Please join us virtually by registering below. You will receive the Zoom conference link prior to the conference start.
For any questions about the conference, please email: jeangebsersociety@gmail.com
Online only, via Zoom
Gebser’s prescient vision foresaw many of the developments of the emergent era. His thinking continues to be relevant in the Arts, Architecture, Sciences, and beyond. This conference aims to provide an open forum for the Gebser community and newcomers to address how Gebser continues to be relevant in so many different aspects of contemporary life.
Arts: In 1977, Marshall McLuhan, writes: “The new way does not consist of seeing then doing, but of tuning oneself to the proper frequency, the right wavelength. It’s our whole idea of communication that has changed.” How do McLuhan’s words complement Gebser’s intent to show “the concrescence of the spiritual” and his statement that “Creativity is not bound to space and time, and its truest effect can be found in mutation…” This question concerns all the arts, in every practice, and in every environment.
Architecture: Perhaps The Oculus (above), designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in lower Manhattan, offers an example, on a large scale, of an “attempt to concretize time, and thus realize and become conscious of the fourth dimension”? As we continue to experience planetary transmutation, how might the architectural imagination, which organizes space for human purposes, also manifest at every scale “the effectual reality of all time phases: yesterday, today, tomorrow, and even the pre-temporal and timeless” ?
Sciences: Thomas Kuhn, in his1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions introduced the concept of paradigm shift, a term which has since become ubiquitous in all fields, not limited to science. Gebser preceded such an idea a couple decades earlier with the idea of mutations of consciousness. How might Gebser’s more expansive concept serve us better to understand the rate of change, the multi-dimensionality and magnitude of changes in science and technology? What means and/or modes of expression are useful to describe what is happening in science now?
And beyond…
In 1949, seventy-seven years ago, Gebser wrote “of the nascence of a new world and a new consciousness… based on insights into mankind’s mutation…” How does this language resonate with the lived realities and hyper-realities of world-life in 2026?
The present book is the account of the nascence of a new world and a new consciousness. It is based not on ideas or speculations but on insights into mankind’s mutations from its primordial beginnings up to the present—on perhaps novel insights into the forms of consciousness manifest in the various epochs of mankind: insights into the powers behind their realization as manifest between origin and the present, and active in origin and the present. And as the origin before all time is the entirety of the very beginning, so too is the present the entirety of everything temporal and time-bound, including the effectual reality of all time phases: yesterday, today, tomorrow, and even the pre-temporal and timeless. —EPO page 1
Much of what has been rationalistically posited, particularly the rationalistic and stereotyped thought forms and systems, must be de-rigidified and de-posed in order to open up an arena for the power and intensity that are pressing toward manifestation. So long as we think that we can master such intensities as time by forcing them into a system, the intensities will simply burst such systems apart. —EPO 306
Creativity is not bound to space and time, and its truest effect can be found in mutation, the course of which is not continuous in time, but rather spontaneous, acausal, and discontinuous. Creativity is a visibly emerging impulse of origin which “is” in turn timeless, or more accurately, before or “above” time and timelessness. And creativity is something that happens to us, that fully effects or fulfills itself in us. —EPO page 313
How to submit your proposal
Please submit the following information to jeangebsersociety@gmail.com
*Your name:
*Institution (if applicable) Student? If so, where?
We encourage students to submit, to explore Gebser’s ideas and apply them to your field of interest or embody/manifest them.
Students whose presentations are chosen will be awarded a certificate and entered to win random prizes, including books and a cash prize of $200.
*Summary/abstract/overview (maximum 500 words)
*Example of artistic expression with proposed elaboration (maximum 250 words + three images/videos/recordings
*Time allocation requested (specify 15 to 45 minutes)
Submit to jeangebsersociety@gmail.com
Submission deadline September 1
(submission acceptance notifications sent by September 15)
Registration fee: $25
Online only
Dear Gebserians,
This has been a challenging year for many of our members, and certainly for our board. We could not find a suitable venue for holding the conference, and time slipped by. Our difficulties were mirrored by difficulties in the nation, which has become mired in political division and violence. While we have not put together a traditional conference, we still want to gather, at least on Zoom.
