, 2023.
Never Land: Culture, Agriculture and Striving after Belonging with Stephen Jenkinson in Pari, Italy Pari Center 2023-03-23 | Stephen Jenkinson and Àlex Gómez Marin in conversation about Never Land and his event in May 2023 at The Pari Center, Tuscany. Never Land - May 12 - 15 - at The Pari Center, Tuscany. People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.Recorded March 2023.
Rupert Sheldrake - Reflections on The Science Delusion banned TED talk Pari Center 2023-03-16 | On the 10th anniversary of his banned TED talk, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake in conversation with Dr. Alex Gomez-MarinIn January 2013 Rupert Sheldrake gave a talk at TEDx Whitechapel entitled “The Science Delusion” where he questioned ten fundamental beliefs of mainstream science. The event was called “Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world)”. After protests from two militant materialists, P.Z. Myers and Jerry Coyne, and in consultation with an undisclosed Scientific Board, TED declared: “we feel a responsibility not to provide a platform for talks which appear to have crossed the line into pseudoscience.” The irony (and tragedy) was twofold. First, Sheldrake’s questioning of dogmatism was met with a dogmatic canceling of his questioning. Second, despite TED’s famed ethos of “ideas worth spreading”, they deemed other ideas worth canceling, especially when challenging TED’s sanctioned narrow worldview. Mislaying their reputation, TED’s decision refuted itself.Ten years after the controversy, Dr. Sheldrake will reflect together with Dr. Gomez-Marin on the effectiveness of heterodox critiques of mainstream scientific thinking. Did they make a difference? What has changed, if anything, after such clashes? Nowadays’ media landscape affords new opportunities to expose and share different worldviews through podcasting and blogging. However, curricula remain unchanged, as students continue to be indoctrinated with the materialist mechanistic reductionist program. In addition, venues such as Wikipedia profess the same unexamined prejudices, and so do major newspapers, TVs, and grant agencies. In the meantime, scientific breakthroughs stagnate.Recorded on March 14, 2023.
Never Land - with Stephen Jenkinson Pari Center 2023-03-16 | Stephen Jenkinson and Àlex Gómez Marin in conversation about Never Land and his event in May 2023 at The Pari Center, Tuscany. Never Land - May 12 - 15 - at The Pari Center, Tuscany. People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment. Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.In this gathering —employing a format, approach, and content unprecedented at the Pari Center— we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.Recorded March 2023.
The Future Human with Satish Kumar and Àlex Gómez-Marin Pari Center 2023-03-02 | Love - The Future Human - Satish Kumar in conversation with Alex Gómez-MarínRecorded on March 1st, 2023.
The Future Human with Jeffrey J. Kripal and Alex Gómez-Marín Pari Center 2023-02-20 | The Superhumanities - The Future Human - Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal in conversation with Alex Gómez-MarínRecorded on February 15, 2023.
The Sacred As Immanent in a Sentient World with Peter Reason - Recovering the Sacred Pari Center 2023-02-20 | Recovering the Sacred with Peter Reason on The Sacred as Imminent in a Sentient World.Recorded on November 13, 2022.
A Recapitulation and Conversation with the Audience - The Future Scientist Pari Center 2022-12-23 | The Future Scientist with Alex Gómez-Marín holding a Recapitulation and Conversation with the Audience.Recorded on December 21, 2022.
