Open Horizons
Exploring a Process Worldview
and Way of Living
curated by Jay McDaniel
Welcome. Open Horizons is an evolving collection of webpages by different writers and artists exploring a process worldview and way of living. All pages include images and text, and some include music. We believe in many ways of knowing. We have readers from more than a hundred countries and add new content almost every day.
This homepage introduces the process worldview and way of living; gives you a sense of the social aspirations and practices of the process movement; and offers a list of recently added pages for further exploration. New to the "process" outlook on life? Scroll down and you'll get the introduction you need. Thanks for joining us.
What to Do
Continue to do the good work.
Continue to build bridges not walls.
Continue to lead with compassion.
Continue the demanding work
of liberation for all.
Continue to dismantle broken systems,
large and small.
Continue to set the best example
for the children.
Continue to be a vessel of nourishing joy.
Continue to build bridges not walls.
Continue to lead with compassion.
Continue the demanding work
of liberation for all.
Continue to dismantle broken systems,
large and small.
Continue to set the best example
for the children.
Continue to be a vessel of nourishing joy.
Recent Posts
updated December 6, 2024
- Shared Earth, Shared Kinship: Renewing Our Relationship with Animals
- Biopoetic Crickets: Process Theology and the Enjoyment of Chirping
- You Must Cultivate Your Garden: Candide's Advice to the Metaphysician
- Weaving Shadows: Process Philosophy in Conversation with Freud
- Out of Eden: Process Theology and John Milton's Paradise Lost
- Restless Hearts and Dynamic Grace: Augustine and Process Theology
- Calling all French Majors: Linda McMahon and the Great Books Initiative
- Faith and Reason: Enfilade and Mise en Abyme
- Going to Sleep while Reading: The Cognitive and Spiritual Value of Liminal States of Mind
- The Unseen Embrace: A Process Theology of Gravity
- The Antikythera Mechanism: Process Theology, Engineering, and the World's First Computer
- Process Theology and the Trump Movement: Reimagining Six Trumpian Themes
- Rain: A Poem by Nita Gilger
- I Want to Bathe in the River of Beauty: A Poem by Patricia Adams Farmer
- The Enemy of our Better Selves: A Process Theology of the Devil
- Small but Tough People: Thriving in Inhospitable Circumstances
- Walking with Wordsworth: Finding Sanctuary in Green Spaces
- Awareness-Based Systems Change: Process Philosophy, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
- Filial Piety and Eco-Piety: Process Confucianism
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Courage to Acknowledge Flaws
- The Galilean Vision: Following Jesus in an Age of Ruling Caesars
- Lead us not into Sleaziness: Process Theology & The Charlatan
- Co-Creating a Flourishing World: Mindful Metaphysics, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
- After the Election: Yearning for a Culture of Listening
- The Humility of True Heroes: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Process Perspective
- Antigone: A Young Woman's Search for Justice
- The Flying Elbow Drop: A Process Reflection on Professional Wrestling
- Your Hero is My Villain: A Lesson from Shakespeare
- Living Earth Wonder Clubs: An Imaginary Network of Earth-Amazed Families and Friends
- Theo-Fandom: Beyoncé, Harry Potter, and Process Philosophy
- Weaving Emotions, Weaving a World: Concrescence and Catharsis
- A Visceral Sense of Doom: Whitehead and Sludge Metal
- Panexperiential Theology: A Living Cosmos and the Perpetual Newness of God
- Romantic Banter as Embodied Metaphysics: Whitehead's Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
- The Polymorphous Self: Identifying with Animals and Mythical Creatures
- Us versus Them: Competitive Sports, Partisan Politics, and Process Philosophy
- The Myriad-Minded Soul: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Enjoyment of Contrasts
- Authenticity and Morality: A Short Note on Heidegger and Whitehead
- The Politics of Scowling: Core Characteristics of the Fascist Personality
- Whitehead, the I Ching, and the Suchness of Pure Potentialities
- A Deeper Dive into Whitehead: The Eight Categories of Existence plus Creativity and God
- Wordsworth and Whitehead
- Chinese and American Friendship: Practicing Process Philosophy in a Chinese Kitchen
- Social Therapy and Social Therapeutics: Creating Performative Spaces where Life can Flourish
- The Garden as an Inclusive Learning Center: A Zone of Proximal Development
- The Instrumental Value of Chaos: Whitehead, John Milton, and Satan in Paradise Lost
- The Universe as a Theatrical Event: Co-Creativity, Improvisation, and Polydrama
