I have followed the work of Brian Swimme for almost 2 decades and I am amazed at how he continues to strive for ways to communicate the need for a story that is appropriate for every human on the planet regardless of your cultural background and beliefs. In this video, he adds another dimension to the conversation using transformations and relationships as the key talking points. He is truly following the expressions of Thomas Berry with a specific focus on this quote from Berry's book The Dream of the Earth - "Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and of value." I love it when Brain laughs with joy and excitement over the attention that his intentions are receiving from an ever wider audience!!
This is just beginning. The new turning point of philosophy and the whole perspective of human knowledge is coming nearer to us, and certainly in the future this particular trend will accelerate. There will be more and more leaders like Brian Swimme, more and more like-minded communities, and their voice will become louder and louder. Because it is so in line with modern discoveries, historical enlightenment, and (the solution of) numerous crisis that are coming nearer to us.
love all things Brian Swimme and evolutionary cosmology. Such a stable ground and which to explore and integrate meaning and purpose into one's life. Beautiful and brilliant!
Dear Jennifer, I just watched the video you sent out - Brian Swimme “What’s Next - Planetary Mind and Future” (I missed the webinar). My mind is blown. It was waves of recognition - Lynne Margulis, Hildegard von Bingen, Awe as a conduit to wisdom … Hearing Phil Snow Gang mention Montessori’s concept of the Psychosphere … dancing with Teilhard de Chardin … How other consciousnesses might dance - deep dendrite delights on and on … thinking of the octopus dancing with Jacques Cousteau. As I watched I realized … “The Universe is a Green Dragon”!!! I read it 2002 and used it as a basis for my dissertation on Holistic Education with Jack Miller. It became a weave of earth-story, quantum physics, biography, and classroom journals and I had so much fun … like the starlings - the ideas took wing and led the way - “The Universe is a Horse: Autopoietic Education for Technoprosaic Times". You told Brian he changed your life and I suddenly realized that he changed mine too. I just went to the barn and stopped to look at the stars gazing back in that wonderful loop of creation and re-cognition that Brian mentioned. I imagined my horse as a single celled organism growing, expanding, multiplying becoming the dawn horse and suddenly thundering herds of wild horses and a lump formed in my throat. Thank you for those two exercises. When you mentioned them Brian, I didn’t realize how visceral they could be. Maybe visceral is the wrong word - encompassing? elemental? … knowospheric? Thank you and thank you, I will go to work tomorrow changed, Wendy
Hey thanks so much for posting this comment Wendy!!! I love the part about seeing your horse all the way back through evolution. Really powerful. . . .
What a beautiful, thought-provoking webinar with Brian Swimme! I look forward to one on the practice of consciousness. Thanks to all the work you and your network is doing.
Amazing conversation, thank you so much, these powerful ideas have to be heard! they will greatly contribute to the paradigm shift :), a beautiful legacy for all of us and for the generations to come.
Brian Swimme, you probably aren't aware that even 300 thousand years ago there were people who had amazing insights to the reality of everything - no different than people today who have had a near death experience or those who have had a spiritually transformative experience. A mystic is not a new thing.
Hi Jennifer - Great session!! I didn't get to experience when it happened, grandchild duties prevailed, but I watched it today. Brian's statement about the importance of questions is deeply meaningful. Did you retain all the questions that were posed in the Q&A - it would be amazing to share them for people to ponder over!!!
Yes, we sent out all the questions asked during the webinar to everyone who registered. I couldn't agree more that reading the questions gives a clue about where the universe is going . . . the impulse rising in the questions and yearnings people hold.
You had me at “Montessori lineage” and Teilhard. Wonderful presentation. Thank you Dr. Swimme & all.
