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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101
DESCRIPTION:A Learning Circle Exploring a Process Worldview For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays on important themes to process thought. The topics will include the interconnectedness and relational nature of the universe\, the idea that nature is alive and has value for itself\, and process and beauty. \n\n\n\nThe learning circle will begin with a general introduction to process thought and a process worldview by a close exploration of those topics using the “Educator’s Toolbox” found on the Cobb Institute website. Jay McDaniel has provided 20 Key Ideas as a springboard for discussing process thought as well as thoughts on a process worldview. The circle will conclude with a 90-minute question and answer session (Going Deeper) with Dr. McDaniel. \n\n\n\nNo prior knowledge of process thought is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-101/2024-03-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240310T160000
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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/2024-03-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T170000
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SUMMARY:Interweavings: indigo\, the color of grief
DESCRIPTION:In a world that Alfred North Whitehead described as one of “perpetual perishing\,” grief must certainly be a universal human experience. In this conversation\, Jonathan Foster will read excerpts from his book\, indigo: the color of grief.  From the book’s description: \n\n\n\nindigo is thejoy and lament of ahuman beingtheologianfather \n\n\n\nfashioning new ideas about the divinewithin the painful loss of his daughterwithin the constraints of his own intelligencewithin the constraints of what religionhad been telling him his whole lifesome of which was good andsome of which wasn’tgood \n\n\n\nit’s a way forwardwhere forward means theinteraction ofpast choicespast eventsand personal agencyin this momentand this momentand … yes\, this moment \n\n\n\nAfter the readings\, chaplain Kathleen Reeves will respond\, sharing thoughts and tools on our movement through grief. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the following\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Register
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/interweavings-indigo-the-color-of-grief/
CATEGORIES:Interweavings,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T080000
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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-2/2024-03-07/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T180000
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/whiteheads-process-philosophy/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240305T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jonathan Foster
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Indigo: The Color of Grief \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jonathan Foster \n\n\n\nJonathan Foster\, the first to graduate under Thomas Jay Oord’s supervision in the doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary\, has created indigo: the color of grief\, which he calls “my newest writing on life\, loss\, love\, theology\, beauty and being a human in the midst of it all.”  Peter Rollins calls Jonathan’s writing “a stunning reflection on loss and suffering.”  Catherine Keller says\, “The dark beauty of grief working as art glows through every stanza of this long\, slender epic.” \n\n\n\nBrian D. McLaren called the book “poignant and profound.”  “If you’re considering loss you’ll be grateful for this book. . .which is simultaneously heart-breaking\, heart-opening\, and heart-expanding.” To learn more see jonathanfosteronline.com\, where you can connect to his many podcasts or subscribe to his substack publication\, “at the intersection of mimetic theory\, open and relational theology\, grief\, and life.” In October\, 2022\, Jonathan Foster shared with Cobb & Friends his dissertation\, published by Sacra Sage Press as Theology of Consent\, combining the mimetic theory of Rene Girard\, and the Open and Relational theology so strongly influenced by Thomas J. Oord. \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-jonathan-foster/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T130000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101
DESCRIPTION:A Learning Circle Exploring a Process Worldview For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays on important themes to process thought. The topics will include the interconnectedness and relational nature of the universe\, the idea that nature is alive and has value for itself\, and process and beauty. \n\n\n\nThe learning circle will begin with a general introduction to process thought and a process worldview by a close exploration of those topics using the “Educator’s Toolbox” found on the Cobb Institute website. Jay McDaniel has provided 20 Key Ideas as a springboard for discussing process thought as well as thoughts on a process worldview. The circle will conclude with a 90-minute question and answer session (Going Deeper) with Dr. McDaniel. \n\n\n\nNo prior knowledge of process thought is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-101/2024-03-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T090000
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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-2/2024-02-29/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T180000
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/whiteheads-process-philosophy/2024-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Evaggelos Vallianatos
