A space for reflection, dialogue and the study of how we evolve - together with the world we are part of.
Understanding our interdependence with nature and one another, and living in accordance with it.
Aligning how we live with what we understand - navigating the ebbs of change, together.
The Centre for the Study of Evolution, Enlightenment and Reintegration (CSEER) intends to bring together people from various fields of inquiry which have attempted to clarify fundamental matters of human interest; how we have evolved as a species, how our environment has changed around us, and how our actions have affected this natural environment, of which we are part.
We are all witness to some unprecedented change around us and the pace of technological evolution and the related evolutionary cycles have given rise to many speculations. It would be most appropriate at this point in time to reflect on the emerging situation and adapt/act accordingly. Most recently we organised a dialogue under our initiative *CSEER (Centre for the Study of Evolution, Enlightenment and Re-Integration)* amongst people from the field of Human Psychology, Politics and the study of Ecology, to enable us to understand why we have reached here and what is the sustainable path we can choose.
We cannot and do not grow into who we are individually, or as a group in isolation. As a species we are interdependent on nature and it is important for us to align this understanding and live accordingly.
Evolution must be understood as a process of consistent change in the context of our interconnectedness to each other and our larger environment. Increasingly, this relationship has occupied an important role in our understanding of the world. For instance, we recognize that after the Ice Age, the warming of the global climate was connected to the emergence of civilizations which went through many iterations on account of our species adapting to this change and in turn changing the environment around us.
We have reached a point where the evolution of the civilizational form is showing its effects on a far wider and visible scale. It is best enumerated in our predicament, where the pursuit of self-interest has cut each person from the other, destabilized global markets, and eroded the soil beneath all our feet.
A gathering of thinkers, researchers and practitioners drawn from many fields of inquiry.
To foster a holistic understanding of our nature and the nature we are part of, and to act in accordance with it.
Free thought, the urge to apprehend a changing world together, and the necessity of cooperation.
Starting from the assumption that there are organic links between nature, work, and daily life, CSEER aims to create a foundational stage for people engaged in broad fields of inquiry. One may associate the idea of Enlightenment with cooperative societies in eighteenth-century Europe. These were composed of people ranging from craftsmen, academic specialists in metallurgy, chemistry, or law, to those with a general interest in novel developments of the time. Such groups were built on free thought, the urge to apprehend a changing world together, and the necessity of cooperation ostensibly aimed at solving the basic conundrums of human life and its destiny.
But they remain. These issues have not been superseded by the striking achievements of science and technological development, which have also created newer sets of problems today.
What bear greatly on these are the workings of our primal impulses, which rise above differences of race, geographical location, and values. It is only natural, given the universality of such matters, that there are various traditions of worldwide thought within which attempts to navigate them have been made. Given, then, that these problems face us with equal intensity as before, the task set to our generations is to reconcile the varying ideals of converging cultural patterns, helping them sustain each other instead of destructively encouraging their collision. To work towards this end, CSEER emphasizes the need for a holistic understanding of our own nature and the nature we are a part of and to align our actions in accordance with this structure.
An introductory journey through how we have evolved as a species and what it means to live in alignment with nature.
A guided workshop on cultivating attention and reconnecting the individual, the social and the natural.
An open conversation on the crisis of meaning across our political, social and private lives.
