THE QUESTION IS HOW OUR OWN MEANINGS ARE RELATED TO THOSE OF THE
UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE. WE COULD SAY THAT OUR ACTION TOWARD THE WHOLE
UNIVERSE IS A RESULT OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE US. David Bohm

IMPORTANT

The 1st Eigenthal-Trialogue is cancelled.
However, we organize the following event in the Eigenthal:

Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2022, 17.00 Uhr

Vortrag von Thupten Jinpa, dem seit drei Jahrzehnten amtierenden,
persönlichen englischen Übersetzer des XIV. Dalai Lama

Hotel Hammer, Würzenrain 11, 6013 Eigenthal
öV via Postauto ab Kriens

A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives – Ein furchtloses Herz: Wie der Mut mitfühlend zu sein unser Leben verändern kann (Der Vortrag und das anschliessende Podiumsgespräch wird in englischer Sprache gehalten).

Eintrittskarte mit Abendessen: CHF 120.00 Anmeldung via info at neugalu.ch

Programm
16.30 Uhr Eintreffen der Gäste im Hotel Hammer, Eigenthal bei Luzern
17.00 Uhr Begrüssung durch Dr. Konrad Fischer, Vorstellung der Gäste Dr. phil. René Stettler
17.10 Uhr Vortrag von Dr. Thupten Jinpa
A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

Anschliessend Podiumsgespräch unter Einschluss von Publikumsfragen, Moderation: Diego Hangartner
19.00 Uhr Abendessen
ca. 21.00 Uhr Ende der Veranstaltung

Thupten Jinpa Langri durchlief die Ausbildung als Mönch am Shartse College of Ganden der Monastic University in Indien, wo er den Lharam Grad eines Geshe erhielt. Er verfügt über einen BA in Philosophie und ein Ph.D. in Religionswissenschaften der Universität Cambridge, UK. 2015 erschien sein Buch A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. Thupten Jinpa entwickelte CCT – Compassion Cultivation Training – ein 2-monatiges Ausbildungsprogramm, das er am Center for Compassion and Altruism, Research and Education (CCARE) der Universität Stanford entwickelte. Er ist ausserordentlicher Professor der Faculty of Religious Studies an der McGill University, Montreal, sowie Gründer und Präsident des Institute of Tibetan Classics, Montreal. Seit dessen Gründung ist er auch ständiges Mitglied des Mind and Life Institute. Thupten Jinpa lebt mit seiner Frau und zwei Töchtern in Montreal.

Diego Hangartner promovierte an der ETH als Pharmazeut. Er lebte 11 Jahre in Dharamsala, Indien, dem Wohnort des XIV. Dalai Lama, studierte dort auf Tibetisch am Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, arbeitete als Übersetzer für verschiedene Lamas. Diego Hangartner ist Herausgeber und Übersetzer des vom Dalai Lama (Vorwort) autorisierten Buchs “Shantideva – Anleitungen auf dem Weg zur Glückseligkeit. Bodhicaryavatara” (2005). Er war Projektleiter von “The Dalai Lama in Switzerland 2005” sowie “Der Dalai Lama in Hamburg 2007”. Als Langzeitmeditierender war er in verschiedene neurowissenschaftliche Forschungsprojekte involviert. 2015 gründete er in der Schweiz das Institute of Secular Ethics and Mental Balance (ISEMB).

CANCELLED:

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The mythical Eigenthal (valley) at the foot of Mount Pilatus is located in Central Switzerland. Photo: © Pro Eigenthal Schwarzenberg, Switzerland.

The Hotel Hammer (photo right) © Hotel Hammer, Eigenthal, Switzerland.

Today, the key questions at the core of science are based on the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. However, many fundamental questions remain unanswered, and science is often being restricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. According to these dogmas, all reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless and consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain.

In the spirit of the Eigenthal-Trialogues, new questions will be addressed in open-minded discussions and workshops with an audience interested to investigate inspiring new insights from science, philosophy, and consciousness studies. Where does consciousness really come from, and how does it fit into our ideas about the nature of life and the human future?

Global problems and decision makers behind closed doors

At the core, the Eigenthal-Trialogues aim at creating new knowledge by contributing to build a peaceful, and sustainable world, in which humanity uses science as a tool for collective orientation.

• We are alarmed by the disconnect between the urgency of global problems and the way politics and international communities are dealing with them.
  
  
• We see decision makers meeting behind closed doors and out of touch with reality. At the same time, activists and civil society organizations are gathering outside the meeting rooms, and are often presenting constructive solutions to the problems. But their proposals are not taken seriously.
  