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The World’s First Computer of Genius \n\n\n\nPresenters: Evaggelos Vallianatos \n\n\n\nScience historian and environmental strategist Evaggelos Vallianatos will tell the story of the Antikythera Mechanism\, a device discovered in 1900 that has become a window into the genius of ancient Greeks. In the second century BCE\, the Greeks brought together the knowledge and philosophy they had been gathering for millennia into an astronomical computer designed primarily to predict the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon. The Cosmos was sacred to the Greeks\, but they had a special affection for the Sun and the Moon because these two stars gave them life and light. Besides\, like the rest of the stars\, the Greeks considered the Sun and his sister\, the Moon\, to be gods. Further\, the Sun and the Moon arrange the time of the day\, month and year. So\, the metal astronomical computer with toothed gears was very important. Predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon had a psychological virtue as many Greeks were frightened by the temporary disappearance of these two stars from the sky. In addition\, the computer had a 19-year Meton accurate calendar and an 18-year Saros eclipse predictive dial. In fact\, the computer also predicted the Olympics\, so it united the heavens and Earth. \n\n\n\nThe Antikythera device was discovered in 1900 in the deep waters of the tiny Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean. International scientists have been studying its fragments for more than 120 years. \n\n\n\nEvaggelos Vallianatos\, a frequent participant in our Cobb & Friends conversations\, earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. He also did his postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and the US Environmental Protection Agency. He taught at several universities and authored hundreds of articles and 7 books\, including The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise.   \n\n\n\nHe has published several articles about this marvel of Greek civilization\, including:  \n\n\n\n1: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/10/the-antikythera-mechanism-the-greek-computer-of-science-and-reason.2: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/05/why-was-the-antikythera-mechanism-so-far-ahead-of-its-time/. \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-2024-02-27/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T090000
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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-2/2024-02-22/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/whiteheads-process-philosophy/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Lynne Juarez
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Tule Elk Park: A Cautionary Tale \n\n\n\nPresenters: Lynne Juarez \n\n\n\nIt’s about children and the environment\, always an important focus for Lynne Juarez\, who worked for 33 years with the San Francisco Public School District. Her B.A. was earned at University of San Francisco\, and she has an M.A. in early childhood education from San Francisco State University. In 1991\, the year of the Gulf War\, she was working in an Early Education Program in a school that served over 300 children aged three through the third grade. Many images of that war were flashed on the TV screen each night…the black smoke coming from the burning oil fields\, the eerie photos of soldiers\, faces obscured by gas masks. The images that were seared into Lynne’s brain were those of the many oil soaked birds. In the face of so much death and destruction\, she felt compelled to do something. But what? And so began a journey that lasted seven years\, the building of Tule Elk Park. The school with an asphalt playground was turned into a park\, and named after the animals that used to roam there. She takes great pride in creating something life-affirming despite the time of war. In her retirement she went to Namibia to work with young adults to work with lower income students who wanted to teach early childhood education.   \n\n\n\nFriends at the Institute for Postmodern Development in China encouraged Lynne to write a paper to be delivered at a Conference in China in 2014. Although a family emergency prevented her from doing so\, a companion traveler did make the trip and presented the paper to Chinese educators interested in children and the environment.  Lynne herself delivered the paper in 2015 for the Cobb Claremont conference on Seizing an Alternative.  A resident of Pilgrim Place in Claremont\, she is still active with its Environmental Concerns Committee\, including creating booths at its annual festival to educate young people about environmental concerns. \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-2024-02-20/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240219T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240219T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20231220T235213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231221T000507Z
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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/2024-02-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240206T044739Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Process Philosophy & Design
