Publications
Various articles, book chapters, and reviews published on process thought and psychology by John Buchanan Author
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Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science. Edited by John H. Buchanan and Christopher M. Aantoos. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press, 2020.
Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.
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“The Depths of Perception,” in Perception Reconsidered: The Process Point of View. 2007, Franz Riffert (ed), 209-30.
“Process Metapsychology,” in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Vol. 1, 2008, Michel Weber and Will Desmond, eds, 362-70.
“Life After Death and Parapsychology,” in Reason and Reenchantment: The Philosophical, Religious, and Political Thought of David Ray Griffin. 2013. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, and Catherine Keller, eds, 145-164.
“Grof and Whitehead: Visions of a Postmodern Cosmology,” in Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof, 2021, Richard Tarnas and Sean Kelly, eds, 265-86.
“A Thicker Process Cosmology,” in Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, 2022, edited by Andrew M. Davis et al, 401-21.
"What Is Reality," in Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience. 2022, Christine Hauskeller and Peter Sjostedt-Hughes, eds, 31-44.
"Why Can't God Do More?", in Amipotence: Support and Criticism, Expansion and Application. 2025, edited by Chris S. Baker et al, 161-64.
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“Whitehead and Wilber: Contrasts in Theory,” in The Humanistic Psychologist, 1996, Vol. 24, No. 2, 231-56.
“A Process Pluralistic Universe,” in Process Studies in China, 2007, Vol. 2, 267-84.
“The Depths of Compassion,” in Process Studies, 2013, Vol. 42.1, Spring/Summer, 47-63.
"What Is Reality?", in MAPS Bulletin, 2023, Vol. XXXIII, Number 1, 33-36.
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Searching for New Contrasts: Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, Franz G. Riffert and Michel Weber, editors, in Process Studies, 2004, Vol. 33.2, Fall-Winter, 355-57.
Participation and Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and Religion, by Jorge Ferrer, in The Humanistic Psychologist, June 2019, Vol. 47, No. 2, 213-18.
A Process Perspective on Neuroscience and Counseling
A brief look at how a process approach might facilitate the client’s movement towards greater wholeness and integrity through self-transcendence and transformation; and how process philosophy might help psychology reconceptualize its understanding of the relationship between the psyche and its ground in the brain-body organic society.
First step in twelve step program. As John sees it
When first introduced to the twelve-step program, I thought: “It’s great that it can help these other people, but I don’t think it is for me!” Unlike some, this had little to do with God or the “religious” aspects of the program. Ironically, my openness in this regard was due in large part to the “spiritual” experiences that I had while under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
A PROCESS PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE
In concluding A Pluralistic Universe—based on his series of lectures given during the early years of this century (and the final years of his life)—William James throws down the gauntlet, challenging his philosophic audience to consider seriously the evidence and theories belonging to realms of experience largely ignored by philosophers and scientists