E.T. Cobb

I've found a new passion for worldbuilding. I've been dreaming up and creating a new world. Here is my obsidian graph after just a few days. I'm also drowning myself in the wisdom of great authors on how they write compelling novels.
Maybe all this spare time will amount to something worth reading.

Lovely thread. Interestingly, there is another woman with power in her name who's well worth discovering. Frances Power Cobbe.

YouTube video by The Ungrund The Unfolding of Existence

Here's my next process philosophy short video.

I recommend the Instagram version, though, as the Sleep Token instrumental is much better than copyright-free YouTube music. 🤘

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The Eternal Nothing: Exploring Jacob Boehme's Ungrund Humble Beginnings Jacob Boehme , was born in 1575 on the border between Germany and Poland. The fourth of five children born to Jacob and Ur...

My first blog post. Let me know your thoughts

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The Ungrund

My first post will be "The Eternal Nothing: Exploring Jacob Boehme's Ungrund" that I should finish later today.

I will likely focus most posts on metaphysics / process thinking

If it sounds interesting to you here is the link to the blog.
theungrund.blogspot.com

For now, I have created a blog for me to stretch my creative wings, but I will not be pushing for people to read it if they care not. It will be used as an outlet and potentially a portfolio, but I would also love discussions to help me improve my understanding of the topics I write on.

I lost my job last month and have been trying to find the right path to continue my journey. I would love to be a writer, and I have read a lot of content to help me achieve this, but I do not enjoy the consumerism involved. I want to write because I care about what I write.

YouTube video by MYSTERIUM MAGNUM beauty in becoming | idealism x process philosophy

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idealism x process philosophy

the process of heraclitus turning into whitehead

YouTube video by MYSTERIUM MAGNUM The Tree of Good and Evil | The Aurora | Jakob Böhme (1612)

My first youtube video is an excerpt from The Aurora by Jakob Böhme (1612). Please if you can share that would mean a lot.

I have plans to do deep dives (particularly Bõhme to begin with).

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I fed Alfred North Whitehead's 'Process and Reality' to AI using google's NotebookLM.

Here is an 18 minute discussion it had trying to unpack it.

This is a really fascinating AI tool, and aside from the audio, the study guides and briefings are very well done.
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Sergei Bulgakov and Vladimir Solovyov are probably next along my path. But who to start with and which texts to read first?

The hope-filled worldview of John B. Cobb Jr. Cobb was a visionary who saw theology as a force for transformation—as much about action as...

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In Boehme I can see how the Father's Will can be an unchanging creative principle, which doesn't need to change as-itself, but what is generated from it needs to be dynamic and change in-itself.

For me it makes a lot of sense, though from my understanding of Whiteheadian Process philosophy, there is no transcendent God (This would be the principle of creativity).

But we must not so conceive as if God were not at all in the corpus or body of the stars, and in this world: For when we say, ALL, or from eternity to eternity, or All in All, then we understand the entire GOD."

which no creature can sufficiently apprehend or express; which dwelleth and is above the body of the stars in itself, whose depth no creature is able to measure or fathom...

Thou must not conceive that in the body of the stars is the triumphing Holy Trinity, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in which there is no evil, for it is the light-holy, eternal fountain of joy, which is indivisible and unchangeable...

and all that is above the heavens, is together the body or corporeity of God; and the powers of the stars are the fountain veins in the natural body of God in this world...

"But here thou must elevate thy mind in the spirit, and consider how the whole nature, with all the powers which are in nature, also the wideness, depth and height, also heaven and earth, and all whatsoever is therein...

JC on JC: a conversation with John Cobb and Tom Oord on Jesus #BarrelAged Homebrewed Christianity · Episode

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I recommend this conversation to anyone. @ctr4process.bsky.social and the Cobb Institute have done such great work in promoting process studies. I will continue to find such profound insights from him and his peers. Thanks John, and my best wishes to all his family.

I was just listening to a conversation between @thomasjayoord.bsky.social, @trippfuller.bsky.social and John on the day of his passing. Despite the surname, I have no familial relation to John, we do share a relationship through his works and my intuitions.

YouTube video by Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal A Radical New Vision: The Conscious Cosmos

Superb dialogue between Curt Jaimungal and @footnotes2plato.substack.com Hope to see a part 2 in the future. I'd also love to see someone make the connection between Jakob Böhme and Whitehead, as Matt does so well with Schelling.

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Biological Organization Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Biological Organization

My Element on "BIological Organization" is finally out!
And it is open access!
@dialecticalsys.bsky.social #philbio

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Let there (Father), be (Son), Light (Wisdom). Spirit is the Eternal process in which the Will of the Father flows through the Son to become our universe, in Eternal Generation, through death and rebirth.

Wisdom is the result of this Eternal Generation. Light, colours, life, virtue.

The Spirit is the outbreath of the Spoken Word of the Father through the Son. The Eternal Spiration or Generation.

The Son is the conceived power of the Will. The Lubet. The Father's Will to be something.

The Father is the Will to be something, but is not itself anything. It is the Abyss, the ungrund.