Evolutionary Life e-newsletter Bi-monthly free newsletter edited and produced by Tom Atlee at the Co-Intelligence Institute, with the collaboration and support of Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow at The Great Story.
Cosmic Evolution website of Eric Chaisson; fabulous pictorial, lots of great scientific info.
Thank God for Evolution! companion website for Michael Dowd's 2007 book by that title.
"Evolutionary Spirituality" Wiki site
Those of us who are excited about bringing "collective intelligence" to the Great Story movement and the wider realm of evolutionary spirituality are excited to now have an interactive wiki site up and running for garnering the creative wisdom. Created February 2006
A terrific website for photos, interviews, audio, and video of THOMAS BERRY is http://www.earth-community.org.
For a fabulous page of internet links that exceeds our own, see the "Epic of Evolution: Cosmic Resources for Educators" file within the website established by John Seed and Ruth Rosenhek.
Directly related to this website is www.epicofevolution.com, an excellent source of quotations, links, and other resources pertaining to the 13.7 billion year Story of the Universe told in a meaningful, sacred way.
See also the websites suggested for the Ecology and Religion section of the Religious Studies in Secondary Schools website and the home page of Harvard's Forum on Ecology and Religion.
Wikipedia entry on "The Great Story"
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A community effort that took place for several months this past summer culminated in acceptance of a short entry, "The Great Story," in the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia, meaning that this entry continues to evolve as individuals visiting the site are inspired to make adjustments and add relevant hotlinks. Do visit it! (posted September 2005) |
Center for Ecozoic Studies — http://www.ecozoicstudies.org
Brian Swimme (where you can purchase videos
and audios by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry) — http://www.brianswimme.org
Thomas Berry official website — http://www.thomasberry.org
"Beyond Belief" conference streaming video - http://beyondbelief2006.org/Watch
Several of the conference speakers offered powerful support for The Great Story. We highly recommend: Neil deGrasse Tyson (in Session 2), Carolyn Porco (in Session 3), Patricia Churchland (in Session 5), and Loyal Rue (in Session 6).
Evolutionary Religious Studies - http://evolution.binghamton.edu/religion/directory.html
This site, begun by biologist and evolutionary theorist David Sloan Wilson, is hosted at State University of New York, Binghamton. It is a network for scholars around the world who are examining religions and the religious urge from an evolutionary perspective.
Genesis Farm - http://www.genesisfarm.org
Genesis Farm, in rural New Jersey, is the home institution of one of the key leaders in the Great Story movement: Sister Miriam MacGillis. Genesis Farm offers training in the Great Story, in bioregionalism, and (with its on-site gardens) in organic farming.
Global Mindshift - http://www.global-mindshift.org/amplify/spread/10000.asp. Check out this superb short video that puts the human life in perspective of the whole Universe Story.
The Home Galaxy - http://www.TheHomeGalaxy.com. Find here some really great space pictures, especially images of Earth from space and evolutionary images of galaxies and nebulae and the cosmos.
Metanexus Institute - http://www.metanexus.net
The Metanexus Institute advances research, education and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion. Metanexus is part of a growing network of individuals and groups exploring the dynamic interface between cosmos, nature and culture in communities and campuses throughout the world. Metanexus sponsors lectures, workshops, research, courses, grants, and publications. Projects include the Local Societies Initiative, the Templeton Research Lectures, the Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Project, and other projects. Metanexus hosts an online magazine and discussion forum with over 180,000 monthly page views and 7000 regular subscribers in 57 different countries.
Universe Story Books for Kids — http://www.universestories.com
Visit the website by Jennifer Morgan about her book trilogy on the Great Story. Book 1, "Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story," was published by Dawn Publications in 2001 and won the National Teachers Award for children's books in 2002. Book 2, "From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story," was published in March 2003. See all the well-earned praise for this book series, from educators, scientists, and children!
Universe Story Paintings / Slideshow by Dana Lynne Andersen — http://www.holocosmos.com/Dana_Lynne_Andersen/songofcreation.html
AUDIO & VIDEO CLIPS OF THOMAS BERRY — http://www.caroline-webb.com/Multimedia.htm
Videographer Caroline Webb posts short audio and video clips of Thomas Berry for online viewing, along with a gorgeous slide show that is captioned with quotations by Thomas Berry.
