Richard Grossinger is an extraordinarily perceptive person about the very basic questions of who we are and what we are doing here. His knowledge ranges from what’s academic that he got from what’s been written, to what he’s learned from working with many body-oriented therapeutic modalities, to who knows how he got insight into deeper and broader issues about consciousness that books and science don’t address. He and I have known each other for a very long time and have had many profound conversations about the nature of reality, about which Richard has written some 40 books. The most recent one is a rewrite of The Night Sky, a major book he wrote decades ago that now, after years of living have fleshed out his understanding, he considers to have been notes for the current version. Brian Swimme, my last podcast guest whose story of the universe is the one I cotton to, said this about the new version of The Night Sky:
“Richard Grossinger’s new book, The Night Sky, should be heralded as the publishing event of the decade. This is a book that has the power to change your relationship to the universe. I would even say it has the potentiality to participate in the evocation of a new civilization.”
It’s now been a few years that Richard has been working on his next book, Bottoming Out the Universe: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. In this podcast, you’ll get the jump on its pending publication when I probe Richard for the current thinking of one of the most important voices on the planet. It’s good material to prompt listeners to give their opinions on our relationship to the universe. I’ll engage with your comments and so will Richard!
Thanks for the great chat with Richard. I have been a fan of his for a few years now and am currently halfway through his new book, Bottoming Out the Universe. It is a stunningly beautiful read!
I feel a kinship with Richard as my family has also been touched by suicide, which perhaps has become epidemic in our culture. In the last few years I have become more aware of a drive to redeem my mother’s two unsuccessful suicide attempts which ultimately led her to live in a state of deep fear for the remainder of her life. Since her death in October of 2018, I feel her presence like never before. She is helping, somewhere beyond the veil, to understand both my life and hers in ways that are renewing a sense of understanding and purpose in my life.
In Richard’s book, I sense that the answer to our current anxiety about the fate of planet Earth is to get at the fears by acknowledging and connecting to the other dimensions. If we could realize ourselves as eternal souls, it changes the fear and perhaps allows us to experience love in a more far-reaching way. Much more can be said. I look forward to listening to future conversations with Richard. I truly wish more people could be exposed to his writings.
Sincerely,
Debra
I’m touched by how profound your thoughts are and that you’ve shared them here. Life being such a blip in eternity it’s tragic your mother was so troubled. What difficult things much have happened in her life, and what a beautiful heart you have to have created value for you, and in some large reality for her, out of her pain. I like what you said about relief from anxiety as a function of seeing ourselves in a bigger picture — looking beyond the veil to where we’re in a more evolved understanding of who we are and what we’re doing here. I’d love to hear what you’d say about the podcast I did with Brian Swimme, my big-picture inspiration and also a friend to Richard: https://suespeakspodcast.com/9-brian-swimme/
Thanks, Debra, I appreciate how you took my words. For me, they were the antidote. That is, their energy helped keep my world alive. That they could be a partial antidote for you too is fulfilling and gives me some additional energy.