Sacred Hospitality & The Dynamics of Initiation: Inspiring Activism Beyond Resentment

The PCC Forum is back!

Join us for the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) Forum featuring visionary healer and community leader Orland Bishop as we discuss the promise of responding to today's challenges through acts of sacred hospitality. Co-hosted with the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis, this community dialogue will explore the nature of initiation and its potential to inspire original forms of activism that reach beyond judgement and work to manifest communities that transcend our familiar divides.

This speaker series offers an opportunity to engage with the work of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness faculty, students, and researchers, fostering conversations that enrich our shared inquiry into cosmos and culture.
 

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Guest Speakers

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Orland Bishop is a lineage holder in the African Gnosis Tradition and holds practices in Phenomenology and Consciousness Studies. He is the Founder and Director of Shadetree Multicultural Foundation, a human development initiative based in Los Angeles. Orland’s work, over the past twenty-five years, has served in the development of individuals working in many fields for the emergence of meaningful futures. Orland has served as an advisor to over forty organizations and networks working in healing, peacemaking, social capital development, economic development and human development. He is a recognized thought leader in many communities and countries for his pioneering work in agreements for creative living. He holds Ancestral Shrines in West Africa and South Africa and facilitates work in the recovery of Ancestral Wisdom. Orland is the Author of The Seventh Shrine, Meditations of the African Spiritual Journey from the Middle Passage to the Mountain Top.

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Saraliza Anzaldúa (ya) is a Chicana philosopher and an assistant professor of philosophy at California Institute of Integral Studies in the department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Ya specializes in monster theory and writes on Indigenous Chicane (Mexican/Mexican-American) and Daoist philosophy with a focus on metaphysics and spirit through a healing lens. Saraliza is also a passionate advocate for justice and accessibility in education.

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Matthew David Segall, Ph.D., is a philosopher, educator, and transdisciplinary researcher specializing in process philosophy and the intersection of science and spirituality. His scholarship focuses the implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s organic realism for contemporary natural scientific and philosophical discourse, emphasizing the participatory nature of knowledge and reality. His most recent book is titled Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Integral Imprint, 2023). He blogs regularly at Footnotes2Plato.com.

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M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness