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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-09-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Patricia Adams Farmer
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Grief\, Beauty\, and a Process Theology for the People. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Patricia Adams Farmer \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel appreciates the way Patricia Adams Farmer makes process theology accessible to lay people. Here are links to three of her essays that provide a springboard for discussion. Jay reports\, “One deals with grief in the death of her mother years ago; my wife Kathy has a copy of it in her wallet\, finding it so helpful in dealing with Kathy’s mother’s death. Another is Patricia telling the story of going blind through glaucoma. The third spells out the role Beauty plays in process theology. Explore these readings and come prepared for conversation!  \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/grief-takes-a-road-trip1.html \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/beauty-in-the-darkness-patricia-adams-farmer.html \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/my-religion-is-beauty-patricia-adams-farmer.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-09-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230907T080000
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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-23/2023-09-07/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Topic: To Repair Earth\, Learn from Trees\, Ants\, and Diverse Humans! \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nCobb Institute Board Member\, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Moore\, will share her thoughts presented in her keynote address to the International Academy of Practical Theology\, in Seoul\, Korea in June 2023. The conference focused on practical wisdom in the Anthropocene. Dr. Moore asks\, “What do trees\, ants\, and diverse human communities teach about the natural world and its care? The year 2023 offered the hottest spring and summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere; animals\, forests\, and people died in shocking numbers in the landmark heat. Such a year is a non-gentle reminder of the urgency of ecological understanding and action. Familiar tropes are no longer adequate to provide guidance. The planet insists that humans face critical questions: how will we deepen our knowing and understanding and how will we find the requisite courage and capacities to protect\, heal\, and repair the earth and solar system?” She argues that the place to begin is with the non-human natural world and the peoples who live closest to the earth. “In my current work\, I turn particularly to trees\, ants\, and diverse human communities to upturn anthropocentric\, individualistic\, and industrial-technocratic dominance.” \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Moore\, is Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Theology and chair of the Cobb Institute’s Strategic Planning process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-09-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Spirituality\, Psychedelics\, and Process Thought
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from his own deeply moving personal journey through the early death of his father and his quest for sobriety\, in this event\, John Buchanan\, Ph.D. will introduce topics from his 2022 book\, Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death\, Psychedelics\, and Sobriety. He’ll highlight why process thought and transpersonal psychology are especially useful for understanding how psychedelics (and nonordinary states more generally) provide a mode of access to the transpersonal realm – what people may refer to as the Sacred or Divine Reality. He’ll explore how and why these experiences may reveal truthful insights into the nature of the universe and its spiritual dimensions along with the ways in which Alfred North Whitehead’s metaphysics and psychiatrist Stanislav Grof’s mapping of exceptional experience offer a powerful interpretive lens through which to view these phenomena. \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-spirituality-psychedelics-and-process-thought/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230914T080000
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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-23/2023-09-14/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230919T083000
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DTSTAMP:20230810T062247Z
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-09-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230919T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230919T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sam Coker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: John Coltrane’s Love Supreme: A Process Approach to (Popular) Music. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sam Coker \n\n\n\nArguably a dominant “religion” of contemporary culture is popular music: jazz\, rock\, metal\, indie\, rap\, country\, etc. People form identities and communities around it\, and enjoy touches of transcendence while listening to it. It is\, in a certain sense\, the sacred scripture for many around the world: albeit sonic not textual. Recently Sam Coker\, a recent graduate of Garrett-Evangelical seminary\, with a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theological Studies\, wrote a thesis on theology and popular music. His research interests include hermeneutics and the intersection of contemporary theology and music\, which culminated in a master’s thesis entitled “Keeping Time: A Theological Reading of Temporality in Popular Music.” Building upon that MA thesis\, he will explore the role of popular music in contemporary culture\, in dialogue with Jay McDaniel\, who was Sam’s professor of religious studies at Hendrix College. Using samples from jazz to metal music\, they will discuss (1) how music works with a yearning for restoration with the divine reality and can\, at times\, embody that restoration in sonic form; (2) how music elicits a dual dialectic of the apophatic and cataphatic; and (3) how temporality itself\, understood as a lived passage from present to past to future\, is at the heart of all music.   \n\n\n\nIn developing his themes\, he uses John Coltrane’s Love Supreme as one of his examples. Sam will introduce the themes and Jay will link with process thought. Sam currently lives in Chicago and splits his time between working in the chaplain’s office at a senior living facility and as a barista at a midsize coffee company. In his spare time\, he listens to tons of music\, goes to a lot of concerts\, and collects vinyl records. He is excited to collaborate with Dr. Jay McDaniel\, who was Sam’s professor of religious studies at Hendrix College.   \n\n\n\nHe is a certified candidate for ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church and one day hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in theology and ethics.To further get acquainted with Sam Coker\, see this link to his thesis: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2819964804. Or check out his metal article here:https://www.openhorizons.org/metal-music-a-hunger-for-transgressive-spiritual-spaces.html. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-09-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230921T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230921T090000
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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-23/2023-09-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230926T100000
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DTSTAMP:20230918T223854Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Vivian Song
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Yunhe Centre:  Balancing Economic Development and Ecological Restoration in China. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Vivian Song \n\n\n\nVivian Song has been working with Yunhe Centre\, which is actually a collection of centers in China in places which border preservation areas. By combining social entrepreneurship and innovative education\, the Yunhe Center believes “a regenerative economy with all life at heart is possible.” Vivian Song\, a director of the program\, says\, “I’m happy to share my experience working with the Yunhe Centre\, and our current summer water restoration community learning and service initiative.” For more information about Yunhe Centre and access to their website\, see Jay McDaniel’s piece at this Open Horizons website. Vivian Song has provided leadership for the Youth Dialogues program of the Living Earth Movement\, which John Cobb has founded. She is a member of the Cobb Institute Board. \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-2023-09-26/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230928T080000
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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-23/2023-09-28/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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