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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tink Tinker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Moth and the Alligator: Relationship in a Whole Other Key \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tink Tinker \n\n\n\nA Cobb Institute board member suggested that we adopt the practice of “land acknowledgment” to name native tribes dispossessed of their land in our various regions. To assist our reflection\, we turned to Tink Tinker\, a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and Professor Emeritus at Iliff School of Theology. For nearly three decades he volunteered both administratively and as a traditional spiritual leader at Four Winds American Indian Council in Denver\, and has worked closely with the American Indian Movement of Colorado. His topic invites exploration of the clashing worldviews that euro-christians and America’s native peoples bring to the conversation. To get acquainted with Tink Tinker see this lecture at Yale\, this critical conversation about American Indian worldview\, or this panel conversation at Phillips Seminary honoring the 50th Anniversary of Vine Deloria’s God Is Red. In 2020\, The Colonial Compromise was published\, with responses to his 2008 book\, American Indian Liberation Theology.   \n\n\n\nBefore coming to the faculty at Iliff in 1985\, Tinker had earned a B.A. at New Mexico Highlands University\, an M.Div. at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary\, and a Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, which named him its Alum of the Year in 2004. He had been teaching for several years in the Bay area before joining the Iliff faculty in 1985. At this speaker’s bureau website you can find further biographical information\, a list of his books\, and a 4-minute video excerpt of his message to the United Methodist 2012 General Conference. \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-2022-12-13/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Zhenbao Jin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Healing in a Chinese Process Way \n\n\n\nPresenters: Zhenbao Jin \n\n\n\nChinese lawyer Zhenbao Jin earned a Ph.D. in the philosophy of law\, but when he was diagnosed with lymphoma and a variety of other ailments\, he was prompted by Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled to heal himself in a natural way. He found healing in a “process” way that enhances the flow of Qi. His healing story includes a 3000 km bike ride and disciplined meditation grounded in Taoist thought and practice. He translated The Road Less Traveled into Chinese. As an independent researcher\, he has been exploring the practice and research of meditation as well as relevant areas including Taoism\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, anthroposophy\, traditional Chinese medicine\, philosophy (including Whitehead).  \n\n\n\nIn the past ten years\, he has published more than 500 articles in Chinese on meditation\, Taoism\, Confucianism\, philosophy as well as reports of patients in Chinese on his wechat blog. Dr. Jin now lives in Shenzhen\, China\, focusing on the research of meditation and relating issues and giving workshops\, speeches and individual tutoring on natural healing through meditation. Read his brief bio on the Process & Faith website. Last March he led a P&F sponsored “Process Pop-up” session on Daoist meditation.  See his video introducing the basics of meditation based on Taoism: Healing Meditation for Prevention and Healing from CoronaVirus Infection. \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-2022-12-06/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Fackenthal & Lina Mira
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Well-Being in Pomona: A Community in Progress \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Fackenthal & Lina Mira \n\n\n\nThis is a progress report on a project reported to Cobb & Friends in April\, 2021. Dr. Fackenthal\, as Managing Director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization\, will report on its work in Pomona\, California\, with the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance California hub. Pomona’s Latino-Latina Roundtable is also involved\, and its Executive Director Lina Mira will share in this report about how they are approaching a wellbeing economy in Pomona by developing a community-led vision and a community wealth building strategy in the form of worker-owned cooperatives.  \n\n\n\nJeremy invites you check out this excellent video that celebrates these developments in Pomona.  \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-2022-11-29/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221122T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Buchanan
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death\, Psychedelics\, and Sobriety \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Buchanan \n\n\n\nDr. John H. Buchanan is a long-time explorer of process thought and transpersonal psychology. He will discuss his latest book\, Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death\, Psychedelics\, and Sobriety\, published last month by Wipf & Stock in their Perspectives in Process Studies Series. “In this book\, John Buchanan takes us on a journey through the early death of a parent\, the ups and downs of addiction\, the extraordinary revelations of psychedelic experiences\, and the rewards of a sober and meaningful life.” At the publisher’s website\, you’ll find high praise from John Cobb\, Catherine Keller\, and Philip Clayton. Keller invites us to “a bit of a trip!. . .This irresistibly readable narrative of psychedelic exploration\, of a long path ultimately sober and all the more visionary\, opens a stunning new portal into our shared reality. We discover not just a remarkably lucid introduction to Whiteheadian theo-cosmology\, but—aimed right at our self-destructive civilization—the chance of a spiritual awakening.”  \n\n\n\nBuchanan’s extended interview with “Mind Matters” explores the intersection of Whitehead and Transpersonal Psychology. He was a contributing editor of Rethinking Consciousness:  Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science\, published by Process Century Press. And Jay McDaniel expresses appreciation for John Buchanan’s role in planning a Claremont conference on Open Horizons: “Can Exceptional Experience Help Save the World?”? \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-2022-11-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tim Eastman & Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Big Bang? Multiple Universes? How Do Scientists Know? \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tim Eastman & Matt Segall \n\n\n\nWe look forward to an informed conversation led by space physicist Tim Eastman and Cobb Institute science advisory committee chair\, Matt Segall. John Cobb thinks scientists are overly confident they know all about a ‘Big Bang’ and ‘multiple universes.’ How are we to understand the ways of scientific exploration and how our universe works? \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-2022-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Barbara Muraca
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Decolonizing Ecology: Process Ontology and Societal Relationships with Nature \n\n\n\nPresenter: Barbara Muraca \n\n\n\nDr. Barbara Muraca\, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon\, articulates a radical critique of the structural coloniality of the Western concept of nature\, on which both conservationism and the overexploitation of resources are rooted. By drawing on Whitehead’s relational process ontology\, on Gernot Böhme’s phenomenological approach to ecology\, as well as on postcolonial theories\, indigenous philosophies\, and STS Studies she will outline possible trajectories for a decolonization of societal relationships with nature and show their relevance for current environmental justice struggles. \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-2022-11-08/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rosemary Radford Ruether Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether \n\n\n\nScholars and friends who worked closely with this eminent ecofeminist theologian will pay tribute to the ways her thought found expression in her actions. Among those who have agreed to share their experience of Rosemary Radford Ruether are Renny Golden\, Antoinette Wire\, Barbara Troxell\, Joann Carlson Brown\, Elaine Padilla\, and Kathy Bergen. We’ll also experience Dr. Ruether’s Harvard lecture about her first engagement with America’s civil rights struggle. \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-2022-11-01/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jonathan Foster
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jonathan Foster \n\n\n\nDr. Foster is the first to graduate under Thomas Jay Oord’s supervision in the doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary. His doctoral dissertation\, Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe\, is being published this month by SacraSage Press. Jonathan will be discussing the book\, its context\, and the interesting overtones emanating from René Girard’s mimetic theory and open and relational theology. Tom Oord affirms\, “Foster’s creative ruminations break new ground and inspire transformation.” To find out more about Jonathan see jonathanfosteronline.com. To see other books this best-selling author has written see his author page on Amazon. For a basic introduction to Rene Girard\, see this video\, this simple overview\, or this book. \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-2022-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Chris Hedges
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Chris Hedges \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb has recruited this Pulitzer-prize winning journalist\, best-selling author\, activist\, and Presbyterian pastor to shed light on current events in Ukraine by placing it in a broad trajectory of America’s way of being in the world. Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times\, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and NPR. To sample recent examples of his Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism\, see this link to an archive at Transcend Media Services.  He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America showOn Contact.  For an archive of “On Contact” television programs\, introducing “dissident voices\,” go to this link.  You are invited to learn more about Chris Hedges and to follow his writing at The Chris Hedges Report. \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-2022-10-18/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew M. Davis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Andrew M. Davis \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-2022-10-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Steven J. Dick
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Astrobiology\, Cosmotheology\, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Steven J. Dick \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-2022-10-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220927T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mark VanderSchaaf