What we are proposing is actually very exciting. It is a way for all the members to contribute in a creative, organic, self-organizing manner. We are calling it the Unconference Conference. And the methodology we will use is called Open Space. The following website gives a summary about what to expect in an Unconference: https://unconference.net/unconferencing-how-to-prepare-to-attend-an-unconference-2/
Open Space is a method developed originally by Harrison Owen that is particularly suitable for maximizing the creative support and best thinking of all who wish to be involved.
There is still a theme: What does the breakdown in mental-rational consciousness foretell? These days the fragmentation in perception of reality has reached a fever pitch. It is causing a schism throughout society that is genuinely dangerous. How can we Gebserians help stop this slide into what Nora Bateson has termed “schismogenesis?” Is there a better world on the other side?
Schedule:
We will convene at 10:00 am PT on Saturday, November 8, with a dialogue circle moderated by Glenn Aparicio Parry, for about two hours. Some of the principles of dialogue include listening for the purpose of understanding, having no agenda, no expectation of a result, and getting out of one’s own tacit infrastructure of biases and assumptions. Then, from 1:00-4:00 pm PT, we will go into Open Space moderated by Rijon (Ryan) Erickson.
Here is the way Open Space works:
Rijon will “open the space” with a brief explanation of the principles and purpose of Open Space Technology and guide the group in the creation of an agenda for the afternoon.
All topics related to the theme are welcome, and all participants are encouraged to convene sessions on the topics that they care most about and conduct those sessions in the manner they see fit.
Start times and Zoom rooms are identified for each topic. In addition, there will be rooms created to enable participants to engage in spontaneous conversations outside of the defined sessions, much like the “coffee break” or “water cooler” conversations that are often the highlight of traditional conferences. The point of the structure is to allow for maximum agency within the lightest of constraints. Time, place, and topic are up to the participants to decide, and each person is responsible for their own experience.
To conclude the Open Space, all participants are called together into a “closing circle” to acknowledge the passing of time and recognize and share their experience of the day, insights, or a summary of the group’s conversation.
There are today more than enough psychic ruins ravaging the world ever since thought lost its immediate directedness and qualitative mental character, and became deficient in the fragmentation of rationalization, sectorization, and perspectivation. Let us now turn to this nearly formless form of thinking. EPO 255
The theme of our epoch is aperspectivity. The irruption of time into perspectival, spatial thought is manifest in all areas of our lives. The emerging consciousness of time as an immeasurable and mentally inconceivable world constituent—this is the basic, aperspectival manifestation. EPO 528
Present-day technology is an unmastered time…. Instead of intensifying time, man has quantified it by rational thinking into a cascading motion. This failure, which encroaches on our daily lives with increasing force, will be successfully corrected when the awareness of the foundations and the true demands of a genuine technology are pioneered. This awareness will restructure technology to the same degree that it is now about to reshape our entire reality. Then, in the most successful realizations, the “every-day” will be an “all (i.e., universal)-day.” EPO 533
What does the breakdown in mental-rational consciousness foretell?
Please join us virtually by registering below. You will receive the Zoom conference link prior to the conference start.
For any questions about the conference, please email: jeangebsersociety@gmail.com
October 18-19, 2024
Sante Fe, New Mexico
Institute of American Indian Arts, Center for Lifelong Education Building
Dear Gebserians,
We are excited to announce that all the conference videos from the recently completed Gebser conference (The Dance of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine: Duality or Polarity?) in Santa Fe are now up on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@jeangebsersociety6995 and also find the conference program.
We had a beautiful conference at the Institute of American Indian Arts campus. Gregory Cajete, the longtime Director of Native Studies at UNM, and a former professor at IAIA, was our keynote speaker.
Many of the longtime Gebserians were there: Michael Purdy, John Dotson, Dave Zuckerman, as well as Lisa Maroski, Jessie Shaw, Rick Muller, and David Alexander (who serenaded us with his flute in addition to doing the hard work on the video preparation) There were also newcomers of some renown: the pioneer of consciousness Jeffrey Mishlove, Native sculptor Joe Cajero, Deep Time educator Karen Kudebeh, internationally known healer Danielle Brooks, and even a tango teacher Peter Roche, who paired up with Lisa to give us a physical demonstration of our theme (the Dance of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine). I also gave a talk based on my forthcoming book Original Love, something badly needed in these times.
