In the saddest Christmas with the pandemic that most of us will have ever experienced we need a way to encourage ourselves. In our family we do it by telling one another stories. This chronicle is about some of our Bell-family Christmas stories. At the end is a link to our favorite Christmas story as […]
Incorporating the deep future into big history helps to produce a coming of age story to complement an origin one. Presented by Lowell Gustafson to the 2020 Globalistics International Conference and the Fourth International Symposium of Big History and Global Evolution at Lomonosov Moscow State University, October 20-24, 2020.
During the summer of 2019, I co-led a 13.8 km cosmic walk in the beautiful hills and countryside of the Czech Republic with nearly 30 participants in a New Cosmology seminar and retreat. It was filmed by two Czech documentary filmmakers. This is their film of our journey together! Above photo by Stephan Martin
View a range of everyday images from a 360 degree perspective. See new ways of combining them to help you question how a landscape can be transformed, a bowl of fruit can be seen from micro and macro perspective and more. This two and a half minutes will give you both a sense of awe […]
In this video, Jennifer Morgan, president, DTN, discusses the role and purpose of the storyteller, as well as props and costumes. Then, she demonstrates telling a story from her first book, Born With a Bang. *
“Voices of the Great Work” (Part 1) * In this year’s annual meeting, presenters showed ways that Teilhard has inspired people in diverse fields, from education to art and religion, and in plays and films. Hosted by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim and ATA’s new president Kathleen Duffy. Educators Jennifer Morgan and Kathleen Deignan; and […]
“Voices of the Great Work” (Part 2) * In part 2 of the annual meeting, composer Sam Guarnaccia; religious leaders Nancy Wright and Kevin Cawley; play producer Sant Aranda, and filmmakers Frank and Mary Frost explain how Teilhard de Chardin inspired their work. * Musician Sam Guarnaccia 00:00-8:55 Religious leader Nancy Wright 08:56-17:38 Religious leader […]
A conversation with Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, editors of Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, with Lowell Gustafson, President, International Big History Association (https://bighistory.org/)
In this creative short story, The Illusionists, Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they? https://youtu.be/JRXIsu735jw The text is available at https://ibha.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Origins/Origins_X_04.pdf#page=3 Lacy Loar-Gruenler has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and corporate lawyer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Villanova University, and currently […]
“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet,” Maya Angelou begins “A Brave and Startling Truth”...
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