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A R C H I T E C ARCHITECTS of the Integral World 2015 jean gebser society 2015 california institute of integral studies Architects of the Integral World Forty-Fifth Annual International Jean Gebser Society Conference In conjunction with the Philosophy, Consciousness & Cosmology Program; Philosophy and Religion Department CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES 16–18 October 2015 SAN FRANCISCO, California day one friday 16 October 10:00 Arrival and Registration 10.30 Das integrale Bewusstsein—Chicago 1969, John Dotson 11:15 The Integral Skeptic: Gebser and Metaphysics, Michael Purdy, PhD 12:00 Lunchbreak (90 minutes) 1:30 Holotropic Breathwork and Jean Gebser’s Analysis of Miracles at Lourdes, Peter Weston, ms 2:15 Can the West be Integralized without Christianity? Daniel Kealey, PhD 3.00 Break (30 mins) 3:30 We are Eternally Chinese: Mythic Identity in Outbound Chinese Exchange Students, S. David Zuckerman, PhD 4.15 The Wisdom of the Whole: Integral Coaching Model, Linda Bark, PhD 5:00 Close. 5 day two saturday 17 October 9:30 Arrival and Registration 10:00 Technosophia: The Emerging Integral-Technological Wisdom Tradition, Theo Badashi 10:45 Ecophilosophy and the Feminine Divine: Creating the Climate for Aperspective Consciousness, Barbara Karlsen, ma 11:30 Meta Matrixes, Planetary Lattices and Integral A-Waring: A Comparative Look at William Irwin Thompson and Ken Wilber in Light of Jean Gebser, Jeremy Johnson, MA 12:15 Lunchbreak (1 hour 45 minutes) (Gebser Society Annual Meeting) 2:00 The Interrupted Irruption of Time: Towards an Integral Cosmology, with Help from Bergson and Whitehead, Matthew David Segall, abd 2:45 Henryk Skolimowski on the Participatory Mind, Leslie Allan Combs, PhD 3:30 Break (30 minutes) 4:00 Towards a Geometry of the Aperspectival World, Jeremy Strawn, ma 4:45 Hearing the Metron, Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA, and corey Grandmaison 5:30 Close. 7:00 Conference Dinner 6 day three sunday 18 October 10:30 Arrival and Registration 11:00 Rilke in Spain and Beyond: Gebser’s Origin, Daniel Joseph Polikoff, PhD 11:45 Rendering Darkness and Light Present: Jean Gebser and the Principle of Diaphany, Aaron Cheak, PhD 12:30 Assaying the World Statement in, as, and through Language: Revealing the Poetics of Praxis in Gebser’s Eteology, Heather Fester, PhD 1:15 Lunchbreak (one hour 15 minutes) 2:30 Nishida and the Place of Absolute Nothingness, Lisa daus Neville, PhD 3:15 Approaching the Origin: the Diaphonous Body and Classical Chinese Medicine, Brandt Stickley, ma, lac 4:00 Close. 7 Conference Information Location The forty-fifth International Jean Gebser Society Conference is being held over three full days at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Friday 16 October 2015 Saturday 17 October 2015 Sunday 18 October 2015 Room 304 (Third Floor) California Institute of Integral Studies 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 The campus is located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, between 10th Street and 11th Street. The closest BART station is a few blocks away at Civic Center. A public parking garage is located across the street at the NEMA building off 11th Street. Arrival and Registration Doors will open half an hour before the first lecture each day. Tickets must be purchased online before the conference commences, or at registration (in which case they must be finalised by Saturday morning at the latest): www.gebser.org/2015-program Conference pass* (Friday – Sunday) $35.00 Single day pass* $20.00 CIIS Students * Free of charge Conference dinner tba * Does not include conference dinner 8 Accommodation While there is no official conference hotel, there are a variety of conve- nient options listen on the CIIS website: Good Hotel Hotel Tomo Holiday Inn Civic Center Hotel Whitcomb Hotel Nikko Phoenix Hotel Hotel Monaco SF Airport Marriot Waterfront Conference Dinner The conference dinner will be held on Saturday evening from 7.00–9.00 p.m. at the Basil Canteen Thai Restaurant. Please note that the dinner is not included in the standard conference fee, and must be paid for separately. Basil Canteen (Thai Restaurant) 1489 Folsom Street at 11th Street San Francisco Contact Please contact the conference convenors if you have any further queries: Aaron Cheak Jeremy Johnson Society President Society Treasurer, Webmaster Conference convener Conference coordinator [email protected] [email protected] 9 About Jean Gebser Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was a German poet, philosopher, and phenome- nologist of consciousness. He is best known for his magisterial opus, The Ever-Present Origin (Ursprung und Gegenwart, 1949/1953), in which he ar- ticulates the structures and mutations of consciousness underpinning the pivotal shifts in human civilization. Gebser’s key insight was that as con- sciousness mutates toward its innate integrality, it drastically restructures human ontology and with it civilization as a whole. Five hundred years before Christ, the fundamental mode of reali- ty-perception mutated from mythos to logos through the agency of figures such as Socrates, Siddhartha, and Lao