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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & World-Building in Dune Messiah
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Book Group Exploring Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah Through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough the intersections of environment\, religion\, self identity\, and government\, participants in this learning circle will explore themes of environment\, terrain\, and traveling through the religious life. \n\n\n\nOur reading of Dune Messiah will consider process themes found in Whitehead’s Process and Reality\, while engaging with care to not overlay process theology on Herbert’s work. Rather\, the conversation series will consider elements of Herbert’s world-building that are shared with Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. In the consideration\, careful attention will be paid to the impediments to process principles in the establishment of institutions of any type. \n\n\n\nSome experience with Whitehead’s philosophy is preferred but not required. Dune Messiah will be read over four weeks\, with excerpts from Whitehead coupled with each reading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-world-building-in-dune-messiah/2024-04-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Helena Norberg-Hodge in Conversation with John Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Local Futures and the Economics of Happiness \n\n\n\nPresenters: Helena Norberg-Hodge\, John Cobb\, Anja Lyngbaek \n\n\n\nFrom her home in Australia\, Helena Norberg-Hodge recorded an interview with John Cobb specifically to be shared with Cobb and Friends.  Linguist\, author and film maker\, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation\, Local Futures\, a pioneer of the new economy movement\, and the convenor of World Localization Day.   \n\n\n\nShe is the author of several books\, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’\, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh\, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title\, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages\, and sold half a million copies.  Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’. Other publications include ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’. \n\n\n\nAnja Lyngbaek\, Managing and Programs Director\, will join us for discussion of the pre-recorded conversation between John and Helena.  Anja has worked with Local Futures since 1986 on many projects\, including the International Alliance for Localization\, the Economics of Happiness Conference Series and World Localization Day. Fluent in Spanish\, English and Danish\, she has been a spokesperson for localization on several continents. Anja divides her time between a Mexican ecovillage and a small island in the Danish Archipelago. She is a passionate food grower and is happiest with her hands in the soil. Anja holds a BSc in Rural Resource Management and a MPhil. in Agroforestry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths
DESCRIPTION:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to present the spring 2024 session of Interfaith Explorations. Hosted by Bethlehem Centre in collaborative partnership with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, the Cobb Institute and Process & Faith\, “Poetry for the Journey” is a six week online series that will provide an inclusive environment for individuals from different religious traditions and spiritual independents to come together to share and discuss poetry. \n\n\n\nThe group’s primary focus is on “spiritual poetry”\, a term inspired by Jane Hirshfield\, an acclaimed poet\, essayist\, and translator with ten collections of poetry. On the Poetry Foundation’s website\, Hirshfield shares 22 spiritual poems that delve into themes such as permeability\, embracing life with a resounding ‘Yes\,’ abundance\, longing\, spiritual dialogue\, love\, vibration\, and meditation. These are the kinds of themes we will explore during the class sessions. \n\n\n\nThe selected poems will be ancient\, classical\, and contemporary works from diverse cultures and faith backgrounds. They will be presented in English to ensure accessibility for participants. The poems will serve as launching pads for reflection and discussion\, allowing participants to contemplate on various aspects of everyday life\, historical moments\, and philosophical ideas. \n\n\n\nThe interfaith exploration series will be held on Wednesdays\, with a guided exploration of three poems during each session. The three poems for each week will be distributed before the class so that participants can read them in advance if they wish. \n\n\n\nExperienced facilitators of poetry explorations will lead each of these sessions. Zoom details will be sent to register participants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/poetry-for-the-journey-creating-a-spiritual-space-for-people-of-all-paths/2024-04-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-04-11/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T143000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Processing Difference & Repetition
DESCRIPTION:A Collective Processing of Gilles Deleuze’s Masterpiece\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProcessing Difference & Repetition is a learning circle dedicated to exploring Gilles Deleuze’s seminal work\, Difference and Repetition. Its goal is to collectively process the rich themes within the book\, occasionally identify resonances with the larger process tradition\, and foster insightful discussions along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-processing-difference-repetition/2024-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeff Wells\, Vikki Randall\, Nichole Torbitzky
