Towards a New Renaissance: World-Views, Spirituality and the Future
Pari, Italy, 12-15 October 2007
PROGRAMME
Friday 12 th October
Arrivals
7:30 Welcome and Dinner in Restaurant L’Etrusca e Il Greco
Saturday 13 th October
8.00 Breakfast in Village Dining Hall
9:00 Session 1 - Chair David Lorimer
The New Renaissance - Recovering from the Present Dystopia
Prof. Henryk Skolimowski, Poland
A New Vision for a New World
Prof. Ervin Laszlo, Italy
The Urgent Need for a Cosmic Ecology
Anthony Hodgson, Scotland
11:00 Tea and Coffee
11:30 Session 2 - Chair Henryk Skolimowski
The Ultimate Paradigm Shift
Paul Devereux, England
The Measure of Man in the Cosmos – a Neoplatonic View
Annabel Shaxson
Gnosis and Heresy – A New Context for Rationality
David Lorimer, Scotland
1:00 Lunch in Village Dining Hall
2:00 Free time in Pari
4:15 Tea and Coffee
4:45 Session 3 - Chair David Peat
A Return to the Value of Being Human
Hardin Tibbs, England
Saving the Planet by Promoting a Paradigm Shift from Materialism to Holism
John Kapp, England
How can we Cross the Chasm between Rational Thought and Mysticism?
Dr. John Caddy, Italy
7:30 Dinner in Village Dining Hall
Sunday 14 th October
8:00 Breakfast in Village Dining Hall
9:00 Session 4 - Chair Diana Clift
Towards a New Renaissance - a Trans-religious Awareness of the Reality of Spirituality
Max Payne, England
John's Gospel and the Way of the Geometer
David Bell, New Zealand
Heart to Heart with the Anima Mundi
Florence Meyer, England
10:45 Tea and Coffee
11:15 Session 5 - Chair Max Payne
Belonging to the World: Depth Memoir and Re-Enchantment with Cosmos
Maura Conlon-McIvor, Ph.D., USA
Values, Worldviews and Biodiversity—Exploring Attitudes to Life
Dr. Dick Vane-Wright, England
The Burning Bush of Unknowing in the Universality of Knowledge
Philip Franses, England
1:00 Lunch in Village Dining Hall
2:30 Session 6 - Chair Claudia Nielsen
The Myth of a Special Place in European Culture
Dr. Leszek Sosnowski, Poland
Beyond Banking
Dr. Ove Svidén, Sweden
Gentle Action
Dr. David Peat, Italy
4:15 Summary and conclusions
4:45 Tea and Coffee
8:00 Dinner and Party at Il Leccio Pizzeria, Leccio
Monday 15 th October
8:00 Breakfast in Village Dining Hall
9:30 Excursions
Siena
2) Olive oil tasting and afternoon trip to the Abbey of Sant’Antimo and Montalcino
6:00 Return from excursions
8:00 Dinner in Restaurant Il Cacciatore in Piazza della Chiesa
With the generous support of Taher Gozel
This meeting was held in Pari, May 2008. It involved some intense round table discussions amongst Bohm's former colleagues, students and other contacts.
In order to have a free and wide-ranging discussion we decided not to make and audio or video recording of the proceedings - such recordings can sometimes inhibit discussion. The event also included a discussion with Leroy Little Bear in Alberta via speaker phone.
In addition to discussing Bohm's life and work the meeting also proposed that we should give attention to a Bohm archive and ensure that former colleagues and friends be contacted in order to collect documents, letters and any recordings.
The notion of a film based on Bohm's life and work was also discussed and it was suggested that such a film should give the viewer a sense of Bohm's thought.
It was also decided that a public meeting be held and this is now planned for London on May 30, 2009.