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From Stardust To UsHumanity's New Cosmic Story with Jennifer Morgan of Deeptime Network - Part 2Send us a textJennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curriculum, and have received the Teachers Choice Award, Nautilus Semi Finalist, highest ratings from AAAS and endorsements from Jane Goodall, Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Thom...
2025-07-0229 min
From Stardust To UsHumanity's New Cosmic Story with Jennifer Morgan of Deeptime Network - Part 1Send us a textJennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curriculum, and have received the Teachers Choice Award, Nautilus Semi Finalist, highest ratings from AAAS and endorsements from Jane Goodall, Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Thom...
2025-06-2426 min
Fresh Thinking PodcastPolitics as Process Part 5 - Reweaving the Sacred“The cosmos is not a place but a story. It is not a system but a communion.”— Brian SwimmeThanks for reading Fresh Thinking! This post is public so feel free to share it.We are living through more than a political crisis. More than an economic crisis. Even more than an ecological crisis. We are living through a cosmological crisis, a collapse in the stories that once held meaning, coherence, and hope.In modern political discourse, this deeper rupture often goes unnamed. Our debates obsess over growth...
2025-05-1707 min
Human Energy PodcastIn Dialogue: From the Noosphere to the Metamind — Charting a New Era of Global Consciousness - N2 2024The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change.Abre Fournier and Brian Swimme Presentation:In Dialogue: From the Noosphere to the Metamind — Charting a New Era of Global ConsciousnessHumanity is approaching a sign...
2025-03-1822 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureBeaver Believers: How to Restore Planet WaterIn this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it.In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to...
2025-03-0429 minHuman Energy PodcastCONVERGENCE TO A UNIFIED HUMANITY Convergence in the Modern Stage of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.When we reflect on fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution, we can see the way convergence is one of the most fundamental dynamics. In fact, the deepest meaning of the universe can be pointed at with a three word sentence: Convergence ignites novelty.By considering an example from the early universe, we can see how the power of convergence relates to our human situation today, especially with regards to the emergence of the noosphere. ---Thanks for tuning in! 🌐
2025-02-2407 minHuman Energy PodcastTHE STUPENDOUS POWER OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.In today’s video, we examine cerebralization, the process by which Earth is becoming ever more mind-like, during the modern era of humanity through the construction and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.Our day to day lives are immersed within this powerful process of cerebralization, as well as other dynamics that have led to the emergence of the noosphere. We can come to understand and evaluate our lives in terms of these dynamics and see how we are participating in one or se...
2025-02-2307 minHuman Energy PodcastCOSMIC EVOLUTION MANIFESTING AS HUMANITY Heredity in the Modern Stage of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.The planetary mind is on the verge of creating new human forms. Hereditary traditions that have, over many millennia, given birth to hundreds of diverse human forms, are now entering the process of creative dialogue with one another. It is in the synergies generated by deepening relations among all human communities that new and vibrant contexts are put into place. Over time the creative relationships in these new contexts will bring forth a million new human forms. You may already be one...
2025-02-2206 minHuman Energy PodcastTHE NOOSPHERIC NOURISHMENT OF MODERN TRADE Trade in the Modern Stage of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.With so many real problems besetting our Earth community, any talk of anemerging planetary mind can seem naive. Already in the first half of the 21st century, pessimism has captured a great many. To avoid the temptation of depression and despair, we need to take in the larger arc of history. In the modern era, trading networks exploded and changed the fabric of human life. A keen appreciation of what trade has bequeathed to us will strengthen our faith in...
2025-02-2106 minHuman Energy PodcastDIALOGUE AS THE PATHWAY TO EARTH'S DREAM Communication in the Modern Stage of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.Interested in participating in the central creative energy of our solar system?You can through intentional engagement with the emergence of the noosphere. In this episode, we explore how modern communication networks offer a powerful avenue to Earth’s mind.Our electronic communication systems are on the verge of becoming a central nervous system for the Earth community. Tools and technology are readily available for global conversation. The essential next step is a planet-wide dialogue on what constitutes true human ha...
2025-02-2006 minHuman Energy PodcastTime-Developmental Consciousness - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.The greatest discovery in all of modern science came in the 20th Century. We now know we live not in a fixed cosmos, but in a cosmogenesis -- a universe in the midst of its development.This discovery leads to a profound transformation of humanconsciousness. We move from our former conviction that the universe is static and unchanging to the amazing realization that we -- as humanity, and as universe -- are developing into something new. This emerging form of...