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeff Wells\, Vikki Randall\, Nichole Torbitzky \n\n\n\nPastor Jeff Wells is lead pastor of Church of the Village (Greenwich Village in New York City).  He invited John Cobb to preach there when ZOOM opened creative opportunities for cross-country connecting.  At the time of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Center for Process Studies\, Jeff shared with Mary Elizabeth Moore his idea for a book of process-oriented sermons and worship resources\, and she said\, “Don’t wait!  Do it now!  We need that book!”  At the church’s sermon archive\, you can find the January 28\, 2024 message where he introduces the book to his congregation.  \n\n\n\nJeff assembled an editorial team\, which included Thomas Jay Oord\, theologian who has written much about the “uncontrolling love of God.”  Team members Vikki Randall and Nichole Torbitzky will be present with Cobb & Friends for our discussion.  John Cobb wrote the Foreword and contributed two sermons he preached at Church of the Village. The book is a compilation of sermons\, essays\, and worship elements from the perspective of open\, relational\, and process theology. They have 68 contributors from across North America and about ten from other parts of the world.  They represent a broad range of denominations and traditions in this valuable resource for lay persons and clergy\, worship leaders\, and congregations.  This important book is the first of its kind to bring together sermons\, essays\, and worship elements from the perspective of Open\, Relational\, and Process theology.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T113000
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths
DESCRIPTION:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to present the spring 2024 session of Interfaith Explorations. Hosted by Bethlehem Centre in collaborative partnership with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, the Cobb Institute and Process & Faith\, “Poetry for the Journey” is a six week online series that will provide an inclusive environment for individuals from different religious traditions and spiritual independents to come together to share and discuss poetry. \n\n\n\nThe group’s primary focus is on “spiritual poetry”\, a term inspired by Jane Hirshfield\, an acclaimed poet\, essayist\, and translator with ten collections of poetry. On the Poetry Foundation’s website\, Hirshfield shares 22 spiritual poems that delve into themes such as permeability\, embracing life with a resounding ‘Yes\,’ abundance\, longing\, spiritual dialogue\, love\, vibration\, and meditation. These are the kinds of themes we will explore during the class sessions. \n\n\n\nThe selected poems will be ancient\, classical\, and contemporary works from diverse cultures and faith backgrounds. They will be presented in English to ensure accessibility for participants. The poems will serve as launching pads for reflection and discussion\, allowing participants to contemplate on various aspects of everyday life\, historical moments\, and philosophical ideas. \n\n\n\nThe interfaith exploration series will be held on Wednesdays\, with a guided exploration of three poems during each session. The three poems for each week will be distributed before the class so that participants can read them in advance if they wish. \n\n\n\nExperienced facilitators of poetry explorations will lead each of these sessions. Zoom details will be sent to register participants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/poetry-for-the-journey-creating-a-spiritual-space-for-people-of-all-paths/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T080000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-04-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T143000
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SUMMARY:Becoming an Ecological Civilization
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world filled with conflicts and crises. But there are also beacons of harmony and hope. Every moment matters in the struggle between suffering and flourishing. We believe it’s about time to promote visions of transformation. It’s about time to engage in initiatives of innovation. It’s about time to create communities of compassion. It’s about time to build an ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nYou’re invited to join us for a special gala featuring a group of brilliant thinkers\, great leaders\, and inspiring artists to envision the possibilities of an ecological civilization and raise funds to help the Cobb Institute realize its mission. \n\n\n\nThis event will include a panel discussion with four fascinating individuals who have each made significant contributions in the area of ecological civilization\, and performances by three gifted artists whose work exhibits care for our common home. \n\n\n\nAll of the participants will share their unique visions to generate transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Register
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/becoming-an-ecological-civilization/
CATEGORIES:Interweavings,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord & Tripp Fuller
