Origins highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members have on Big History. Volume IV, Number 4, “Towards a Theory of Big History” by David Blanks, “Big History’s Greatest Lesson?” by David Gabbard
A handout describing current human activities in our current industrial Age, changed in the Ecological Age, and transformed in the Ecozoic Age. The activities chosen are economics, technology, political systems, education, theology/religion, social relations, scientific paradigms, agriculture, human relationships to land, and the role of the human. The paper was meant to encourage discussion and […]
Describes the process of awakening happening globally through the four step dynamic of the Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer. To heal our cartesian alienationThomas Berry advised us to engage a fourfold wisdom conversation : the wisdoms of science, religion, indigenous peoples and women. As a result of this conversation and recognizing ourselves within the deep […]
A phenomenal exploration of the great integral dynamic forces and systems underlying...
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Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment...
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Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
SISTERS OF EARTH 2014 CONFERENCE July 10-13, 2014 at the University of Saint Mary (USM) in Leavenworth, Kansas. Conference Theme: The New Emerging Humanity: Healing Into Wholeness. The ‘Sisters of Earth’ is an informal network of women most of whom are rooted in deep understandings of new cosmology and all of whom share a deep […]
The increasing complexity of sustained, structured relationships from quarks through human and environmental polity.
Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
The result is transformative.
