Sacred Secularity | Bruce Alderman
Event Type:
- Discussion, Presentation
- (Online)
Program:
- Process Explorations
Theme:
- Building Alternative Futures
Featuring:
- Bruce Alderman
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies
The difference between the sacred and the secular may be more a matter of how than what—specifically, the quality of time and the depth of relation we bring to whatever is before us. Inspired by a recent dream about sacred secularity, Bruce Alderman explores what Raimon Panikkar’s tempiternity, Martin Buber’s hyphen, and Alfred North Whitehead’s process-relational vision might reveal when we attend not only to the between but to the when—and what shifts when both deepen together.
Featuring
Bruce Alderman
Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, part-time faculty for the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation department at National University, and an integral and transpersonal psychologist. Prior to working at CIIS and NU, Bruce worked and studied abroad in Asia for several years, teaching courses on creative writing and inquiry at the Rajghat Besant School, a Krishnamurti school in Varanasi, India, and studying and practicing at monasteries and ashrams in Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and Nepal. He has published a book of poetry, multiple essays in journals and anthologies, and has books on the Time, Space, Knowledge (TSK) vision, Kum Nye yoga, and David Michael Levin’s sensory phenomenology coming out in 2026-2027. Several years ago he launched a YouTube channel and podcast called The Integral Stage, dedicated to exploring integral, metamodern, and other holistic and integrative approaches to addressing the complex social, ecological, and spiritual challenges of our time.
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