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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: John P. Clark
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Transfigurative Community \nPresenter(s): John P. Clark \n  \nIt is important that we situate ourselves clearly within the present moment of Earth history\, with an acute awareness of all its momentous problems\, and all its inspiring possibilities. We are now leaving the Cenezoic\, an era of new life on Earth\, and entering the Necrocene\, an era of mass extinction and death on Earth. We are seeing the final results of a long history of various forms of Empire and domination\, and of certain dominant forms of egoic identity. We are faced with the choice of either continuing on the path of social and ecological disintegration\, or of initiating a new path of social and ecological regeneration. \nThe thesis of this presentation is that the crucial factor in determining the nature our future and the future of life on Earth is whether a certain kind of community can emerge. We might call it the Awakening Earth Community.Such a project will require large-scale social and ecological regeneration\, but it can only succeed if it is rooted in small-scale communities of liberation and solidarity\, awakening and care. It is such communities that are capable of fostering fundamental personal and group transformation. Such a transformation will need to address all the basic spheres of social determination\, including the social imaginary\, the social ideology\, the social ethos\, the social institutional structure\, and social materiality. Change must take place simultaneously in all of these spheres\, and must take place at all levels of organization\, including the personal level\, the level of primary groups\, the level of larger groups\, and the level of the entire society. Such a project will be rooted in human experience. It can look for inspiration and guidance from the lengthy and rich global history of non-dominating communal organization\, going back to the beginnings of human society. We will look at some key points in that history\, including the achievements of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas\, the Democratic Autonomy Movement in Rojava\, and the Sarvodaya Movement in India. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn P. Clark is a philosopher\, activist\, writer\, and educator. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University\, where he taught for 44 years\, was a member and former chair of the Environment Program\, and directed a summer study program in India. His most recent philosophical work is Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community. As his alter non-ego\, Max Cafard\, he recently published Anarchy in the Big Easy\, a graphic history of radical New Orleans. He does educational and organizational work with La Terre Institute in New Orleans and at Bayou La Terre Woodland Center\, an 88-acre site on Bayou La Terre in the coastal forest of the Gulf of Mexico. He hosts a weekly meditation and study group at the Cypress in the Garden Zendo in New Orleans. He recently finished a year homeschooling his grandson\, Ethan. \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 \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\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 seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-06/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Sandra Lubarsky and Marcus Ford
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Wider Education: Embracing Generalization \nPresenter(s): Sandra Lubarsky and Marcus Ford \n  \nWhitehead understood education as a process from romance to precision to generalization. Most higher education today emphasizes precision and more precision\, to the neglect of romance and generalization. Marcus will speak about the importance of rethinking General Education programs within higher education institutions and how they can be the platform for addressing the wider issues of our day. Sandra will speak about a public model of wider education and the need for “communiversities\,” highlighting the work of Flagstaff Communiversity. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Ford was one of the first professors in the country to teach courses in sustainability and develop an Environmental Humanities program. Since early in his teaching career\, Marcus has held that the most important thing we can learn is how to live sustainably and justly within the bounds of the natural world. He has taught sustainability studies at the undergraduate and graduate level and is an advocate for education that prepares people to actively participate in shaping their communities. He is the author of the groundbreaking book\, Beyond the Modern University and many articles on higher education. Marcus is the co-founder of Flagstaff College/Communiversity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandra Lubarsky is co-founder and president of Flagstaff College/Communiversity\, offering education-for-community in Flagstaff\, Arizona. She is retired from academic positions in sustainability at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and Northern Arizona University . She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Claremont Graduate University and is author of Tolerance and Transformation: Jewish Approaches to Religious Pluralism; Jewish Theology and Process Thought (co-edited); and numerous articles on religious pluralism\, Jewish theology\, and the intersection of aesthetics and sustainability. \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 \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\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 seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-13/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Catherine Keller
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Trees Touching: Whitehead\, Teilhard and the Matter of EcoCiv \nPresenter(s): Catherine Keller \n  \nTrees are just one beautiful example of the liveliness of the nonhuman universe. Recent research shows that they communicate with one another in startlingly specific and supportive ways. And of course the service forests provide our species—the perpetrators of global warming—with their drawing down and storing of excess CO2 from the atmosphere lends current US policy an apocalyptic edge. But the point of this Process Exploration will not be to doom us to eco political gloom but to meditate on the matter—the materiality—of hope. Teilhard and Whitehead both offer persuasive\, spiritually radical visions of human participation in planetary evolution. But the former is more optimistic\, envisioning our movements towards an Omega point; the latter is more pluralist and open ended. Can our work toward EcoCiv root and branch in both visions? What kind of hope can feel honest enough to motivate the materialization of a livable and well forested future? \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at The Theological School of Drew University. She teaches and writes in the intersections of process\, ecological\, feminist\, political\, and pluralist theologies. She has authored many books\, the most recent being No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility; and Facing Apocalypse: Climate\, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Also she has led\, and co-edited several volumes of\, the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium\, most recently Assembling Futures: Economy\, Ecology\, Democracy and Religion. \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 \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\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 seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-20/
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Thomas A. Moore
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Exuberant Universe: Re-thinking Creation in a Scientific Age \nPresenter(s): Thomas A. Moore \n  \nThe first chapter of Genesis provides a theological understanding of creation consistent with the accepted cosmology of its place and time. What might a modern concept of creation look like? This talk will explore the modern cosmological riddle misleadingly called the Anthropic Principle (the observation that the laws of physics seem fine-tuned to enable a complex universe) and examine what it means\, what it does not mean\, and how it might connect to process thought and spirituality. We will come to see how some seemingly scientific discussions of cosmology actually are religious arguments in disguise. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThomas A. Moore is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow professor of mathematics and natural science at Pomona College. He received his undergraduate education at Carleton College (where he took courses offered by Ian Barbour and Joseph Sittler) and his Ph. D in theoretical physics in 1981 from Yale University (where he also studied Biblical Hebrew with Bonnie Kittel and Brevard Childs). His father was a professor of philosophy and religion in the University of Wisconsin system\, and his mother and spouse are ordained pastors in the United Church of Christ. He has long been interested in questions on the boundary between philosophy and physics\, and\, in addition to teaching upper-level courses in general relativity and particle physics\, he commonly offers an interdisciplinary course in “Science and Religion.” \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 \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\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 seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-27/
CATEGORIES:Class
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