Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Ten Cosmological Powers Brian Swimme Video Series

Brian Swimme, one of the co-founders of Creation Spirituality and author of the Canticle to the Cosmos video series has co-authored a new series emphasizing Comprehensive Compassion.

Ten Cosmological Powers is Brian Swimme’s new video series. It will be shown for four successive Wednesday evenings, October 19 through November 9, 2005, from 6 to 8 pm, on the big screen television in the Library room at 1400 Williams Street. The discussion facilitator will be Jane Kopp. As this is a nine hour video, it may be continued after the holidays, if there is sufficient interest. There is a suggested donation of $10, but this is only a suggestion. Many of the regulars are students or unemployed, but still welcome.

Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist, and Pamela Eakins, sociologist, combine their knowledge to elucidate the “Ten Cosmological Powers of Love.” These powers are: Centration, Allurement, Emergence, Homeostasis, Cataclysm, Synergy, Transmutation, Transorganization, Interrelatedness, and Radiance.

Brian Swimme received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Oregon in gravitational dynamics. His research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of the universe, the relationship between scientific cosmology and more traditional religious visions, the cultural implications of the new evolutionary epoch, and the role of humanity in the unfolding story of Earth and Cosmos. In 1998 he founded the International Epic of Evolution Society, a forum for artists, scientists, ecofeminists, ecologists, religious thinkers, and educators interested in the new story. He is on the graduate faculty of California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996) Manifesto for a Global Civilization (with Matthew Fox) (Bear and Company, 1983),The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984), and The Universe Story (Harper, 1992), which is a culmination of a ten-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry. Brian has presented his ideas on the new cosmology at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Museum of Natural History, and the United Nations conference on Peace. He is also the creator of the video series Canticle to the Cosmos and The Powers of the Universe.

Pamela Eakins, Ph. D., is a sociologist, mediator, and spiritual teacher. She has taught at the University of Colorado, Stanford University, and California Institute of Integral Studies. She teaches community peace studies, and is a mediator with Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. Pamela is the author of The American Way of Birth; Priestess; and The Tarot of the Spirit.

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Brian Swimme by Susan Bridle in What Is ENLIGHTENMENT? Magazine.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Swimme and having the vistas of my imagination stretched to infinity at Harvard University last October, where he was participating in a conference on ecology and religion. As we sat down to begin the interview, he told me he had just that minute returned from a conference event at Thoreau’s Walden Pond. As Swimme brought the grandeur and majesty of the cosmos to life, speaking about the birth of galaxies with the intimacy and amazement and eloquence of the Transcendentalist poets when waxing ecstatic about leaves of grass or a Concord pond, I knew I was meeting another nature mystic, but a nature mystic of the twenty-first century, whose sphere of nature includes the farthest star.

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1. TO: Jim Wallace
   RE: Sounds Interesting

   If you would, I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts on the presentation. I’m curious as to what these various forms of power—Centration, Allurement, Emergence, Homeostasis, Cataclysm, Synergy, Transmutation, Transorganization, Interrelatedness, and Radiance—are.

   Thanks,

   Chuck(le)

    on  10/19  at  11:12 PM

2. It’s almost a year...do you still remember some of what Swimme said?

    on  09/11  at  08:45 PM

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