From the scale of planet Earth, at a few thousands of kilometers, to the scale of the observable Universe, at nearly 100 billion light-years, there’s a long way from here to the cosmic horizon. But rather than a linear scale, which would take several quintillions of Earths lined end-to-end to reach the limits of the […]
The Story of Big HistoryAuthor(s): Ian HeskethSource:History of the Present, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2014), pp. 171-202Published by: University of Illinois PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/historypresent.4.2.0171 The goal is not to read a book; the goal is to read the story taking placeall around us.—Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story Consilience has […]
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 […]
Delightful and inspiring video about the way that DTN member Geoff Ainscow and his wife created an environmentally sustainable home and life in so many ways with solar power, composting, biking, electric cars and much more. Geoff and Bev have been curious seekers with a desire to be conscious global citizens for a lifetime in […]
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Joggins Fossil Cliffs is famous for fossils that bridge the time when our ancestors were moving out of the seas and onto land. And what a land! Vast forests of the ancestors of ferns and horsetails. Tree sized relatives of mosses. And as you walk the beach you can hold […]
Maria longed to travel beyond her small island of Nantucket. But she wasn’t sure how. Her father taught her to look to the stars for guidance. If you knew how to read them, he said, the stars could tell you where you were, and where you needed to go. They spent hours scanning the night […]
The most creative people on the planet today are working on changing the stories we have told ourselves for the last several centuries. In some cases, the last few millennia. Some of the stories we are turning toward are old ones. Indigenous wisdom may have a new name these days — Traditional Ecological Knowledge, or […]
This article offers an interesting perspective on Big History. I’d be pleased to hear from anyone who has time and interest in reading it. Aeon website aeon.co often has articles that overlap with our interests in DTN.
Controversy rears its ugly head in the early days of James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory…or does it? Scott Gilbert’s been spreading the gospel of developmental symbiosis in many strange places–including Lithuania, Korea, and China. Frank Ryan, MD says “I regard Lynn Margulis as my mentor into symbiogenetics. I remain deeply grateful that she helped me to […]
These are videos of the entire 2021 IBHA conference.
Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
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.