- Embracing the Many: A Mysticism of Multiplicity
- No Need to Decide: Process Philosophy and the need for Cognitive Flexibility
- All Actual Entities Matter to Themselves: The Ontology of Self-Enjoyment in Whitehead's Philosophy
- A Taste for the Infinite: Schleiermacher, Process Theology, and the Sublime
- The Creative Void: Exploring the Metaphysics of Empty Space
- Whitehead, Wormholes, and the Longing for Cosmic Connections
- The Enigmatic Cesario: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of Fluid Gender Identity in Twelfth Night
- Improvisational Learning: Vigotsky, Whitehead, and the Zone of Becoming
- Qualities of a Needed Political Leader: Analytic Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Love Intelligence
- Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute
- Bertolt Brecht: A Process-Oriented Marxist Poet and Playwright
- More than Entertainment: Art's Role in Creating Just Communities
- Aging in a New Key: The Spiritual Benefits of Learning an Instrument in Later Years
- Hyper-Masculinity and Militarism: Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Process Perspective
- The Global Process Community: A River with Twelve Tributaries
- From Fragmentation to Flourishing: Uniting the Process Community
- Whitehead on Civilizations, Ecological and Otherwise: Philip Clayton
- Theatre of the Ordinary: Anton Chekhov & The Quiet Dignity of Unrealized Dreams
- Decisions Made in Rage: Medea's Revenge
- Lived Geometry: The Experience of Space in Process Philosophy
- The Creative Cosmos Collective
- To Whitehead: An Active Verb
- The Puckish Side of God: Toward a Process Theology of Mischief
- A Midsummer Night's Entanglement: Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Freud
- The Mind of a Mathematician: A Whiteheadian Approach
- Relationality and the Ethic of Loving Attention: Judith Jones and Iris Murdoch
- Iago's Motives: Whitehead and Shakespeare on the nature of a Villain
- When God becomes a Bromide: Process Theology Beyond Platitudes
- The Desire to be Relevant and Remarkable
- The Receptacle as Creativity: Whitehead and Faber
- The Cosmo-Mythic Imagination and Many Worlds: Whitehead and Faber
- The Mind of Whitehead: Roland Faber
- Virginia Woolf and Alfred North Whitehead: Veronika Krajíčková and the Living Earth
- Theology in Moments of Time: Tori Owens, Jay McDaniel
- It's the Little Things Sometimes: Nita Gilger
- Apotheosis: The Reformation and Divinization of the World in God's Ongoing Life
- Process Philosophy and Shakespeare: A Seminar
- Sentience all the Way Down? John Pohl's Theology of the Microbe
- Open and Relational Music Makers: Many Genres, One Love
- Beneath the Surface: A Process Theology of Jellyfish
- The Metaphysics of Pain & Whitehead's Philosophy of Feeling
- To My Israeli and Palestinian Friends: Letter from a Process Theologian
- Being a Non-Anxious Presence as a Way of Imitating God
- Whitehead's Idea of the Superject: Theory and Applications
- The Subject as Superject: Constructive Superjecting as a Way of Life
- Process Philosophy and the Performing Arts: Points of Connection
- The Art of Holding Up a Mirror: What Process Philosophy can learn from Shakespeare
- Neologistically Speaking: Whitehead's Creative Use of "Concrescence"
- Beyond Consciousness: Understanding Whitehead's Concept of Experience
- Prehensions and the Solidarity of the Universe: Whitehead's Proposal
- Beyond Process: The Everlasting and Eternal Elements in Whitehead's Philosophy
- From Disgust to Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Emotional Tug of Political Polarization
- Eternal Objects and the Dynamics of Process: Exploring Whitehead's Philosophy of Pure Potentialities
- Cognition and Concrescence: Process Reflections on the Many Ways of Knowing
- Mathematics and Emotion: Whitehead’s Categories of Existence and Interdisciplinary Studies
- An Open and Relational Church: Eight Ways of Knowing God
- Divine Presence: Ten Forms of Inwardness
- The Problem with being Anti-Metaphysical
- Christians Against Trump and Christians Against Trump: A Quiet, Growing Movement
- Some Metaphysical Missteps (to which metaphysical enthusiasts are prone)
- It is the Mending that Matters: Process Theology, Trauma, and Second Chances
- The Nothing that's become Something: Jonathan Foster
- The Falstaffian God: Embracing Life’s Richness
- A Quiet Platonism: The Fibonacci Sequence and Whitehead's Concept of Ingression
- Jesus the Yanker: Free Radicals and Antioxidants
- Compassionate Inter-Becoming: The Bodhisattva Vow and Process Theology
- Changing your Mind for God's Sake: Oath Taking and Oath Breaking
- Imagining the Universe as a Cosmic Learning Community
- To the Church of my Youth: Where did You Go?
