Talk at Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, Wiltshire:
Coherent Self, Coherent World: synthesising Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm's Implicate Order
Thursday 3rd October 6PM Part of the Lyrical Poetry & More series
Optional themes for poems: Coherence
|
|
Talk at the Scientific and Medical Network's London Group
Coherent Self, Coherent World: synthesising Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm's Implicate Order
Monday, 14th October, 7.30-9.30PM
|
|
Location: Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road, Hampstead, London W14 9DA
Doors open at 7 for a 7:30pm start. Nearest stations are Hampstead (Northern Line) or Hampstead Heath (Overground). Contribution is £10 for members and £12 for guests.
This talk comprises a series of thought experiments that build through the windows of myth and archetype, Tibetan Buddhist thought and David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order to show how our thinking becomes coherent when our ‘personality self’ is in meaningful relationship with a deeper quality of awareness and identity. Poet and author Diana Durham also explores how the opposite plays out, ie, when we are disconnected from our inner intuitive source, our thinking becomes incoherent leading to problems and incoherent outcomes. This is the condition symbolised in the Grail myth by the figure of the Wounded King who rules over a Wasteland Kingdom, around whose plight the promise and message of the myth revolves.
Diana Durham is the author of the nonfiction books Coherent Self, Coherent World: a new synthesis of Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm’s Implicate Order(2019) and The Return of King Arthur: completing the quest for wholeness(2004); as well as three collections of poetry and a novel, The Curve of the Land (2015). In the 1980’s Diana was among those who explored dialogue with David Bohm.
Doors open at 7 for a 7:30pm start. Nearest stations are Hampstead (Northern Line) or Hampstead Heath (Overground). Contribution is £10 for members and £12 for guests.
This talk comprises a series of thought experiments that build through the windows of myth and archetype, Tibetan Buddhist thought and David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order to show how our thinking becomes coherent when our ‘personality self’ is in meaningful relationship with a deeper quality of awareness and identity. Poet and author Diana Durham also explores how the opposite plays out, ie, when we are disconnected from our inner intuitive source, our thinking becomes incoherent leading to problems and incoherent outcomes. This is the condition symbolised in the Grail myth by the figure of the Wounded King who rules over a Wasteland Kingdom, around whose plight the promise and message of the myth revolves.
Diana Durham is the author of the nonfiction books Coherent Self, Coherent World: a new synthesis of Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm’s Implicate Order(2019) and The Return of King Arthur: completing the quest for wholeness(2004); as well as three collections of poetry and a novel, The Curve of the Land (2015). In the 1980’s Diana was among those who explored dialogue with David Bohm.
Book signing: Coherent Self, Coherent World: a new synthesis of Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm's Implicate Order
21st November, Watkins Book Shop, 6.30-7.30PM
Watkins Book Shop 19-21 Cecil Ct, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4EZ Nearest Tube: Leicester Square
Please email Diana here for more information on buying her books, booking workshops, talks, readings or staging 'Perceval and the Grail'
or use the Contact Form below.
or use the Contact Form below.
This website was funded in part by a grant from
