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SUMMARY:Seeing Nature Through a Process Lens
DESCRIPTION:A Learning Circle Exploring Nature Authors Guided by Process Thought\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this four-session learning circle we will read and discuss the writings of various nature authors\, such as Loren Eiseley\, Mary Oliver\, John Muir\, and others. The group will use some of the Cobb Institute’s “What is Process Thought? 20 Key Ideas” slideshow as a means to learn more about nature and process thought. \n\n\n\nThe learning circle will meet four times for an hour and a half each session. We will begin session one with a discussion of five of the 20 Key Ideas. In each of the other three sessions there will be a brief review of the biography of the authors and an overview of their works. \n\n\n\nKnowledge of the authors we will study or process thought is not necessary. A desire to learn more about both is both helpful and desired. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/seeing-nature-through-a-process-lens/2024-07-01/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & Ecological Civilization 2024
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos; the history of ecological struggles and movements; and central ideas and practices that have emerged in philosophical\, scientific\, economic\, artistic\, religious\, and activist communities of reflection. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom that has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. The course is an invitation for participants to travel into the midst of crises and seek possibilities for ecological justice and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nOver the course of six sessions\, we will identify and analyze dominant assumptions about the human and more-than-human natural world\, critiquing and reshaping them from the standpoint of process-relational and other traditions of thought. We will explore these assumptions through case studies\, readings and videos\, presentations by experts\, student projects\, and probing conversations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-ecological-civilization/2024-07-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240704T080000
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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-2/2024-07-04/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240709T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: The Legacy of James M. Lawson Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Legacy of James M. Lawson Jr. \n\n\n\nPresenters: TBA \n\n\n\nA memorial service on July 6 at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles honored the legacy of Dr. James M. Lawson\, Jr.\, who was their pastor for 25 years. He served the American civil rights movement by training young people in the methods of non-violent resistance. There were tributes from Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass\, President Joe Biden\, educators\, and leaders of labor organizations. Pulitzer prize winning presidential historian Jon Meacham said\, “James Lawson is a latter day founding father\, an architect of America as worthy of our respect and our reverence as Washington or Jefferson\, Adams or Hamilton\, Douglass or King.” We will listen to selected portions of that service and reflect on his legacy. You may find a collection of Lawson videos on the Holman website\, including Lawson’s tribute to the late John Lewis. You’ll find an archived recording of James Lawson’s January 11\, 2022 conversation with Cobb and Friends\, marking the publication of his book\, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom. \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-2024-07-09/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & Science 2024
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy by exploring its relevance to contemporary natural science and cosmology. The facilitator will introduce Whitehead’s way of thinking about the philosophical presuppositions of science. The course also includes sessions with guest lecturers offering examples of Whiteheadian and other process-oriented approaches to physics\, biology\, neuroscience\, and consciousness studies. \n\n\n\nIn light of his protest against the modern bifurcation of nature into separate physical and psychical domains\, the course examines the ways Whitehead’s process-relational ontology allows us to understand the knowledge produced by natural science as compatible with human experience\, including the presuppositions of ethical social relations and cultural self-understanding. Whitehead’s “organic realism” makes it possible to re-enchant the world without contradicting the latest scientific findings. In fact\, his Philosophy of Organism provides us with one of the most promising means of integrating the increasingly fragmented natural and social sciences into a comprehensive and potentially civilization renewing vision. \n\n\n\nStudents can expect to gain a basic understanding of Whitehead’s cosmology and the major categories of his metaphysical scheme. Students will be introduced to Whitehead’s novel interpretations of relativity\, quantum\, evolutionary\, and complexity theories\, and will become familiar with the usually unspoken metaphysical assumptions underlying contemporary physicalist cosmology. Students will also come to appreciate the importance of overcoming the artificial modern divide between natural science and the humanities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-science-2024/2024-07-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240711T080000
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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-2/2024-07-11/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240715T143000
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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/2024-07-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240716T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Nancy J. Ramsay