Three Eyes of the Universe — http://www.ThreeEyesOfUniverse.org
Larry and Jean Edwards, affiliated with Genesis Farm, created this website to support their online class: "The Great Work: An Online Program in the New Cosmology." There are also excellent links to related resources and scripts of several versions of Cosmic Walks.
What Is Enlightenment? Magazine http://www.wie.org
A fabulous quarterly magazine which, like its creator, Andrew Cohen, explores the realm of "evolutionary enlightenment." Each issues features a dialogue between Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber.
7-minute YouTube of Universe Story performance — www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmRcch3mNYs
Pauline Le Bel performs the Universe Story (at Whidbey Institute). This short, playful video extract is available for viewing on YouTube. Pauline's website: www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html.
Evolutionary Spirituality with Andrew Cohen http://www.andrewcohen.org/notes/index.php?/weblog/blog/conscious_evolution/
A blog by Andrew Cohen that discusses how "evolutionary enlightenment" — a form of highly energetic collective intelligence, transcending ego — is emerging among his students.
Pan Magazine — http://www.pantheism.net
The quarterly magazine of World Pantheism, the largest membership
organization in the world for pantheists of a naturalistic orientation. Subscriptions
available to supporting members starting at $12 per year. World Pantheism reveres the Universe, cares for Nature, fosters human rights, and celebrates Life, without recourse to any supernatural beings large or small. It believes that our senses, reason and the evolving enterprise of
science are our best ways of discovering the facts.
It aims to explore, develop and promote a rational and wholesome spiritual
alternative to traditional Western religions. It facilitates local meetings of
pantheists and other reverent naturalists, whatever term they prefer for
themselves, including groups at Unitarian Universalist congregations.
The View from the Center of the Cosmos — http://www.viewfromthecenter.com
This is the website of Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams, co-authors of a fabulous book by this title (published in 2006) Finally, the Universe Story goes mainstream: This book was picked by NPR's "All Things Considered" as one of ten summer reading selections for 2006. Highly recommended, as well, for folks already steeped in the works of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. Primack's world-class physics legacy, combined with Abrams's insistence that metaphor and symbol are central to human understanding, have yielded a book that is destined to propel this worldview shift into popular culture.
Science & Spirit page of Prof. Neil Greenberg's website —
https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/b4f38e7a3a7c24bc8525641b0066c23a/6e0
92087ee55082185256421005b662d?OpenDocument
Professor Greenberg has posted a page with fabulous links to realms in which the discoveries of mainstream science are being crafted into meaningful worldviews on a par with the great religions.
Pagaian Cosmology — http://pagaian.org
Australian Glenys Livingstone has produced a marvelous book (now available for free reading on-line) that takes our understanding of cosmic and earth evolution over 14 billion years and expresses it via ideas and ceremony that honor the sacred feminine, drawing from pagan traditions.
Spiral Dynamics —
http://www.wie.org/spiraldynamics/links-and-resources.asp
What Is Enlightenment magazine also features articles on Spiral Dynamics, a superb way of understanding the human condition and its potential. This link lists a variety of internet resources on this topic.
Center for Conscious Evolution — www.consciousevolution.net
Ideas and works by Barbara Marx Hubbard on the theme of conscious evolution inspired this website, which now features on-line courses and opportunities to seek and give support for individual and societal evolution. The "Gateway to Conscious Evolution" process is leading the way for individuals to foster their own growth, and to discover and embark on their own Great Work, in community with like-minded people around the world.
"Meaning of Life" (Robert Wright) — http://www.meaningoflife.tv
Award-winning author Robert Wright (books include Nonzero and The Moral Animal) has conducted a score of interviews with major players in evolutionary thought: Brian Swimme, Ursula Goodenough, John Haught, Daniel Dennett, John Maynard Smith, among them. Here you can access the audios (and streaming videos) of those interviews, by name or by topic (e.g., "directionality in evolution"). Highly recommended!
Paul Ray, Cultural Creatives — http://www.culturalcreatives.org
Elisabet Sahtouris — http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb
A website offering a free full book and many articles by evolution biologist and futurist Elisabet Sahtouris on many topics from the deep past to the human future, including the biology of globalization, to role of the Internet, indigenous cultures, adventure stories, and more.
Northwest Earth Institute — http://www.nwei.org
NWEI has created a series of 5 discussion courses and makes them available to anyone in the United States who would like to organize a discussion group: "Exploring Deep Ecology", "Voluntary Simplicity", "Discovering a Sense of Place", "Choices for Sustainable Living", and "Globalization and its Critics". As of November 2004, the courses have been offered in over 550 communities in all 50 states; cumulative enrollment has exceeded 60,000 in groups of about ten each. For information on how to start a group, or to get involved with an earth institute initiative in your area, contact NWEI at contact@nwei.org
Also, http://www.sahtouris.com
John Seed and Ruth Rosenhek — http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au
Click the "Deep Ecology" component of this site and find essays, rituals, and other items related to the Epic of Evolution.
Greenspirit — http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/resources
Michael Colebrook in the U.K. assembled this site. Click "The New Universe Story" component of this site for an excellent background article; also click "Chronology" for a superb technical timeline of Earth history (geological and the life sequences).
Forum on Religion and Ecology - http://www.religionandecology.org
Religion and Nature website - http://www.ReligionandNature.com
This site is devoted to understanding the relationships between Earth's living systems and the
religious and spiritual life of Homo sapiens. It is also the site
introducing the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, a three volume, 1000 entry global work exploring the connections between religions and
environments across traditions, time, place, and space. Both website and
encyclopedia have been developed by Bron Taylor, a professor at the
University of Florida, who is also developing a graduate program devoted to
"Religion and Nature" (see below). His own writings on what he calls "green religion"
or "spiritualities of connection," as well as on grassroots and radical
environmental movements, are featured at
www.ReligionandNature.com/bron
PhD in Religion & Nature - http://web.religion.ufl.edu/gradprog/field-nature.html
Beginning in 2003, the University of Florida offered the first Ph.D. program in Religion with a
concentrated course of study in "Religion and Nature." It is devoted to
exploring in depth the complex, reciprocal relationships among human
cultures, religions, and the earth's living systems.
Electronic Library of Resources in Science, Religion, Philosophy - http://www.counterbalance.org
Evolution Resources for Teachers, based on 2001 7-part "Evolution" Broadcast (WGBH) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators
Duane Elgin — http://www.awakeningearth.org
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
— http://www.nrpe.org
Magic Planet —
http://www.magicplanet.org
Institute of Noetic Sciences — http://www.ions.org
California Institute of Integral Studies —
http://www.ciis.edu
Positive News: http://www.positivenews.org.uk
Gene and Joyce Marshall; Realistic Living —
http://www.realisticliving.org
Realistic Living focuses on Christian resurgence, metaphorical translation
of the Bible, theological and ethical education, interreligious dialogue,
science and religion, social justice, ecology, bioregionalism, and
strategies for social change. Many of their books, essays, poems, and reviews
are available as free downloads.
Two Plays of Historical Fiction on Evolutionary Themes — http://www.billbruehl.homestead.com
Bill Bruehl, a professional playwright and board member of the Epic of Evolution Society, has written two plays of historical fiction that center on evolutionary themes: (1) "Giordano Bruno and the Field of Flowers" (Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for suggesting that stars are suns far away and that probably harbor other planets with life); (2) "Darwin's Captain" (Captain Fitzroy, a conventionally pietous man, psychologically broke down when the young man he had hired to accompany him on his voyage through the Southern Hemisphere decades later became the leading architect of a naturalistic understanding of creation.)
Yoga grounded in the Great Story — http://www.yogagaia.com
If yoga is part of your life, and so is the Universe Story, then you are in for a treat when you visit this elegant and alluring website, assembled by yoga practitioner and Great Story colleague, Hasita Nadai.
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You / Secret Worlds: The Universe Within — http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
An excellent online version of Powers of Ten, from the largest to the smallest structures of the Universe. Stunning visuals!