2025-02-1907 minHuman Energy PodcastA Hundred Thousand Year Experiment - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.A hundred thousand year experiment, carried out by the Earth Community, makes clear that major stages of humanity's development were set from our origin. The experiment took place when Homo sapiens began to flow north out of Africa. Some veered to the west and populated Europe. Others turned right and crossed over into the Americas. The key point is that for a hundred thousand years, the humans heading for Europe had utterly no contact with the humans trekking toward the Americas. And yet...
2025-02-1807 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Magnificent Power of Paper - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.The universe created stars. galaxies, and life, and that same creative energy is at work in humans. In this film we investigate how early modern humans discovered a way to enhance the creativity flowing through them.Through the invention of readily accessible paper, modern humans were able to capture novel creative potencies, fixing new ideas to paper before they vanished. Henceforth, humans could complexify their thinking because they could build former thoughts into current thoughts. This gave birth to an upwelling of...
2025-02-1706 minHuman Energy PodcastPythagorean Dreams - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.The special nature of human consciousness is bringing forth a planet that is ever more mind-like. We call this the process of cerebralization. Is this work coming from the universe? Or are we on our own here? Are we just a meaningless speck in the midst of a trillion galaxies? Or are we here to construct a planetary mind? Similar questions have haunted humans from the beginning. In this video, we discuss one of the most fa...
2025-02-1607 minHuman Energy PodcastMoney and Wealth - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.Money was invented during the classical era of humanity and inaugurated a new era of human evolution. Money was such a powerful new invention we are only now beginning to understand its deeper meaning.In today's episode, we look at the way in which trade networks, during the classical period of humanity, participated in the building of the noosphere. ---Thanks for tuning in! 🌐Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io As a word, "noosphere" is a l...
2025-02-1506 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Universe is Thinking - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.When we think, who is thinking? What is the origin of our thoughts?In Classical civilizations, the answer given was "the soul," understood to be a power inside our body. Contemporary cognitive science has extended this idea to larger units of space and time.In this episode, we investigate the way the dynamics of heredity enable the rise of the noosphere and expand our common understanding of what it is to be a thinking being.---Thanks for...
2025-02-1406 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Extraordinary Realm in Classical Civilization - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.As humans deepened their relationships during the classical period, they became aware of an extraordinary realm beyond that of people and things, a realm they pointed to with a great many names: Paradise, the Transcendent, the Tao, Jehovah, Heaven. This was an untouchable realm. An unseeable realm. And yet a realm of such great force it changed the structure of all human societies.In this episode, we investigate the way population dynamics in the Classical stage of humanity deepened our access to the extraordinary...
2025-02-1308 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Universe Aims at Harmonious Convergence - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.In this episode, we look art the way in which the convergence of hunter-gatherer bands into the great civilizations of the Classical period of humanity enabled the construction of the noosphere.Like cells converging together and giving birth to complex ecosystems, this process of complexification and convergence is still underway underway in the human story. Through this story, we can see that we are en route to a harmonious convergence of humanity as a whole.Thanks for tuning in! 🌐...
2025-02-1207 minHuman Energy PodcastWritten Language and the Mind of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.Beginning six thousand years ago, humans discovered written language, a form of communication that would enhance the ongoing construction of the mind of humanity.In this episode we examine the way classical civilizations developed the power of written language and how this contributed to the emergence of the noosphere.--- Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for tuning in! 🌐As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the...
2025-02-1105 minHuman Energy PodcastPythagorean Dreams - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.The special nature of human consciousness is bringing forth a planet that is ever more mind-like. We call this the process of cerebralization. Is this work coming from the universe? Or are we on our own here? Are we just a meaningless speck in the midst of a trillion galaxies? Or are we here to construct a planetary mind? Similar questions have haunted humans from the beginning. In this video, we discuss one of the most fa...
2025-02-1007 minHuman Energy PodcastCosmic Law of Love: Deepening of the Individual and Community - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.In this episode we investigate how increase in population in the Neolithic stage of humanity contributed to the emergence of the noosphere through the deepening bonds with one another. This can be seen as an expression of the cosmic law of love.Love is the foundational dynamic for the universe's development. The elements of the universe are seeking to bond in order to deepen their creativity, which we see even at the level of gravity. Atoms attracted to each other give birth to...