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Conversation about Moral Injury \n\n\n\nPresenters: Nancy J. Ramsay \n\n\n\nNancy J. Ramsay\, Director of the Soul Repair Center\, Brite Divinity School\, will discuss “Moral Injury\,” a new term for an ancient idea.  We find it described in ancient Greek mythology and in the Hebrew Bible or Christian Old Testament such as when after battle the Hebrew men would have a ritual of cleansing from the moral harm of killing and witnessing killing before they returned to their families. During the Crusades\, when soldiers returned home\, they spent a year in practices of penance including meeting regularly with a priest before they could once again take communion. This was not punishment\, but a recognition of the moral harm of taking the life of others and the need for ongoing reflection and hopefully coming to terms with the burden of one’s conscience—the awareness that each of us as reflective persons know the reality of failing to be who we intend to be or failing to act in ways that reflect our deepest conscience. These illustrations of such ancient practices remind us of the morally injurious power of suffering and the need to acknowledge it.  Moral Injury seeks to name this deep suffering that calls for our response. It is an experience of witnessing\, failing to prevent\, or learning about unnecessary violence as a betrayal of our obligations to one another.  \n\n\n\nMoral injury arises in two forms:  \n\n\n\nAgential moral injury describes harm we cause. It is our own failure to act in ways that align with our deepest values. \n\n\n\nReceptive moral injury is the harm that arises from the actions of others that cause our pain such as sexual and domestic violence and gun violence.  \n\n\n\nPastoral Theologian\, Larry Kent Graham: described moral injury as “soul wounds” (Moral injury: Restoring Wounded Souls\, Abingdon\, 2017). \n\n\n\nDr. Ramsay says\, “In our conversation\, I will draw on Graham; Holocaust survivor and philosopher Emmanual Levinas; medical sociologist\, Arthur Frank; marriage and family therapist\, Pauline Bos\, and scriptures such as Gen. 32:24-32 (Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok).  \n\n\n\nIn my experience\, moral injury—both agential and receptive—is familiar to any reflective person\, and I hope we will have a rich conversation about ways it informs our lives and relationships and convictions as citizens and persons of faith.”   (See her attached biodata.) \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-2024-07-16/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240717T120000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & Science 2024
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy by exploring its relevance to contemporary natural science and cosmology. The facilitator will introduce Whitehead’s way of thinking about the philosophical presuppositions of science. The course also includes sessions with guest lecturers offering examples of Whiteheadian and other process-oriented approaches to physics\, biology\, neuroscience\, and consciousness studies. \n\n\n\nIn light of his protest against the modern bifurcation of nature into separate physical and psychical domains\, the course examines the ways Whitehead’s process-relational ontology allows us to understand the knowledge produced by natural science as compatible with human experience\, including the presuppositions of ethical social relations and cultural self-understanding. Whitehead’s “organic realism” makes it possible to re-enchant the world without contradicting the latest scientific findings. In fact\, his Philosophy of Organism provides us with one of the most promising means of integrating the increasingly fragmented natural and social sciences into a comprehensive and potentially civilization renewing vision. \n\n\n\nStudents can expect to gain a basic understanding of Whitehead’s cosmology and the major categories of his metaphysical scheme. Students will be introduced to Whitehead’s novel interpretations of relativity\, quantum\, evolutionary\, and complexity theories\, and will become familiar with the usually unspoken metaphysical assumptions underlying contemporary physicalist cosmology. Students will also come to appreciate the importance of overcoming the artificial modern divide between natural science and the humanities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-science-2024/2024-07-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240718T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240718T090000
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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-2/2024-07-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ernie Tamminga
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teilhard\, Technology and Technolatry: The Internet is Not the Noosphere \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ernie Tamminga \n\n\n\nErnie Tamminga describes himself as a “planet empath.” He is a member of the board of the American Teilhard Association and has been reflecting on Teilhard’s vision for over 50 years. He earned his PhD at the University of California\, Santa Barbara where\, under the mentorship of Raimon Panikkar\, his dissertation was an analysis and critique of Teilhard’s notion of a “privileged axis” of evolution. Ernie is a trained Spiritual Director\, and a former member of the board and teaching faculty of Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality. In the 1960s and 1970s he was a board member of “The Phenomenon of Man Project\,” a nonprofit that introduced thousands of people to Teilhard’s vision through illustrated lectures and retreats. For the past two years\, Ernie has been convening a Learning Circle for the Cobb Institute\, entitled “An Awakening Planet?” For the American Teilhard Association\, he is currently offering an extended study of Teilhard’s magnum opus\, “The Human Phenomenon.” Ernie and his wife Alison have\, between them\, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandson\, a fact that intensifies his sense of urgency about what we are doing to our beloved planet. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE PRESENTATION: In The Human Phenomenon\, Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) traces the evolution of reflective consciousness in the universe and on Planet Earth. He identifies major “thresholds” through which this process has unfolded so far\, including the emergence of life\, of consciousness\, and of reflective consciousness. “Noosphere” is the word Teilhard uses to describe the “sphere of reflective consciousness” around the Earth. He posits a “Point Omega\,” still ahead\, where the Noosphere will become conscious of itself. In recent years\, some voices in the “Teilhard community” have equated the Internet—and\, more recently\, AI—with the Noosphere\, some even maintaining that through technology\, the Noosphere is already aware of itself. In this regard\, Ernie is a “Teilhardian contrarian\,” insisting that the Internet/AI are not the Next Step in the evolution of human consciousness\, but rather (and only) powerful tools for the kind of consciousness we (humans) already have and already are. Crucially\, the fixation on technology has the effect of “defining-out” other-than-human forms of life on Earth. Echoing his late teacher Raimon Panikkar\, Ernie says he is “holding out for a mutation\,” for an emergent form of planetary consciousness that includes not only humans and machines but all life on this planet. \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-2024-07-23/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240724T120000
