Center for Process Studies
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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 The Death of Supernaturalism, Chad Bahl offers a bold theological manifesto that critiques the metaphysical assumptions of supernatural theism.
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Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In The Death of Supernaturalism, Chad Bahl offers a bold theological manifesto that critiques the metaphysical assumptions of supernatural theism.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
In his newest book, The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case for Process Naturalism, Chad Bahl offers a bold theological manifesto that critiques the metaphysical assumptions of supernatural theism.
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In his newest book, The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case for Process Naturalism, Chad Bahl offers a bold theological manifesto that critiques the metaphysical assumptions of supernatural theism.
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
We are excited to share the the recording of our recent webinar, Possibility Spaces in Cosmology, Biology, and Beyond: A Dialogue with Michael Levin & George Ellis, is now available on the Center for Process Studies YouTube channel!
Watch now: youtu.be/Lma8Y-arAQQ
Watch now: youtu.be/Lma8Y-arAQQ
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We are excited to share the the recording of our recent webinar, Possibility Spaces in Cosmology, Biology, and Beyond: A Dialogue with Michael Levin & George Ellis, is now available on the Center for Process Studies YouTube channel!
Watch now: youtu.be/Lma8Y-arAQQ
Watch now: youtu.be/Lma8Y-arAQQ
Consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.
- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 10
- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 10
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.
- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 10
- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 10
Going Steady with Herman Daly: How to Unbreak the Economy (and the Planet)
A mini-series from the Cities 1.5 Podcast
Listen here: lnk.to/HDMiniSeries
A mini-series from the Cities 1.5 Podcast
Listen here: lnk.to/HDMiniSeries
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Going Steady with Herman Daly: How to Unbreak the Economy (and the Planet)
A mini-series from the Cities 1.5 Podcast
Listen here: lnk.to/HDMiniSeries
A mini-series from the Cities 1.5 Podcast
Listen here: lnk.to/HDMiniSeries
Commemorating Whitehead’s Legacy: A Conversation on a Special Issue of Our Process Studies Journal with Editor Dr. Daniel A. Dombrowski
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Listen here: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/co...
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Commemorating Whitehead’s Legacy: A Conversation on a Special Issue of Our Process Studies Journal with Editor Dr. Daniel A. Dombrowski
Listen here: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/co...
Listen here: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/co...
Personhood Without Boundaries: Apophatic Personalism as Step to a Transreligious and Planetary Communion-in-Diversity with Gunnar Gabriel
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November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Personhood Without Boundaries: Apophatic Personalism as Step to a Transreligious and Planetary Communion-in-Diversity with Gunnar Gabriel
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Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 519
- Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 519
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 519
- Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 519
This SPARKS Exchange will feature an exposition of maqām (Middle Eastern modal) music focusing on Tanburi Cemil Bey’s “Hicazkâr Saz Semai” as a template for appreciation of the unique process of modulation that is prevalent in Middle Eastern music.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/middle...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/middle...
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This SPARKS Exchange will feature an exposition of maqām (Middle Eastern modal) music focusing on Tanburi Cemil Bey’s “Hicazkâr Saz Semai” as a template for appreciation of the unique process of modulation that is prevalent in Middle Eastern music.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/middle...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/middle...
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🎧 The newest UPside Podcast features Process Studies editor Daniel A. Dombrowski discussing Vol. 54, No. 2, a special issue on “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard.”
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💻Transcript: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p...
🔊 Listen: rss.com/podcasts/uip...
💻Transcript: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p...
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🎧 The newest UPside Podcast features Process Studies editor Daniel A. Dombrowski discussing Vol. 54, No. 2, a special issue on “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard.”
🔊 Listen: rss.com/podcasts/uip...
💻Transcript: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p...
🔊 Listen: rss.com/podcasts/uip...
💻Transcript: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p...
The Being of Relation brings together Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation and Fernand Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures that hold whiteness and neurotypicality in place.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Being of Relation brings together Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation and Fernand Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures that hold whiteness and neurotypicality in place.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
We are excited to share a call for papers for an online conference on "Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History" organized by Emmanuel Ofuasia of the Decoloniality Research Group, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Learn more: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...