2025-02-0807 minHuman Energy PodcastObsidian and Circulatory Networks: How Relationships Energize the Noosphere - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.In this episode, we show how trading networks during the Neolithic stage of humanity advanced the emergence of the noosphere.With the advent of humans, a new form of animal interaction, called trade, was initiated on planet Earth. By examining the power of trade networks, we get a clear view of the way trade has led to greater intelligence and ever deepening harmony throughout humanity. In doing so, trade provides the means and energy for humanity to develop into a planetary community. ...
2025-02-0707 minHuman Energy PodcastSteps Toward Planetary Intelligence: Humanity's Role in the Development of Earth's Mind - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere Throughout the three billion years of life on Earth, the mysterious power we call intelligence has deepened and spread. We are now in the midst of an irruption of this intelligence, an emergence so vast we refer to it as a global brain. It amounts to a transformation of the evolutionary process itself. Join us as we investigate cerebralization, a condition that gave rise to the noosphere, in the Neolithic stage of humanity. ---Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io...
2025-02-0607 minHuman Energy PodcastSinging the Universe into Being: Ritual and Creation of a Global Community - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores humanity today is in great need of a pathway into harmonious global community. In this episode, we investigate the way in which Neolithic humans constructed a particularly powerful mode of communication -- the ritual -- as a powerful means for meeting this challenge. ---Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of n...
2025-02-0506 minHuman Energy PodcastCave Art and Symbolic Imagination: Awakening of Planetary Consciousness - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores how over the last million years, the human mind has been assembled through a series of awakenings. One of the most powerful awakenings is that of symbolic imagination. Coming to understand the evocation of symbolic imagination can help us navigate our present moment, where we are witnessing and participating in the awakening of planetary consciousness. In this episode, we celebrate the noosphere's invention of a new form of memory involving the symbolic imagination. Humanity participates in the creation of the noosphere through symbolic imagination an...
2025-02-0408 minHuman Energy PodcastSynergy and Creative Relationships: The Power of Collaborative Consciousness - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the creative power of synergy that emerges through the union of two or more entities. The power and presence of synergy permeates every level of the universe. Here we explore examples of synergy at the quantum, celestial, and biological levels. Our hope is that a deeper and more detailed relationship to the universal power of synergy will help further connect and energize the synergistic relationships in your day-to-day life. Through our deepening relationships, the noosphere is arising. ----Presented by Human Energy: http...
2025-02-0307 minHuman Energy PodcastTelling Time with Stonehenge: How Tools Enable Deep Engagement with the Present Moment - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the power of humanity’s ever-deepening relationship with time through the tools they create. In this episode, we examine the discovery of the year in the Neolithic stage of humanity. Knowing what time it is has been a source of knowledge and a cause for celebration throughout human history. In this video, we add to the lineage of humanity’s discovery of time. Through modern tools, we have discovered a new dimension of time – the movement of the universe throughout its development. Knowing the...
2025-01-2807 minHuman Energy PodcastSex and Soil: Cultural Heredity within the Seed of Earth - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the wonder of seed and topsoil and cultural heredity, the process through which Neolithic humans formed an intimate relationship with life's principles and dynamics. Neolithic insights, modern science, and the emergence of the noosphere have allowed humans to have an intimate and detailed understanding of the developmental dynamics that animate the cosmos. Through our relationship with these dynamics, we can sense the direction of the universe's development and even glimpse humanity's purpose within the grand precession of the story of the universe. We can su...
2025-01-2307 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Great Reversal: Diversification and Convergence - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the beginnings of life's turn from diversification to convergence in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for t...
2025-01-1507 minHuman Energy PodcastThe Story and The Campfire: Symbolic Language's Planetary Power - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of heredity in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history a...
2025-01-0807 minHuman Energy PodcastBecoming One Another: Trade in the Paleolithic Era of Humanity - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of trade in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioAs a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:1. Heredity 2. Tools 3. Self-Consciousness 4. Communication 5. Population 6. Trade7. Cerebralization
2025-01-0306 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureBeaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water | Kate Lundquist & Brock DolmanIn this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it.In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to...
2024-12-1130 minHuman Energy PodcastNeotenic Consciousness: Humanity's Childlike Kind-Hearted Core - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of self-consciousness in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary ne...
2024-12-0206 minHuman Energy PodcastCosmic Conversations: Symbolic Language & Scientific Symbols - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of communication in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history a...