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & Science 2024
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy by exploring its relevance to contemporary natural science and cosmology. The facilitator will introduce Whitehead’s way of thinking about the philosophical presuppositions of science. The course also includes sessions with guest lecturers offering examples of Whiteheadian and other process-oriented approaches to physics\, biology\, neuroscience\, and consciousness studies. \n\n\n\nIn light of his protest against the modern bifurcation of nature into separate physical and psychical domains\, the course examines the ways Whitehead’s process-relational ontology allows us to understand the knowledge produced by natural science as compatible with human experience\, including the presuppositions of ethical social relations and cultural self-understanding. Whitehead’s “organic realism” makes it possible to re-enchant the world without contradicting the latest scientific findings. In fact\, his Philosophy of Organism provides us with one of the most promising means of integrating the increasingly fragmented natural and social sciences into a comprehensive and potentially civilization renewing vision. \n\n\n\nStudents can expect to gain a basic understanding of Whitehead’s cosmology and the major categories of his metaphysical scheme. Students will be introduced to Whitehead’s novel interpretations of relativity\, quantum\, evolutionary\, and complexity theories\, and will become familiar with the usually unspoken metaphysical assumptions underlying contemporary physicalist cosmology. Students will also come to appreciate the importance of overcoming the artificial modern divide between natural science and the humanities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-science-2024/2024-07-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240725T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240725T090000
DTSTAMP:20260504T093518
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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-2/2024-07-25/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240729T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240729T093000
DTSTAMP:20260504T093518
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SUMMARY:Process Thought 101
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews 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. Topics 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\nThis learning circle will continue our study of process thought for those of us beginning our journey on the path of continuous change. We will meet three times to discuss the book What is Process Thought? Seven Answers to Seven Questions\, by Jay McDaniel\, and then wrap up the learning circle with a Q&A with the author. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-101-2/2024-07-29/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240730T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240730T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Charles Betterton & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Living Earth Movement:  A Progress Report \n\n\n\nPresenters: Charles Betterton & Friends \n\n\n\nThe Living Earth Movement is the latest organization founded in the vision of John Cobb.  Charles Betterton is bringing his networking gift of radical collaboration to the work of this earthist movement\, founded in the hope of cooperation of the United States and China\, aiming toward mutual contributions to an emerging ecological civilization.  See the website at https://livingearthmovement.eco and watch for further details of the guests who will assist us in this progress report. \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-2024-07-30/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Process Thought & Science 2024
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy by exploring its relevance to contemporary natural science and cosmology. The facilitator will introduce Whitehead’s way of thinking about the philosophical presuppositions of science. The course also includes sessions with guest lecturers offering examples of Whiteheadian and other process-oriented approaches to physics\, biology\, neuroscience\, and consciousness studies. \n\n\n\nIn light of his protest against the modern bifurcation of nature into separate physical and psychical domains\, the course examines the ways Whitehead’s process-relational ontology allows us to understand the knowledge produced by natural science as compatible with human experience\, including the presuppositions of ethical social relations and cultural self-understanding. Whitehead’s “organic realism” makes it possible to re-enchant the world without contradicting the latest scientific findings. In fact\, his Philosophy of Organism provides us with one of the most promising means of integrating the increasingly fragmented natural and social sciences into a comprehensive and potentially civilization renewing vision. \n\n\n\nStudents can expect to gain a basic understanding of Whitehead’s cosmology and the major categories of his metaphysical scheme. Students will be introduced to Whitehead’s novel interpretations of relativity\, quantum\, evolutionary\, and complexity theories\, and will become familiar with the usually unspoken metaphysical assumptions underlying contemporary physicalist cosmology. Students will also come to appreciate the importance of overcoming the artificial modern divide between natural science and the humanities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-thought-science-2024/2024-07-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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