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Engaging with the Soul(s) of the City: Lessons from Dallas\, Saint Paul\, New York and Los Angeles \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Mark VanderSchaaf \n\n\n\nIn the early 1990s Mark VanderSchaaf was appointed as the first economic planner for the City of Saint Paul in Minnesota. Drawing upon his admiration for the Herman Daly/John Cobb book For the Common Good\, and the teachings of Carl Jung and Rudolph Steiner\, Mark devised a unique approach to economic development that yielded remarkable dividends for his city and its region. Mark’s presentation will share how his ideas crystallized with the help of mentors at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture\, and how these ideas were then applied to the task of riverfront revitalization in Saint Paul and the entire Upper Mississippi River Valley. Finally\, he will talk about teaching opportunities that subsequently materialized in Los Angeles (2004) and New York City (2013)\, which drew upon this experience. \n\n\n\nLater in his career Mark became the regional planning director for the seven-county Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area (2004-2016) and upon retirement was elected national chair of the American Planning Association’s Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division. In retirement\, Mark has especially focused on the role that public art can play in the process of community-oriented economic revitalization. From that perspective\, he delivered a keynote speech in Qingdao\, China in January of this year at the International Award for Public Art ceremony and award program. \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-2022-09-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Md. Abu Sayem
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Religion and Ecological Crisis \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Md. Abu Sayem \n\n\n\nProfessor Sayem’s newly published book\, Religion and Ecological Crisis (Routledge)\, compares perspectives of John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Sayem explores how prescriptions of these scholars\, a Christian and a Muslim\, can contribute alternatively to techno-scientific initiatives in environmental sustainability. Taking Cobb’s “economism” and Nasr’s “scientism” as the key concepts for surveying the roots of the ecological crisis\, the book offers interdisciplinary and interreligious insights into the debates about ecological equilibrium\, motivational awareness in human mind and about entanglements between religion and the environment.  A native of Bangladesh with extensive global experience\, Dr. Sayem is Associate Professor in World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka.  At the University’s website you can find his biographical information\, including research interests\, awards and publications.  \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-2022-09-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Evaggelos Vallianatos
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Brewing Climate Chaos and Pandemics in Our Backyards \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Evaggelos Vallianatos \n\n\n\nWriting out of his experience as a scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency (1979-2004)\, Dr. Vallianatos has published Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (Bloomsbury Press\, 2014)\, an expose of the influence of the chemical-industrial complex on the regulatory agency. He has also written several articles on climate change\, including this one\, published August 4\, which he recommends you read in preparation for our meeting. Valliantos is Greek historian with degrees from University of Illinois (BA\, MA)\, and University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.) is attached. At Harvard University he pursued postdoctoral studies in the history of science\, and he has taught history and the politics of environmental protection at several prominent universities. Early in 2020 Dr. Vallianatos reported to John Cobb & Friends about his experience of organic farms in China and in his native Greece. See what he’s thinking at vallianatos.blogspot.com and muckrack.com/evaggelosvallianatos.  \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-2022-09-13/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sheri Kling and Doug King
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Biblical Narrative and Universal God Identity \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sheri D. Kling and Doug King \n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, director of Process & Faith and the John Cobb Legacy Fund\, is working on an exciting project with Doug King\, CEO of Presence International\, a growing network that engages emergent\, integral\, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders to facilitate a “global conversation for a new earth.” Sheri and Doug are offering a course called “The Biblical Narrative and Universal God Identity: Integral Theology and Process Approaches\,” co-sponsored by Process & Faith and the Cobb Institute. The course will be on Zoom\, begins September 13\, and will run for six consecutive Tuesdays at 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern. \n\n\n\nDoug King is steeped in biblical scholarship and worked alongside his father\, Max King\, to develop Presence to offer events\, a podcast\, and other teaching resources. He uses Spiral Dynamics (a developmental model of human consciousness that considers Alfred North Whitehead one of its forerunners) to