The Outer Limits of Consciousness https://ciis.zoom.us/j/137636097 Thursday, 2/27/20 7pm PST 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... 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 →
https://youtu.be/F-ZnAR1KAXs?t=31 The San Bushmen of southern Africa are one of the last groupings of hunter-gatherers whose lifestyle and hunting practices have been retained within memorable history. The objective of this presentation is to situate the ritual of the hunt as practiced by this group of hunter-gatherers within the context of philosophical religious debate. By illustrating... Continue Reading →
Psychedelic (R)evolution: Past, Present, Future 7-9pm | December 11, 2019 | 1453 Mission Street CIIS, Area 5 | SF, CA Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV6_HJbKL4A The word revolution can be separated into the words “re-evolution” (meaning to re-evolve). This forum consists of a panel that will explore the past, present, and future potentials of psychedelics in regards to the progress... Continue Reading →
Developing Your Inner Jedi: Expanding Our Minds into Conscious Manifestations of Light Join PCC Forum with Carol Richardson and learn interactive techniques to develop your own inner Jedi. Using an integrative perspective based on understanding energy-consciousness as the basic substrate of the universe, we'll discuss the practical principles about the mystical universe that enable us... Continue Reading →
See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwJ5CC0xQo Twelve Ways of Seeing the World: Philosophies and Archetypal Worldviews for Understanding Human Consciousness Robert and Matt will summarize and discuss a new book by anthroposophist Mario Betti, Twelve Ways of Seeing the World. The book aims to build on Rudolf Steiner's understanding of different human worldviews in order to seed the... Continue Reading →
April 25th, 2019: Depression is a universal human experience that is subject to storytelling and mythology. We live in age where a dominant about depression is that it is an event that happens inside of the brain. With this story comes a solution in the form of medication and not necessarily an emphasis on retrieving... Continue Reading →
April 11th, 2019: For two hundred thousand years, humans have hunted and gathered on Planet Earth, the rapid loss of this existence in modern times has abstracted us from our environment and altered the human psyche in ways that we have yet to understand or come to terms with. As one of the last groupings... Continue Reading →