For those that were not there, know that we missed you. Here is your opportunity to get a taste of what transpired.
Blessings to all,
Glenn Aparicio Parry
September 27-30, 2023
Wednesday and Thursday, September 27 and 28 (Online, Registration Below)
Friday and Saturday, September 29 and 30, 2023 (In-Person, Registration Below)
California Institute of Integral Studies
Namaste Hall
Co-sponsored by East-West Psychology and Transformative Inquiry Department
San Francisco, CA
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We can say that the world is whole, a unity, an integrum—at the risk of reifying its multitudinous processes. We do not need to make it whole, to integrate it, per se. What then is the function of integrating? Does integrating, as a process, drive the very emergence of wholeness? Is it even possible to speak of integrality? Or to speak from it?
Gebser, Aurobindo, and Jung address such questions in their unique ways, as climbers scaling different faces of the same mountain. What can Gebser see from his vantage point that Aurobindo or Jung cannot, and what can Aurobindo or Jung see that Gebser cannot? Are their perspectives integratable? (That said, it is not necessary to compare, contrast, or attempt to integrate the works of these thinkers.)
To ponder various ways of expressing integrality, in general, consider the following questions:
Entire Conference, includes:
Student Price for Entire Conference, includes:
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| Time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 9:15am | Welcome/Opening Prayer | |
| 9:30 – 10am | Arshitra Mitra | A Comparative Study of Evolution and Individuation |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Marco Masi | Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo |
| 10:30 – 10:45am | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30am | Carl Johan Calleman | Construction of Different States of Consciousness and the Mayan Calendar |
| 11:30am – 12noon | Leslie Alan Combs | Intersubjetivity in Integral Consciousness |
| 12noon – 12:30pm | Panel of Morning Presenters | |
| 12:30 – 6:45pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 6:45pm | Regathering | |
| 7:00 – 7:30pm | Robert Mitchell | Spiritual Democracy |
| 7:30 – 8:00pm | Anshul Aggarwal | What is Education For? |
| 8:00 – 8:15pm | Break | |
| 8:15 – 8:45pm | Julie Geredien | Smooth, Resilient, and Steady Mind |
| 8:45pm – 9:15pm | Panel of Evening Presenters | |
| Time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 9:15am | Welcome/Opening Prayer | |
| 9:30 – 10:00am | Mike Purdy | The Gebserian Aesthetic |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Katherine Ziemke | Primoridial Memories as a Conduit to Integral Consciousness |
| 10:30 – 10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | Jessie Shaw | Enchantment and the Emerging Spiritual Imaginary |
| 11:15 – 11:45am | Lucien Lazar | Emergence of the Integral Social Encounter |
| 11:45am – 12:15pm | Panel of Morning Presenters | |
| 12:15 – 6:45pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 6:45pm | Regathering/Opening | |
| 7pm-7:30pm | Matt Switzer | Cosmogenesis and Cultural Philosophy |
| 7:30pm-8pm | Renee Eli | The Integral Immune System |
| 8pm – 8:15pm | Break | |
| 8:15pm-8:45pm | Julie Yusopova | On the Topology of the Noosphere |
| 8:45pm-9:15pm | Panel of Evening Presenters | |
| Time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Welcome and Opening Ceremony | |
| 9:00 – 9:30am | Devdip Ganguli | The Harmonious Whole |
| 9:30 – 10:00am | Jean Michel Borgeaud | Origin, Consciousness, and Time: Bridging the Future Now |
| 10:00 – 10:15am | Break | |
| 10:15 – 11:00am | Martha Brumbaugh and Debby Flickinger | The Integral Heart of the Drum |
| 11:00- 11:30am | Jonathan Kay | Aesthetic Ontogenesis and the Sonic Arts |
| 11:30am – 12noon | Panel of Morning Presenters | |
| 12noon – 2:00pm | Lunch Break | |
| 2:00 – 2:45pm | John Dotson | Living the Prophecies |
