Category: Posts & Resources
Art Meets Science & Spirituality in a Changing Economy (Ilya Prigogine)
Posted by Sam Guarnaccia | Jan 20, 2016 | Adult Education, Art, Audio, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, The New Story, Video |
An eight minute video of Ilya Prigogine, one of the greatest minds of any century…….reflecting on his epic work in describing the self-organizing dynamics of living systems…..the emergent creativity in/of the interior domains at every evolutionary level.
Community Montessori Teens’ Program: Cosmic Education and Big History Guide
Posted by Kyle Herman | Jan 17, 2016 | Agriculture, Art, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Document, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Montessori Cosmic Education, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Secondary 9 - 12, Syllabus/Curriculum |
This is a manual that I created to support the implementation of Big History within our high school program at Community Montessori.
A New Common Sense: Montessori’s and Dr. King’s Hope for Humanity
Posted by Kyle Herman | Jan 17, 2016 | Big History, Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Montessori Cosmic Education, Other, Other, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice |
This is a copy of the speech I will be giving for Community Montessori’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Tribute program on January 18, 2016.
Rich Blundell on What’s Next with Peter Buffett
Posted by Dr. Rich Blundell | Jan 15, 2016 | Adult Education, Art, Audio, Big History, Cosmic Evolution, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Music, Posts & Resources, Social Justice |
In this live radio show propagating from Woodstock NY, Rich Blundell speaks with Peter Buffett and Jimmy Buff about Big History and the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The fun but compelling conversation begins in mystery and then plunges headfirst into cosmic evolution, emergence, and the genius of Duane Allman, (yes Duane Allman […]
Fruitcake and the Magi’s Cosmic Gifts
Posted by Carol Kilby - | Jan 11, 2016 | Adult Education, Art, Document, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Other, Other, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Social Justice, The New Story |
Story tells of our struggles to respond to the fears of terrorism and needs of refugees in the midst of Christmas, 2015. A family struggling to know what they believe are visited by a caravan of wiseones offering unusual and cosmic gifts. The author weaves scripture and cosmology to create an entertaining and relevant expression […]
January 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Posted by James MacAllister | Jan 11, 2016 | Adult Education, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Document, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Other, Posts & Resources, Secondary 9 - 12 |
This issue deals with the origins of long history of almost all ideas, the fallacy of “arguments from authority,” the framing of ideas as “extraordinary”, Lynn Margulis’s “math of biology 1 + 1 = 1,” misappropriation of the scientific term “symbiogenesis” in John Archibald’s history of the current rethinking biology in terms of collaborating consortia, […]
Emergence in the Cosmic Cafe
Posted by Carol Kilby - | Dec 11, 2015 | Adult Education, Art, Document, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Other, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Social Justice, The New Story |
A story offered on Advent 2 in a rural congregation where The Universe Story as well as the Bible is considered a sacred text. In this story, the second in an Advent’ure series, Rev. Dr. Carol Kilby explores the cosmic power of emergence and the Christian virtue of peace within the context of a working […]
Winter Solstice Ritual
Posted by Terri MacKenzie | Dec 8, 2015 | Posts & Resources |
After a brief explanation of the Winter Solstice, a ritual for its celebration. It can be adapted...
Read MoreLaudato Si and Vatican III
Posted by Mike Bell | Dec 7, 2015 | Posts & Resources |
Laudato Si and Vatican III Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si is a significant step forward in...
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