Article in the New Yorker about images of three small galaxies in the act of merging only 900 million years after the Big Bang. The early primitive stars in these galaxies contain only hydrogen, helium and a small amount of lithium made in the Big Bang. Other elements were made inside of stars.
A website that show times scales, across Cosmos, Earth, Life, Prehistory, and Humanity. ChronoZoom is an open source community project owned by the Outercurve Foundation and dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. ChronoZoom bridges the gap between the humanities and sciences using a notion of “Big History” to easily understand all this information. This […]
Talk given at All Saints Parish, October 18, 2013, at CMM/New Story Event Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw near to the whole.” The talk describes five breakthroughs in science that indicate that this is indeed happening. Avoiding […]
Provides a unifying scenario of cosmic evolution from radiation to culture showing an increase in energy density flow. The case is made that increasing energy density flows leads to increasing complexity. A further case is made that a necessary condition for the emergence of complexity is the expansion of the universe. Explains a hierarchy of […]
In this website there is a series of watercolor paintings and collages that were created in celebration of the new story of the evolutionary universe. Each painting is accompanied by reflections on some aspect of the new story related to the painting. The website also includes photographs of several “accordion books” that are celebrations of […]
Connie Barlow, creator of The Great Story website, asked a number of people to write about how the the great story influences the individual’s experience and understanding of their particular religious tradition. This essay describes how religious traditions, in this case Quakerism, can find a home within the news story, and how individuals may be […]
Members of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) seek in their silent worship communion with and guidance from the indwelling Light. And they seek to be faithful to the leadings/guidance that may emerge in consciousness in the silence and from shared vocal messages in the worshiping community. This form of spiritual life has not found […]
The new story of the evolutionary universe shows clearly that we emerged within and belong to the magnificent unfolding story yet a felt participation in the story and its numinous depths is often elusive. This book describe a pathway to finding a personal depth of belonging to the story. It uses the breakthroughs in our […]
This remarkable evolution series, narrated by the Universe itself, concludes with this third book, the amazing story of mammals and humans. It picks up after From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story with the extinction of dinosaurs, and tells how tiny mammals survived and morphed into lots of new Earthlings … horses, […]
“Once upon a time” meets science in a this children’s picture book that tells the thrilling story of how life began on Earth. The second in a trilogy of Universe stories – the first being “Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story”– this book picks up the story with the first appearance […]
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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.
