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Poetry-Science Talks

Poetry Science Talks

Mission Statement

 

Our passion is for transformative ideas - and implications for action - that arise out of these topics, with their themes of technology, consciousness, business, media and communication, social organization and governance, mythology, ecology, ontology, healing...  themes of a "poetry science.

 

Our original "mission statement" for the Poetry Science Talks "salon" had the following points:

 

·         Ideas, analyses and solutions regarding the...

·         Development, implementation, diffusion, use and positive and negative impacts of...

·         New ideas, new technologies and new ways of interacting as a culture.

 

While we have evolved significantly since we crafted that statement four years ago, our general intent remains the same:  We are forging a broader, more parsimonious and inclusive view of reality, one that is discriminating among ideas, flexible to change, objective in assessment and systematic in perspective.  Our ultimate goal is a more curious, open, accepting intentionality toward the future - and present moment - of humanity's development.

Back and Coming Talks

 

Creative Media

  • Thing Into Being [David Lincoln, 11/2/06]
  • Grace Wapner, Sculptor - 6th Season Opener (Grace Wapner and Gerd Stern, 9/14/06)
  • Heartbeat a Compass (Anice Jeffries, 1/12/06)
  • Conversations on Conversations - 5th Season Opener (Ed Rosenfeld and Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 9/8/05)
  • American Scream: The Genesis, Evolution and Birthing of Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Jonah Raskin, 7/7/05)
  • “Analog Waves Along the Digital Divide - A State of the Artifice Address” and “Poemthink” (Gerd Stern, 5/5/05)
  • Exploring the Global Self, Or How to Move Through Walls (David Lincoln, 12/9/04)
  • Liminal Parks (Liz Rymland, 10/14/04)
  • Finnegans Wake: A Turn of the Collideorscape (Chip Benjamin, 1/8/04)
  • “Lost Cabaret OR Katandogastrophic” (Gerd Stern, 7/10/03)
  • Stories: Being, Knowing, Doing (Liz Rymland, 5/1/03)
  • Blogs, Personal Journalism and the Free Internet (Dan Sieradski, 7/11/02)
  • “Collage: Digital/Analog” (Gerd Stern, 4/11/02)
  • The Omnicompetent Communicator (Thatcher Drew, 9/6/01)

 

Healing and Psychedelics

  • The Future of Psychedelic Policy [Thomas Roberts, Ph.D., 10/12/06]
  • Psychedelia (Scott Von, 5/11/06)
  • Sexual Pleasure (Betty Dodson and Sylvia Rosenfeld, 12/1/05)
  • NO-THING: The Desire Path to Enlightenment (Scott Von, Ph.D., 10/13/05)
  • Psychedelic Experience and Poetic Experiment (Chris Gremmels, 4/1/05)
  • Psycho-analysis and Psycho-catalysis: Substance, Set, and Setting in Clinical and Cultural Practice (Scott Von, Ph.D., 5/13/04)
  • Peyote Research and a New World View (John Halpern, M.D., 2/5/04)
  • A Shaman, a Peruvian and a Bunch of New Yorkers: Adventures of an Urban Warrior in the Amazon (Jackie Bobrowsky, 9/11/03)
  • Integral Medicine (Scott Gremmel, Ph.D., 3/13/03)
  • Psychedelic Healing (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 2/6/03)
  • Fugue States (Lizbeth Rymland, 1/9/03)
  • MK-ULTRA (Ed Rosenfeld, 11/6/01)

 

Philosophy of Mind

  • Current Thinking [Ralph Abraham, Ph.D., 12/7/06]
  • The Strength of The Weak (Karen “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 3/2/06)
  • Sufi Science (Alex Gordon-Brander, 2/9/06)
  • Spinoza in Cyberspace: Affect as a Mode of Cyborg Communication (Karen Wendy “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 6/2/05)
  • The Next Stage in the Evolution of Consciousness (Swami Allan Ajaya, Ph.D., 2/10/05)
  • Dualism, Psychosynthesis and Yoga Psychotherapy (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 7/1/04)
  • The Distributed Mind (Karen “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 4/1/04)
  • Rage (Michael Eigen, Ph.D., 10/2/03)
  • Slowness: An Economy of Différancial Rates of Being (Karen “Wandsqueen” Gilbert, 11/5/02)
  • Who Is I?: Toward a New Mythology (Carleton Schade, 10/10/02)

 