2024-11-2505 minHuman Energy PodcastAcceleration of Evolution: Fire, Humanity, and Building a Planetary Mind - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of tools in the Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and d...
2024-11-1806 minHuman Energy PodcastOdyssey of Homo Erectus: Human Population, Diversity and the Noosphere - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores how increase in magnitude and diversity in population led to the emergence of the noosphere. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.–––As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym f...
2024-11-1106 minHuman Energy PodcastA Brain of Brains: Human Cerebralization in the Paleolithic Stage - Story of the NoosphereThis episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores cerebralization in Paleolithic stage of humanity. Part of the Story of the Noosphere series.Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.ioThanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you who keep us going.As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sap...
2024-11-0406 min
Learning How to See with Brian McLarenSeeing Nature as a Historian of Religions with Mary Evelyn TuckerWhat story do you tell yourself about the interconnectedness of nature and culture? In this episode, we’re learning to see nature through the lens of a historian of religions. Brian McLaren is joined in conversation by Mary Evelyn Tucker, a leading voice in the field of religion and ecology. Together, they discuss the importance of cultural history, the challenges of interreligious dialogue, and the urgent need for a new story that integrates science and spirituality. They also explore the life and legacy of Thomas Berry, a visionary Catholic priest, who revolutionized our understanding of nature, culture, and...
2024-10-2455 minHuman Energy PodcastEvolving the Self: Cognitive Sciences, the Extended Mind, and the Noosphere - Abre Fournier - N2 Conference 2023Evolving the Self: Cognitive Sciences, the Extended Mind, and the NoospherePresented by Abre Fournier (https://www.abrefournier.com/) and Brian Thomas Swimme at the N2 Conference 2023, University of California, BerkeleyThrough the span of the scientific and industrial revolutions of the past two centuries, the Western conception of the self, anchored in Cartesian dualistic metaphysics, has predominantly viewed humans as entities distinct from an ostensibly inert universe. Increasingly challenged, such perspectives are no longer viable. Contemporary advancements in physical and cognitive sciences have begun to dismantle these assumptions, recognizing matter as life-generating and mind-generating.
2024-08-2847 minHuman Energy PodcastHumanity's New Awareness: The Grandeur of Cosmogenesis and the Quest of Divinization - Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, Brian Thomas Swimme - N2 Conference 2023Humanity's New Awareness: The Grandeur of Cosmogenesis and the Quest of DivinizationPresented by Monica DeRaspe-Bolles & Brian Thomas SwimmeN2 Conference 2023University of California, BerkeleyHumanity stands on the cusp of a transformative realization. Emerging from its evolutionary journey as a distinct phylum and intertwined with the universe's 13.8 billion-year history, humanity is beginning to apprehend the grandeur and unity of the universe in new ways. Advancements in science have not only expanded our knowledge of the various objects in the universe. They have also unveiled...
2024-08-0148 min
Closer To TruthBrian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the NoosphereProfessor Brian Swimme discusses cosmogenesis, our cultural evolution, human consciousness, the Noosphere, and more.
Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness program. His upcoming book, The Story of the Noosphere, will be published in October.
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2024-06-1242 min
The Fertile Dark3. Reconnecting with Nature: A Path to Wellness and MeaningIn this enriching episode of The Fertile Dark, we explore the profound healing power of nature and how it can help us navigate the challenges of urbanized living and existential crises. Drawing on key insights from Desmond Morris's "The Human Zoo," Irvin Yalom's existential psychology, and the transformative ideas from "The Universe Story" by Brian Thomas Swimme and Thomas Berry, and "Nature and the Human Soul" by Bill Plotkin, we delve into the therapeutic benefits of reconnecting with the natural world.
Highlights
- Understanding Urbanization and Existential Issues: We start by outlining the key problems of urbanization as discussed...
2024-06-0422 minHuman Energy PodcastNoospheric Experience - Brian Thomas Swimme and Wolfgang Leidhold - N2 ConferenceNoospheric ExperiencePresented by Brian Thomas Swimme and Wolfgang Leidhold at Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. Learn more at https://humanenergy.io
2024-05-2745 min
Imaginal InspirationsFrédérique Apffel-Marglin - Spiritual AnthropologyDavid Lorimer's guest today is Professor Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, who is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College. She founded the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian High Amazon in 2009 where she works with indigenous communities as well as several High Schools in the province, regenerating the most sustainable and climate reducing pre-Columbian anthropogenic soil known as Terra Preta do Indio (black earth of the Indians). Her more recent books are: Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (2011); Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth with Robert Tindall and David Shearer, (2017); Contemporary Voices from...
