What is an eco-choice? A choice embracing the living-world—that is seen and unseen, heard and unheard, known and unknown, loved and unloved. Albert Einstein after World War II urged us to “widen our compassion” to include other persons who are different and also the natural world. As we face a climate crisis of our own […]
Brains are complex and delicate organs—and whale brains especially so. Few whales are in good...
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Upcoming Course: EVOLUTIONARY RITUALS: Dancing Through the Darkness to an Ecozoic Age....
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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 […]
A conversation with Lisa Verni, Certified Deeptime Leader and Psychotherapist on her creation and how she finds meaning, health, connection, and peace through “dancing with the pain”. Interview by Haseena Patel and Dr. Tom Acklin in Convergence room: Humanity as Organism Thrives. Meditation Offering by Katie Morgan of Manifestingbusual.org Music by DD Verni and the […]
A review of the book, Race and Cosmos, referred to in the ongoing course,
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 […]
13.8 Billion years ago the Universe birthed the element of our beginnings – hydrogen. Then came Helium, Lithium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen…and the birthing continued. Conditions were perfect for Mother Earth to come into BE-ing. The macrocosm duplicated itself in the microcosm – our planet birthed rock formations from the first elements. The biosphere of Earth […]
This is a nice meaty article published in Resilience.org August 25th. It applies the concepts we have been discussing like entanglement, non-locality, complementarity, indeterminacy to social/societal situations and gives some examples.
THE POETIC UNIVERSE INTERWEAVING COSMOLOGY, POETRY AND DEEP TIME Cosmology as an ancient wisdom tradition draws from science, theology, art, poetry, and philosophy…Its terminology…generally seeks to make use of language arising out of our experience of living within an unfolding cosmos. [Brian Swimme, Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, p. 107-108]. Poets and artists can help […]
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.
