Posts Tagged ‘whitehead’
Is G_d following or leading? Both/And!
By Dr. Arlette Poland Whitehead was ambiguous about time in many ways. It was not totally clear in his explanations about the creator deity whether that deity was the lure…
Read MoreL’Chaim: To Life and Impermanence
by Dr. Arlette Poland There is a continuousness about existence that Whitehead recognized. One event, life, thing even memory flows into another. First there is this and then there is…
Read MoreThe Meaning of Making Meaning and Time
By Dr. Arlette Poland Humans make meaning. That is what we do. We decide if we like a color, a person, an object, a country – or not. We make…
Read MoreRelation Is: Ethics Must Follow as Care and Connection
By Arlette Poland Whitehead taught us that everything that ever was is somehow part of everything that is becoming and then that event that becomes will be part of the…
Read MoreChaosmic Process Theology: Deleuze and Whitehead
by Austin Roberts In recent years, I have become interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. What initially attracted me to his work was discovering that Deleuze considered Whitehead to…
Read MoreIs the Mitzvah of Memory Possible in Whitehead’s Process Model?
By Dr. Arlette Poland Judaism is nothing if it is not its history. That is what I teach my students. One of the first things they hear and likely one…
Read MoreThe Power of the Subjective Form: Feelings as Perceptive Devices for Care and Connection
by Dr. Arlette Poland Whitehead teaches us that perception involves several layers of activity. Neuroscience has recently proven his concepts to be accurate. The most simple of examples is our eyesight.…
Read MoreA Process Christmas
by Carolyn Roncolato The standard Christmas story- preached from pulpits, performed in pageants, colored on cards, and sung in songs- depicts Jesus as some sort of perfect God baby- “the cattle…
Read MoreCONCRESENCE AS INCLUSION IN EVERY BECOMING MOMENT
by Dr. Arlette Poland Whitehead coined the term conscresence. It is described variously as the intake and decision making in the becoming event or experience. John Cobb, Jr. describes it…
Read MoreCARE AND CONNECTION: THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
By Dr. Arlette Poland Whitehead taught that every becoming occasion or moment is filled with all of the past. For him, when he waxed religious, that past included information from…
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