DESCRIPTION:Topic: God after Deconstruction \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord & Tripp Fuller \n\n\n\nTom and Tripp are both familiar voices in the community of folks influenced by Process and/or Open and Relational theologies.  They have agreed to discuss with us their book God after Deconstruction\, recently published by SacraSage Press. Watch for more details. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T180000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T100000
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths
DESCRIPTION:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to present the spring 2024 session of Interfaith Explorations. Hosted by Bethlehem Centre in collaborative partnership with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, the Cobb Institute and Process & Faith\, “Poetry for the Journey” is a six week online series that will provide an inclusive environment for individuals from different religious traditions and spiritual independents to come together to share and discuss poetry. \n\n\n\nThe group’s primary focus is on “spiritual poetry”\, a term inspired by Jane Hirshfield\, an acclaimed poet\, essayist\, and translator with ten collections of poetry. On the Poetry Foundation’s website\, Hirshfield shares 22 spiritual poems that delve into themes such as permeability\, embracing life with a resounding ‘Yes\,’ abundance\, longing\, spiritual dialogue\, love\, vibration\, and meditation. These are the kinds of themes we will explore during the class sessions. \n\n\n\nThe selected poems will be ancient\, classical\, and contemporary works from diverse cultures and faith backgrounds. They will be presented in English to ensure accessibility for participants. The poems will serve as launching pads for reflection and discussion\, allowing participants to contemplate on various aspects of everyday life\, historical moments\, and philosophical ideas. \n\n\n\nThe interfaith exploration series will be held on Wednesdays\, with a guided exploration of three poems during each session. The three poems for each week will be distributed before the class so that participants can read them in advance if they wish. \n\n\n\nExperienced facilitators of poetry explorations will lead each of these sessions. Zoom details will be sent to register participants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/poetry-for-the-journey-creating-a-spiritual-space-for-people-of-all-paths/2024-04-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240425T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240425T090000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-04-25/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thandeka
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Putting Our Emotions on the Couch \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thandeka \n\n\n\nThandeka will lead a discussion/workshop session exploring process metaphysics—experientially.    \n\n\n\nThree exercises will be used to achieve this end\, based on Contemporary Affect Theology\, which was founded by Thandeka. Contemporary Affect Theology advances insights from Schleiermacher’s affect theology and Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience—the brain science of emotions. She will use three exercises (two created respectively by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey and one created by Thandeka) as part of her affective theological strategy.  \n\n\n\nThandeka’s goal here is to explore how undisclosed premises of affect-laden engagement\, volition\, moods\, attitudes\, and a history of patterning principles that motivate persons to make judgments about some facts and not others (as Dilthey noted) can get exposed today with compassionate understanding?  \n\n\n\nCan small group work advance and sustain the emotion-based paradigm shift now underway—for an ecological civilization of networked local communities millions upon millions strong?  \n\n\n\nIs small group work vital for this kind of empathic\, bridge-building work?  \n\n\n\nWe will explore answers to these questions based on personal insights and collective reflections. \n\n\n\nThandeka’s Bio: \n\n\n\nThandeka is a black American\, former Emmy award-winning television producer\, and Unitarian Universalist minister and theologian who has spent most of her life trying to figure out the sources of America’s dysfunction and how to heal it. She founded Contemporary Affect Theology\, which investigates the links between religion and emotions using insights from the brain science of emotions: Affective Neuroscience.  Jaak Panksepp\, the founder of affective neuroscience commends her work as “decisive historical-philosophical analysis” that can provide “a universal substrate for nondenominational religious experience” (The Archaeology of Mind\, 391).  \n\n\n\nShe has taught Contemporary Affect Theology at The Czech Unitarian Academy in Prague\, Williams College\, Harvard Divinity School and has been a Fellow at Stanford University’s Humanities Center\, and a visiting scholar at Union Theological School and The Center for Process Studies. John Cobb Jr. was a member of her dissertation committee at Claremont Graduate University. Her books and essays helped secure her place as a “major figure in American liberal theology\,” as Gary Dorrien notes in The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis\, Irony\, and Postmodernity\, 1950-2005 (John Knox Press\, 2006).  \n\n\n\nThandeka spent more than a decade as a small group consultant testing various ways to turn her theological insights into small group practices to advance the participants’ ability to heal and transform themselves and eventually\, hopefully\, the world.  \n\n\n\nThandeka used insights from affective neuroscience to track down the trauma foundational to 2000 years of Christian antisemitism (as densely argued in her book Love Beyond Belief: Finding the Access Point to Spiritual Renewal) and 300 years of American racism (as detailed in her book Learning to Be White: Money\, Race and God in America).  The foundational insight of her work is that the human brain handles pervasive feelings of fear and rage in neurologically predictable ways to ensure survival.  \n\n\n\nHer present work focuses on Untrolling America’s emotions [https://www.youtube.com/@TheUntrollingProject] and Universal Connections [https://universalconnections.world] small group work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T180000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T113000
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths
DESCRIPTION:Poetry for the Journey: Creating a Spiritual Space for People of All Paths\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to present the spring 2024 session of Interfaith Explorations. Hosted by Bethlehem Centre in collaborative partnership with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, the Cobb Institute and Process & Faith\, “Poetry for the Journey” is a six week online series that will provide an inclusive environment for individuals from different religious traditions and spiritual independents to come together to share and discuss poetry. \n\n\n\nThe group’s primary focus is on “spiritual poetry”\, a term inspired by Jane Hirshfield\, an acclaimed poet\, essayist\, and translator with ten collections of poetry. On the Poetry Foundation’s website\, Hirshfield shares 22 spiritual poems that delve into themes such as permeability\, embracing life with a resounding ‘Yes\,’ abundance\, longing\, spiritual dialogue\, love\, vibration\, and meditation. These are the kinds of themes we will explore during the class sessions. \n\n\n\nThe selected poems will be ancient\, classical\, and contemporary works from diverse cultures and faith backgrounds. They will be presented in English to ensure accessibility for participants. The poems will serve as launching pads for reflection and discussion\, allowing participants to contemplate on various aspects of everyday life\, historical moments\, and philosophical ideas. \n\n\n\nThe interfaith exploration series will be held on Wednesdays\, with a guided exploration of three poems during each session. The three poems for each week will be distributed before the class so that participants can read them in advance if they wish. \n\n\n\nExperienced facilitators of poetry explorations will lead each of these sessions. Zoom details will be sent to register participants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/poetry-for-the-journey-creating-a-spiritual-space-for-people-of-all-paths/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240502T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240502T090000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-05-02/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kat Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Topic: I Sing the Body Electric: A Process Relational Critique of Compartmentalized Medicine \n\n\n\nPresenters: Kat Reeves \n\n\n\nKat Reeves\, CCS\, BCC\, will join John Cobb and Friends for an eye-opening exploration into the shortcomings of modern medicine and relational healthcare advocacy. Kat will illuminate the issue of fragmentation within medicine\, shedding light on the overlooked aspects of holistic well-being\, the emotional state of patients and their families and clear communication. Kat will guide us through the compartmentalized medical system through storytelling and real-life examples.  \n\n\n\nIn today’s medical landscape\, there’s an undeniable emphasis on treating organs and isolated body parts\, often at the expense of understanding the broader context of a patient’s life. Kat will dissect this prevalent approach\, delving into the ramifications of neglecting the process relational understanding of the intricate interplay between family dynamics\, social systems\, and the psychological impacts of medical choices. We will also consider the profound significance of the soul and spiritual life in the realm of healthcare. By daring to broach these often-dismissed topics\, Kat unveils the true essence of holistic healing\, where the body\, mind\, and spirit are intricately interconnected. \n\n\n\nWe know Kat Reeves as the Cobb Institute Community Relations Specialist but before her work with us Kat worked in acute hospital settings such as Riverside Community Hospital\, Arrowhead Regional Hospital and Loma Linda University Medical Center. Kat’s work involved Health Information Management and she especially enjoyed cardiology\, trauma\, and interventional radiology.  