- Beyond Clarity and Moralizing: A Place for Productive Ambiguity in Theology
- Unblaming God: Discovering Divine Tenderness Beyond Tragedy
- Our Ass Doesn't Laugh: Political Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Death is a Kind of Gravity: Patricia Adams Farmer
- The Value of Unresolved Tensions: Whitehead's Philosophy and Hamlet's Inner Life
- Will Whitehead be Read a Hundred Years from Now? Yes, and here's how.
- Mystery and the Sailing Rocks of Death Valley: Nita Gilger
- Self-death as a Symbol of Radical Freedom: Farhan Shah
- Reading Whitehead/Reading Shakespeare
- We are Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and Political Theatre
- Ten Teachings of Process Zen: Inspired by Dainin Katagiri Roshi
- The Process is You: The Zen Teachings of Dainin Katagiri Roshi
- Finding the Gospel in the Cerulean Sea: Vikki Randall
- Why I Put Down my God-is-Dead Flag: Jay McDaniel
- Oughtism: The Rigid Moralist
- The Post-Human Self: The Microbial Side of Human Life
- Napping for a Better World: The Liberating Vision of Tricia Hersey
- Onto-Fugitivity, Post-Activism, and Deep Listening: Báyò Akómoláfé
- The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down: Báyò Akómoláfé
- Home-Grown Process Theology: Personalized, Accessible, Mindful, and Adventurous
- Let Them Run Outside When It's Raining: Ecological Civilization and Nature-Based Play
- Can Generous Listening help Heal the World?
- Saving Mozart: Ecological Civilization, Classical Music, AI, and Process Theology
- From Amipotence to Ecopotence: De-sentimentalizing Divine Love through Ecology
- The Madness of American Politics: A Prayer for Coping
- The Present Moment is Holy Ground: A Process Zen Reflection
- Religion with Wings: A Process Theology of Imagination
- No Ideas but in Things: William Carlos Williams
- Ambition or Integrity: The Politician's Dilemma
- Navigating the Crossroads: Integrating Christian Process Thought and Zen Buddhism
- I think the Earth Remembers Me: Hiking as a Spiritual Practice
- Moral Outrage, Resentment, and Self-Righteousness: Buddhism and Forgiveness
- Helping Others Flourish: A Process Theology of Butterflies
- Blow the Door Open: John Donne, Process Theology, and the Divine Lure
- The Tiny Philosopher of Wonder: Patricia Adams Farmer
- A Review of Bruce Epperly's "The God of Tomorrow"
- The Universe as an Artistic Activity: Process Philosophy and Art
- Luring Love: Process Theology and the Therapeutic Value of AI Companions
- The Desire to be Immersed in Beauty: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The Feeling of "If" - Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead
- Process and Music: Twenty Key Ideas
- Six Roles of the Artist in an Ecological Civilization
- Let the Last Word be Love: A Sermon for Pride Month by Vikki Randall
- Of God and Squash Bugs: Living with an Anthropocentric Bias
- There's Been a Change of Plans: Non-Compulsive Planning in Process Zen
- A Whole Universe of Stories: Patricia Adams Farmer, Sallie McFague, and Teilhard de Chardin
- How Does it Feel? A Theology of Vibes
- The Fallacy of Misplaced Divinity: Confusing Winds of the Spirit with Ideas about God
- Return to the River of Belonging: Patricia Adams Farmer