DESCRIPTION:In this pop-up\, William Wilding and Matt Segall will explore the lack of philosophy in general and process philosophy in particular in design. In so doing\, they will ask what design is\, why techno-rationalism continues to dominate it\, and how process relational thinkers can reshape design science and education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConflict Invites Resolution\, 2016\, digitally printed mural\, 12x6m. Portraiture\, Rebeccah Power; Concept design\, W.Wilding.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\n\n\nThis event will begin with a presentation by William Wilding. In it\, he identifies gaps in the philosophy of design that reveal the need for philosophers in design. He locates these gaps in design philosophy\, science\, education\, history and methodology\, and he shows how philosophers can help determine what design is\, why it is an unresolved field and how it unfolds in research and practice. Progressing through a dialectical narrative focusing on design and creativity\, he outlines process philosophy in meta-philosophy\, recounts process metaphysical views of Kantian thought\, and emphasises the productivity in post-Kantian dialectics. Having established this process metaphysical position\, he thereafter asks why the philosophy of design is under-developed and how it is limiting concept designers from redirecting the trajectory of organisations. To address this issue in the light of the environmental crisis\, he studies the state of design science\, the claims of speculative design theorists in critical design practice\, and a phenomenological interpretation of design history that clarifies the placement theory of design. While he concludes with a discussion of a philosophical codesign project\, he ultimately questions whether designers can really emerge into any domain of experience\, redesign the orders holding it in place and thereby chart new pathways into the future? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“When everything is going right\, when the fundamental process is used well\, what comes out is not only natural\, not only living structure. It has\, too\, an archetypal quality—something savage … Technology changes continuously as society changes. Through the changing technology\, the eternal forms are continually refreshed and given new character\, new implementation. That is the temporarily changing part we know as style. But the core\, the unchanging core\, is the expression of ancient and eternal truths of unity.” \n-Christopher Alexander\, The Nature of Order\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing Dr. Wilding’s presentation\, he will engage in a dialogue with Matt Segall about the topics discussed\, after which there will be open conversation with the attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. William Wilding is a dialectical process thinker who operates in the intersection between philosophy\, art and design. Drawing on the history of ideas and the philosophy of science\, he works in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Active across industry and academy\, he develops collaborative projects to research and realise philosophical ideas. In his PhD (2022)\, he created process metaphysical roots for design. Focusing on Plato\, Kant\, Goethe\, Schelling and Whitehead\, he integrated processual\, speculative and dialectical forms of reasoning into design history\, theory and methodology on the one hand\, and environmental\, conceptual and interaction design practice on the other. In the process he formed Studio Romantic\, and he partnered with Education\, Government\, Industry\, Philanthropy and Church to design\, produce and exhibit abstract concepts in aesthetic forms. He is especially interested in the power of the imagination to reproduce the origins of the self in consciousness\, and he strives to realise this power through the iterative processes of strategic design. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew David Segall a transdisciplinary researcher\, writer\, teacher\, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences\, as well as to the study of consciousness. He is Associate Professor in the Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, CA and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-process-philosophy-design/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
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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-2/2024-02-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240220T001118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T054304Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/whiteheads-process-philosophy/2024-02-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240212T204021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T210405Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Celebrate John Cobb's 99th/100th Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebrate John Cobb’s 99th/100th Birthday \n\n\n\nPresenters: Many Tributes Will Be Offered \n\n\n\nAccording to custom in China\, one’s 99th birthday is counted as 100 years. Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan will share a portion of a China-centric audience’s tribute to Dr. Cobb\, “the Eco-Sage of our time\,” on this auspicious birth anniversary. Over a hundred persons experienced the celebration live\, and over 4000 have viewed the recorded tribute. How has John Cobb impacted your life? We’ll hear from several who have known John well. Come prepared to share your own word of greeting. Perhaps Jay McDaniel’s affirmation\, shared on Open Horizons\, will prompt some thoughts you’d like to share. The Open Horizons link also includes John Cobb’s thoughts on his own vocation in response to the Call of Abba. \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-2024-02-13/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T180000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Yoga\, Experience\, and the Vagus Nerve
