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Hi Chris,
I totally agree with you Chris about dualism.
90% of my perception is framed by the dualist assumptions matter and mind, structuring language into subjects and objects.
This survey course of religious traditions allows me to try to imagine new words like “theocosm”. Awareness of dualism helps me break out, and feel the process mode of being.

Hi Bill,
Looking forward to this course with you! I feel so enriched by the depth of your practice and vocation.
I want to receive your invitation to process our experience through the felt sense.

What is our community felt sense when we cross the felt sense of deepening understanding of Whitehead with the felt sense of different religions perspectives?

This feels very much like learning a new language. We learn Whiteheads process experience, not by studying the component ideas of process thought, but by applying (“crossing”) process principles in the application of the felt sense of different world views. Thank you for the invitation!

I feel so resonant with this expression of speaking about relational culture.

I feel inspired in the spirit of speaking the identity of “I”-ness in a relation way.

I grew up in a clan of Mormon culture, which I rejected, and part of an emerging world view of the New Universe Story in CosmoErotic Humanism.

What an imaginative way to experience indigenous from within my own traditions.

Hi Eric,
Such a helpful post!

Excellent point that our explanations are usually just pointing to examples.

It brings up the fundamental problem Feynman was grappling in teachnig physics, because quantum events described by mathematics and verified in empirical measurement reveals strange phenomena that has no corollary the human experience (such as wave-particle duality, quantum tunneling).

A birthday party is a good example because it has such rich interior meanings beyond what we see as facts of physical objects. The gifts are tokens of meanings and motivations behind them. All the relationships of people celebrating, nurturing, caring for each other. I think Whitehead wants a metaphysics that doesn’t reduce all that richness to the physical objects we can only observe and measure.

Hello Zhenbao!
What an inspiring introduction and testament to practice and healing! It is very good to participate in the certificate program. I really enjoyed your paper from the first course. Look forward to the Process journey!

Hello Benjamin, wonderful to meet you!
I love the sense of metaphysics as an adventure!
Looking forward to participating in the class!
Jamie,Long

Hi John, I’m very glad to meet you! I have been attending a local UU church for the last 10 years, and following John Cobb since I attended the 2015 Pando Ecolgical Conference in Claremont. Look forward to this certificate program!

Yes, I’m looking forward to the Adventure of ideas with a cohort of fellow certificate adventurers! Thank you Rolla and Richard for creating a safe inclusive container!

Hello Katherine, Wonderful inquiry about creativity.
I very much resonate with the a metaphysics of creativity prior to any kind of a substance.
I love the way Whitehead thoroughly depicts Reality in a non-material/ non-cartesian manner. So if we depict God as an ultimate form of substance/fact, then I can deduce how creativity has an ontology that is prior to God.
I resonate with creativity, but the metaphysics of creativity is filled with mystery.

Thank you Jay for such an expansive and comprehensive answer. And I look forward to diving deeper into the text. Jamie