- Let Love be the Judge: Oord Responds to Charges Pending Trial for Queer Affirmation
- You Should be Dancing: Process Theology and the Bee Gees
- The Basis of Relational Mysticism: Simple Physical Feelings
- A Yearning for Intensity: Whitehead's Notion of Contrasts
- Is the Smartphone more Useful than God? Process Theology in a Digital Age
- The Sanctuary of Openness: Rebecca Ann Parker on Faith without Grasping
- Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. Zen Meditation and Process Theology
- Changing without Moving: The Metaphysics of Actual Entities
- All Creatures Great and Small: Relations with Animals as Relations with God
- I am Curious: Process Philosophy and the Polymath Sensibility
- Process & Discernment: Pulled in Many Directions, Listening for Initial Aims from God
- Do Open and Relational Thinkers Talk about God Too Much? Yes, sometimes.
- Inclusive Community: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, Church of the Village
- Singing Old Hymns in New Ways: Jay McDaniel and Al Gephart
- Chinese and American Farming Friends: Wendell Berry and Yan Shi
- Saving God: Tripp Fuller's Christology and Christ the Bodhisattva
- If God is Omnipresent, Why Go to Church? Notes on an essay by Casey T. Sigmon
- The Rapture of Being Alive: Two Hymns by Sheri Kling
- The Grace of the Empty Tomb: Notes on a sermon by Nichole Torbitzsky
- The Craziness of Christian Love: Notes on a Prayer by Vikki Randall
- Embracing the Moment: A Buddhist Perspective on Open and Relational Theology
- Wisdom and Mindfulness: Embracing Open and Relational Theology Without Succumbing to Ten Temptations
- Wonder and Novelty: A Wild, Grassroots Version of Process-Relational Thought
- Climate Change and the Liberal Arts: Music and Printmaking for the Earth Community
- Digital Humility: From Social Media Exhibitionism to Community-Centered Connectivity
- The Last Flight of a Disappointed Mosquito: Divine Love in Small Things
- The Red Wheelbarrow: The Place of Particulars in Metamodern Religion
- Leaning into Withness: A Whiteheadian Reflection on a Sermon by Jonathan Foster
- Flourishing: An Open and Relational Pneumatology
- A Sermon is Co-Created: Listening to a Sermon with an Open and Relational Heart
- Cosmic Awakenings: Andrew Davis on a Universe of Value
- Quiet Unpretentious Love: Beyond Envy, Comparisons, and Social Media Compulsions
- Eclipse Theology: Ten Questions for Reflection
- God after Deconstruction for Christians influenced by Buddhism
- Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian God: Multiple Ultimates
- Emptiness and Abba: Zen (Metamodern) Christianity
- Can God Laugh? Ten Forms of Divine Laughter
- Planting Seeds of Hope: A "Process Theology" Coloring Book
- Love, Betrayal, and Forgiveness: A Process Theory of the Atonement
- The Jewish Jesus & Jewish Process Theology: An Introduction
- Job and Whitehead: Making Space for Vagueness and Confusion
- Christian Process Theology and Metamodernism: Springboards for Conversation
- There is no Divine Plan and It Should Have been Otherwise: 20 Days in Mariupol
- Vastness and Beauty: Sixteen Reasons to Love the Night Sky
- Dogs, Gardens, Donkeys, and Children: An Organic Family for the Common Good
- Praying to Jesus: A Metamodern Possibility?
