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Category: Learning Stages

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

from the publisher “‘Knowing how we know’ is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience […]

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Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life

from the publisher “The appearance of the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life, and as Martin Brasier shows in Secret Chambers, decoding this puzzle has been a great adventure that has mainly taken place over the last fifty years. Covering the period […]

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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

from the publisher “*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own […]

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Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet

from the publisher “Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the […]

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Being a Bee (Stories for a Better World, Video)

This film is the result of a 12 month Heritage Lottery Funded project in which Global Generation involved young people in exploring cultural creation stories and the scientific origins of the universe. The Bee story emerged as a central motif for where we have all come from and our role in defining where we are […]

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The Shamanic Mission of Thomas Berry

This essay was written by Mike Bell, a former monk, who lived with Thomas Berry in the Passionist Monastery. Thomas Berry, a cultural historian wrote the landmark essay, “The New Story,” and several books including “The Dream of the Earth,” “The Great Work,” and “The Fate of the Earth and Christian Future” in which he […]

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