2023-12-1631 min
CIIS Public ProgramsBrian Swimme: On the Cosmic Dimension of Human StoriesOne of the 10 most radical discoveries in human history is that of cosmogenesis, the narrative of how the expanding universe is evolving into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness. The challenge to this discovery is the thorny question of how human subjectivity relates to the evolution of the universe. Is there cosmic meaning in our ongoing efforts—like using memory and art—to record our experiences?
Cosmologist and CIIS professor emeritus Brian Thomas Swimme’s latest book, Cosmogenesis, tells the story of how the new cosmology demolished his modern industrial mind, then slowly assembled a new mind, one rooted in the cr...
2023-08-2454 min
Human Energy PodcastScience of the Noosphere – Cosmological Evolution – Brian Thomas SwimmeOne of Science of the Noosphere’s central goals is to update Teilhard’s vision of the Noosphere with scientific discoveries that have been made since his death in 1955. Most of that will involve new knowledge from fields such as evolutionary biology, anthropology, human history, cultural evolution, and technology. However, Brian Thomas Swimme, an evolutionary cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies and an advisor to Human Energy, brings his unique expertise to that pursuit.Learn more: https://humanenergy.io/brian-thomas-swimme/
2023-07-2531 min
The New Dimensions CaféThe Impact of the Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. - Bishop Rev. Dr. Marc Andrus - C0583Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Andrus is the eighth Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of California, elected in 2006. Raised among the hills and lakes of East Tennessee, Bishop Marc developed an early love for the beauty of the earth and a call to protect it. His activism, grounded in contemplative prayer, has focused on key issues related to peace and justice, including immigration reform, civil rights for LBGTQ+ persons, health care, and climate change. Mark has led the Episcopal delegation to the annual UN Climate Conference. In service for Presiding Bishop Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop Marc serves as representative to...
2023-06-2819 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureBeaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water | Kate Lundquist & Brock DolmanIn this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss - you name it, and beaver is on it.In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us...
2023-05-0229 min
Navigating Consciousness with Rupert SheldrakeQ&A with Brother David Steindl-Rast and audience; re: History of Orthodox Scientific ThoughtThis is an extract from Rupert's workshop with Brother David Steindl-Rast at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC in August, 2011.00:00 Brother David Steindl-Rast: Making a thing out of the soul; AI Sentience 04:08 Rupert Sheldrake: Golem/Frankenstein myths and robot consciousness07:07 Rupert: Analog computers as possible framework for machine consciousness07:57 David: So it is possible?08:23 Rupert: Promissory Materialism will "prove" that people are machines 09:04 Rupert: The genome wager with Lewis Wolpert 14:13 David: Science as limited faith, one without hope15:00 Audience: if Science and Faith both seek truth, they must converge15:41 Rupert: we all have imp...
2023-03-1440 min
Hunger for WholenessUniversal Hope with Brian Swimme (Part 2)Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Cosmologist, Dr. Brian Swimme on Cosmology and Evolution.A discussion of cosmogenesis: the story of an unfolding universe, one that inspires awe, wonder, and mystery. Along with Teilhard’s vision of the noosphere and consider technology’s role in human evolution, the development of consciousness, and planetary life. About Dr. Brian Swimme: Brian Thomas Swimme is the Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the...
2023-02-2023 min
Hunger for WholenessCosmology and Evolution with Brian Swimme (Part 1)Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Cosmologist, Dr. Brian Swimme on Cosmology and Evolution.A discussion of cosmogenesis: the story of an unfolding universe, one that inspires awe, wonder, and mystery. Along with Teilhard’s vision of the noosphere and consider technology’s role in human evolution, the development of consciousness, and planetary life.About Dr. Brian Swimme: Brian Thomas Swimme is the Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from th...
2023-02-1327 min
New DimensionsWe Are Those Who Come From Stars - Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D. - ND3774PThe universe is coming to know itself through us and the story of the universe has direct impact on the story of our personal life. Here we pursue a cosmological story that can unify and guide us into a future flourishing with life and with the power to experience ourselves as a manifestation of 14 billion years of cosmological creativity. Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D., is a cosmologist and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He is a cocreator...
