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Author: Betsey Crawford

Brian Swimme’s Powers of the Universe

Over the past few years, I have been exploring Brian Swimme’s 11 Powers of the Universe, the energies he sees governing the endless creation of the cosmos, from the big bang to this moment. We, embodiments of these energies, are now a powerful force in the ongoing creation of our planet, so it makes sense […]

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Boundless possibility: the power of seamlessness

Our universe’s constant bubbling of form and new realities is what cosmologist Brian Swimme calls seamlessness, one of his eleven powers of the universe that I have been exploring. Everything arose out of seamlessness, “the ground of being, an empty fullness.” A realm of existence so seething with constant creativity that physicists call it spacetime […]

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Standing on Holy Ground: Thomas Berry’s Primary Revelation

Ever since I was introduced to Thomas Berry’s work in 2000, his thinking has informed and enriched my own beyond measure. For this essay, I chose one of my favorite of his ideas: that we expand our vision beyond our treasured texts to include Earth herself as our primary source of revelation. “We need to […]

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A wild love for the world

My youngest nephew is standing at the gates of adulthood appalled by what he finds beyond them. He has a lot of company, of all ages. But I feel particular sympathy for the youngest and tenderest among us. It is one thing, at my age, to acknowledge that I will not see the promised land […]

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Metamorphosis: the power of transformation

I have been exploring cosmologist Brian Swimme’s eleven powers of the universe to see what our oldest teacher tells us about creating a just and sustainable planet. These are the energies by which the cosmos itself operates. Transformation is one of them, and has been a constant from the Big Bang to today. It’s not […]

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The drama of deep time: Joggins Fossil Cliffs

A UNESCO World Heritage site, Joggins Fossil Cliffs is famous for fossils that bridge the time when our ancestors were moving out of the seas and onto land. And what a land! Vast forests of the ancestors of ferns and horsetails. Tree sized relatives of mosses. And as you walk the beach you can hold […]

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Tending the Wild

The most creative people on the planet today are working on changing the stories we have told ourselves for the last several centuries. In some cases, the last few millennia. Some of the stories we are turning toward are old ones. Indigenous wisdom may have a new name these days — Traditional Ecological Knowledge, or […]

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