Category: imagination
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A review of Michael Hogue’s “American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World” (2018)
MICHAEL S. HOGUE, American Immanence: Democracy for An Uncertain World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018: 238 pages. [Reviewed by: MATTHEW D. SEGALL, Philosophy and Religion Department, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, 94103, USA. <msegall@ciis.edu>.] Michael Hogue has written a timely theopolitical intervention drawing from (and contributing to) the American…
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Science and the Soul of the World: Participatory Knowing in Goethe and Whitehead
I’m teaching for Schumacher College again, this time online. This course focuses on two towering exemplars of the organic approach to science, the German poet and naturalist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and the British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). The course will run via live video conference on Saturday mornings (PST) for…
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Election Coverage: Live-streaming on Growing Down
www.twitch.tv/videos/791279870 Unsurprisingly we steamed for 4 hours and still know nothing about the election results.
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Consciousness between Science and Philosophy (response to Philip Goff on panpsychism)
If you prefer to listen to me read this blog post: tl;dr Panpsychism = All is psyche, which is to say human consciousness and visible Nature take place within the World-Soul. Most moderns have accepted as a matter of course that the best people to speak on behalf of Nature are the scientists. Scientists are…
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Rune Soup Podcast with Gordon White: Talking Whitehead, Plato, & Panpsychism
Had a great time with Gordon on Rune Soup a few days ago:
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Towards a Marian Consciousness (Ep. 1 of the Great American Road Trip Diaries)
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Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism
The following is an essay originally submitted for publication in a book on philosophy and psychedelics. After some feedback from the editors, I realized it is too long and includes too many (I hope interesting!) digressions. I’ll be thoroughly revising my submission for the book, so I figured I’d share this earlier version here. Feedback…
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Rupert Sheldrake on Whitehead
I interviewed Rupert Sheldrake as part of a new series for the Cobb Institute. I’ll be speaking with a number of scientists who have been influenced by Whitehead.
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Naturphilosophie as Process Philosophy in Schelling and Whitehead
Christopher Satoor and I discussed Schelling, his German Idealist context, and Whitehead’s inheritance of Schellingian ideas about mind and nature.
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Cosmologies in Question: A Debate with David Long
Thanks to Bruce Alderman at The Integral Stage for moderating.
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Toward an Integral “God” – a dialogue with Layman Pascal
Thanks to Layman and Bruce Alderman at The Integral Stage for hosting these dialogues.
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Death Denial in a Panpsychist Cosmos: A Dialogue with Corey Anton
Partially edited Transcript (if you feel inspired please do feel free to finish the editing of this transcript and post it as a comment below!): Matt Segall: Well, good to see you. Corey Anton: Great to see you Matt Segall: So how’s it going Corey Anton: It’s going really great and thank you so much…
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Meta-Politics – a discussion with Layman Pascal on “The Integral Stage”
META-POLITICS – This is the first episode in a new conversation series between Layman Pascal and Matthew T. Segall. After touching on the deep strangeness of our time, and on the importance of finding a new post/metaphysical nexus for politics, religion, and ecology (a reintegration of the value spheres) Layman and Matt take up an…
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Dialogue with a Whiteheadian Thelemite Vajrayanist Wiccan, Sam Webster
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The Rheomode Series, a YouTube playlist
I’ll be spending more time at the South Yuba River for the remainder of the summer. I’ll be recording more videos thinking with rocks, water, air, and fire. I’ll keep adding them to this playlist below. “What you thought was dead and inanimate betrays a secret life and silent, inexorable intent. You have got caught…
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Integral Entheogens (Ep. 5) – Molecular Alchemy and the Evolution of Spirit
Thanks to Bruce Alderman and The Integral Stage for putting this together! In Episode 5, Matthew Segall discusses how entheogens or “ecodelics” have impacted him personally and philosophically, inspiring some of his deepest ontological insights and courses of inquiry — particularly in the areas of panpsychism, deep or integral pluralism, and process thought. He then…
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Dialoguing with Brent Cooper about ecosocialist politics and integral spirituality
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“He maketh his sun to rise,” featuring Donald Trump, Cornel West, and Ram Dass
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Imagination as the Topographical Inversion of Reality: Musings with Becca Tarnas
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Imagining a Gaian Reality After the Virus
Imagining a Gaian Reality After the Virus by Matthew Segall What follows is a brief paper outlining a path forward for post-pandemic humanity. It attempts to integrate Marxist critiques of capitalism with the efforts of contemporary Whiteheadian philosophers to compose an alternative ecological civilization. … A specter is haunting modern civilization—the specter of Gaia. All the powers…
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What is life? interview with Tim Freke
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