2023-01-1153 minThe New Dimensions CaféFinding our Way in the Unborn Future of the Universe - Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D - C0572.Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D., is a cosmologist and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He is a cocreator and host of the Emmy award winning PBS documentary Journey of the Universe. He is the author of Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis 2019), Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era—A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (HarperOne 1994), The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story (Bear & Company 1984) and Cosmogenesis: An Un...
2023-01-1115 min
Banyen Books ~ Branches of WisdomEpisode 122: Brian Swimme, PhD - CosmogenesisJoin host and cocreator of PBS’s 'Journey of the Universe' for a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness. Brian Swimme will be discussing his new book 'Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe'.
Dr. Swimme is the author of 'The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos' and 'The Universe is a Green Dragon'. He is co-author of 'The Universe Story', which is the result of a ten year collaboration with cultural historian, Thomas Berry. Dr. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cos...
2022-12-291h 01
The Avid Reader ShowBrian Thomas Swimme - Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding UniverseFrom the host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness The understanding that the universe has been expanding since its fiery beginning 14 billion years ago and has developed into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness is one of the most significant in human history. It is taught throughout the world and has become our common creation story for nearly every culture. In terms of the universe’s development, we humans are not only economic, religious, or political beings. At the m...
2022-11-0558 min
Buddha at the Gas Pump663. Brian Thomas SwimmeBrian Thomas Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. From the publication of The Universe Is a Green Dragon to the Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary Journey of the Universe, Swimme has articulated the cosmology of a creative universe, one in which human intelligence plays an essential role.
For three decades as a professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, he taught evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the humanities. Currently he is director of the Third Story of...
2022-09-2400 min
Waste Not Want NotHow to Make a Sustainable Lifestyle More Mainstream: Nic Turner - S1E27Nic Turner shares her story on how she shifted from encouraging consumerism to living a sustainable lifestyle that’s easy, feels more mainstream and gives you a heart felt sensation that you’re making an invaluable contribution to a healthier planet while invigorating your own life.
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2022-06-1950 min
Valley Presbyterian ChurchJenny Warner interviews Diana Chapman Walsh: 4.25.21 ServiceJoin us for the fourth Sunday of Easter 2021.
Today is a special and unique Sunday. Our worship is threaded with lyrical readings from Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker which are read and put to music by my dear friend and local musician, Maryliz Smith. The message for today is a conversation that I had with Diana Chapman Walsh, former president of Wellesley College, who now lives on the Peninsula. She is also colleagues with Mary Evelyn Tucker. Our choir will lead us in glorious hymns celebrating God's creation and you won't want to miss Thomas Walling's prayer for the...
2022-03-1823 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureFrom Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives | Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas SwimmeFrom the microbes to the mammals, all life shares far more in common than what makes us different. In other words, it’s all relatives. If we knew that literally we are water, that we are mushrooms, that we are stardust—instead of shredding the web of life, might we start acting as if we have relatives? Bioneers Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme reveal inspiring reflections in the gene pool that show life as a kin-dom, not a kingdom.
2022-01-0129 min
Köşedeki KitapçıGünün kitapları📚Rebecca Solnit - Yokluğumdan Aklımda Kalanlar
📚Zülfü Livaneli - Kardeşimin Hikayesi
📚Sevinç Çokum - Yüzünü Sıyır Karanlığından
📚Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker - Evrenin Yolculuğu / Kozmosun ve İnsanlığın Destansı Hikayesi
2021-11-2905 min
Intimacy with the worldHaving access to our imagination, opens a gateway in our consciousness - it enlarges it. Geneen Marie HaugenAlready early on in her life Geneen had a relationship and appreciation of the natural beauty, and she also often slept outside, and would be transfixed by the starry night sky and the milky way.Geneen became a systems engineer in Silicon Valley. But seeing the stress at work, just seemed meaningless to her, and she realised that she couldn't stay, and instead went for a bit of a walk about to wild places.She then lived in a tipi for a year and worked as a river-guide in Jackson Hole, by The Yellowstone National...
2021-04-011h 02
The Forum at Grace CathedralGrace Winter Forum Online with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John GrimWe are living in times of immense challenge on every front - socially, politically, ecologically and spiritually. We are destroying the natural systems on which we rely, making many of us feel alienated and lost. We are in one of the most profound transitions in human history - we need a new story to reorient and ground ourselves to meet these challenges. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are co-directors of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, a project which evokes the spiritual wisdom and ecological ethics from the world’s religions for the healing of both pe...
