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 →
What is Consciousness and What is our Place in the Universe? Riccardo Manzotti and Brian Swimme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJUX5tqi44&t=141s Since the 1950s, the physical nature of consciousness has remained elusive. At first, neuroscientists endorsed mind-brain identity theories but because of the repetitive failures in locating suitable neural processes, the scientific community has eventually opted for neural... Continue Reading →
The Outer Limits of Consciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37ecc-vRIE&t=27s There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio Hamlet’s statement is especially true of the study of consciousness. Many kinds of conscious experience are only hinted at, or spoken of in soft voices in the... Continue Reading →
The Subject-Object Divide: Diagnosing the Pathos of Our Times Room 304, 7-9pm 2/20/20 View online at: https://ciis.zoom.us/j/761002060 The modern crisis, in all ecological and socio-political forms, finds its origin in a manner of thought that entails the subject-object divide as a central tenet. Surviving the modern crisis means changing our fundamental philosophical perspective. Only then,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T94KKQOenc Building on his experience in co-founding multiple youth movements in the Middle East, Ahmed Salah learned that there are rarely any truly impossible situations and that even the most powerful corrupt systems can be taken down with creative thinking and passionate work. Come join us in a conversation about the value of non-violence in... Continue Reading →
