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Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards with Evaggelos Vallianatos
In Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards, scholar and author Evaggelos Vallianatos makes the case that industrial animal agriculture lies at the heart of two of the most urgent crises of our time: pandemic disease and climate chaos. In this session of Process Explorations, Evaggelos will present the ideas from his latest work, drawing on the agricultural traditions of ancient Greece and China's ecological civilization debates to trace a through-line from humanity's earliest relationships with land and animals to the conditions that gave rise to COVID-19 and the broader era of global industrial farming dependent on pesticides, petroleum, and heavy machinery.
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Process Pop-Up: Prayers for Mother Earth: Gratitude, Compassion, Repentance, and Guidance
In this Process Pop-Up, Mary Jane Miller will introduce us to her book Prayers for Mother Earth and reveal how it is designed as a resource and guide to focus the mind and heart on one another and Mother Earth as she speaks back to us.
The Path of Light: The Universal Message of the Karkariyya Sufi Order with Zaineb Baddouri
In this presentation, Zaineb Baddouri will engage in an exploratory discussion of the Karkariyya Order and the central message of its living teacher, Shaykh Al-Karkari. The Shaykh emphasizes the processual, direct witnessing of the Divine Presence as Light as mode and method of the student's journey toward self-knowledge, ethical formation, and transcendence of consciousness. Through daily meditative practice, sincere action, and 7 foundational techniques, students of the Karkariya embark on an inner and outer journey of transformation and purification.
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Process Pop-Up: Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization
In this Process Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey will introduce us to his book Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization and discuss his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization.
Ecological Civilization and Global Citizenship: Reflections on a Year in China with Wm. Andrew Schwartz
The path toward ecological civilization asks us to confront a basic contradiction of our time: our greatest challenges are planetary, while our dominant forms of identity and political action remain divided along national, cultural, religious, and ideological lines. Building a more just and sustainable world will require unprecedented cooperation across these boundaries, and new ways of understanding what it means to belong to a global community. Drawing on a year of living, teaching, and working in China, Andrew Schwartz reflects on global citizenship, cross-cultural encounter, and ecological civilization through the lens of process-relational thought, asking how we might cultivate forms of identity, responsibility, and cooperation adequate to our shared planetary future.
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