Kat shares that\, yes\, she can read doctor handwriting. Aside from that skill\, Kat analyzed patient medical records looking for diagnoses that were present based on labs\, radiology\, and symptoms but not charted by the doctors. Kat also had to capture the details of surgeries for documentation such as what veins and arteries were sutured together in a Coronary Artery bypass. \n\n\n\nMore recently Kat has worked as a Hospice chaplain and facility chaplain working with the elderly. She works part time at John Cobb’s retirement community at Pilgrim Place. Check out Kat’s workshop for the Cobb Institute on Death and Dying: https://cobb.institute/learning-lab/process-of-dying/ \n\n\n\nKat also contributed an essay on chaplaincy in the book Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God: Sermons\, Essays\, and Worship Elements from the Perspective of Open\, Relational\, and Process Theology\, which can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T180000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T090000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-05-09/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sandra Lubarsky\, Emily Schneider\, Sean Parson\, Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Conversation on Zionism and Anti-Zionism in a Time of Political Turmoil \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sandra Lubarsky\, Emily Schneider\, Sean Parson\, Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev \n\n\n\nReferring to the current Israel-Gaza conflict\, Michelle Goldberg of the NYTimes spoke of a “fanatically Manichaen moment.” It is a moment that can be compressed into the two words\, “Zionism” and “anti-Zionism.” How are we to understand these terms\, their multiple forms\, their relation to nationalism\, and the possibilities for a political solution that they open up or close down? In what ways do they help or hinder us from moving to a humane future in this region of the world and internationally? John Cobb asked Sandra Lubarsky\, President of Flagstaff College and Communiversity and emeritus faculty in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University to help us reflect on Zionism and Anti-Zionism from a Jewish perspective.  She will moderate the conversation with these colleagues. \n\n\n\nDr. Emily Schneider is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and she was previously a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Colorado College.  Prior to her academic career\, Dr. Schneider served as the Director of Development at a joint Israeli-Palestinian NGO\, Windows – Channels for Communication\, where she founded one of the first tour programs to bring young Jewish Americans to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2010. She is completing a manuscript on the role of Jewish allyship and tourism in the Palestine Solidarity Movement. \n\n\n\nSean Parson is a professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Program in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs\, Homes Not Jails\, and Resistance to Gentrification\, co-author of Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies: The Heroic Beasts of Total Liberation\, and serves on the editorial board for Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oregon.  See his website here. \n\n\n\nRabbi Nahum Ward-Lev is the author of The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets: Then and Now (Orbis Books)\, described as “a great gift at a crucial moment in human history” (Susannah Heschel). He is founder and leader of Beit Midrash of Santa Fe\, a multi-faith sacred learning community. He holds an MA in Hebrew Education\, Ordination and a Doctor of Divinity degree from the Hebrew Union College and is a Fellow of the Rabbis Without Borders Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T163000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & World Religions
DESCRIPTION:Introducing World Religions through a Process-Relational Lens\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of six sessions\, we will discuss Christianity\, Judaism\, Islam\, Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Indigenous/Traditional Ways. \n\n\n\nAs we approach each tradition\, we will seek to encounter its commitments and matters of ultimate concern alongside its primary practices\, exploring how it may be situated within process and relational metaphysics. Through this lens\, we might ask how each tradition fosters zest and enjoyment\, nourishes its adherents’ spiritual and ethical lives\, and knits communities together\, with an eye on each tradition’s view of the proper relationship between the transpersonal or sacred and humans\, as well as between humans and the earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-world-religions/2024-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T090000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-05-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240520T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Processing Difference & Repetition
DESCRIPTION:A Collective Processing of Gilles Deleuze’s Masterpiece\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProcessing Difference & Repetition is a learning circle dedicated to exploring Gilles Deleuze’s seminal work\, Difference and Repetition. Its goal is to collectively process the rich themes within the book\, occasionally identify resonances with the larger process tradition\, and foster insightful discussions along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-processing-difference-repetition/2024-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Richard Rose