Ecology

  • Civilization and Its Suffering (Carleton Schade, 7/13/06)
  • Media Ecology and Photography as Advocacy: A Practice-Led Ethnography (Denise Mangen, 6/1/06)
  • Die-Back and Culture: Toward a New Mythology (Carleton Schade, 3/10/05)
  • Do It With Deliciousness: Science, Art, Pop Culture, and Omnisensual Media (Howard Bloom, 11/4/04)
  • Earthscore: The Poetic Science of Charles Peirce (Paul Ryan, 3/4/04)
  • Tomorrow: Sustainable Technology for Spaceship Earth (Carleton Schade, 3/7/02)
  • Acceleration in Novelty (Ed Rosenfeld, Scott Campbell, (6/7/01)

 

Post-Modern Science and Technology

  • Current Ideas (David Peat, 11/10/05)
  • The Most Important Problem in the World (Ed Rosenfeld, 6/3/04)
  • Post-Modern Physics 101 (Richard Alan Miller, 12/11/03)
  • Why Do Living Things Get Old and Die?  (Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D., 11/6/03)
  • The Stupid Network (David Isenberg, Ph.D., 6/6/02)
  • Innovation in an Online Corporation (IBM’s WorldJam) (Mike Wing, 5/2/02)
  • Technology Futures (Dave Sarlin, 10/11/01)

 

Governance

  • Political Ecology (J.P. Harpignies, 1/13/05)
  • Democracy, Liberty, Freedom (Ed Rosenfeld, 6/5/03)
  • The Core Group (Art Kleiner, 2/7/02)
  • bin Laden, Kaczynski and the “Borgification” of Humanity (Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 12/6/01)
  • Democracy and Technology (Bernd Hendricks, 7/5/01)

 

Season Openers

  • 6th Season Opener: Grace Wapner, Sculptor (Grace Wapner and Gerd Stern, 9/14/06)
  • 5th Season Opener: Conversations on Conversations (Ed Rosenfeld and Neal Goldsmith, Ph.D., 9/8/05)
  • 4th Season Opener: Why I Love Poetry Science (Regulars, 9/9/04)
  • 3rd Season Opener: ReView (Ed Rosenfeld, 4/3/03)
  • 2nd Season Opener, 2002-03: What We Are About (Regulars, 9/12/02)
  • The Carriage House Talks - First Meeting (4/5/01)

LIMINAL PARKS

PRESENTATION: "Liminal Parks"

In dark ages, awakened souls use unpredictable means to thrive together, to systemically disengage from the machine, to turn event by seeding the implicate order with their dreaming.  Our objective is to manifest a liminal theme park that opens zones conducive to exploring and operating upon the psychospiritual roots of man made problems.  Liminal Parks supports the development of primordial themeparks, including books and loci dreamed, illustrated and manifested in collaboration with the members of Poetry Science Talks, and linked networks of artists, investors and designer/engineers.

If monstrification extrudes at the source point of circulation blunting, how do we open the stymied flows by attending to the birth of zones of collective exploration?  (In the primordial park is situated, for example, a Circulatorium, a psychospiritual analog of the Exploratorium, with its own soul retrieval substations, anamnesis zones, ordinary nature soul-letting stations, hypnagogia dens, beds of deep mysteries listening, rooms of vanishing differences, divided-self polarization and eludication stations, ancestral theaters of redemptive remembering.  We will touch on subjects personal and collective, antidotes, the systemic disengaging of devils.  In time, we will develop zones of exploration based on psychosomatic dynamics of numbing/amnesia; issues of rivalry including race and resource rivalry, disassociation, aversion, greed, attachment disorders and addictive behaviors.

Please choose issues and explorations that press on real life, choose your

prima materia for this time.  And please come prepared with illustrative

historical references, images, expertise that may assist in an interactive,

co-creative process.

PRODUCER:  Lizbeth Rymland

Lizbeth Rymland is a poet, teacher, founder of the Visionary Incubation Pod and conceptual designer of Primordial and Liminal Parks Inc.  She has worked as a convener of conferences, a curator of museum exhibits, a mental health worker in an acute care hospital, a teacher of Chinese children in San Jose and post-doctoral candidates at the Academy of Sciences in Prague.  Last Spring Liz spent time with the Santi in Puyo/Pastaza Ecuador and with Grupo Osanimi, has been helping this truly magical and organized tribe of educators and healers to purchase their ancestral lands that surround Sangay National Park.  (The physical analog of the emerging primordial park.)