approach the biblical narrative\, and has developed what he calls “integral theology.” In their discussion with John Cobb & Friends\, Sheri and Doug will provide a brief overview of the exciting material they plan to cover in their upcoming course. \n\n\n\nFrom their perspectives\, both process thought and integral consciousness provide a developmental approach to the evolution of human consciousness. Process philosophy and theology have been used as life-giving tools in interpretation of the biblical narrative and in their teaching together\, Sheri and Doug will investigate the use of integral consciousness models as complementary to biblical interpretation as well. Their primary question will be whether the biblical narrative has always been evolving toward and into universal God identity. The implications of the possible answers to that question can dramatically affect the future of long held Christian views of identity. This is especially true if the biblical narrative points to something beyond separation thinking with regard to identity. For our gathering\, they will introduce the use of models like Spiral Dynamics to trace biblical history\, finding meaning both in its original setting and as a process story of the evolution of spiritual consciousness with regard to God identity. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about Doug King’s organization and its work\, visit https://www.presence.tv/. From there you can explore videos and the Presence podcast (available on iTunes and other podcast platforms). \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-2022-09-06/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ahmed Afzaal
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teaching at Twilight – The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ahmed Afzaal \n\n\n\nDr. Ahmed Afzaal\, Associate Professor of Religion\, Concordia College in Minnesota\, will be discussing his soon to be published book\, expressing his concern about the values taught in our institutions of higher education. A native of Pakistan\, his approach to a process-relational way of thinking comes through his encounter with the thinking of Iqbal. He comes to us highly recommended by Marcus Ford\, who is engaged in an innovative model of higher education at Flagstaff College in Arizona. See Dr. Afzaal’s curriculum vitae here\, and also his article that caught the attention of Marcus Ford\, “Education in a Time of Collapse.” To see his website and find him through social media\, go here. \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-2022-08-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220823T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew Davis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Ideas in Process–Ten Whiteheadian Transitions \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Andrew Davis \n\n\n\nDr. Davis\, Program Director of the Center for Process Studies\, is sharing a presentation he made for Tom Oord’s ORTCON conference in July. Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher\, theologian\, and scholar of world religions. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology\, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies\, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology (CST). He is a poet\, aphorist and author or editor of four books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018\, with Philip Clayton); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019\, with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism\, Multiplicity\, and Divinity (2020\, with Roland Faber); and Mind\, Value\, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020\, Lexington). For more about Andrew’s work and research interests\, visit his website at andrewmdavis.info. \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-2022-08-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220816T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ben Bowler
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Networking Toward World Unity \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ben Bowler \n\n\n\nSCobb and Friends regular Bill McLellan introduced us to Yanni Maniates\, Board Chair of Unity Earth\, who introduced us to Ben Bowler\, its Executive Director. Ben has agreed to join us at 3 a.m. Melbourne time for our 10 a.m. gathering with John Cobb and Friends! In October 2015\, at the Parliament of World Religions\, Ben launched 1GOD.com\, an online platform aimed at countering religious fundamentalism\, relativism and western materialism. Since then he has worked to build UNITY EARTH into a global platform that can support and empower the many grassroots movements working towards unity and peace in the world.  \n\n\n\nSee further information about Unity Earth and Ben Bowler here. Among the gifts brings to the table is his experience with aboriginal peoples in Australia. Ben suggests that you check out this YouTube explanation of 1God.com. Among their many projects are World Unity Week\, 99 Days of Peace\, and Universal Day of Peace. One of our Friends who has been much involved in the launch of the Living Earth Movement is Charles Betterton. (Read about his background at the LEM about page.) He will be able to launch our responses by sharing his experience with the kind of online networking that facilitates a Unity Earth perspective. \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-2022-08-16/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220809T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Pauline Doty