- Non-Mysticism: Letting the World Be Itself
- Joyful Spirits of the Universe: Everything is Made of Emotions
- Holy Now, The Music Plays On: The Lasting Legacy of Len Delony
- Relational Power in Theory and Practice: Mesle and McDaniel
- Three Dimensions of Relational Power: Mesle and McDaniel
- The Shadow of Your Wings: A God Who Migrates
- Cemetery Care: A Process Practice
- The Coming Solar Eclipse: An Astronomical Altar Call
- Elegy for my Mother's Mind: Laura Van Prooyen
- Backward Miracles: Reclaiming the Single Loaf of Bread
- The Potato as Mystic: So Much Happens Underground
- Fidelity to the Lure of Divine Creativity: Jared Morningstar
- "I'm Done with It." Ten Options to the Modern World
- Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Loving: Process Philosophy and the Byronic Hero
- The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
- Aliens, UFOs, and Cosmic Religion: Process Philosophy and a New Religious Consciousness
- Open and Relational Atheism: An Affirmation of Life
- The Gambia Academy: Education for "Ecological Civilization" in Post-Colonial Africa
- Differences Make the Whole Richer: Interreligious Dialogue as the Enjoyment of Lived Beauty
- East-West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization: Highlights from International Webinar
- Process Zen: Being Present in the Moment
- From the Ground Up: Teaching Process Thought to Children through Home Gardening
- Taylor Swift and Process Philosophy: A Submission to the Taylor Swift Swiftposium
- Imagining a Plant as a Huge Brain: Plant Metaphysics
- Starting a John Cobb Home Garden: Healing Action for a World in Need
- The Real Culture War: Authoritatives and Nurturers
- A Stick is a Stick: The Metaphysics of Zen Christianity
- John Cobb: My Frugal, Visionary Mentor
- You Sure Say "Ought" a Lot! The Problem of Excessive Preachiness
- The Religion of Tomorrow: Ilia Delio and Process Theology
- Blessing the Water Snakes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- We Move with the Music: Living with Dementia
- Reimagining Dementia with help from Process Theology
- The Open and Relational Voice: Maria Callas and Process Theology
- Respect for Elders and Respect for the Earth - Process Confucianism
- The Significance of Being Polite in Daily Life: Process and Confucianism
- Moral Anaesthesia: Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
- Whitehead on God: Six Passages from Process and Reality
- Octavia Butler and Alfred North Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection
- Iain McGilchrist and the Widening of Attention: Patricia Adams Farmer
- The Joy of Having Curious Students: A Lesson from Confucius
- Zen, Novelty, and Suchness: Ultimate Reality in a Cup of Tea
- Three Faces of Ecological Civilization
- Is Negative Five an Eternal Object? A Young Girl in Rural China
- Purpose in Human Life: L. Charles Birch
- Process Thought: An Introduction by Ian Barbour
- Reinventing Yourself: Process Theology and David Bowie
- Lighting Candles as Prayer: Lifting Things Up to the Light of the Universe
- Finding Your Inner Banjo: A Process Theology for Pluckers
- Becoming a Whole Person
- God as Interpoint: Symbolic Logic as a Tool for Process Theology
- Teilhard's Fire: Donald Viney
- Bereaved Parents: Rebuilding Lives After a Suicide Loss (Farhan Shah)
- Knowing without Words: Whitehead and the Apophatic
- Faith, Hope, and Laughter: A Note on Process and Virtue
- Religion in the Making: Whitehead on Religion
- Religion and Science: Alfred North Whitehead
- Mathematics and the Good: Alfred North Whitehead
- Process Theology & Relations with Loved Ones after they Die
- Healing Reactive Behavior: A Process and Jungian Approach: Sheri Kling
- Does P equal NP? A Mathematical Love Poem by Haipeng Guo
