I recently saw the film “Ocean with David Attenborough” (2025). It made me think we are literally “at war” with ALL life on Earth! (even in the depths of the oceans!) If you haven’t seen this film I highly recommend it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_with_David_Attenborough…[Read more]

I’ll try and send out an email in the next few days to see what we want to do.  We all have great potential, combining our different fields of…[Read more]

Initially I had a wave of cynicism when I first stumbled onto the term autocosmology, like, “really…do we need another invent…[Read more]

Anyway, I’m going to read through all the topics an…[Read more]

correct to “experiencing” and not sure my full post showed up. Anyway so looking forward to diving in with you all!

I am unexpectedly experience a series of cateclystic events (are they ever expected?) and although I am yearning to dive in here, I cannot commit for yet one more week.  Please know that the allurement I am experiencing to share is vast, I’m in a rare semi- crisis mode.  All will be fine – nothing life threatening.
Back soon as I can be!

She offered to “ask my contacts at IONS if they know of availability”.

She also shared:

The book upon which it was based is available from variius sources like this; https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Heart-Healing-companion-TBS-series-Poole/77132916/bd

The Heart of…[Read more]

Frankly, when I was working at NASA in the nineteen-nineties, my attention was distracted by a less noble motivation, something often labeled, ‘publish or perish’.

At the time, I was working at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Ce…[Read more]

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Apparently, the Institute conducts research on topics like the “survival of consciousness after bodily death.” That made me think of your idea/project John!

In 1994, TBS…[Read more]

In the nineteen-nineties, while I was working at NASA Goddard’s space flight Center as the Instrument Specialist for the EGRET instrument on the Compton Gama Ray telescope, I thought of using the extant cable-TV infrastructure for high bandwith…[Read more]

I’m beaming in response to your research! That’s my nerdy humor there. So are you suggesting that scientific research is essentially representing life examples of cosmic phenomena in an autocosmological way? So as scientists, are we really biographers for different aspects of the universe? Or perhaps we’re autocosmologists on a cosmic…[Read more]

The suggestion to look for (scientific) powers within the inner workings of us humans, mirrored by the supposed external wonder of the cosmos is such a great idea.

A few things that come to mind have always inspired me, and then at CIIS i…[Read more]

I grew up in Deadwood, SD, and then enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, intending to major in physics. During my one year there, I was on the varsity wrestling team, and came across Eckankar, which lead me to stop out of college for five years to seriously pursue mysticism.

I…[Read more]

Here is an interesting example of autocosmology that I was involved in. In 1997, I was the lead author on a paper in the Astrophysical Journal (1997ApJ…476..692M) about a quasar in the blazar class named PKS 1622-297. We observed its gamma-ray flux…[Read more]

Careful what you add – I don’t think we have the functionality to delete!

On 3/18/26, Google AI provided this Overview:

Autocosmology is a literary and spiritual genre combining autobiography with cosmology, viewing personal life as a 14-billion-year creative, evolving…[Read more]

Thank you for this great contribution!

I also feel a yearning to extend my lifespan. During my annual medicare-sponsored checkup, two weeks ago I told my general practitioner that I hope to live to be 140 (I’m 71 now). He laughed and responded that this puts a lot of responsibility on his care! He is a great fit for me. He’s from South…[Read more]

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Sarbmeet suggested that rationale and motivation for…[Read more]

Thank you for starting this discussion and including a transcript of Brian’s response to your question. My personal thinking on this is that our understanding of death is closely related to our understanding (or lack thereof) of time. After all, agency is rooted in time. Time is the great mystery, and I think we all find ourselves much…[Read more]

Einstein wrote in 1931 about death: …an individual who should survive his physical death is – beyond my comprehension… Such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. I am sat…[Read more]

BrianThomasSwimme: Welcome. John!

John Mattox: So I’ve been thinking about what happens after we die. Does what we’ve created live on through eternity…[Read more]

There are many additional behaviors in nature without such analogy, e.g., sublimation, the transformation of a solid material directly into its vapor form.

Are there others that do have a compelling human…[Read more]

There are many other processes in nature without such analogy, e.g. sublimation (a solid becoming a vapor), annihilation (e.g. an electron and a positron coming together to annihilate and produce energy).

And…[Read more]

Founding participants included: John Mattox, Stephan Martin, David Ellwood, Sarbmeet Kanwal, and Francie White. Although it is not a requirement to participate…[Read more]

1. Centration
Every being arises as a centered reality with its own integrity, coherence, and inward orientation. From particles to planets to persons, each entity g…[Read more]

Centration means the universe does not evolve as a vague mass, but through countless centers of agency…[Read more]

Founding members include John Mattox,  Stephan Martin, David Ellwood,  Sarbmeet Kanwal, and Francie White. Although it is not a requirement to participate in join this group, we all have PhDs.

We began our discussion with a Zoom meeting on 3/2/26, which was hosted by…[Read more]