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Bringing Hope to Our Future \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Pauline Doty \n\n\n\nSince taking her first classes and practicums in pastoral care and counseling fifty years ago\, Pauline’s ministry has supported individuals and families as they deal with mental illness\, trauma\, loss\, and broken relationships. With the National Alliance on Mental Illness for 12 years\, she has provided leadership\, peer education\, and facilitation of weekly support groups. \n\n\n\nQuestions of faith about God and evil\, God and suffering\, confronted Pauline as a teen. She was raised in the Church of God (Anderson\, IN) and attended church often – Sunday morning\, Sunday evening\, and many Wednesday evenings. Her Dad coached his children in memorizing many chapters in the Bible. Her mother suffered with untreated depression and often wasn’t feeling well. Too often Pauline had very painful and angry encounters with her father. She was seriously seeking to follow Jesus\, and to surrender to God’s will for her life. During high school she had the support and gifts of a woman pastor who loved her\, and a caring church family. However\, at age 20 and a sophomore in college\, she suffered a mental breakdown with serious mental illness crisis. Acute schizophrenic episode was the initial diagnosis. \n\n\n\nWhen Pauline returned to campus after hospitalization and some months away\, she took courses in philosophy and theology. Learning about Whitehead and process philosophy with Delwin Brown\, along with a supportive community and psychotherapy\, enabled growth in her Christian faith perspective\, moving her to affirm a radical message of God’s redeeming love. No more sheep and goats to be separated at judgment day. All are sheep – beloved children of God! Just some are more seriously wounded “children” and needing more caring and healing relationships. \n\n\n\nPauline completed graduate degrees at Chicago Theological Seminary and Columbia Theological Seminary. In 1987 she completed her thesis: Responding to Persons in Despair: A Process Theology of Hope for Pastoral Care and Counseling. In Echoes of Mercy\, Whispers of Love: My Journey and A Theology of Hope (AuthorHouse 2010)\, and From Despair Into Healing: Workbook for Spiritual Change (AuthorHouse 2022)\, Pauline shares her process theology of hope as a framework for counseling despairing persons. Her faith perspective informs her spiritual care with persons on the healing and recovery journey. She believes this faith perspective can crucially enable resiliency when illness\, tragedy\, and loss strike again. Of her first book\, John Cobb has written\, \n\n\n\n“I am impressed by the sensitivity of her presentation of the ideas of Whitehead and others in his ‘process’ tradition. She represents this position with scholarly accuracy but also with literary skill and personal appropriation. Hence her work is of value not only to scholars but also more widely to a lay audience.”\n\n\n\nWith the rising numbers of children\, teens\, and adults experiencing serious depression and mental health issues\, including suicide attempts and suicide\, churches\, faith groups and communities are challenged to find answers and meaningful ways to “keep hope alive.” Pauline will share key themes from her Process Theology of Hope that were very important for her own recovery and healing and have informed and supported all of her pastoral care and counseling ministry. These themes are important for her in support groups\, coaching\, book events\, and workshops. She welcomes dialogue as we share together on August 9. \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-2022-08-09/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thandeka
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Untrolling America: What Trump Gets Right and Democrats Get Wrong About White America \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thandeka \n\n\n\nDonald Trump and the next generation of Trump politicians affirm what most white American voters feel: abused\, afraid\, outraged\, and neglected. And Trump politicians promise what these voters want: an end to their suffering. Presently\, most Democrats\, mainstream Republicans\, Black Americans\, liberals\, progressives\, and conservatives can’t parse the white suffering without distorting it and thus are clueless about how to end it. Thandeka calls the requisite new non-partisan work on white suffering  “Untrolling America” and will explain it in process terms\, advancing John Cobb’s interest in “process theology as political theology.” \n\n\n\nThandeka is the president and founder of  Love Beyond Belief™—a 501c3 education foundation designed to help clergy and laity\, activists and educators who use community-building processes to deepen connections that  heal and transform the world. To this end\, Love Beyond Belief™ offers workshops\, courses\, consultations\, educational resources and eventually certification programs that help persons practice the heart of compassion through small group spiritual practices that bolster and sustain their social justice and eco-justice work. Love Beyond Belief: Finding the Access Point to Spiritual Awareness (Polebridge Press\, MN\, 2018) is her constructive theological and neuroscientific framework for healing and transforming the world. In the foreword to this most recent book\, John Cobb wrote\, “Thandeka has written a book of rigorous scholarship\, brilliant original insight\, and great practical importance….Having read it\, I will never be able to think of my theological heritage in the same way again.”  \n\n\n\nThe name Thandeka\, which means “beloved” in Xhosa\, was given to her by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984. Thandeka is the founder of Contemporary Affect Theology\, which investigates the links between religion and emotions using insights from affective neuroscience. Thandeka’s academic positions include a visiting scholar at the Center for Process Studies\, a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University\, as well as positions at Harvard\, Brandeis\, and Andover Newton Theological School. Before receiving her PhD in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University\, she was an Emmy award-winning  television producer for 16 years. \n\n\n\nRead more about Thandeka at: https://revthandeka.org/. \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-2022-07-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Gao He Ran