- Process and Puddings: A Culinary Approach to Process Philosophy
- Yes, I can stay a while: Nita Gilger on Abiding
- Walking in the Air: Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel
- The Sentience of Lava: Katy Didden, Process Theology
- Hiding in a Comfort Bubble: Turning Away from Suffering as a Kind of Evil
- Making Peace with Impermanence: Whitehead and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
- It Wasn't Meant to Be: God & the Insistent Particularities of the World
- AN Whitehead and Louis Zukofsky on the Meaning of "A"
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the Epidemic of Self-Censorship
- Trusting in Nurturant Light: Worship in a Process Context
- Ecological Civilization on My Balcony: Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and Junfeng Wang on China's Future
- After Your Death: We Still Talk
- Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
- Process Buddhism: Learning from Kazi Adi Shakti
- From Consumerism to Ecological Civilization
- Islam and Process Thought, challenges and possibilities: Farhan Shah
- How would you advise Alex? A Journey in Open and Relational Theology
- Affirming Divine Omnipotence in Islamic Process Theology
- Process Theology through Equations: For the Mathematically Minded
- The Consolation of Stars: Their Beauty, Their Independence
- Process Theology and the Rapture: The Passing of the Love on Earth into Heaven
- "The Not-Yet God" by Ilia Delio: A Reflection and Review
- Theology as Curiosity: Rapturous Rewards of Serendipitous Discovery
- Living in Love's Universe: Rumi and Process Theology
- Let's Love Each Other: Haleh Liza Gafori reciting Rumi
- Process Theology and Encounters of the Third Kind: David Griffin, D.W. Pasulka
- Rabbi Bradley Artson on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Islamic fundamentalism through Atheism to Christianity
- Shamanism: Life as a Cosmic Principle
- From the Place Where We Are Right Flowers will never Grow in the Spring: Yehuda Amichai
- The Fuller-Oord Project: Claiming Doubt as Part of Faith
- The Unmoved Mover of Process Theology: Changing without Moving
- Have a Good Day and Get a Good Night's Sleep: Circadian Theology in Process Perspective
- An Eccentric View of the Normal: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, and Whitehead
- After the Battle, Many New Ghosts: Du Fu's "Facing Snow"
- After Deconstruction: The Process Theology of Artist/Theologian Steve Thomason
- Love and Social Justice: Daniel Day Williams
- Alien Minds, Artificial Intelligence, Cosmotheology: Andrew Davis and Martin Rees
- grieving is the longing for home: Jonathan Foster's indigo
- The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger
- The Soul-Expanding Melodies of Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer
- Music as Experiential Metaphysics: Schopenhauer, Whitehead, and Mahler
- Not a Hug but a Bow: A Softer more Buddhist Side of Whitehead
- Radical, Non-Binary Love: Understanding the Yearnings of My Enemies
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Pete Seeger, John Cobb, Walter Brueggemann
- Beyond Petty Factionalism: The Federalist Papers and Originalism in Process
- Supporting Pockets of Hope: A Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation
- Ideology, Terror and the Freedom to Begin Anew: Thinking with Hannah Arendt
- Process and Plankton: Eco-Theology and Microbial Life
- The Federalist Papers: A Process Reflection
- The Great Sadness of God: Patricia Adams Farmer
- All People of Goodwill Must Rally: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
- Revisioning God and the Self with help from Buddhism: Jay McDaniel
- Nexūs and the Logic of Relations: John Lango
- Creation out of Nothing? Maybe so, maybe not, what's most important is love.
