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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 8h

The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence traces the concept from ancient to contemporary thought, including under explored angles, e.g. mystical, process theological, feminist theological & phenomenological. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. -Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 267

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this presentation, Doug Corbitt will share his experiences running as a Democrat in a rural, poor, very Red district in Arkansas. He will speak to why he thinks it worth the effort, what he has learned, and what he has found most surprising. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/runnin...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nothing [is] momentous enough to monopolize the whole of life to the exclusion of laughter. -Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of A. N. Whitehead: As Recorded by Lucien Price, p. 55

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the latest post on the CPS blog, Ruth Kastner carries Iain McGilchrist's thesis about the divided brain into the foundations of physics. The quantum level, she argues, is the true Master, and the classical world only its Emissary. Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/the-...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the summer, a group of process scholars & practitioners traveled across China, participating in a remarkable series of gatherings exploring the relevance of process-relational thought to some of the most pressing questions of our time. Read the full reflection: ctr4process.org/a-journey-in...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This book serves as a gentle primer on the philosophy of mind for those wishing to directly explore the strange subjective aspects of psychedelics, providing the means for novices to get to grips with the mind before disrupting it. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/phi...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness. -David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 30

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We’re very happy to announce the opening of our first online gallery, featuring works by members of SPARKS, our arts collective. Concresence features nine artists working across a wide variety of different mediums Learn more & explore the virtual gallery: ctr4process.org/concresence-...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are excited to announce that CPS has been awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to launch an innovative interdisciplinary project entitled Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World. Read the full announcement: ctr4process.org/cps-receives...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decay, Transition, Loss, Displacement belong to the essence of the Creative Advance… Amid the passing of so much beauty, so much heroism, so much daring, peace is then the intuition of permanence. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 286

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The next Process Explorations explores the theme Compassion, Creativity, and Global Citizenship through the lives of three remarkable persons who contributed in quite different ways to the quality of life both for human communities and the entire ecosphere. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/rememb...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The 19th International Forum on Ecological Civilization will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Nov 1–5, 2026 and the theme is Building an Eco-Friendly Civilization Together: Ecological Civilization, Ecological Enterprise, and Inner Ecology. Learn more & submit: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. -Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, p. 90

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Born on this day in 1839, Charles Sanders Peirce is sometimes known as “the father of pragmatism.” Learn more about his work and related philosophies and theologies in our journal Process Studies: www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id... cc: @ctr4process.bsky.social

Cover of Process Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2023

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peblo-nemo.bsky.social @peblo-nemo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm very happy to announce that my work is featured in the Sparks online gallery for the @ctr4process.bsky.social , check it out! newart.city/show/sparks-...

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SPARKS Gallery - Concrescence, by Center for Process Studies

Exhibition in New Art City, Virtual Art Space.

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What is the essence of life? This book argues against the materialistic-mechanistic-reductionistic response to science. Physics itself can be interpreted in ways that support, rather than negate, humanity’s experience of choices, values, and meanings. Get the book: ctr4process.org/new-book/phy...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/ecolog...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Essentially, culture should be for action, and its effect would be to divest labor from the associations of aimless toil. -Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education, p. 74

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This six-session online series brings the Zen teachings of Dōgen into conversation with the process philosophy of Whitehead, exploring what these two visions offer for awakening, everyday life, and compassionate participation in an interdependent world. Register: processandfaith.org/groups/buddh...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This book explores how Stengers’ constructivism resists the hierarchical binarity characteristic of modernity, building coherence across problematic differences to rethink gender, capitalism & climate change. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In a relational world, no entity, be it cell or society, can exist apart from its receiving and giving to others. -Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, God, Christ, Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology, p. 80

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. -Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 232

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this SPARKS Exchange, we will be exploring how a colorblind photographer feels with his eyes, and how we can apply this to how we navigate our own creative process. Tom Oord will share clips from this documentary as a window into his creative process. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/seer-e...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Living Whitehead's Vision demonstrates how a process relational view of adult learning provides a coherent, logical, and systematic explanation of the diverse strands of adult learning. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/liv...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This six-session course taught by Wm. Andrew Schwartz explores the philosophical foundations, historical roots, and practical possibilities of ecological civilization, drawing on process-relational thought to imagine a more just & flourishing world. Register: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/fo...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things. -Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 275

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. -Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, p. 289

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This 6 session online series brings the Zen teachings of Dōgen into conversation with the process philosophy of Whitehead, exploring what these two visions offer for awakening, everyday life, and compassionate participation in an interdependent world. Register: processandfaith.org/groups/buddh...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Way of Reason in Religion & Politics makes the case for the importance of metaphysics in democratic political philosophy and challenges religion as merely a private, individual matter or, conversely, that religion should dominate public discourse. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one. -Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 245

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In this Process Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey introduce his book "Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization" and discusses his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization. Watch the recording: youtu.be/quVUldbI5cU

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it. -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, p. 9

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In Ecocivilization, leading thinker Jeremy Lent offers that reimagination, grounded in proven design principles of ecosystems and in humankind’s evolved inclination toward justice, mutuality, and dignity. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/eco...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? -William James, The Will to Believe, p. 14

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. -Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 7

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. -Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community, p. 17

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In this 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. RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness. -Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education, p. 106

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Creeds are at once the outcome of speculation and efforts to curb speculation… Wherever there is a creed, there is a heretic round the corner or in his grave. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 66

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Center for Process Studies is excited to be collaborating with the journal Metamodern Theory and Praxis on a Special Issue focused on process social ontologies! Deadline for manuscript submissions: October 1, 2026. Read the full call for papers: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[God] is both physical and spiritual, and the divine body is all surpassing and all-inclusive of the creaturely bodies, which are to God as cells to a supercellular organism -Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, p. 44-45

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The glorification of power has broken more hearts than it has healed. -Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 55

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This 5 session course, taught by Andrew Davis, aims to reveal the various sides, lights, & colors of Whitehead’s process philosophy from the microscopic to the macroscopic, and in direct relation to your experience as an expression of the universe. Register: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/wh...

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Center for Process Studies @ctr4process.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a need for a new way of living and new outlook on life, where people take care of one another and the earth, living with respect and care for the entire community of life. An ecological civilization is this new way. -Zhihe Wang, ""Constructive Postmodernism Is a Better Choice"

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