Absurdity of Certainty
"I thought we were talking about physics but we're not," says physicist philosopher Dr. F. David Peat, directed by Jena Axelrod
Project Description
After 20 years of dreaming of making this film, we cannot wait to share our documentary Absurdity of Certainty! We are so close now and we need your help to finish!
Follow director Jena Axelrod to her mentor, physicist/philosopher, Dr F David Peat in his Pari Center located on top of the medieval hilltop village of Pari, Italy.
David describes how "tools of the mind" caused us to become polarized, dogmatic, certain, and abstracted from the lived experience of the world, while showing us how his Tuscan village remains connected to nature.
Jena attempts to force David to help her make a logical argument in support of a holistic universe but he finds creative ways to stop her.
We are seeking funding for post production expenses: graphics, color correction, sound design. We are so lucky to have an incredibly talented and credited post-production crew on the ready and we just need funding to properly hire these beautiful souls and finish this labor of love!
Thank you for your support! We are so grateful!!! Thank you for making this dream come true!
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The Campaign FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions:
- What is Absurdity of Certainty?
Jena set out to make a logical argument for a spiritual worldview but David might tell you this is a fool's journey. Our surreal, spiritual, science film attempts to make a logical case that AND > OR.
- How did this film get started?
Our director, Jena Axelrod, had a spiritual emergency/emergence 20 years ago that changed her. She went from being a skeptical, logical thinker to someone embracing the idea that we are all from one source, of one shared consciousness.
She wanted to share these ideas but was desperately afraid to be seen as "woo woo" and unfit. So instead of speaking her truth, she studied for years in an attempt to logically defend her worldview, which led her to Dr. F. David Peat, The Pari Center, and the village of Pari.
She left Pari 20 years ago with Absurdity of Certainty in mind.
- Why has this project taken so long?
Our director spent 10 years researching her argument, unable to put down the idea of this film yet lacking the confidence to fully pick it up. With the help of her friends, she finally understood she could make a film, but then needed more time to heal and become vulnerable enough to be seen.
- How have you funded the film so far?
We have self-funded this project to date- thanks also to the generosity of many on the crew who lent their time and talent to this labor of love.
- What if you exceed your funding goals?
Our goal is a modest underestimation of our actual costs. If we raise more than our goal, or if we raise less, we will use your help wisely, justly, with gratitude, and will persevere and finish this film!
If we exceed our goal all of the people who volunteered their time and skill will be properly compensated and that would be a joyous event!
Thank you for reading our FAQs!
If you have any further questions, please reach us directly: [email protected].
Amount of your Choice
Thank you for making our Absurdity of Certainty dream come true and helping us spread the word that the world is not as it seems!
No amount is too small!
*if your contribution amount exceeds one or more of the other listed rewards, please tells us the reward of your choice: [email protected]
Pari Perspectives: Issue 2 The Quest For Wholeness
Receive a digital download pdf copy
Featuring:
Thirty Years with David Bohm
BASIL J. HILEY
Flash Sheet for Thinking
HESTER REEVE
Examples of a Holistic Economy: Saltwater Economy
GODELIEVE SPAAS
Wholeness in Ancient Philosophies and Medicine
PATRICK CELKA
Theology for the Third Millennium
PETER B. TODD with JEFFERY MISHLOVE
Synchronicity, Suminagashi and Stream: A Body of Artworks which Flowed from a Visit to the Pari Center
EMMA HUNTER
A New Order for Physics
DAVID BOHM
Goethe’s Delicate Empiricism
ISIS BROOK
Look for Truth—No Matter Where It Takes You
Interview with F. DAVID PEAT
Wholeness and the Theory of Centres
CHRISTOPHER TODHUNTER
Protopia and Machines of Loving Grace
CIPRIAN MAN
Wholeness, the Absurdity of Certainty Film, and its Screening at the September 2019 Pari Conference
JENA AXELROD
The Joker Review: Smile! Send in the clowns!
JAMES PEAT BARBIERI
‘My’ beekeeping in Pari: A Choice to Safeguard Biodiversity and the Environment
FILIPPO MINACCI
We’ll let Virginia Woolf have the Last Word on Wholeness
Beyond Bohm: Contemplation and Creativity Chaired by Lee Nichol
Pick any 1 of the sessions below to attend the live zoom and to access the recording.