DESCRIPTION:Yoga\, a spiritual practice from the Hindu tradition\, provides gentle and consistent contributions to the practitioner’s wellbeing. This conversation will introduce participants to recent research on the Vagus Nerve\, Pranayama Breathing practices and Asanas\, or flows of movement.  In addition\, Whitehead’s notion of “experience all the way down” is particularly relevant for vagus nerve research.  \n\n\n\nPranayama or breath is at the heart of yogic strength and somatic or body awareness.  In this event\, we’ll look at ways in which process thought on the primordial and consequent natures of God can be deeply applied through pranayama and its effect on various bodily regions. Leslie King will introduce simple chair yoga movements or asanas and each participant will learn more about their range of movement and how yogic practices best make sense for the body. \n\n\n\nStudents will be invited to join a follow-up Learning Circle to explore the practices even more deeply. \n\n\n\nRSVP required to receive ZOOM info. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the following:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-yoga-experience-and-the-vagus-nerve/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20231230T061834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z
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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-2/2024-02-08/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240124T032633Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Wesley J. Wildman
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Thinking Outside All the Boxes: AI Applications and Ethical Challenges \n\n\n\nPresenters: Wesley J. Wildman \n\n\n\nAI and related computational techniques are transforming economies. They’re also rocking universities. Everyone has heard about the effect of generative AI on teaching and learning. Surprisingly\, however\, computational methods are also revitalizing the humanities\, arts\, and social sciences\, and demonstrating the value of those disciplines to the rest of the university. This presentation\, from the Co-Chair of Boston University’s AI Task Force\, will reveal what is happening in these parts of the university\, opening a discussion about the multidimensional power and ethical challenges of these technologies. \n\n\n\nWesley J. Wildman is a philosopher of religion and a computational social scientist. He is Professor of Philosophy\, Theology\, and Ethics\, and of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University\, where he teaches AI ethics and philosophical theology (including process theology)\, among other topics. He is Professor II in the Institute of Global Development and Planning in the University of Agder\, Executive Director of Just Horizons Alliance\, and Chief Scientist of the Center for Mind and Culture. Author of nearly 200 articles and two dozen books\, his most recent book (with F. LeRon Shults) is Modeling Religion: Simulating the Transformation of Worldviews\, Lifeways\, and Civilizations (Bloomsbury\, 2014)\, which employs AI methods to study the role of religion in world history. His first novel\, which appeared in 2023\, is called The Winding Way Home. For more information\, see www.WesleyWildman.com. \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-2024-02-06/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20231231T070043Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Anthropogenic Climate Change is Threatening Civilization and Our Common Home
DESCRIPTION:EVENT POSTPONEDWe apologize for any inconvenience\, but this event has been postponed. This page will be updated as soon as it has been rescheduled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of the threat of civilizational and planetary destruction caused by anthropogenic climate change\, too many world leaders and peoples are failing to respond adequately. Evaggelos Vallianatos believes that Pope Francis is right in saying that the world is collapsing. In this pop-up\, he will offer an introduction to the history and dangers of climate change\, and argue that we need to heed the call of Pope Francis to organize a movement of resistance and change to the ceaseless use of fossil fuels causing global warming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I have realized that our responses [to the climate crisis] have not been adequate\, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” \n-Pope Francis\, Laudate Deum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\n\n\nPope Francis is right in saying that the world is collapsing. Evaggelos Vallianatos believes that we should join Pope Francis and his followers to organize a movement of resistance to the use of fossil fuels polluting our planet. This movement would seek to educate religious people\, schools\, governments to start taking climate change seriously. The idea would be to switch from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy for our homes\, cars\, transportation\, electricity production and other uses of energy. This transition has to start immediately\, and Vallianatos wants to start locally\, in places like Claremont\, to try and make it a paradigm for imitation. All schools\, including the Claremont Colleges and the Graduate University\, should be convinced to put solar panels on the roofs of their buildings as wells to teach students about global warming. The City of Claremont and communities like the Pilgrim Place need to produce their energy with renewable resources. \n\n\n\nThe burning of petroleum\, natural gas\, and coal emit solar heat