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The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a nonprofit think-and-action tank that conducts interdisciplinary research and education to cultivate holistic understanding for human and planetary flourishing.
In this exploratory webinar, author, educator and aspiring therapist Travis Cox will invite participants into the project that he and his colleagues are calling “Ecopsychedelics” which is a portmanteau of the words “ecopsychology” and “psychedelics”.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Drawing from history, philosophy, psychology, science, & lived experience, Nish Dubashia & Marie Murtagh explore how our collective understanding of God & self has transformed through cultural shifts, scientific discoveries, & the timeless search for meaning.

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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The life of Christ is not an exhibition of overruling power… Its power lies in its absence of force. It has the decisiveness of a supreme ideal, and that is why the history of the world divides at this point.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 57
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In this SPARKS Exchange, Kathleen Wakefield will read a selection of her poems followed by questions and conversation with Jay McDaniel. We will cap our session off with an opportunity to enjoy an interactive poetry writing experience.

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November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Join us for a fascinating webinar featuring Michael Levin & George Ellis, moderated by Andrew Davis. Together, they will explore the profound question of “possibility spaces”—those unseen domains that shape what can emerge in cosmology, biology, and beyond.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This presentation is about the legacy of Amy Carmichael, the conventional missionary transformed into a mystic who embodied love as participation in the suffering of others by uplifting and empowering countless lives.

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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you are curious about consciousness, plasma cosmology, quantum spirituality, ancient mythology, or the path to unlocking your true self, this book is an invitation to remember the power that has always been yours.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, On Love and Happiness, p. 25
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In this conversation, CPS Program Director Dr. Andrew M. Davis joins Dr. Tevin Naidu for a deep exploration of meaning, process philosophy, and the evolving story of consciousness.

Watch now: youtu.be/NPC-6JmlGFk
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join us for an enlightening evening with author Nish Dubashia and special co-presenter Marie Murtagh as they offer powerful insights from A Brief History of God: From Nature Spirits to Cosmic Consciousness.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In this exploratory webinar, author, educator and aspiring therapist Travis Cox will invite participants into the project that he and his colleagues are calling “Ecopsychedelics” which is a portmanteau of the words “ecopsychology” and “psychedelics”.

RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join us for a fascinating webinar featuring Michael Levin & George Ellis, moderated by Andrew Davis. Together, they will explore the profound question of “possibility spaces”—those unseen domains that shape what can emerge in cosmology, biology, and beyond.

RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/possib...
October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Tuesday, join Sheri Kling, Bruce Epperly and several other contributing authors to the new Renewing Faith volume to talk about the book’s essays and how its ideas can renew our individual experiences of faith as well as Christian faith overall.

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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Drawing on the rich insights of contemporary theology, science, and philosophy, this book brings together voices of pastors, theologians, spiritual directors, chaplains, and seekers who are rediscovering the vitality and purpose of a living faith.

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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Mind-at-Large project is soliciting papers for our April 2026 conference in Exeter, UK that engage creatively & critically with the re-emerging paradigm of mind-at-large, traversing multiple thresholds of philosophic, scientific, & cultural discourse.

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October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Nature is never complete. It is always passing beyond itself. This is the creative advance of nature.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 34
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

-David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, p. 163
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In this film, scholars and seekers come together for a session of Holotropic Breathwork—a therapeutic group event where participants experience psychedelic states of consciousness without ingesting substances.

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October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Carrie & Mary will share stories from East Side Institute projects in dementia care, education, mental health, & more and introduce grassroots leaders who are using play, performance, & philosophy to transform isolation into connection & difference into growth.

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October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In this volume, leading Whitehead scholars address the ways in which the 1925-1927 Harvard lectures challenge or confirm previous understanding of Whitehead’s published works.

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October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Moral codes have suffered from the exaggerated claims made for them. The world is shocked, or amused by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 374
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In this special event, contributing authors to the new book from Process & Faith, "Renewing Faith: Reigniting Faith and Ministry through Process and Open & Relational Theologies" share perspectives on their chapters and the overall theme of renewing faith.

Watch here: youtu.be/0ilOlrcV6us
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In this presentation, author Jeremy Lent will explore the concept of an ecological civilization: why we need it, its underlying principles, and a glimpse of what it might look like in practice.

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October 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM