A Dialogue Exploring the Nature of Reality from Indigenous and Western Science Perspectives:
Time Travel

Sunday, August 15 - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Pre-conference Workshop: Saturday August 14, 2010
at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Albuquerque NM
(Group Code:  'SEE')

Dedicated to the memory of
Leon Secatero (1943-2008),
Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008), Dan Moonhawk Alford (1948-2002),
and Patricia Clark-Smith,
friends to all people with an open mind and heart.

The most advanced scientific view has found that in the sub-atomic realm, there are no longer any things:  there is only a dynamic flux of process and relationship.  This was an astonishing discovery, but it was not new.  Indigenous people for millennia have seen the cosmos as a place of kinship – a place of harmony and beauty.  Come join us as we explore the beginnings of a new language – a language that is now emerging through dialogues with Native elders, quantum physicists and other Western scientists.  Come join us as we explore the connections between the Quantum realm of Energy and the Indigenous Spirit realm.

Time Travel

Imagine you travelled back in time and did something that prevented your parents from meeting. Would you ever have been born? These and other logical impossibilities and paradoxes arise whenever we try to imagine time travel based on a premise of time as an irreversible arrow, as in a river that flows past a stationary observer.

But what if time just is - and our consciousness can move up and down the river? Do we then have the ability to project our consciousness to any place in time, or to be in two places at one time? Can we then transcend the dimensional realms of space, time and place as we ordinarily conceive of them?

For Indigenous societies, bi-location, teleportation, time travel and shape shifting are not only possible; they were once considered commonplace. For, traditional Indigenous worldviews accept radical flux and interrelationship as the norm. Yet, all people retain this form of consciousness in our dreams and in our imagination.

The idea of time travel has captured the imagination of people for centuries. But it is only recently that physicists are taking on the subject once deemed the province of science fiction writers and philosophers. We now find scholarly analyses of time travel in peer-reviewed scientific journals. And while there are thorny paradoxes that arise when we contemplate time travel, there is nothing in relativity or quantum theory that inherently disproves the notion.

What is or isn’t possible is often a product of our worldview and language. Thus, even as twentieth century physics overturned the Newtonian concept of absolute time (as measured in equal intervals between discrete objects), the syntax of our grammar still demands beginnings, middles and ends. There is at best a creative tension between our existing and emerging worldviews.

As our view of time changes, so does our consciousness, as the two are inextricably linked. The past century has seen an enormous increase in interest in all things non-linear. We see this reflected in various aspects of the culture, from physics and biology, to modern art and musical forms such as jazz, reggae and rap. Our linear perspective is transforming into a new vision of what is possible. This dialogue promises to challenge much of our previously held worldviews of so-called objective reality, consciousness, mind, matter and energy.

For over a decade, the Language of Spirit conference has brought together a mind-expanding convergence of traditional Native worldviews and leading-edge science. Two years ago, we held a dialogue on time, and last year on space. This year, we bring them together to explore Time Travel. Fasten your seat belts. We are in for an exciting ride.

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History of the Dialogues In 1992, the late David Bohm, famed colleague of Einstein's and Leroy Little Bear, JD, former Director of Native Studies at Harvard, brought together a meeting of the minds between quantum physicists, Native American scholars, and linguists to discuss the underlying principles of the Universe... more Excerpt from Glenn Aparicio Parry's Dissertation Chapter Four:  Dialogue

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