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Building the Beloved Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Richard Rose \n\n\n\nCobb Institute board member\, Dr. Richard Rose\, is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of La Verne\, where he is also Coordinator of the Ecumenical Center for Black Church Studies.  He has developed a course on “Building the Beloved Community” that engages ULV students in practical experiences of community building\, enriched by readings from Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Mahatma Gandhi\, Howard Thurman\, and Martin Luther King\, Jr.  His current research examines global issues related to Interfaith dialogue and Religious Pluralism.  His teaching was recognized by a recent Life Worth Living Grant from the Yale Center of Faith and Culture.  This provided an opportunity for him to share that course with an International Ubuntu Festival in South Africa\, where he was able to bring Beloved Community in dialogue with the concept of Ubuntu.  This article in his hometown Claremont Courier celebrates that experience.  Dr. Rose says\, “I think we’re in a time right now where people need hope. People need to see something that allows them to say ‘Maybe there’s a chance that we can get out of the mess that we are in.’  Rose’s course offers “concrete examples of where things are actually working\, where people are actually getting along. . . . It doesn’t have to be so doomsday about the future. I think providing that kind of hope is good.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T090000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-05-23/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T054151
CREATED:20240501T192542Z
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SUMMARY:Course: 12 Universal Spiritual Principles to Freedom and Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Dealing With Difficulties in a Healthy and Holistic Way\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the course of life\, most people experience serious challenges\, like death of a loved one\, conflict within marriage\, the loss of a job\, an addiction\, serious problems with a child\, loss of life purpose\, etc. When such challenges require help beyond one’s own resources\, the 12 spiritual principles covered in this course open the path to outside help which solves the challenge. This is the way to deal with the difficulties one faces in a healthy and holistic way. \n\n\n\nIn this six-session course\, Karl Y. will guide participants in a brief study of the twelve spiritual principles for solving any human personal problem and how the solution increases intimacy with oneself\, others\, and the power of help outside oneself. The twelve universal spiritual principles are generalized from the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. We will link these principles to the writing of Alfred North Whitehead in order to understand them in transreligious spiritual ways that are compatible with process-relational thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-12-universal-spiritual-principles-to-freedom-and-intimacy/2024-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240528T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mark VanderSchaaf
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Path Towards Sustainability and Biodiversity in Metropolitan Los Angeles \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mark VanderSchaaf \n\n\n\nMark VanderSchaaf had a thirty-year career as an urban and regional planner in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area where he ultimately served as the regional planning director for that area’s seven-county Metropolitan Council from 2004 to 2016. In that role Mark also became a national leader in the field of public sector sustainability planning\, serving as the chair and immediate past chair for the Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division of the American Planning Association (APA) upon retirement. More recently Mark has focused on sustainability planning issues in Metropolitan Los Angeles\, working pro bono with Pando Populus to help address sustainability priorities of the Chief Sustainability Officers Task Force of Los Angeles County\, and APA. That work culminated in April\, 2024 with the publication of a free e-book\, Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles: Products and Processes. In future years he will be focusing his work on biodiversity issues as a new appointee of the Biodiversity Expert Council of the City of Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nMark’s Cobb and Friends talk on May 28 will introduce national perspectives on urban and regional sustainability planning\, and how such planning is occurring throughout Metropolitan Los Angeles. It will especially consider how varying law and policy frameworks in the United States make it challenging to ensure that sustainability strategies in this country are well aligned with one another. He will emphasize similarities and differences between sustainability planning in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area and Metropolitan Los Angeles as examples of such challenges. He will talk about how planning products and processes in Metropolitan Los Angeles may well serve as helpful models for the rest of the United States. Finally\, he will consider how and why biodiversity planning is poised to become a key focus of sustainability efforts in the future\, and how the City of Los Angeles’ biodiversity index is poised to engender a “best practice” strategy for biodiversity protection and enhancement as the impacts of climate change become increasingly severe. L.A.’s biodiversity work will have consequences not only regionally and nationally\, but throughout the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-mark-vanderschaaf/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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