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Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. Note: The following poem has seventeen sections with the title of each section set apart in bold italics in the original manuscript. A Process Theology in Rhyme Or, A Poetics of God 　Theological Words One might find it oddThat God is not… Continue reading A Process Theology in Rhyme, or a Poetics of God

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　Concrescence It was Whitehead who was the first to show　How all actualities come and goIn bursts first of presence, then of absence,　In fast fleeting moments of concrescence. Note:Thus the ‘production of novel togetherness’ is the ultimate notion embodied in the term ‘concrescence.’… Continue reading Concrescence

Click on Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　The Concept of God 　　The Supreme Irony,　　　　viz,　　That what cannot be,　　　　is. Note:Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites—of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity,… Continue reading The Concept of God

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　The Many and the One 　As the many and the one　　Mingle　The many become one　　and Single　And increase by one　　to Tingle　The universe entire　With creative fire. Note:The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities… Continue reading The Many and the One

Click on the Link below to hear a reading of this poem. 　It’s About Time Time does not flow, but grows like grass,One blade at a time.Time is a like a bottomless hourglass,That flows, yes, but quantumly,One grain at a time.Time gathers like a pointillist painting on an easel,One drop and . . . Pop!… Continue reading It’s About Time

　　A Process Philosophy Koan 　Why is there something rather than nothing?　Answer—for the time being, it is becoming. 　　This is an enigma, and quizzical,　　Only if you’re not, metaphysical,　　Or—enigmatically metaquizzical. To assist your meditations on this, see: Charles Hartshorne, “Could There Have Been Nothing?,” Process Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 1971), pages 25-28. And: Charles Hartshorne,… Continue reading A Process Philosophy Koan

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem 　　A Process Cosmology. In the beginning, once upon a void,A pulse, first quantum throb, felt and enjoyed: From the many random, emerges one,In dipolar rhythm where before was none;One after another now, pulsing free—A social process of self-creativity. If, in nature, consciousness… Continue reading A Process Cosmology