You're so welcome Rhonda. Thanks for watching! Jennifer
I have followed the work of Brian Swimme for almost 2 decades and I am amazed at how he continues to strive for ways to communicate the need for a story that is appropriate for every human on the planet regardless of your cultural background and beliefs. In this video, he adds another dimension to the conversation using transformations and relationships as the key talking points. He is truly following the expressions of Thomas Berry with a specific focus on this quote from Berry's book The Dream of the Earth - "Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and of value." I love it when Brain laughs with joy and excitement over the attention that his intentions are receiving from an ever wider audience!!
This is just beginning. The new turning point of philosophy and the whole perspective of human knowledge is coming nearer to us, and certainly in the future this particular trend will accelerate. There will be more and more leaders like Brian Swimme, more and more like-minded communities, and their voice will become louder and louder. Because it is so in line with modern discoveries, historical enlightenment, and (the solution of) numerous crisis that are coming nearer to us.
love all things Brian Swimme and evolutionary cosmology. Such a stable ground and which to explore and integrate meaning and purpose into one's life. Beautiful and brilliant!
Dear Jennifer,
I just watched the video you sent out - Brian Swimme “What’s Next - Planetary Mind and Future” (I missed the webinar).
My mind is blown. It was waves of recognition - Lynne Margulis, Hildegard von Bingen, Awe as a conduit to wisdom … Hearing Phil Snow Gang mention Montessori’s concept of the Psychosphere … dancing with Teilhard de Chardin … How other consciousnesses might dance - deep dendrite delights on and on … thinking of the octopus dancing with Jacques Cousteau. As I watched I realized … “The Universe is a Green Dragon”!!! I read it 2002 and used it as a basis for my dissertation on Holistic Education with Jack Miller. It became a weave of earth-story, quantum physics, biography, and classroom journals and I had so much fun … like the starlings - the ideas took wing and led the way - “The Universe is a Horse: Autopoietic Education for Technoprosaic Times". You told Brian he changed your life and I suddenly realized that he changed mine too. I just went to the barn and stopped to look at the stars gazing back in that wonderful loop of creation and re-cognition that Brian mentioned. I imagined my horse as a single celled organism growing, expanding, multiplying becoming the dawn horse and suddenly thundering herds of wild horses and a lump formed in my throat. Thank you for those two exercises. When you mentioned them Brian, I didn’t realize how visceral they could be. Maybe visceral is the wrong word - encompassing? elemental? … knowospheric?
Thank you and thank you,
I will go to work tomorrow changed,
Wendy
Hey thanks so much for posting this comment Wendy!!! I love the part about seeing your horse all the way back through evolution. Really powerful. . . .
This was such an amazing program. Thank you for all you are doing! What a gift you have given us!
Consciousness has ALWAYS been aware of itself. That's what caused the universe to BE.
What a beautiful, thought-provoking webinar with Brian Swimme! I look forward to one on the practice of consciousness. Thanks to all the work you and your network is doing.
Thanks so much Hemani!! Let us know what kind of programs you'd like to see on the Network!
Amazing conversation, thank you so much, these powerful ideas have to be heard! they will greatly contribute to the paradigm shift :), a beautiful legacy for all of us and for the generations to come.
Hey thanks Fred!!!
Wonderful!
Thanks Patty!
Brian Swimme, you probably aren't aware that even 300 thousand years ago there were people who had amazing insights to the reality of everything - no different than people today who have had a near death experience or those who have had a spiritually transformative experience. A mystic is not a new thing.
Hi Jennifer - Great session!! I didn't get to experience when it happened, grandchild duties prevailed, but I watched it today. Brian's statement about the importance of questions is deeply meaningful. Did you retain all the questions that were posed in the Q&A - it would be amazing to share them for people to ponder over!!!
Hi Richard, yes I did keep all the questions and attached them to the email with the link to the recording. Let me know if you didn't receive that.
Yes, we sent out all the questions asked during the webinar to everyone who registered. I couldn't agree more that reading the questions gives a clue about where the universe is going . . . the impulse rising in the questions and yearnings people hold.