CONTEMPLATIVE  COSMOLOGY: Moonbathing

An Audio-Only Zoom Event

with Stephan Martin and Marianne Rowe

When was the last time you created the space for star- or moon-gazing — to sit or lie down on the Earth and let your mind wander into the spaciousness of the night sky? 

For thousands of years, humans have engaged in a contemplative relationship with the universe experienced through the naked eye.

. . . I wander’d off by myself, in the mystical moist night air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars. – Walt Whitman

  “We have a New Story of the Universe. Our own presence to the Universe depends on our human identity with the entire cosmic process.”

– Thomas Berry

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For this special event:

We’ll spend time with Earth’s closest companion, the Moon, as it rises above the eastern horizon, growing in fullness towards the Cold Moon of December.

While the Moon is shining brightly for both the East and West coasts, astronomer and author Stephan Martin (located in North Carolina), along with meditation teacher and psychotherapist Marianne Rowe (located in California), invite you to turn your attention to the light and mystery of the Moon as a way of opening the door to expanded perspective and universe of possibility.  By contemplating our cosmic experience together we deepen our relationship with the Moon, stars, the natural world, and each other.

Through an audio-only Zoom call, we simultaneously and collectively contemplate and celebrate the cosmic dynamics of radiance, receptivity, and interconnectedness while viewing the waxing gibbous moon and some of the bright stars and planets of late Autumn and early Winter. During this special December event, you’ll find a place where you can sit comfortably outdoors, preferably away from lights.  Bring a blanket.  And we’ll bathe in the light of the Moon while reflecting on its many gifts to life on Earth, encouraging us to enter into a new relationship of appreciation for our closest cosmic neighbor.

Image below: Moon over Newfoundland, NASA 

“We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves…a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system.”

— Thomas Berry

 “Fires from the beginning of time empower you right now – this instant. What you are thinking and feeling this very moment is possible only through the cosmic fire.”  

— Brian Swimme

About Stephan Martin

Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over twenty-five years. Between 2003-2008 he studied directly with Brian Swimme and others at the California Institute of Integral Studies, out of which came his first book Cosmic Conversations, in which he held dialogues with scientists, spiritual teachers, and cultural creatives on the nature of the universe and our role in it. Since then he has led workshops on the New Cosmology at seminars and retreat centers across the US and Europe and has been active in exploring multidisciplinary approaches to exploring the universe.  He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies graduate program at John F Kennedy University where he teaches a course on “Cosmology and Consciousness.” Steve is also a co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective.

About Marianne Rowe, MS, LMFT

Marianne Rowe is a Founding Teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, an Emergent Dialogue facilitator, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pacific Grove, CA. Her teaching, therapeutic work and leadership focus on healing, transformation and evolution through awareness and relationship — developing Integral consciousness through the physiological, cognitive, emotional, relational and spiritual aspects of being. She is dedicated to catalyzing and cultivating embodiment of a New Story for human beings (inspired by Charles Eisenstein) and playing a conscious role as part of the evolving Universe Story (inspired by Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Duane Elgin). Marianne’s passions include inspiring reverence and reciprocity with Earth and Universe, spiritual activism, and conscious relationship with all beings.

Scientific thinking about the universe is not only socially valuable, it’s essential for our culture so we can come together on common ground on the problems we are currently facing as a species. 

— Stephan Martin interviewing Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams, View from the Center of the Universe

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