2021-03-171h 01
Explore: This Riveting Full Audiobook For Book-Lovers.Powers of the Universe by Brian Thomas SwimmePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/187926to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Powers of the Universe
Author: Brian Thomas Swimme
Narrator: Brian Thomas Swimme
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 01-26-21
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings
Genres: Physics
Publisher's Summary:
In Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme identifies 11 powers that are present everywhere and throughout time in the universe. By examining these powers, Dr. Swimme reveals the characteristics of the universe that exist in the subatomic particles, the elements, the galaxies, stars, supernovas, planets, continents, oceans, life, and humans.
2021-01-268h 49
Listen To An Eye-Opening Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The New Story by Brian Thomas SwimmePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/235524to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The New Story
Author: Brian Thomas Swimme
Narrator: Brian Thomas Swimme
Format: mp3
Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
Release date: 01-26-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Cosmology
Publisher's Summary:
Redefining what it means to be human: What is our cosmic story? In the last 100 years, science has provided more information on life than in all of recorded history. But what are we to do with that information? Cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme explains why we need a new cosmic story that explains what we now know about the Universe...
2021-01-261h 06
CIIS Public ProgramsThomas Hübl and Brian Swimme: On Healing Collective TraumaThis episode featuring spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl along with cosmologist and CIIS professor Brian Swimme was recorded during a live streaming webinar on May 9th, 2020.
During their conversation, Brian and Thomas explore the cosmos and discuss ways to move from being a society informed by trauma to a society that heals trauma.
To find out more about CIIS and public programs like this one, including our upcoming online trauma healing workshop with Thomas Hübl, visit our website: ciis.edu
2020-05-141h 02
SUE Speaks Podcast: Searching for Unity in Everything9 | BRIAN SWIMME – Evolutionary CosmologistShownotes Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7 billion year trajectory of the universe - a story that he feels will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.Swimme is the author of The Universe is a Green Dragon and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos...
2020-02-1431 min
Our Spiritual LifeS1E2 - Seeing the Universe through New EyesThis episode is about The Universe is a Green Dragon, a book by Brian Swimme published in 1984. This book greatly affected my thinking about what spirituality means and how the unfolding of the universe evokes being and the spiritual participation of humanity. The book's story is told as a dialog between a youth and a wise elder named Thomas. Raymond Posch shares selected portions of the dialog and shares his insights about the story's meaning and value as an introduction to spirituality based in modern cosmology (and, to a lesser degree, quantum physics). See the transcript for this episode...
2019-12-2832 min
Humans On The Loop133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our UniverseThis week’s guest is mathematician and cosmologist Brian Swimme, faculty at CIIS’ Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program and author of several books, including The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story (which we discuss in this episode). Brian is a major voice in the conversation about the new myths required for us in an age of planetary culture, an articulate and approachable thinker whose warmth and generosity — virtues equal to his intellectual achievement — really shine through in this conversation.Brian at CIIS Brian at the Center for Humans and NatureBrian’s...
2019-12-131h 04
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2019-08-3102 min
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2019-08-3101 min
BetterListen!Powers Of The Universe Preview 2In The Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme identifies eleven powers that are present everywhere and throughout time in the universe. By examining these powers,
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2019-07-2802 min
BetterListen!Powers Of The Universe Preview 1In The Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme identifies eleven powers that are present everywhere and throughout time in the universe. By examining these powers, Dr. Swimme reveals the characteristics of the universe that exist in the sub atomic particles, the elements, the galaxies, stars, supernovas, planets, continents, oceans, life and humans.
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2019-07-2802 min
The New School at Commonweal2019:03.17 - Mary Evelyn Tucker - Thomas Berry: A Biography~Co-Presented with Black Mountain Circle and Point Reyes Books as part of the Geography of Hope Series of Events~
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in another conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker, whose new book, Thomas Berry: A Biography is due at bookstores in May. Written by Mary Evelyn with co-authors John Grim and Andrew Angyal, the book is the first biography of Thomas Berry, illuminating his remarkable vision and showing the ongoing significance of Berry’s conception of human interdependence with the Earth within the unfolding journey of the universe.
Mary Evelyn Tucker teaches at the Yale School of Forestry an...
