The essay “The Meadow Beyond the Stream” is the third chapter of Thomas Berry’s book The Great Work – Our Way into the Future, the Czech edition of which under the title Velké dílo – naše cesta do budukončiť is currently being prepared by Malvern Publishing House. Translation by Jiří Zemánek and David Sanetrník. “We need to understand the universe primarily as a celebration. … man can be identified as that being,…
Tag: Cosmology
Brian Thomas Swimme: How to Live in Space
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…
Stephan Martin: Cataclysm – When Things Fall Apart
We bring you an excerpt from the book Living the Cosmic Life / Reflections on the Cosmos, Everyday Life, and Personal Experience by American astronomer Stephen Martin, published by the PILGRIM – Wandering University of Nature association in 2019 as its first publication in the On the Road series (translated by Jiří Zemánek). These are the chapters “Cataclysm: When Things Fall Apart” (pp. 40-45) and “Awakening to an Evolving Universe”…
Stephan Martin: The Universe is Change
We bring you an excerpt from the book Living the Cosmic Life / Reflections on the Cosmos, Everyday Life, and Personal Experience by American astronomer Stephan Martin, published by the PILGRIM – Wandering University of Nature association in 2019 as its first publication in the On the Road series (translated by Jiří Zemánek). These are the chapters “The Universe is Changing” and “We Are Cosmic Beings” (pp. 15-29). Stephan Martin is an astronomer, lecturer,…
Richard Tarnas: Epistemology of the Heart
“Planetary democracy does not yet exist, but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it: it is the real Earth we inhabit, connected to the sky above us. Only in this arrangement can the reciprocity and community of the human race be newly created, with respect and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together. The authority of a world of democratic order cannot simply be built…
Living a New Story: How to Translate the New Story of the Universe into a New Way of Life
The new story is a cosmological story of creation, told through our telescopes and microscopes, and articulated by our increasingly refined understanding of how evolution has led us along this 14-billion-year journey. It is therefore also the story of our place in the universe, and it brings with it nothing less than a radical transformation of human self-understanding. As the key narrator of this…
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…
Space walk
This ritual was created in the mid-1980s by Dominican Sister Miriam Theresa MacGillis of Genesis Farm in Blairstown, New Jersey, inspired by the “New Story” as told by eco-theologian and cosmologist Thomas Berry (1914-2009). The ritual is designed to offer participants an experience of the grandeur of cosmic time and space and cosmic creativity. The “Cosmic Walk” introduces us to a sequence of…
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…
Thomas Berry: Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and Man's Role in the Cosmic Process
Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was an American cultural historian, religious scholar, cosmologist, leading thinker in the de Chardinian tradition, and one of the most provocative ecological thinkers of the 20th century. He analyzed in depth the nature of the alienation of Western culture and spirituality from the Earth. In order for us to succeed as individuals and as a species, Berry argued, we must understand the story of the universe. Together with cosmologist Brian Swimme, Berry developed a “new story” evolutionary cosmology,…