Learn more: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We are excited to share a call for papers for an online conference on "Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History" organized by Emmanuel Ofuasia of the Decoloniality Research Group, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Learn more: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...
Learn more: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...
This presentation from Kazi Adi Shakti introduces Process Buddhism as an ongoing project of creative synthesis, integrating Process philosophy, Buddhist dialectics, Marxian analysis and ecofeminist critique.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This presentation from Kazi Adi Shakti introduces Process Buddhism as an ongoing project of creative synthesis, integrating Process philosophy, Buddhist dialectics, Marxian analysis and ecofeminist critique.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
The chequered history of religion and morality is the main reason for the widespread desire to put them aside in favour of the more stable generalities of science. Unfortunately… the impact of aesthetic, religious and moral notions is inescapable.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 19
- Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 19
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The chequered history of religion and morality is the main reason for the widespread desire to put them aside in favour of the more stable generalities of science. Unfortunately… the impact of aesthetic, religious and moral notions is inescapable.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 19
- Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 19
Update from our friends at the Whitehead Research Project: The Whitehead Canon, Version 2.0
Read the full update: whiteheadresearch.org/2025/10/24/t...
Photo: Dr. Joseph Petek of the Whitehead Research Project holding copies of the two newly published volumes of Whitehead’s essays and articles
Read the full update: whiteheadresearch.org/2025/10/24/t...
Photo: Dr. Joseph Petek of the Whitehead Research Project holding copies of the two newly published volumes of Whitehead’s essays and articles
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Update from our friends at the Whitehead Research Project: The Whitehead Canon, Version 2.0
Read the full update: whiteheadresearch.org/2025/10/24/t...
Photo: Dr. Joseph Petek of the Whitehead Research Project holding copies of the two newly published volumes of Whitehead’s essays and articles
Read the full update: whiteheadresearch.org/2025/10/24/t...
Photo: Dr. Joseph Petek of the Whitehead Research Project holding copies of the two newly published volumes of Whitehead’s essays and articles
The next book for the Readings on Faiths Around the World learning circle, facilitated by Terry Goddard, is When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen.
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The next book for the Readings on Faiths Around the World learning circle, facilitated by Terry Goddard, is When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen.
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
That the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency… should be looked upon as one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 167
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 167
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency… should be looked upon as one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 167
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 167
In this blog, Patrick Ioakimedes addresses the significance of giving serious consideration to data and research on PSI phenomena (also called the paranormal) from a process-oriented perspective.
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/proc...
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/proc...
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In this blog, Patrick Ioakimedes addresses the significance of giving serious consideration to data and research on PSI phenomena (also called the paranormal) from a process-oriented perspective.
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/proc...
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/proc...
Nov 18 will be a people’s session of Process Explorations on Living and Breathing Gratitude. The community will hear from panelists sharing their wisdom about gratitude through stories, ideas, poetry, music, daily practices, and religious or cultural traditions.
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RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nov 18 will be a people’s session of Process Explorations on Living and Breathing Gratitude. The community will hear from panelists sharing their wisdom about gratitude through stories, ideas, poetry, music, daily practices, and religious or cultural traditions.
RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
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...
RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 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...
RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
The Polish Whiteheadian community is happy to announce the upcoming conference “Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy“. It will take place in Katowice, Poland & online 19-20 Nov, 2025.
Learn more: ctr4process.org/event/whiteh...
Learn more: ctr4process.org/event/whiteh...
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Polish Whiteheadian community is happy to announce the upcoming conference “Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy“. It will take place in Katowice, Poland & online 19-20 Nov, 2025.
Learn more: ctr4process.org/event/whiteh...
Learn more: ctr4process.org/event/whiteh...
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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/poetry...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/poetry...
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/poetry...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/poetry...
The next book for the Readings on Faiths Around the World learning circle, facilitated by Terry Goddard, is When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen.
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The next book for the Readings on Faiths Around the World learning circle, facilitated by Terry Goddard, is When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen.
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...