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Learning to Befriend Nature in a Beijing Eco-Village \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Gao He Ran \n\n\n\nAn effective presenter at the recent Claremont Eco-Forum for a large audience in China and the US\, Gao He Ran will share her experience with the community of artists and educators who are part of the Beijing Eco-Village that is emerging around a school founded in the spirit of the Waldorf Schools movement. She is Founder and Coordinator of Earth Village Nature School\, in Xin Village\, Beijing. Among her many certifications\, she is certified by a German organization in “Forest and Nature Pedagogy.’ She will share her experience of nature education there and also some poetry. She has co-organized a global forum on Natural Capital and Green Investment\, and helped establish the DeTao Institute of Green Investment. In addition to her native Chinese\, Gao He Ran can also work with English\, Finnish\, and elemental German. You may explore her attached biodata. \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-2022-07-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220628T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature\, Economy\, and Society \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Franklin Obeng-Odoom \n\n\n\nDr. Obeng-Odoom\, a native of Ghana\, is Associate Professor of Global Development Studies at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science\, University of Helsinki in Finland. His topic is a book published in 2021 in which he applies the thought of Henry George to the economic concept of “the commons.” He will also share comments on his newest book\, Global Migration Beyond Limits: Ecology\, Economics\, and Political Economy (Oxford U Press\, 2022) and its relation to the book by John Cobb & Herman Daly\, For the Common Good (Beacon Press\, 1989\, 1994). \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-2022-06-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kate Common
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Creating Community: Reimagining Sacred Origins and Utopic Destinations \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Kate Common \n\n\n\nDr. Kate Common is Visiting Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at the Methodist Theological School of Ohio\, serving as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Scholar. She comes to us highly recommended by Mary Elizabeth Moore\, former Dean of Boston University School of Theology\, who is fascinated by Dr. Cannon’s rethinking the nature of utopias\, based on archaeological discoveries related to Hebrew Bible stories in the time of the Judges. Dr. Common will be discussing her pending publication of Undoing Conquest: Hebrew Highland Settlements and the Theological Imagination. Her scholarly work is summarized in this curriculum vitae. \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-2022-06-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Jorge Pixley’s Liberating Process Theology – A Tribute \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno \n\n\n\nDr. George Pixley is a Baptist missionary who taught biblical studies in seminaries in Nicaragua and Mexico City. (A brief biodata in Spanish can be found here.) He first encountered process theology through contact with Bernard Loomer at the University of Chicago. His retirement in Claremont\, California brought him close to the work of the Center for Process Studies\, which featured Pixley’s integration of biblical studies\, liberation theology\, and process theology for its Latin American Project. Pixley’s 2003 essay summarizes his thought. \n\n\n\nParticipating in the tribute to Dr. Pixley’s work will be Prof. Dr. Michael Fricke\, who holds the chair for Protestant theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Regensburg. Fricke wrote his dissertation on Pixley’s Bible interpretation in Nicaragua. Another participant will be Dr. Lília Dias Marianno\, Director of Eagle Gestão do Conhecim\, and educator at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The event is organized by Ignacio Castuera\, long associated with John Cobb and the Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Pixley’s son Kevin will also participate. \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-2022-06-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220607T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Dongwoo Lee