| 2:45 – 3:30pm | Lisa Maroski | A New Language for the Future |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | Break (Book Sales and Poster Session with Azul Degrasso) | |
| 4:00 – 4:30pm | Glenn Aparicio Parry | Love and the Future Human |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | Panel of Afternoon Presenters | |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Dinner Break | |
| 7:00 – 8:00pm | Keynote Talk: Debashish Banerji | The End of the Curve of Reason and The Emergence of Integral Consciousness |
| 8:00 – 9:00pm | Concert with Jonathan Kay | |
| Time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 8am-8:45am | Angela Reed | Morning Experiential Activity: Mandala In Motion |
| 8:45am – 9am | Break | |
| 9am – 9:30am | Daniel Polikoff | Spirituality and Politics in a Fragmented Age |
| 9:30am – 10:15am | Dave Zuckerman | Social Place, False Nostalgia, and Revolutionary Integrality |
| 10:15am – 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30am – 11am | Bob Pillar | Common Ground Emerging |
| 11am- 11:30am | Sami Chhapra | The Integral Age |
| 11:30am-12noon | Panel of Morning Presenters | |
| 12noon – 2pm | Lunch Break | |
| 2pm – 2:30pm | Ananta Giri | Integral Consciousness and a New Yoga |
| 2:30pm – 3:15pm | Lakshmi Mayya | Ensouled Architecture |
| 3:15-3:45pm | Break (Book Sales) | |
| 3:45-4:15Pm | Lynlee Lyckberg | Human Destiny and Paradigms of Consciousness |
| 4:15pm-4:45pm | Panel of Afternoon Presenters | |
| 4:45-6pm | Dialogue Circle | |
| 6pm | Closing Ceremony | |
Please note: an additional conference at CIIS (same location as the Gebser conference) is being conducted on September 23 and 24, 2023, additional details can be found here.
Direct link to the Sri Aurobindo conference information and registration can be found here.
(also check Airbnb.com)
Inn at the Opera – a European-style boutique hotel, 333 Fulton Street – a 13 minute walk to CIIS via 10th St., about $225/night
The Grove Inn – 890 Grove St. – 1 mile from CIIS, $266/night and up
Marriott Hotels – Numerous locations and prices, but tending toward more expensive
The Inn San Francisco, an 1800s era Victorian mansion bed and breakfast, 943 S Van Ness Ave – 1.2 miles from CIIS, $360/night
Ram’s Hotel – 80 9th Street – a few blocks from CIIS, somewhat sketchy neighborhood , $105/night shared bath
Inn on Folsom – 1188 Folsom Street – 8 minute walk, $169/night shared bathroom (N.B.: next to Cat Club… can be loud until 3am)
To all participants in the 2019 Gebser + Jung Conference,
We hope this note finds you well! It’s been nearly a year since we all convened at beautiful Asilomar to discuss A Conscious Emergenc(e/y), and a lot has happened since then, hasn’t it? Has it felt more like emergence to you or more like emergency?
We are dedicating one of our Thursday night virtual meetings, October 15, to coming back together—to check in, to share reactions and responses to this past year, and to continue to look ahead. We hope you can join us.
To accommodate our East Coast friends, we will start at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET on Thursday October 15, 2020, and be together for about 3 hours. Of course, you can come and go as need be. And you can invite people to come, even if they weren’t at the conference. Other Gebserians and other Jungians, for example, as well as all your interesting friends.
To give it some structure, if you want to present a short statement (5-10 minutes), please send your request and ideas to jeremy@nuralearning.com
Thank you for your interest in the Jean Gebser Society. Please register for the website below, and check back soon on how to become a Member.
Step 1: Register
Note: as a best practice, do NOT use a password you use on other websites, create a unique password for this site.
Also note: after registering, you will get a confirmation email to your inbox, please make sure you check your SPAM box in case you don’t see it. We had multiple folks in this pending status.
Step 2: Post an Introduction Note in the Forums
Looking forward to collaborating virtually!