Events
Process Pop-up: Daoist Meditation as Practice and Philosophy with Zhenbao Jin
Meditation is not simply a practice, but a philosophy-based practice, or a practice-based philosophy. With philosophy we mean our fundamental understanding of life and the cosmos, and especially, our understanding of life and death. In this pop-up, Zhenbao Jin will provide an introduction to Daoist meditation, facilitate a discussion, and lead participants in a brief meditation session.
Process Pop-up: The Role of Spiritual Independents in the Interfaith Community with Jared Morningstar
Join an engaging discussion on being spiritually independent, and how these spiritual voyagers outside the halls of institutional religion can be important partners in interfaith dialogue.
Process Pop-up: The Kyoto School: A Buddhist Contribution to Ecological Civilization with Jared Morningstar
Join a sophisticated discussion of the Kyoto School of philosophy and how these cosmopolitan Buddhist thinkers offer resources for building ecological civilization.
Process Pop-up: Process Theology and the Enneagram with Ken Pearson and Jay McDaniel
This pop-up will provide an opportunity to consider the Enneagram types, to see their relevance to process theology, and to consider how, together, the Enneagram and process theology might help us grow in our potential to help heal a broken world.
Process Pop-up: Islamic Approaches to Interfaith Cooperation with Jared Morningstar
Join a dynamic discussion on Islamic approaches to interfaith cooperation to learn what the Qur’an say about other religions and how Muslims are thinking about religious pluralism today.
Beauty in a Time of Lament with Jay McDaniel and Patricia Adams Farmer
Jay McDaniel and Patricia Adams Farmer will share their views and invite yours on the many forms of beauty, including musical beauty and the beauty of landscapes and waterways, animals and plants, as they offer opportunities for touching God and moving forward, no matter how trying the times.
Process Pop-up: The Deeper Roots of Mass Shootings with Sheri D. Kling
Join a dynamic discussion on the deeper roots of mass shootings, inspired by process scholar Sheri Kling's recent piece on the Cobb Institute blog Process in Praxis titled "Are Fragmentation, Trauma, and Demoralization at the Root of Mass Shootings?"
Process Pop-up: Process and Religious Pluralism with Bruce Epperly and Sheri Kling
Join a dynamic discussion on process and religious pluralism, using Bruce Epperly's recently published book The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism as a springboard for conversation.
Process Thinking & Human Living: An Online Seminar for Exploration and Inspiration
In this 3-hour, online seminar, speakers from Process & Faith, a program of the Center for Process Studies of Claremont School of Theology will explore aspects of process thought that make a positive difference in human life and in the life of the earth.
Process Pop-Up: Balancing Eight Spiritual Tensions with Jared Morningstar
Join an interactive Pop-Up event where we will explore four pairs of religious and spiritual dispositions which are in tension with one another. Together we will consider how we can hold these tensions with grace so as to not lose the organic dynamism of authentic spirituality.
Extended Sight & Process Philosophy with Àlex Gómez-Marín and Matt Segall
Physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín and Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee chair Matt Segall will come together to discuss Dr. Gomez-Marin's recent experiments on “scopaesthesia” and on “extraocular vision,” exploring how these phenomena can be given coherent interpretation from a process philosophical perspective.
Process Pop-Up: The Tao Flows on Like a River Forever with Rosemarie Anderson
Dr. Rosemarie Anderson will provide examples of verses from her own translation of the Tao Te Ching, suggestive of the philosophy of organism and why modern Chinese are now attracted to Process Philosophy.