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Organic Panentheism: A Northeast Asian Lens on the Christian God \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Dongwoo Lee \n\n\n\nFresh from his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense at Claremont School of Theology\, Dr. Lee will prompt a conversation based on his integration of panentheist perspectives from Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and shamanism from Northeast Asia and beyond. He is the Korea Project Director for the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Ecological Civilization. He is also currently serving as pastor of Pasadena Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). He got his Master of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Follow Dr. Lee’s bilingual blog here. \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-2022-06-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Laura Burgis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Compassionate Cities Movement: A Next Step in Human Evolution \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Laura Burgis \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Dr. Burgis serves on the Charter for Compassion International Board of Trustees as its vice-chair. She can share how the Compassionate Cities Movement helps cities thrive through intentional compassion programs. Laura has a passion for cultivating human(e) approaches to leadership development and community evolution. Her current research interests focus on how exponential technologies like AI\, robotics and remote learning platforms can be applied to interpersonal landscape development and consciousness raising. She is also actively involved in the public banking movement and other socio-economic-ecological system wide collective impact initiatives\, working with cross-sector leadership in cities/universities. She is encouraging the city of Claremont (CA) to become a Compassionate City (following the precedent of its neighbors in Pomona and Upland). \n\n\n\nDr. Laura Burgis is president & CEO of the Human Values Center and works with Baltazar & Rose Corporation\, an LA based social enterprise supporting refugees and former gang affiliates with job training and love. She brings to us her 25-year career as an Associate Dean and professor at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business\, where her expertise in Ethics in Education and Public Policy received special recognition. She came to Claremont in 2012 to serve as the founding Executive Vice President of Claremont Lincoln University\, a graduate institution focused on ethical leadership and social impact. \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-2022-05-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Isobel Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process Philosophy and Me \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Isobel Zhang \n\n\n\nIsobel Zhang\, a Chinese educator and author\, is China director of ACTAsia\, an organization promoting nature education for children since 2006. She will share her personal journey\, including how the poetry of her teacher Bai Ya introduced her to process philosophy. A book she’s been working on since 2020\, Caring For Life: Education Based on Mental Model Improvement\, will be published in October. In it Zhang explains what she thinks about the support from process philosophy. She’s been involved in creating the first module for training teachers to encourage children to Care for Life with compassion and respect. Children’s books they have published in English and Chinese stress empathy and responsibility along with critical thinking. Series titles include Be Caring\, Be Kind\, Be Respectful\, Be Together. Browse the references to Isobel Zhang on the ACTAsia website\, which includes some of her earlier work on animal welfare concerns. She comes to us highly recommended by Dr. Zhihe Wang\, Director of the Institute for Postmodern China. \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-2022-05-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120830
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Relating Psychedelics to Process Philosophy \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes \n\n\n\nWe host conversation with the author of his new book exploring the relation of psychedelics to metaphysics\, panpsychism\, and process thought more generally. He may also tell us about how that relates to the Exeter University Psychedelic Research Group. Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind who specializes in the thought of Whitehead\, Nietzsche\, and Spinoza\, and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of mind. Following his degree in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick\, he became a Philosophy lecturer in London for six years after which he pursued his PhD at The University of Exeter – where he is now a research fellow and associate lecturer. \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-2022-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T120830
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion about the latest developments and share some exciting announcements about what’s happening at the Institute. \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-2022-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jefferey Long
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cosmic Pluralism: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jefferey Long \n\n\n\nJeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College\, in Elizabethtown\, Pennsylvania\, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. He is the editor\, most recently\, of the volume Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu\, Christian\, and Scientific\, as well as the co-editor of the Buddhism and Jainism volumes of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. \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-2022-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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