Program of Event
Saturday August 14
Creativity and the Artist with Jessica Ball, Alison Churchill, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve
Sunday August 15
Imagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexus with James Peat Barbieri, Hester Reeve, Mark Vernon. Facilitated by Lee Nichol
Saturday August 21
Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialogue with David Begay (Navajo), Angelita Borbon (Yaqui), Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot), Rose Imai (Tuscarora), Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot), Nancy Maryboy (Navajo), Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis), Lee Nichol
Sunday August 22
Changing Consciousness with Sandra Fiegehen, David Schrum and Stephen Smith
Saturday August 28
Dialogue's Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousness with Beth Macy, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol
Sunday August 29
Beyond Bohm: Closing Session with Leroy Little Bear, Beth Macy, Melissa Nelson, Lee Nichol, Hester Reeve and David Schrum
Pari Center Online Summer Series
9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST
Two hour sessions Saturdays and Sundays
Pari Center membership will entitle you to:
- a digital copy of the quarterly Pari Perspectives
- a 10% discount on all events at the Pari Center on any events they may choose to attend at the Pari Center within the year
- access to a Members Area of our website which will include blogs, discussion groups, and a library of past issues of Pari Perspective
Your membership is valid for one year.
Tuscan Cuisine in Pari, GR, Italy
All'interno di un caratteristico borghettino Toscano ci siamo noi, ristorante dai sapori tradizionali toscani, o come dice la cuoca, "Piatti semplici ma gustosi. Pasta fatta a mano e ingredienti di qualità."
We are inside a characteristic Tuscan hamlet, a restaurant with traditional Tuscan flavors, or as the cook says, "Simple but tasty dishes. Handmade pasta and quality ingredients."
Receive an Associate Producer credit in Absurdity of Certainty documentary and on imdb.com. Or remain anonymous and submit a (clean) pseudonym.
Rewards
Amount of your Choice
Thank you for making our Absurdity of Certainty dream come true and helping us spread the word that the world is not as it seems!
No amount is too small!
*if your contribution amount exceeds one or more of the other listed rewards, please tells us the reward of your choice: [email protected]
Pari Perspectives: Issue 2 The Quest For Wholeness
Receive a digital download pdf copy
Featuring:
Thirty Years with David Bohm
BASIL J. HILEY
Flash Sheet for Thinking
HESTER REEVE
Examples of a Holistic Economy: Saltwater Economy
GODELIEVE SPAAS
Wholeness in Ancient Philosophies and Medicine
PATRICK CELKA
Theology for the Third Millennium
PETER B. TODD with JEFFERY MISHLOVE
Synchronicity, Suminagashi and Stream: A Body of Artworks which Flowed from a Visit to the Pari Center
EMMA HUNTER
A New Order for Physics
DAVID BOHM
Goethe’s Delicate Empiricism
ISIS BROOK
Look for Truth—No Matter Where It Takes You
Interview with F. DAVID PEAT
Wholeness and the Theory of Centres
CHRISTOPHER TODHUNTER
Protopia and Machines of Loving Grace
CIPRIAN MAN
Wholeness, the Absurdity of Certainty Film, and its Screening at the September 2019 Pari Conference
JENA AXELROD
The Joker Review: Smile! Send in the clowns!
JAMES PEAT BARBIERI
‘My’ beekeeping in Pari: A Choice to Safeguard Biodiversity and the Environment
FILIPPO MINACCI
We’ll let Virginia Woolf have the Last Word on Wholeness
Beyond Bohm: Contemplation and Creativity Chaired by Lee Nichol
Pick any 1 of the sessions below to attend the live zoom and to access the recording.
Program of Event
Saturday August 14
Creativity and the Artist with Jessica Ball, Alison Churchill, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve
Sunday August 15
Imagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexus with James Peat Barbieri, Hester Reeve, Mark Vernon. Facilitated by Lee Nichol
Saturday August 21
Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialogue with David Begay (Navajo), Angelita Borbon (Yaqui), Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot), Rose Imai (Tuscarora), Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot), Nancy Maryboy (Navajo), Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis), Lee Nichol
Sunday August 22
Changing Consciousness with Sandra Fiegehen, David Schrum and Stephen Smith
Saturday August 28
Dialogue's Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousness with Beth Macy, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol
Sunday August 29
Beyond Bohm: Closing Session with Leroy Little Bear, Beth Macy, Melissa Nelson, Lee Nichol, Hester Reeve and David Schrum
Pari Center Online Summer Series
9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST
Two hour sessions Saturdays and Sundays
Pari Center membership will entitle you to:
- a digital copy of the quarterly Pari Perspectives
- a 10% discount on all events at the Pari Center on any events they may choose to attend at the Pari Center within the year
- access to a Members Area of our website which will include blogs, discussion groups, and a library of past issues of Pari Perspective
Your membership is valid for one year.
Tuscan Cuisine in Pari, GR, Italy
All'interno di un caratteristico borghettino Toscano ci siamo noi, ristorante dai sapori tradizionali toscani, o come dice la cuoca, "Piatti semplici ma gustosi. Pasta fatta a mano e ingredienti di qualità."
We are inside a characteristic Tuscan hamlet, a restaurant with traditional Tuscan flavors, or as the cook says, "Simple but tasty dishes. Handmade pasta and quality ingredients."
Receive an Associate Producer credit in Absurdity of Certainty documentary and on imdb.com. Or remain anonymous and submit a (clean) pseudonym.