Talk
The Cosmic Connection — Exploring the Sustainability Challenge, S16
Brian Thomas Swimme with Dr. Michael Ben-Eli on cosmology and the noospheric imagination.
About the teacher
Brian Thomas Swimme
Swimme holds a PhD in mathematics (University of Oregon) and teaches evolutionary cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His decade-long collaboration with Catholic priest and cultural historian Thomas Berry, culminating in The Universe Story (1992), builds on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the cosmos as simultaneously physical and spiritual, placing his work within the Christian-rooted "creation spirituality" lineage, even as he addresses broadly scientific and secular audiences.
He continues to teach through the Center for the Story of the Universe and the Deeptime Network, producing courses and video series on cosmology and ecological consciousness; upcoming dates should be checked directly at storyoftheuniverse.org before planning to attend.
“You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.”Brian Thomas Swimme
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Interview
Exploring the Relational Heart of the Cosmos with Brian Swimme
Brian Thomas Swimme at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