absorbing gases. This additional heat makes the existing solar heat higher. This higher temperature triggers global warming / climate change. This constantly changing climate is affecting the seasons\, rains\, snow\, ice\, the temperature of the land and the oceans. The result is a series of droughts\, floods\, rising sea levels\, forest fires\, the melting of the ice\, the heating of the oceans — with detrimental effects on both human and environmental health. \n\n\n\nVallianatos’ presentation will highlight these effects all over the world. Moreover\, he will stress the failure of political leaders to take this ceaseless catastrophe seriously. Too often these “leaders” have been influenced by the money they receive for elections and reelections. In addition\, America is too dependent on petroleum: billions of cars\, trucks\, other machines\, industrialized agriculture\, airplanes\, ships\, armies and wars. These realities are fueled by petroleum and gas\, so a transition to a zero carbon economy is a revolutionary idea. It means remaking America. \n\n\n\nWhen Pope Francis says that the world is collapsing he means climate-induced fires\, floods\, droughts\, heavy rains\, and other disasters are having a deleterious effect on biological diversity and life on Earth. In addition\, the Pope rightly noticed that many world leaders and the UN climate summits are no more than lipstick\, covering over the ugly truth we face. The question we thus have to ask is this: can the power of the Pope be harnessed and put to this virtuous use of convincing citizens here and abroad to become active and demand political and economic changes for the end of the petroleum era and the beginning of the era of the Sun and wind? \n\n\n\nVallianatos asserts that we should be holding meetings and discussions with our local politicians and presidents of our schools. We should be arguing the necessity of change in order to make places like Claremont energy carbon free by the end of this decade. And Catholic leaders\, as well as leaders of other faiths\, ought to be part of our group for green energy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FACILITATOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvaggelos Vallianatos studied zoology and history at the University of Illinois\, earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsinm\, and did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and at the US Environmental Protection Agency for twenty five years\, has taught at several universities\, and authored hundreds of articles and seven books\, most recently The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT POSTPONEDWe apologize for any inconvenience\, but this event has been postponed. This page will be updated as soon as it has been rescheduled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-anthropogenic-climate-change-is-threatening-civilization-and-our-common-home/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20231230T061834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z
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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-2/2024-02-01/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240108T172102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T172433Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Thought & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Entering the Horizon of Process Ways of Understanding and Living\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis four-session course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development\, as guided by four ideals that are shared by process thinkers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/introduction-to-thought-practice/2024-01-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240124T031903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T032040Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Lília Dias Marianno
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Love and terror: gender\, diversity\, and inclusion in biblical narratives \n\n\n\nPresenters: Lília Dias Marianno \n\n\n\nWe were delighted to hear from Dra. Marianno\, a member of the International Process Network who has been a Fellow of the Center for Process Studies that she had just published the book\, Love and terror:  Gender\, diversity and inclusion in biblical narratives.  She said\, “It is with great joy that I announce the launch of my first book on biblical exegesis with process-relational hermeneutics\, which is\, in fact\, the 10th book I have authored.”  Here is what she shared with us: \n\n\n\n“Since Ronald Farmer was at a Biblical Research conference that I coordinated in 2012 in Brazil I have persisted in process hermeneutics as the methodological path for resolving conflicts of religious intolerance in several areas\, especially in the field of gender diversity and unrestricted inclusion of LGBT+ people in faith communities\, which in Brazil is still a major problem.“It is my way of paying tribute to Jorge Pixley\, a long-time friend in Latin American biblical research and who was the person responsible for  my first contacts with Processual Thought in Biblical Theology. Who knows\, maybe one day we can publish it in English? If any editor is interested I can think about the translation. \n\n\n\n“Summary: \n\n\n\nPresentation………………………………………………………….Introduction………………………………………………………….1. Understand this book…………………………………………..2. Process exegetical approach in Judges 19-21…………….3. Exegesis in Genesis texts……………………………………..4. Exegesis in Leviticus 18 and 20……………………………..5. Exegesis in “texts of horror” from Paul……………………6. Loving texts through the Bible………………………………7. Inconsistent holiness………………………………………….. \n\n\n\nEpilogue……………………………………………………………….   \n\n\n\nWhen we asked Doctora Marianno to introduce her book to Cobb & Friends\, she said\, “I am very\, very glad to return to Cobb and friends a little about the big education about Process Thought that I received from you.”  Here are various ways you may learn more about her:  Linked In\, ORCID\, Academia.edu\,     \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-2024-01-30/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Process\, Pluralism\, and Respecting Diverse Religious Ultimates
