Please do yourself the favor of listening to my podcast with Brian Swimme. He has the map, from the origin of the universe till now, where humanity is the first species that could change Earth – for the better or for the worse. The Christian story, predominant in America, would be supplanted by the universe story for how to live our lives for the better.
A mathematician by training, Brian is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he’s a brilliant teacher of evolutionary cosmology in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. By my lights, he’s the most valuable voice on the planet. He gives us a way to perceive the human situation so we see what we are doing here and what our destiny is. His understanding is so inspirational that if I got the world to tune into what Brian delivers I would feel like I had fulfilled my mission in life.
The Universe is a Green Dragon is his masterwork. Do you know anyone who has bought 1,000 copies of any book? That would be me, since 1989, when I shut myself into my bedroom for two days to finish reading it. And, Brian’s gifts as an author are matched by a personal style that makes him a candidate for being my favorite human I didn’t give birth to.
What a sweet surprise it was to discover this on Brian’s Wikipedia page: “Suzanne Taylor, founder of Mighty Companions, says Swimme is a charismatic person who seeks to place scientific technology in its context of the infancy of the earth community as it struggles for reconnection to its sacred source. She believes that he sweeps us into the grand picture of human beings as the current culmination of the still-evolving universe.”
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