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David Ray Griffin, PhD
A leading exponent
of process philosophy and theology, David Ray Griffin is Professor
of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont School of Theology
and Claremont Graduate University. He is codirector of the Center
for Process Studies.
In 1996, he was chosen as one of some 60 theologians worldwide
to be included in the Handbook of Christian Theologians.
His 27 books include God, Power, and Evil; Process Theology;
The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals; God and
Religion in the Postmodern World; Evil Revisited; Postmodern
Politics for a Planet in Crisis; Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness,
Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem; Religion and Scientific Naturalism:
Overcoming the Conflicts; Reenchantment without Supernaturalism:
A Process Philosophy of Religion; The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing
Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11; Two Great Truths:
A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith; The
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, and Deep
Religious Pluralism. He has also published over 150 essays.
Through his two books about 9/11, he has become one of the intellectual
leaders of the 9/11 truth movement. Some essays (including The
9/11 Commission Report: A 576-Page Lie) and DVD-lectures (including
one carried on C-SPAN) are available at 9-11 Visibility Project
www.septembereleventh.org
Tuesday, April 25
9/11 and Demonic Consciousness
— David Ray Griffin —
Ballroom 8:45am to 10:00am
My thesis is that the attacks of 9/11 were products of demonic
consciousness, with "the demonic" understood as an emergent
reality that is diametrically opposed to the creative power of
the universe and strong enough to threaten its purposes. To explain
how demonic power can arise in a monotheistic universe. I use the
philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, with some help from Carl
Jung. Then to explain how demonic evil arose historically, I employ
ideas from Andrew Bard Schmookler's Parable of the Tribes.
Finally, arguing that this demonic consciousness now exists most
powerfully in the USA, I suggest that a preeminent manifestation
of it in our time was 9/11, orchestrated by the Bush-Cheney administration.
In making this latter argument, I will draw on my two books on
the subject: The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about
the Bush Administration and 9/11 and The 9/11 Commission
Report: Omissions and Distortions.
Goal: To show the possibility of a view of demonic evil that is
realistic -- doing justice to the way in which our collective lives
are dominated by values that can only be called demonicÑwithout
being mythological.
Learning Objectives:
• To develop a basic understanding of how Whitehead's version of
theism allows for the rise of demonic evil,
• To develop a sense of how the ideas of Schmookler and Jung can
explain the historical rise of demonic evil, and
• To develop a deeper appreciation of the relation between 9/11
and the American Empire.
Tuesday, April 25
Demonic Consciousness and Evidence for 9/11 as an Inside Job
— David Ray Griffin —
Ballroom 10:30am to 12:00 noon
This program will provide an occasion to discuss the keynote lecture,
"9/11 and Demonic Consciousness." It will begin with a talk on additional evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation orchestrated by forces in our
own government.
Goal: To show the possibility of a view of demonic evil that is
realistic without being mythological, and to present evidence that the
attacks of 9/11 embodied such evil.
Learning Objectives:
• Acquire a basic understanding of how Whiteheadian process theism allows for
the rise of demonic evil, understood as demonic human consciousness,
• Grasp how the war system has allowed demonic consciousness to arise and
develop historically, and
• See evidence that 9/11 was orchestrated by the U.S. government to promote the American Empire.
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