https://paricenter.com Pari Center Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:01:09 +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/strangers-in-the-threshold-love-wisdom-and-the-task-of-philosophy-with-will-buckingham/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:01:09 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37933 Will Buckingham is a writer from the UK with a PhD in philosophy and an MA in anthropology. He now works as a freelance writer, and is on the visiting faculty at Parami University, Myanmar. His most recent book is Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Granta 2021). Length: 2 hours]]> https://paricenter.com/product/love-across-traditions-with-jane-clark-and-mark-vernon/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:55:45 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37931 Jane Clark is a teacher and independent researcher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying the Islamic mystical tradition for more than forty years and has given many lectures and courses both in the UK and internationally for organisations such as The Beshara Trust, Oxford University Department for Continuous Education and Temenos Academy. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society, and also the editor of Beshara Magazine, in which capacity she is able to pursue her particular interest in the relevance of the spiritual traditions to contemporary life. 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. Length: 1 hour and 50 mins]]> https://paricenter.com/product/love-in-a-time-of-crisis-with-mark-vernon/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:51:09 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37929 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. Length: 1 hour and 45 mins]]> https://paricenter.com/product/parenting-as-a-journey-towards-awakening-with-ramona-rolle-berg-and-renee-rolle-whatley/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:38:04 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37926 The Little Prince mirrors what Vedic rishis, Sufi and Christian mystics alike have imparted for millennia: ‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.’ How then do we perceive this unseen field of potential-filled guidance? And how, once aware of it, can we engage with it in a conscious and coherent way? That’s what researcher-clinicians and integrative medicine practitioners Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D. and her sister, Renée Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D. discuss using the results of their published and ongoing research about parental love. Rolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley suggest that experiencing parenting over time may eventually reveal the existence of a fundamental invisible awareness—a ubiquitous orthogenetic vibration acting upon humanity—guiding individuals towards heart-centered evolution. The daily choices we make direct our lives. Choosing to actively parent is one such choice. As parents, we become more devoted, more loyal, and more humble. Through the vehicle of active parenting, Rolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley propose that egocentric perceptions give way. Over time, integration of new parenting behaviors evolves perceptions and ultimately, our heart’s capacity to love unconditionally. Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D. describes herself as an intuitive, an integrative medicine practitioner-clinician, and scholar. Her clinical approach is based on healing through trust and compassion. She has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister, her current research explores how loyalty, devotion & humility interact to provide parents with life experiences that promote integration to higher levels of consciousness via non-judgmental compassion. Renée Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D. takes a two-prong approach to health and wellness: as a practitioner-clinician, she provides intuitive guidance and evidence-based energetic-and integrative-modality supports for clients seeking mind-body-spirit healing and health care around chronic and/or long-term physical and emotional health challenges.  As a scholar she is focused on revealing the theoretical concepts and behavioral processes between physical and non-physical vibratory experiences of love through study of the lived experiences of parents that actively parent.  he has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister, her current work explores the intersection of self-awareness and self-acceptance as revealed thru the impact of non-judgmental compassion. Length: 2 hours]]> https://paricenter.com/product/power-of-love-with-satish-kumar/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:35:57 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37924 Satish Kumar is a peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk. He has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. Satish founded Schumacher College as well as The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. Length: 1 hour and 40 mins]]> https://paricenter.com/product/portrayals-of-love-in-literature-and-culture-with-john-briggs/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:31:11 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37922 Carnival. Certainly the theme of love stands out as a central force motivating poetry, fiction, film, and popular culture. This session explores selected familiar works of literature and popular culture in order to consider what clues these they contain to the implicit meanings of love that haunt us. What secret does the song suggest when it tells us:  Love makes the world go ‘round Love makes the world go ‘round Somebody soon will love you If no one loves you now In the 1960s people were advised to make love not war. Still, why is it that war makes for the best romantic love stories? Do our literary and popular portrayals of love provide insights into the tangled thickets of love where narcissism, domination, betrayal, disillusion and conflict accompany expressions of infinite tenderness and care? Types of love portrayed in this session Romantic and Erotic Love Love of Friends, Family Love and the Innocence of Childhood Love of God and Country, Cosmos, Knowledge and Other Abstractions Love of Life, Love of Earth The feelings of love expressed in literature from the Native American context provide a contrast to the feelings and ideas of love for those of us raised in anthropocentric (human-centered) cultures. John Briggs, PhD, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics, journalism, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Length: 1 hour and 50 mins]]> https://paricenter.com/product/tales-of-love-and-narcissism-in-classical-jewish-sources-with-rabbi-neal-rose/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:27:57 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37920 Rabbi Neal Rose taught at the University of Manitoba from 1967 to 2000. He was a member of the Departments of Judaic Studies and Religion. He also was an instructor in family therapy at the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Spiritual Care. He and his wife currently live in St. Louis, MO where he serves as rabbinic scholar in residence at Congregation Bnai Amoona and community Chaplain. Length: 2 hours]]> https://paricenter.com/product/temporality-and-tragedy-irrevocable-loss-and-redemptive-love-with-vincent-colapietro/ Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:17:22 +0000 https://paricenter.com/?post_type=product&p=37915 Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro has seized the occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and, for a time, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time, above all, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists (including Einstein) and the conception of time implicit in the activity of physicists themselves. Are physicists in time in the same sense that they so often conceive time (specifically, time as a reversible process or even an illusory phenomenon)? That is, is the dominant understanding of time among theoretical physicists compatible with what physicists do as agents? Colapietro argues that agential time is an irreducible phenomenon and any attempt to explain it away (or to render it illusory) is mistaken. Vincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He has written on a wide range of topics, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. Length: 2 hours]]>