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Category: Adult Education

Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: New Press. 2012. 1st ed, 2007.

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.

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Somatic and Narrative Ways of Knowing (Sonar) for Transformative Learning

This is my dissertation which traces our cultural environmental unsustainability, social injustice...

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Experiences of Astronauts Returning to Earth

This film has a number of astronauts describe their experience of seeing the earth from space. Some of them call their experience the “overview effect.” They recall Carl Sagan’s recognition that the earth is a fragile spaceship, protected by a thin atmosphere. This 19 minute film is an important introduction for recognizing the importance of […]

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Sisters of Earth Network

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 […]

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ChronoZoom.com

A website that show times scales, across Cosmos, Earth, Life, Prehistory, and Humanity. ChronoZoom is an open source community project owned by the Outercurve Foundation and dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. ChronoZoom bridges the gap between the humanities and sciences using a notion of “Big History” to easily understand all this information. This […]

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The Depth of Our Belonging to the Unfolding Story

Talk given at All Saints Parish, October 18, 2013, at CMM/New Story Event Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw near to the whole.” The talk describes five breakthroughs in science that indicate that this is indeed happening. Avoiding […]

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The Cosmic Environment for the Growth of Complexity

Provides a unifying scenario of cosmic evolution from radiation to culture showing an increase in energy density flow. The case is made that increasing energy density flows leads to increasing complexity. A further case is made that a necessary condition for the emergence of complexity is the expansion of the universe. Explains a hierarchy of […]

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Nuns With a New Creed: Environmentalism (and the Story of the Universe)

Article about Catholic sisters in the US and Ireland who have embraced environmentalism and the Story of the Universe. Featured sisters include Gail Worcelo, Miriam MacGillis, and Marian O’Sullivan among others. A changing world and climate demand a new kind of vocation. The article discusses how Thomas Berry and his book, co-written with Brian Swimme, […]

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