POETRY SCIENCE TALKS – EAST

BIOS OF THE ORGANIZERS

Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D.

I'm a psychologist with a practice in Sag Harbor and New York, NY.  I specialize in psychospiritual development: treating 'neurosis' as the natural unfolding of human maturation.  I'm also a policy researcher and social theorist, and for over twenty-five years, I've brought researchers, philosophers, psychiatrists, artists, futurists, and activists into research institutes, Fortune-50 companies, consulting firms, and private salons.  My goal is to disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge, facilitate the innovation process, and implement research-based change, in order to foster a healthier integration of self, family, community, ecology, and spirit.  

Carleton Schade

I was trained as a geologist and have worked for years as an educator.  I found passion in traveling, politics and writing fiction, comfort and love as a householder and peace through meditation and yoga.  I am now involved in a futurist project entitled Dieback: The Science and Soul of the Coming Collapse.  Through experience and research, I am finding that we develop (mature) along numerous lines—the physical, intellectual, psychological, spiritual, ecological, social, etc.  We mature as individuals and collectively as a society.  In the West, for example, we have grown intellectually through the millennia, yet have remained spiritual adolescents and ecological infants. If the Ecological Crisis proves to be the gateway for our transformation, let us all mature so that we can serve as midwives in this momentous event.

POETRY SCIENCE TALKS BACKGROUND:

Poetry Science Talks is a salon/discussion group -- an ongoing series of out-of-box discussions and good fellowship -- hosted in New York City since April, 2001 by Neal Goldsmith and Ed Rosenfeld (see below for a complete list of our back topics from the Manhattan meetings).  Now, Neal Goldsmith and Carleton Schade have started Poetry Science Talks - East, in Sag Harbor, New York, and Ed Rosenfeld is holding a Poetry Science Talks - North in Woodstock, New York.    

Our interest with PST is in a broader understanding of reality than can be attained through either creativity, intuition, and spirituality, on the one hand, or science, matter, and logic on the other.  This third, transcendent view of reality might be labeled "integral" science and philosophy - a "poetry science" if you will - a world view that can accommodate and integrate seeming opposites: of science and art, mind and body, matter and energy, spirit and flesh.   – from Neal Goldsmith and Ed Rosenfeld, Poetry Science Talks (Manhattan)

This is not the science of poetry, nor poetry about science, but rather a poetical science (and philosophy) broad enough to serve as a conceptual umbrella for both the Cartesian/Newtonian "normal" state, as well as the many other ways we experience and describe reality: quantum mechanics, meditation, psychosomatics, psychedelics, spontaneous remission, peak experience, stigmata, artificial intelligence, emergent properties, hypnosis, trance, cosmology, placebo, relativity, healing, creativity, that spark of knowing/insight - phenomena of a poetry science.

We are working to forge a broader, more parsimonious and inclusive view of reality, one that is discriminating among concepts, flexible to change, reasoned in assessment and systematic in perspective.  Our ultimate goal is a more curious, open, accepting intentionality toward the future - and the present moment - of humanity's development.  Our passion is for transformative ideas - and the implications for action - that arise out of these topics, with their themes of philosophy of mind, healing, creative media, ecology, governance, and post-modern science and technology -- themes of a poetry science. 

We look forward to seeing you at the Poetry Science Talks - East, the (USUALLY) first Sunday of every month!