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The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Aug 15, 2022 | Adult Education, Agriculture, Art, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lecture/Webinar, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, The New Story |

Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. This course investigates Berry’s life and thought in […]

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Report on the First Deeptime Leadership Program, next program starts Sept 2022

Posted by Stephan Martin | Jul 19, 2022 | Adult Education, Agriculture, Art, Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Evolutionaries, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Social Justice |

This article reports on the framework and results of the first Deeptime Leadership Program offered through the Deeptime Network. Click on “Link to File” top right. For info about the upcoming DEEPTIME LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, click here!

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Deeptime Principles & Birthing the Ecozoic Era (Antioch College Online Community Conversation)

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Jul 16, 2022 | Adult Education, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Higher Education, Lecture/Webinar, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12, The New Story |

Our Time Could the challenges we’re facing at this time be feedback from the universe that a new vision of the human is needed, one that includes all people, cultivates a just world, and resonates with the dynamics of the universe and the Earth community? How are we to make sense of the seismic shift […]

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Brief reflections on the first James Webb Space Telescope images

Posted by Stephan Martin | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog, Cosmic Evolution, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, The New Story |

When I first saw the images from JWST I recognized immediately that they each represented one of the major science missions of the new telescope. It also struck me that in our Deeptime perspective each one of the images represents one of the expressions of cosmogenesis and a major theme of human (and life’s) experience. […]

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Science, Religion, and Deep Time

Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Jul 11, 2022 | Adult Education, Big History, Book, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |

New book just published Science, Religion and Deep Time (2022) Edited By Lowell Gustafson, Barry Rodrigue, David Blanks. Routledge.This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and […]

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Now We See . . . the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

Posted by Sarbmeet Kanwal | May 23, 2022 | Article, Cosmic Evolution, Document, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science |

I have always wondered why black holes arouse so much fascination among folks that barely understand what they are. I asked that question to my adult learners to whom I recently taught a 3-week course on black holes. My students struggled with their answer and after some pause pointed to one of the strange properties […]

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Going Down the Off-Ramp

Posted by Mike Bell | May 22, 2022 | Adult Education, Article, Blog, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Law, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice |

In our climate changing world we need to make some significant changes. The title of this article suggests that we are moving in the wrong direction. We are making things worse. We need an “off ramp”–a way of going in a different direction. We need to change the way we think about the new climate […]

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What Does Deep Time Mean to You? (Article in Smithsonian Magazine)

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | May 15, 2022 | Adult Education, Article, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |

By Helen Thompson Smithsonian Magazine September 9, 2014 An art exhibition at the National Academy...

Deeptime Leadership Program Session 5: Principle of Matrix and Embeddedness

Posted by Imogene Drummond | May 6, 2022 | Adult Education, Art, Blog, Cosmic Evolution, DTN Course Blog, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Other, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice |

During the fifth session of our Deeptime Leadership Program, Learning Track Pods, Steve Martin explored how matrix and embeddedness can lead to deepening course participants’ allurements and passions in the midst of community. Steve shared the amazing online Padlet with a world map featuring our international ecosystems. We met in break-out groups to experience the richness […]

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Deeptime Leadership Program Session 4—Principle of Matrix: Application to Ecology/Diversity/Anti-Bias

Posted by Imogene Drummond | Apr 5, 2022 | Adult Education, Art, Blog, Current Issues, DTN Course Blog, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, The New Story |

At the fourth session of our Deeptime Leadership Program, contemplative practitioner Cliff Berrien introduced the principle of Matrix about the embeddedness of relationship. While working at The Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M., Cliff collaborated with the esteemed Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Holmes for several years, and continues to do so. He explored […]

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Brief reflections on the first James Webb Space Telescope images

Science, Religion, and Deep Time

Now We See . . . the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

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