- Process and Populism: The Humbling of Liberal Democracy
- Sourdough Spirituality: Patricia Adams Farmer
- Process Theology and Crows: Animals as Elders and Totems
- A More Expansive Truth: Apostasy as a Spiritual Practice
- Beyond Rank and Status: William Shakespeare and Whitehead's Image of God
- Withness of the Body: Process Theology and Bodily Knowing
- Beyond the Management Mentality: Whitehead's Idea of 'Importance'
- Beings are Becomings: Introducing Process Philosophy with help from Gerunds
- God as the Poet of the World: Ten Meanings
- The Migration of Religion to Popular Culture: Taylor Swift and Process Theology
- Curiouser and Curiouser: Whitehead, Lewis Carroll, and Alice in Wonderland
- The End of Materialism and the Civilizational Crisis: Maria-Teresa Teixeira in Munich
- Seven Process Poets in China: Ecology, Creativity, Freedom of Self-Expression
- The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
- The Constancy of Love: Shakespeare and Charles Hartshorne
- The Extensive Continuum: Michael Halewood in Munich
- Process Poets in China: Poetry, Ecology, Creativity
- Camping with Kierkegaard: Hot Chocolate with J. Aaron Simmons
- Andrew Davis in Munich: On the Goodness of Whitehead's God
- Reading Poetry in a Whiteheadian Way: Christopher Hasty's Lecture in Munich
- The Lure of Margaritaville: A Whiteheadian Appreciation
- Chinese Youth Culture: I'm Growing Vegetables on my Balcony
- Whitehead's Infinitely Erotic God: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofmann
- Omega Now: The Eschatological Resurrection of all Things within the Divine Life
- Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From - Book Review
- Places in the Heart: Final Scene and the Christian Gospel
- Dead Man Walking: Confession and Creative Transformation
- Divine Inscrutability: Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"
- Atonement: A Process Perspective
- The Metaphysics of Erasure Poetry: Tracy K. Smith's Declaration of Independence
- The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China - Freya Mathews
- The Process Poetry Movement in China
- Process Moral Education: Bangxiu Xie, Jay McDaniel, Bob Mesle
- Joy Harjo and the Dream of the Earth
- Toward a Theology of Enzymes: God, Evolution, and Collaborative Design
- The Spiritual Side of Gardening: A Process Approach
- Sex, Eros, and Love: Whiteheadian Reflections
- Beauty in the Darkness: Patricia Adams Farmer
- Apocalypse Coral: God, Coral Reefs, Intrinsic Value, and Planet Loyalty
- Strong, Independent, Assertive, Funny, and Feminist: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Is God in control? Reverend Barkley Thompson
- Ambition, Greed, Deception, and Revenge: Feudal Loyalty in American Society
- As John Sees It: Process Philosophy, AA, and Recovery
- John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
- O Second Moon of Jupiter, We, Too, are Made of Water: Sending Poetry to Europa
- Sonnet 73: Shakespeare and Whitehead on Love and Impermanence
- Welcoming our Extraterrestrial Neighbors: Process Philosophy and UFOs
- The Most Famous Cat in English Literature: Christopher Smart's Jeoffry
- Befriending the Planets: Ten Gifts from our Planetary Neighbors
- The Green Jesus is Breaking Ground: Process Christo-Poetics
- Infinitely Tender, Infinitely Wild: Twenty-One Divine Infinities
- And Beauty for All: Lubarsky, Goddard, and Farmer
20 Key Ideas
Practicing the Process Way
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Process Worldview:
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Ecological Civilization
the social ideal of process philosophy
Ecological civilizatons are the world's best hope. We humans live within, not apart form, a larger web of life filled with value and beauty. Our responsibility is to care for the larger whole and for one another. The building blocks of ecological civilizations are local communities that are creative, compassionate, participatory, inclusive, diverse, humane to animals, good for the earth, and spiritually satisfying -- with no one left behind. The social aim of process thinkers is to help build these kinds of communities. Here are some links to get started:
- Ecotheology in Theory and Practice (Jay McDaniel)
- The Radical Vision of Ecological Civilization (Andrew Schwartz)
- Five Foundations for an Ecological Civilization (John Cobb)
- Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet (John Cobb)
- Economic Justice and Process Philosophy (John Cobb and others)
- China's Ecological Civilization (Zhihe Wang)
- A Call to Deeper Places: The Owl as My Teacher (Nita Gilger)
- Goodbye, Earth: The Failure of "Adults" to Care for the Planet (Patricia Adams Farmer)
Beauty in Process Theology
God in Process Theology
Four Aims of the Process Movement
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God: A Video
created and narrated by Hope Montgomery
Musician in Residence, Open Horizons
The Process Movement
Many people from around the world visit the site. They include viewers from Venezuela, Korea, Kenya, Canada, Germany, Phillipines, Mexico, Botswana, Sweden, Turkey, England, Brazil, and the United States. And a few from mainland China, too, where the process movement is growing rapidly.
Some visitors are affiliated with one or another of the world's religions and some are spiritual independents. All are welcome.
The contributors to Open Horizons include artists, photographers, musicians, poets, clerks, accountants, farmers, theologians, and philosophers. They share many of the ideas and aims offered above, as understood in their own ways, and are committed to the practices, especially that of living with respect and care for life.
