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