Tzu. For Gebser, we are on the cusp of a new mutation, presaged by figures such as Rainer Maria Rilke, who in Gebser’s view passed through “things” into the integral, transparent lucidity “behind” things, thus breaking through to a new, aperspectival perception of reality. Not only do we stand amidst the final death-throes of the deficient, declining mental-rational ontology, which atomises culture and consciousness day by day, we also stand on the threshold of a new consciousness that is capable of revolutionising the spiritual foundations of human civilization. The task of crystallizing the integral world out of the prevailing cultural dissolution stands before us. Indeed, it is perhaps more pertinent now than it was when Gebser first articulated it. 10 The Gebser Society Members of the Jean Gebser Society support the preservation and further- ance of the work of Jean Gebser through academic symposia, publications, discussion list, website, social media, and other means. As part of a forthcoming initiative, we are hoping to grant Society members contributor access to the Jean Gebser Society website to increase dialogue, interaction, and creative expression. Among other things, this will enable members to contribute to the Gebser blog in order to generate and sustain a richer and wider Gebserian presence on the internet. Mem- bers are also encouraged to inform the Society of any projects of Gebserian interest—whether academic or artistic—that they are engaged in. We are currently pooling resources among Gebserians in order to showcase exist- ing and upcoming publications, courses, artwork, and other explorations of integral consciousness. These will be available on the Gebser website in due course. If you would like to assist in helping this come into being, please let us know. Regular membership $35 per annum Student membership $15 per annum Lifetime membership $350 Officers of the Society Aaron Cheak, PhD President Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA Vice President Jeremy Johnson, MA Webmaster and Treasurer 11 Architects of the Integral World In the winter of 1932, from a grammatical detail in the poet- ry of Rilke, Jean Gebser intuited an entire shift in the structure of western consciousness. Diapha- nous, liberated from time, and free from the constraints of per- spective, Gebser’s integral vision came to him in a “lightning-like flash of inspiration”. As he un- folded this seed, he later remarked that it bore “extensive similar- ities to the world-design of Sri Aurobindo”, whose work he was originally unaware of. Alongside Gebser and Aurobindo, thinkers such as Pierre Teilhard de Char- din (theology and palaeontolo- gy), Alfred North Whitehead (philosophy), and David Bohm (cosmol- ogy) would independently confirm the significance of Gebser’s integral vision. Such instances speak to the relevance of an integral reality beyond mere intellectual theory. Spanning the sciences and humanities, this conference seeks to explore the work of leading and neglected figures in the emergence of integral philosophy, past and present. By charting the “morphic res- onances” that appear to exist among the works of diverse evolutionary and holarchical theorists, we aim to further Gebser’s commitment to a genuinely interdisciplinary methodology, and the rendering transparent of the integral world. 12 Orienting Questions • How has Gebser’s intimation of an emerging integral structure of consciousness directly influenced or been independently confirmed by the work of congenial thinkers? • How has Gebser’s intimation of an emerging integral structure of consciousness directly influenced or been independently confirmed by the work of congenial thinkers? • In what ways can his account of integral consciousness be further fleshed out by the work of those who follow in his wake? • In what ways does Gebser’s overarching account of the evolu- tion of consciousness illumine and enhance the contributions of these thinkers? • How have Gebser’s ideas been anticipated by currents within eastern and western philosophy of mind? • How do precepts and practices from the world’s esoteric lineages, ancient or modern, contribute to the realisation of integral consciousness? • In what ways might Gebser’s work be legitimately criticised, refined, or revised? • To what extent has Gebser’s work been appropriated or misread, constructively or otherwise, by integral theorists? 13 Abstracts& Biographies Technosophia The Emerging Integral-Technological Wisdom Tradition Creating an integral orientation towards technology is one of the most im- portant tasks of our time. It is becoming clear that neither the materialist scientists nor the anti-technology Naturalists are capable of addressing our current and future planetary issues from within their own perspectives. What is needed now is a new holistic technological worldview, one found- ed upon a deep reverence for Nature and Life, and empowered by the innovative creativity of modern science. In this presentation we will explore some of the core propositions and insights of Technosophia, the technological wisdom tradition that is emerging from within integral consciousness.
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