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Charles, I really appreciate your ability to see process in, well, pretty much everything. Keep sharing! 🙂

> Charles: From my personal Whiteheadian perspective I’d say that yes, we’re anatman; that we don’t have an intrinsic, independent, noncomposite self (i.e., we don’t have a substantial self). Rather, we have a relational, synthetic self (technically a series of actual occasions of experiential-creative process that constitute a processive self that’s being created moment-to-moment).

Self as ongoing process grounded in relationality, yes, that makes sense to me. Would you say the self is being created *and* destroyed moment-to-moment, a kind of birth/death oscillation?

> And, although I wouldn’t quite say that there’s an ego self-transcendent self dichotomy, I would say that there’s being a relational self at different levels of recognition of the relational and nonsubstantial nature of self. These levels range from just about complete, abject ignorance of our relational interdependence (egoism) to living in full self-awareness of our real relational mode of existence (Buddhist enlightenment).

Also makes sense to me. It’s a bit like lucid living: The realization that waking life (reality) is not quite what it seems to be.

Thanks, Charles! 🙂

Rick

> Jay: … they, not Whitehead, offer the most substance (forgive the word.)

! 😉 Any worldview that has room for puns is okay by me. 🙂

> However, when it came to thinking about the consummation of human life, Whitehead spoke of it, in his book called Adventure of Ideas

> Sheri Kling’s work at the intersection of Jung and Whitehead. Take a look here: https://cobb.institute/educators-toolbox/a-process-spirituality-whitehead-jung/.

Thanks for the tips, I’ll check these out out.

> Bohm’s work in quantum theory has been a source of deep interest among process philosophers

Ah, makes sense. I’m a Bohm fan, have participated in Bohm(ish) dialogues and read several things he wrote.

Thanks, Jay! 🙂

Rick

[Rick Scott]

I enjoyed reading the entries in this thread and have a few comments.

These all seem kindred spirits of process philosophy’s interrelationality:

Buddhism’s dependent arising: All phenomena arise in dependence upon other phenomena.

Krishnamurti’s “You are the world.”

The quantum field.

And a question:

Per Whitehead, is there an egoic self and a transcendent Self?

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> Whitehead also posits that nothing completely perishes, that everything enjoys “objective immortality” in the memory of God

Nice to feel you matter. 🙂