https://paricenter.com Pari Center Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://paricenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/id_Pari_Center-100x100.png https://paricenter.com 32 32 https://paricenter.com/product/dialogues-lineage-and-the-transmission-of-participative-consciousness-with-beth-macy-mark-ryan-and-lee-nichol/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:04:43 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=26542 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]]> https://paricenter.com/product/changing-consciousness-with-sandra-fiegehen-david-schrum-and-stephen-smith/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:02:43 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=26541 August 22, 2021 - To understand our lives and to live intelligently, creatively, and compassionately, David Bohm indicates, we must meet those dimensions of mind which for us are hidden. Beyond the surface of our consciousness, as personal memories, attitudes, and dispositions, we come upon that which is subtle: both as a flow of great momentum that is vast and ancient, and as a spacious field which is always new. These depths are common to us all, but we tend to be unaware. How are we to awaken? Bohm offers us what he terms ‘participatory understanding.’ This understanding is not ‘conceptual understanding,’ which seeks to have understood and to lodge an understanding in memory. Rather, it is a living movement. It is embodiment; it is presence. The panel together invite us to explore this deeper inner world. Length: 2 hours and 20 mins]]> https://paricenter.com/product/imagination-and-participation-a-bohm-barfield-nexus-with-lee-nichol-james-peat-barbieri-hester-reeve-mark-vernon/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:47:27 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=26539 August 15, 2021 - For those who have surveyed David Bohm’s version of dialogue and the larger theoretical context from which it emerged, a trove of concepts and definitions will be familiar: participatory thought, literal thought, thought of type ‘A’ and type ‘B,’ representations, collective representations. What is less familiar is the extent to which Bohm imported these concepts from his long relationship with the philologist Owen Barfield, whose lifework centred around what he called \the evolution of consciousness.’ In this view, human consciousness has shifted from a dispersed, widely focused consciousness (original participation) to the pinpoint, individualized consciousness that we experience today. Barfield proposed that this atomistic, individualized consciousness has the potential to now open into a transformed participatory mode, deriving from the ‘interiority,’ or selfhood, that is a correlate of individuated consciousness. This roundtable surveys the relationship between the two men, and the mutually informing nature of their respective bodies of work. The participants develop what they call a ‘binocular vision,’ in which the overlapping insights of Bohm and Barfield yield greater depth and understanding than either one standing alone. This then leads to a key point of reference the two men shared—the nature of imagination as outlined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The panel attempts to indicate what this kind of imagination has to offer contemporary humanity—and the prospect of moving from a theory of imagination to its practical engagement and flowering. Length: 2 hours]]> https://paricenter.com/product/creativity-and-the-artist-with-jessica-ball-alison-churchill-emma-cocker-and-hester-reeve/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:40:33 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=26538 August 14, 2021 - David Bohm’s writing on creativity was not directed exclusively at art works, instead it sought to outline a more foundational capacity in any one of us—or in any human discipline—for new orders of perception and understanding. First and foremost, he explained, we need to awaken the necessary ‘creative mind state’ which is supressed by the unrecognized ‘boss reality’ of Western thought, language and the associated entrapment of the self-image. Bohm’s is a dynamic model of creativity open to entanglements of mind, body, language, conceptual abstraction, non-human matter and infinity, the nature of which is to be continually unfolding, to be generative. His expanded notion of what constitutes an ‘artform’ is radical and speaks to contemporary, speculative approaches towards ever opening up an animate world of which we are a participant. Four artists, all of whom recognise first-hand the creative potential of Bohm Dialogue to individual and social transformation, explore their concerns, ideas and experiences together. Length: 2 hours and 15 mins]]>