Architects of the Integral World
Forty-fifth Annual International Jean Gebser Society Conference
In conjunction with the Philosophy, Consciousness & Cosmology Program
Philosophy & Religion Department, California Institute of Integral Studies
16–18 OCTOBER 2015
San Francisco, California
M. C. Escher, Convex and Concave, lithograph, 1955.
Conference Recordings
Day One:
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 We are Eternally Chinese: Mythic Identity in Outbound Chinese Exchange Students, S. David Zuckerman, PhD
2:15 Can the West be Integralized without Christianity? Daniel Kealey, PhD
3.00 Break (30 mins)
3:30 The Wisdom of the Whole: Integral Coaching Model, Linda Bark, PhD
4:15 Close.
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
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.
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