The final PCC Forum for the fall semester will be on Thursday, December 8th at 6:00pm (PT) on zoom, featuring a presentation by PCC doctoral candidate Adam Robbert, on The Shape of Thought to Come: Askesis and the Future of Philosophy. (Look for the zoom link below the flyer.) In his work, Pierre Hadot recovers the central role of askesis,... Continue Reading →
What does music have to do with the mysteries of life, death, and the soul’s journey after death? In Plato's Phaedo, almost everything! This extraordinary dialogue takes place before and at the time of Socrates’ death, and draws together musical metaphors, allusions to mystical rites of initiation, and mythological archetypes in order to understand both the soul and the... Continue Reading →
Does consciousness evolve? What do we mean by “evolution” in this regard? And what about “consciousness”? Are evolutionary accounts of human culture inherently colonial? Is a history of consciousness distinct from a history of ideas? I will attempt to grapple with these questions, clarify terms, and, thinking with the philosopher Owen Barfield, describe a potential depoliticized (aspirational!) approach for studying the historical morphology of human consciousness,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXlcyyWqH2U In this talk, Dr. Alex Brezinski will be discussing the development of his unique participatory approach to transpersonal psychology and cosmology. He will be discussing his doctoral and post-doctoral research into nonordinary states of consciousness, the worlds disclosed in these states, and the nonphysical Allies inhabiting these worlds. Alex will share his personal journey... Continue Reading →
PCC FORUM AND IMPACT@CIIS PRESENT: Bioregionalism: Connecting and Activating Generations with special guests Planet Drum Foundation and Terran Collective https://youtu.be/7L9_JZOvO0M September 3rd, 2020 5-6:30pm PDT Bioregionalism is about getting to know a place and its myths, mysteries, terrain, history, relationships, culture, and ecological processes. Numerous visionaries and scholars have written that the bioregion presents a manageable... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/jUwt_c1GoQA As the PCC mission affirms, we need to reimagine the human species as a mutually enhancing member of the Earth community. As part of this, we must reimagine the relationships between humans and other-than-human beings. Indigenous ontologies are based on a reciprocal relationship between humans and animals, plants, rivers, rocks, etc., but the Western,... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 4/16 7pm PDT The present convergence of planets has been anticipated by astrologers with some trepidation for many years. The Saturn-Pluto cycle in particular corresponds to profoundly challenging, character-defining periods in history. But this time Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars are all involved as well, with the five-planet interaction suggesting very powerful and complex archetypal... Continue Reading →
End of Days or End of Daze? Interpreting the Archetype of the Apocalypse -- -- Professors Craig Chalquist and Debashish Banerji will be discussing the archetype of Apocalypse, various end-time prophesies and stories, possibilities for growing into a new social order, including new mythologies and theologies, micro/macropolitics, and what academic institutions can do. -- Craig... Continue Reading →
PCC Forum: Re-Enchantment and Its Shadows With Becca Tarnas and Tom Purton 7pm PST 4/2/2020 In the account of human history provided by Robert Bellah, the mythic mind—the place of narrative, sentient nature, and enchantment—progressively yields to the theoretic mind, the place of science, rationality, and skepticism. Myth became fairy-story, fairy-story became fantasy, and the... Continue Reading →
Indigenous Storytelling in Film as a new form of Subtle Activism with Deep Water Initiative, Thursday, 3/19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_17aayIjVvA This film panel will explore different ways in which indigenous communities and artists are working to together to represent indigenous cosmologies and storytelling through the medium of film. The panel will explore how film as a form... Continue Reading →
The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Forum 