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Video (7 minutes): “Is Humanity Growing Up?”
Is Humanity Growing Up? is a mini-documentary that looks at the human species and asks, “What is our collective level of maturity? Toddler? Teenager? Adult? Elder?” Producer: Duane Elgin & Global MindShift. Director: Steve Kotton
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Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future
This wide-ranging book was published in 2000 but is very relevant for understanding our world in this time of great transition. “Promise Ahead” explores how humanity is growing up and how our progress has created a number of adversity trends (e.g., climate chaos, groundwater depletion, species extinction). We are about to hit an “evolutionary wall” […]
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Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness
Just as there are relatively distinct stages that characterize the development of an individual from infancy to adulthood, so too are there discernible stages in the development of our species as we move toward a planetary-scale civilization. This book brings together views from science and spirituality, East and West, the practical and the visionary, to […]
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The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?
Integrates deep insights from science and wisdom traditions to reveal the deeper unity shared by both and its meaning for humanity’s journey into the future.
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The Living Universe — A video introduction to the book
A short video (4+ minutes) that introduces the everyday nature and great importance of being awake to the aliveness of the universe.
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Deep Big History: A Living Systems Paradigm
The essay recognizes that all paradigms of reality are provisional and asks, “Although mainstream science views the cosmos as comprised of mostly dead matter and empty space, could the universe be regarded as a living system when considered in its totality?” In response, five attributes of a living system are presented that are also characteristic […]
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What Came Before the Big Bang?
This article appeared in the Special Collector’s Edition of Scientific American, Fall 2014 Einstein’s general theory of relativity says that the universe began with the big bang singularity, a moment when all the matter we see was concentrated at a single point of infinite density. But the theory does not capture the fine, quantum structure […]
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International Big History Conference Program 2014
This is the program that describes all the papers and panels for the 2014 conference.
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THE 14 BILLION YEAR LOVE STORY, The Evolving Story of Ongoing Creation
This 3 video series is the story of evolving matter, life and humanity—emerging from and sustained by Love Divine. 1. Matter Is Loved Into Being 2. Matter Is Loved Into Life 3. Life Learns to Love This work is a synthesis of insights from: Teilhard de Chardin, SJ – priest, scientist and mystic Thomas Berry, […]
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- Nesting and Branching Diagrams for the Bony Vertebrates introduces “tree-thinking” and how to read phylogenies (evolutionary tree diagrams)
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- The Story of Mammals: From the Dawn of Life to the Present Day
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