  
• We need to do something about it.
  

Key questions of our time

The Eigenthal-Trialogues offer a wide expansion of knowledge to discuss key questions of our time.

Leading researchers—three older and also younger personalities—from the philosophy of mind, environmental philosophy and science, neuroscience, quantum physics, artificial intelligence research, the mind sciences and Buddhism as well as post-growth economics will be invited to the Eigenthal-Talks for interdisciplinary discussions and reflection.

Streaming platforms make it possible today to listen to the ideas of the world’s greatest minds. Whether it be in leadership, philosophy, ecology, neuroscience, physics, artificial intelligence research, the contemplative sciences and Buddhism, or post-growth economics, the talks will deliver a world class online learning experience available anytime and anywhere on a smartphone, personal computer, Apple TV, or streaming media players.

The core ideas discussed in the Eigenthal, near Lucerne, will be summarized and published in a final press release.

1st Eigenthal-Trialogue

By taking an in-depth look at the future of humanity in 1992, the mathematician Ralph Abraham, the ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna, and the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, exchanged their views on urgent issues in a public trialogue followed by further trialogues (Video still © "The future of humanity - McKenna, Abraham, Sheldrake", 1992).

The social issues and political problems they discussed in Esalen, Big Sur, are still unsolved today—over two decades after the turn of the millennium.

In the spirit of the Esalen Trialogues, the 1st Eigenthal-Trialogue entitled A Kind of Hope will take place on 24 October 2022. It will be open to a public audience.







On the occasion of the 1st Eigenthal-Trialogue (in English), the economist Heiner Flassbeck, former German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, and Chief of Macroeconomics and Development at the UN Organization for International Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Thupten Jinpa Langri, the 14th Dalai Lama’s longtime English interpreter, and Nancy Wimmer, the director of the renewable energy research company, microSOLAR, which specializes in microfinance and rural electrification in developing countries, will speak on Monday, 24 October, 2022, 09.00 – 17.00.

Books of the Eigenthal guest speakers: “Der begrenzte Planet und die unbegrenzte Wirtschaft: Lassen sich Ökonomie und Ökologie versöhnen?” (2020) by Heiner Flassbeck, “A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate can Transform our Lives” (2015) by Thupten Jinpa; “Green Energy for a Billion Poor” (2012) by Nancy Wimmer.

Registration

Date / Location
Monday, 24 October 2022, 09.00 – 17.00, Hotel Hammer, Würzenrain 11, 6013 Eigenthal
Public transportation via "Postauto" No. 71 from Lucerne

Registration
Entrance ticket including work-shop, lunch and break catering: CHF 290.00
Support the Eigenthal-Trialogue with a voluntary ticket surcharge
via the Eigenthal-Trialogue Supporter Ticket
Supporter ticket: CHF 390.00

Desired workshop: (only one choice possible) Heiner Flassbeck, Thupten Jinpa Langri, Nancy Wimmer:

- Workshop 1 mit Heiner Flassbeck auf Deutsch:
Globale Politik ohne globale Exekutive? – Woran die nationalen Klimadiskussionen leiden

- Workshop 2 with Thupten Jinpa Langri in English:
Greater meaning, connection, and fulfillment through compassion 

- Workshop 3 mit Nancy Wimmer auf Deutsch:
Kann ein neues Paradigma der Entwicklungspolitik unsere Hoffnung erfüllen? –
Soziale Innovationen erreichen Millionen Arme

Please note: Your request will be considered according to the receipt of your registration. We will contact you via e-mail if the maximum number of participants for the workshop you have requested is exceeded.

Ticket order: info at neugalu.ch
Your registration / ticket order will be confirmed within a working day by a personal e-mail (not by an automatically generated response to the sender). You will be billed (pdf) via e-mail and the ticket(s) will be sent to you by e-mail once your payment has been received.
Please contact the Hotel Hammer for accommodation: info at hotel-hammer.ch

Covid 19 information (updated)
Your personal health lies close to our heart.
As an event organizer, we comply with the legal requirements of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), so that your health and well-being are guaranteed. This includes social distancing, the ventilation the different locations in the Hotel Hammer as well as a safety concept for the catering.

Juliette Hüsler, director of photography and film editor in Paul Howard’s new film
“Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm” (2020)
Dr. phil. René Stettler, Founder Swiss Biennial
on Science, Technics + Aesthetics (1995)


Magic Eigenthal near Lucerne, Switzerland - Winter impressions © Pro Eigenthal Schwarzenberg, Schweiz