DESCRIPTION:Ultimate reality is often characterized in terms of what are thought to be a variety of incompatible concepts\, like God\, Dao\, Brahman\, śūnyatā\, etc. In his new book\, Religious Pluralism: Towards a Comparative Metaphysics of Religion\, Matthew S. LoPresti suggests that shifting to a process understanding of the world allows us to engage multiple religious ultimates alongside diverse religious practices and programs for salvation. \n\n\n\nIn this event\, LoPresti will share key ideas from his book to describe a “meta-theology” of world religions\, arguing that both Western and non-Western traditions are helpful. He’ll draw from John B. Cobb’s Whiteheadian “deep religious pluralism” as well as South Asian philosophy\, Western analytic philosophy\, and the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FACILITATOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew S. LoPresti\, PhD (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) is Chair of the Asian Studies Program at Hawai‘i Pacific University and has been teaching philosophy since 1999. While at HPU (since 2004) he has expanded his teaching to include courses in religious studies and the inter-disciplinary humanities. He is currently developing a course on Yoga Philosophy. \n\n\n\nA specialist in South Asian and Comparative Philosophy as well as Philosophy of Religion\, his primary area of research has been in developing a metaphysical basis for a genuine religious pluralism. He has published several articles in comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion and serves as a referee for Comparative Philosophy. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the following:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-process-pluralism-and-respecting-diverse-religious-ultimates/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T090000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20231230T061834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z
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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-2/2024-01-25/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240123T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T212222
CREATED:20240108T172102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T172433Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Thought & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Entering the Horizon of Process Ways of Understanding and Living\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis four-session course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development\, as guided by four ideals that are shared by process thinkers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/introduction-to-thought-practice/2024-01-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Philip Clayton
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Process Vision for Constructive Dialogue with China on Ecological Civilization: Concrete Steps \n\n\n\nPresenters: Philip Clayton \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb urged us to invite Philip Clayton for conversation.  At the time of President Xi’s visit to the US\, John sent this note:  “Philip attended  the meeting in San Francisco and has been invited to write for the Beijing Daily and to work with the Xinhua news group.  I am more hopeful about lasting peace with China than I have been for some time.  I hope you can invite him to talk to us on a Tuesday morning.”  Philip has already made significant contributions to conversations of the Living Earth Movement\, which John Cobb founded to seek better cooperation of the US and China to care for the planet we share. Philip has long supported the work of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, and his book Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Ecological Catastrophe (Toward Ecological Civilization) has received extensive attention among some Chinese scholars.  \n\n\n\nPhilip is the president of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. As a visionary thinker\, Philip leads EcoCiv in expanding and deepening its mission at the intersections of environment and humanity. With several decades of experience in university-based research\, teaching\, and lecturing\, Philip is involved in the conceptual development of all EcoCiv’s projects and ensures mission fit. In particular\, he helps project leaders think about intersectional societal changes relevant for their particular projects. Philip holds the PhD from Yale University; has held guest professorships at Harvard\, University of Cambridge\, and University of Munich; and is the author or editor of several dozen books and some 300 articles on science\, ethics\, and religion. \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-2024-01-23/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240118T080000
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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-2/2024-01-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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