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Overview
About Me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Religion: Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. I am interested in the interstices of Process Philosophy, Postmodern and Post-Structuralist Thought, and Religion. My work deals with methodologies of Religious Pluralism as it relates to Truth and Imagination. Instead of truth as the ground for imaginative thinking, I follow a more processive formulation, where imagination and truth are in flux; truth cannot be understood without imagination, and the imagination cannot be understood with truth. I follow the lines of Alfred North Whitehead, Roland Faber, Catherine Keller, Gaston Bachelard, John Sallis and others, who call for a Heraclitian flux, a turn to process.
Interests
- technology
- philosophy
- religion
- webdesign
- world religions
- postmodernism
- poststructuralism
- continental thought
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: Process and Reality, The Fold, Difference and Repetition, God as Poet of the World, The Divine Mind (still reading, but amazing), Face of the Deep, Force of Imagination, Logic of Imagination
Movies: Matrix, BSG, Ghost in the Shell (1+2), anything anime and philosophical, anything bollywood, anything international
Music: I listen to a wide variety of genres, but i flow with Smooth R&B
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
traveled to india to study jainism. amazing experience
Countries I’ve Visited
Barbados, Dominica, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico