The Universe Is A Story with Brian Swimme, Ph.D.

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Science, humanity and the natural world have all suffered from a myopic fragmentation of scientific knowledge, according to cosmologist Brian Swimme. Yet some voices in physics today are beginning to echo the wonder and mystery of ancient mystical intuitions, and to present a more unified view of the nature and history of the world. "The universe is a story. It's not a place, it's an event," says Swimme. A new "story of the universe" may come to serve the modern world as primitive myths served in their time, embracing modern scientific knowledge as well as ancient spiritual concepts. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Brian Swimme, Ph.D. is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Swimme was featured in the television series Soul of the Universe (The BBC, 1991) and The Sacred Balance produced by David Suzuki (CBC and PBS, 2003). He is the producer of a twelve-part DVD series, Canticle to the Cosmos, which has been distributed worldwide.

Other DVD programs featuring Swimme's ideas include:

• Earth's Imagination
• The Powers of the Universe

• The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story (Bear and Company 1984)
• The Universe Story : From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (coauthor Thomas Berry) (HarperSanFrancisco 1992)
• The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story (Orbis 1996)
• Journey of the Universe (co-author with Mary Evelyn Tucker) (Yale University Press 2014)

To learn more about the work of Brian Swimme go to https://storyoftheuniverse.org/.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How have we lost the whole by looking only at the parts
• How the split between science and religion came about
• What is the importance of economics within the Earth's own on-going story
• How Einstein discovered that imagination was more than facts
• How we are entering the Ecozoic era

Host: Michael Toms      Interview Date: 10/25/1990      Program Number: 2218

Music Included

From Album: Music to Disappear In
Artist: Raphael
1988 Hearts of Space #HS11005-2

From Album: Swans in July
Artist: Bluemair
ITI Records #ITI 703CD
Track - Lagoon

From Album: Light of the Spirit
Artist: Kitaro
Geffen Records #9 24163-2