Cosmic Interconnections: Astrobiology and Spirituality

Matthew David Segall returns to the podcast after 8 years!

It was a blast to talk with Matt about his new book and a bunch of other process-related goodness. When you get done listening make sure you check out his YouTube channel and the new book.

• How did Matt end up with cosmological questions
• finding Alfred North Whitehead through Terence Mckenna
• "Whitehead is like Psychadelics, you shouldn't jump into them alone"
• the allure of Whitehead's vision of mind in nature
• the potential of a process engagement with different sciences
• Tripp talks about how part five of Process & Reality feels like a philosophical revival sermon
• the limits of science and problem of repressed reductive metaphysics
• what does Whitehead mean by a philosophy of organism
• the hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life
• what is in the concept 'world-soul'
• how does Whitehead help one think of life after physical death
• how Whitehead came to affirm God
• Matt shares the story of his own wrestling with Christianity and his reflection on the future of the faith... 'a non-denominational non-institutionalized Christian'
• what do we make about the power and problems that come with a religious tradition

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