Mark your calendar for this sure to be stellar upcoming event (offered online and in person); and a call for papers that look at various ways of expressing integrality, drawing on of the work of Jean Gebser, Sri Aurobindo, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, or other “integral” thinkers.
Category: Philosophy
Quarantine Notes
A collection of aphorisms by a contemporary adept of the form, these bite-size poems reflect on the nature of art, wisdom, love, technology, and spirituality through a modern and yet timeless lens.
Sri Aurobindo Reading Circles
Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…
Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski
Starts Sept 8: an exploration of how we can make changes to the structure of our language that reflect and catalyze a planetary paradigm shift towards always-already connectedness…
Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
An open-ended reading and discussion of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.
Bateson Reading Group
We will be reading one of the 20th Century’s seminal works, the collection of essays by Gregory Bateson assembled in the book called Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and, as a counterpoint, essays and poems by his daughter Nora Bateson under the title Small Arcs of Larger Circles.
Journey to Supermind
The Life Divine is one of the great spiritual works of the 20th century, if not all time. It presents Indian/Integral philosopher, poet, and yogi Sri Aurobindo’s conception of the origin, structure, and destiny of creation, from the primordia …
The Minor Gesture
Erin Manning is a friend and colleague who lives in Montreal and heads up the SenseLab at Concordia University. Her book Relationscapes—Movement, Art, Philosophy profoundly influenced my own work at the intersection between the sciences and t …
Spheres Reading Group
We are reading all three volumes of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foam. The live-recorded conversations for Bubbles took place between April and August, 2017, and the conversations for Globes took place between October 2017 and May 2018. However, the conversation continues in our forum. A reading schedule for Foam is yet to be determined.
Winter of Origins
This was the second reading of Readers Underground (then #litgeeks). The conversation continues in our forum. In a world racked by vast inequality, climate change, and political upheaval, Gebser’s work so aptly points out that these problems are a …
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 9
#9 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 8, “Closer to Me Than I Am Myself – A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside,” Excursus 10: Matris in gremio – A Mariological Cricket,” and “Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence,” pps. 539–632.
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview
Readers Underground group for Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview page
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 8 – Hangout #12
Recording of our twelfth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser, covering Part 2, Chapters 5 and 6.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 7 – Hangout #11
Recording of our eleventh hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser, discussing Part 2, Chapters 2–4.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 7 – Hangout #10
Archive recording of our tenth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser, discussing Part 2, Chapters 1–4.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 6 – Hangout #9
Our ninth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we’re excited to announce that author, integral philosopher, and founder of the Alderlore Insight Center Bonnitta Roy will be joining us. This may segue into our discussion of Part 2 of the book, including Chapter 1: The Irruption of Time.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 6 – Hangout #8
Our eighth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we will be focusing on Part 1 – Chapter 7: On the History of the Phenomena of Soul and Spirit and Chapter 8: The Foundations of the Aperspectival World. Please be prepared to discuss pp. 248-274, along with broader themes relating to this portion of the text.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 4 – Hangout #7
Our seventh hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we will be focusing on Chapter 6: On the History of the Phenomena of Soul and Spirit. Please be prepared to discuss pp. 188-247, along with broader themes relating to this portion of the text.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 4 – Hangout #6
Our sixth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we will be focusing on Chapter 5: The Space-Time Constitution of the Structures. Please be prepared to discuss pp. 162-187, along with broader themes relating to this portion of the text.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 3 – Hangout #5
Our fifth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we will be focusing on MUTATIONS AS AN INTEGRAL PHENOMENON (Chapter 4). Please be prepared to discuss pp. 116–155, along with any broader themes relating to this portion of the text.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 3 – Hangout #4
Our fourth hangout discussing The Ever-Present Origin by Jean Gebser. For this hangout, we will be focusing on the MENTAL structure, as Gebser discusses it in Chapter 3. Please be prepared to discuss pp. 73-102, along with any broader themes relating to this portion of the text.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 2 – Hangout #3
Our third Winter of Origins Hangout.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 2 – Hangout #2
By this point in our schedule, we’ve read to page 73 (Chapter 3, just before the subsection on the Mental Structure). But there’s plenty to dig into from Chapters 1 and 2 and more broadly (or priorly), as well.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins – Week 1 – Hangout #1
The first Google Hangout, kicking off our collaborative reading of Jean Gebser’s magnum opus, The Ever-Present Origin.
Winter of OriginsWinter of Origins
#litgeeks book club and The International Jean Gebser Society present Winter of Origins, a collaborative reading of Jean Gebser’s The Ever-Present Origin.