2019-05-081h 47
The Celtic Feminine PodcastDolores Whelan, Author of "Ever Ancient, Ever New" and Organizer of the "Brigid of Faughart" FestivalNote: This podcast interview happened in October of 2017
In this podcast, Amy has a conversation with author, educator, spiritual guide, and festival organizer, Dolores Whelan about her book, "Ever Ancient, Ever New: Celtic Spirituality in the 21st Century," The Brigid of Faughart Festival, and the importance of music in honoring Brigid on her February 1st feast day.
Dolores holds an M.Sc in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Spirituality from Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality California founded by Matthew Fox, a radical Dominican priest. She studied with a number of fig...
2019-01-2356 min
The Big Chew PodcastSam Guarnaccia: Music for Our UniverseMusic can bring us into new, profound kinds of awareness. Composer and classical guitarist Sam Guarnaccia is doing his part. We talk about his new musical work that calls on orchestra, chorus, and soloists to celebrate the evolving universe we all share. I've heard Sam's Emergent Universe Oratorio—it's lush and evocative and includes praise for life forms and forces you don't often hear about in concert halls, like cell membranes, tree roots, and gravity.
There are selections from Sam's Emergent Universe Oratorio in this episode. He and I talk about stuff like:
-The role music plays in heightening our aw...
2017-04-2200 min
The Holy Universe: A New Story of Creation for the Heart, Soul & SpiritThe Holy Universe: A New Story of Creation for the Heart, Soul and Spirit with author David Christopher
David Christopher, based in Northern California, left behind corporate and aviation careers to pursue his passion for helping bring forth a new story for our challenging times. The dialogues within The Holy Universe are the result of his 15-year immersion in the works of such leading thinkers Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, James Lovelock and Elisabet Sahtouris, who hold a new worldview based on the latest science of the modern world, but speak beyond the traditional story of "pure" science. He brings his v...
2014-09-171h 01
Smart Women TalkDavid Christopher. 09/24/13What the “New Story” is and why it’s relevant.Our current ‘Planetary’ mind – and how it has evolved from the ‘Modern’ mind.How our ‘catastrophe inspires creativity.’ David Christopher left behind lucrative corporate and aviation careers to address his lifelong desire for answers to humanity’s eternal question of our place in the Universe. The dialogues he created in The Holy Universe are the result of fifteen years of deep immersion in the works of new thought leaders such as Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Miriam MacGillis, James Lovelock, and many others, including celebrated Big History academicians such as D...
2013-09-2454 min
SoulVox NetworkEvolve! with Robin LysneThis month, Robin is joined by guest Drew Dellinger, PhD.
If all things are connected, what are the connections between ecology, social justice, and cosmology? How do the "Big Stories" at work in our culture affect how we see our lives, the planet, and the universe? Drew Dellinger will discuss the intersections of cosmology, ecology, justice, and art, and ways we can weave these interrelated threads into an energizing vision that unites the personal and global. He will also explore the power of art and the power of story to address the challenges and possibilities of our historical moment.
Drew...
2013-08-1559 min
The New School at Commonweal2013.01.17: Sister Miriam McGillis - Opening the Christian Mysteries to the New CosmologySister Miriam MacGillis
Opening the Christian Mysteries to the New Cosmology
~Co-sponsored with Point Reyes Books~
In response to the global crisis, Sister Miriam MacGillis — and her community at their biodynamic Genesis Farm in New Jersey — focus on connections between the health of Earth and of human communities within particular bioregions. From the Genesis Farm website:
Genesis Farm is rooted in a belief that the Universe, Earth, and all reality are permeated by the presence and power of that ultimate Holy Mystery that has been so deeply and richly expressed in the world’s spiritual traditions.
Join us for a conver...
2013-01-171h 10
Discover A Transformative Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn TuckerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/181701to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Journey of the Universe
Author: Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker
Narrator: Marc S. Cashman
Format: mp3
Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 03-16-12
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 102 ratings
Genres: Science & Religion
Publisher's Summary:
2012-03-162h 48
VERITAS by MelBarbara Hand Clow | The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind | Part 1 of 2Time acceleration, super string theory, Trigons, the World Tree, and past life regression are but a few of the many threads Mayan Calendar researcher, teacher, astrologer and healer, Barbara Hand Clow, weaves into this interview. Clow says mankind is standing on the precipice of the pinnacle of human evolution. December 21, 2012 is not the end of the world, but the end of an eons-long progression of evolutionary phases, the veritable beginning of a whole new age.
The author of more than half a dozen books and CDs, Clow's breadth of knowledge and fluid delivery belies a life spent foraging...
2011-07-2300 min