Open Horizons is part of the larger process community. If you would like to be part of the process community, help with its work, and contribute your own ideas, here are some ways:
Join the Claremont Process Nexus.
Join the Cobb Institute: A Community of Process and Practice.
Join Process and Faith: A Multi-Religious Network.
Support the The Center for Process Studies.
Support the Institute for Ecological Civilization.
new to the process world?
here are some pages that will help you get started
- Relationships as the Spiritual Web of our Lives (Frederic Brussat)
- Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thinking (Jay McDaniel)
- A Whole Universe of Stories (Patricia Adams Farmer)
- Beauty as a Spiritual Home (Patricia Adams Farmer)
- The Numinosity of Rocks (Patricia Adams Farmer)
- Whitehead, Jung, and Psychospiritual Wholeness (Sheri Kling)
- Whitehead Video Series (video series for people serious about reading Process and Reality)
- The Constellation of Process Theology (Bradley Artson)
- God Almighty? No Way! (Bradley Artson)
- Can a Muslim be a Panentheist? (Farhan Shah)
- Whitehead's Theory of Value (John Cobb)
- Emotional Intelligence and Embodied Wisdom: The Spiritual Side of Process Thinking
- The New Process Theology: International, Multireleligious, Practical, Theopoetic (Jay McDaniel)
- Building Ecological Civilizations: The Practical Side of Process Thinking
- China's Ecological Civilization: Our Common Great Opportunity (Zhihe Wang)
- A Biologist Looks at Process Thought (Charles Birch)
- Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought (Jay McDaniel)
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interfaith cooperation
growing in religious literacy and
engaging in interfaith cooperation
as an open and relational practice
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We encourage growing in religious literacy as a beginning, but not an end, to what is most important: interfaith cooperation.
We in the "process" world believe that friendships with people of other faiths, combined with joint projects aimed at helping bring about just, sustainable, and joyful communities, are what is most important. Still, a degree of religious literacy is very important and a worthy aim. Very few people in the world are religiously literate in a complete sense; the very process of growing in such literacy is a lifelong endeavor and, for some, a spiritual practice. Let this page help you take first steps. Click on the links to the left and you will be taken to the best resource you can find for understanding the world's religions today: On Common Ground from The Pluralism Project at Harvard University. These are the multiple "faiths" which can be an important part of a relational culture and community. Process philosophy offers a way of appreciating the best in each tradition and articulating the traditions from the inside, by those who practice them. |
an interfaith spiritual alphabet
For us "spirituality" is embodied cognition and emotional intelligence in everyday life. In the wheel of spirituality below, you will find thirty seven qualities of heart and mind that are part of spirituality. We borrow the list from one of our partner organizations: Spirituality and Practice. In the essays on the left, Patricia Adams Farmer and Jay McDaniel offer interpretations of some of the letters.
Guidelines for Interfaith Cooperation
interfaith advice column
- What is the role of a Muslim Philosopher in a Pluralistic Age? (Ask a Muslim philosopher)
- Can communities be spiritual, too? (Ask a Christian priest)
- Can a Muslim be a Panentheist? Question to a Muslim Philosopher ((Ask a Muslim philosopher)
- Is it alright to be spiritual but not religious? (Ask a Rabbi)
- Is it alright to think of God as a force rather than a person? (Ask a Rabbi)
- Is it alright to think new thoughts? (Ask a Muslim Philosopher)
- Is violence part of my True Self? Ask a Zen Teacher (Ask a Zen teacher)
- Is it alright to be a pretty orthodox Christian with process leanings? (Ask a Christian priest)
- Is it alright to be gay and Christian? (Ask a Christian priest)
- Is it alright not to know who you are? (Ask a Single Buddhist Dad)
- How might I raise my daughter as Muslim? Ask a Muslim Mother (Ask a Muslim mother)
- How can I explain Non-Attachment to my Non-Buddhist Husband (Ask a Zen Teacher)
- How can I be a spiritual writer? (As a Process novelist)