Brian Thomas Swimme (born 1950) is a mathematical cosmologist, director of the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, and currently a leading figure in the evolutionary epic cosmology, which views the evolution of the universe as one continuous story and explores how we humans fit into this grand story, what role we play in it. This new cosmology was born out of…
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Brian Thomas Swimme: The Forces of the Universe
“The cosmological forces of the universe pass through us second by second. To be aware of these forces is to touch an ocean of wonder.” Brian Thomas Swimme Brian Thomas Swimme’s Powers of the Universe was released by the Center for the Story of the Universe in September 2004 as an eleven-part DVD series. In it, Swimme first identifies a total of ten forces and patterns based on empirical observations…
Brian Swimme: The Sun as the Center
Brian Swimme (born 1952) is a mathematical cosmologist, professor in the Department of Cosmology, Philosophy, and Consciousness at the California Institute for Integral Studies, and director of the Center for the Story of the Universe. He studied mathematical cosmology at the University of Oregon and worked at the Riverdale Center of Religious Research in New York, where his teacher and mentor was theologian and cosmologist Thomas Berry, who introduced him to Teilhardian…