In this essay I ponder one of nature’s most intriguing mysteries: why is so much so beautiful? Why all those luscious colors, gossamer wings, silken petals? Why rustling waves of grasslands, filled with flowers, chirping crickets, soaring meadowlarks? Beauty is an aspect of the universal power that cosmologist Brian Swimme calls allurement, the great attracting […]
THE FIRST EARTH CHURCH “The historical mission of our time is to re-invent the human—at the...
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A Big History Praxis by Heikki Patomaki, essay by Ken Baskin, What Imogene Drummond is reading, Frontiers by J.N. Nielsen, Jaynavi Pandya interviewing Orla O’Reilly Hazra, Hirofumi Katayama, Javier Collado Ruano, and Spencer Striker
We owe our existence to the spectacular collapse of early stars. So the challenging power of cataclysm has been with us since the beginning. We live on a planet of shifting tectonic plates, which means we will face earthquakes and volcanoes. But that movement also means we are alive on a verdant earth. Then there […]
This blog is about the struggles of the Catholic Church to adapt to a changing world down through the ages. The focus is on church not as a religion but, rather, as an organizational system. It suggests the need for a new vision to deal with the climate changing world;
Deb Haaland’s nomination to be US Secretary of the Interior honors Indigenous wisdom, one of...
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This article is an adaptation of a 15 minute talk that I gave at the Deeptime Solstice event on Dec 19 and Dec 21, 2020. You are welcome to reach me at sarbmeet@gmail.com with any questions on the content. *
News with a Gaian science focus.
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My Cosmic Story: The Dark Energy by Noha Tarek Please click on this link (a pdf version is here) for this profound personal reflection of a journey into big history by a graduate student from Egypt, who says “My B.Sc. and M.Sc. are in the discipline of political science. I have been working also in the field of […]
This is a short article on the transformative power of light, based on a presentation I gave for the DTN Equinox celebration in September 2020.
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Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
The result is transformative.
