Their book was released within the last couple of weeks while the DVD is slated for release towards the end of July 2011. Unfortunately it does not appear that the film is slated for any sort of regular release, and one can hope that it will make the art house and film festival rounds. It certainly deserves a wider audience, and will stimulate a long overdue conversation about our role within the universe.

Journey of the Universe, the book, the DVD, the website, all dedicated to advancing the awareness of the story that we all share at the heart of our being. Pass it along. Engage in the conversation. Evolve Consciously. All of the passions and joys underlying this project, shared in a gorgeous manner by two of the leading proponents of telling our story at the forefront of planetary evolution.

Watch the trailer:

Visit their website: Journey of the Universe

Facebook Community: Journey of the Universe on Facebook

All the best,
Eric

This train of thought also makes me want to invoke one of my favorite Thomas Berry statements that we will only achieve peace with each other once we have established (an understanding that brings) peace with the earth. All of these thoughts seem to point in the general direction of not continuing to have complete faith that our technologies will solve all of our problems and get us out of the mess that we are in, but that we have to take a complete step back from our current course and learn how to imagine new kinds of beneficial relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world that we live in. After all isn’t that what spirituality should be all about?

There are a growing number of visionaries who are exploring this train of thought in increasingly integral and beautiful ways, and who have fully taken to heart the implications of developing a world-view that is thoroughly aligned with an evolutionary perspective and all that it implies. It is an exciting and vital conversation developing at the forefront of awakening communities, and fortunately for us, there is a growing collection of recently recorded dialogues exploring just what this means and how we might implement these insights in our daily lives. And best of all, access to these audio archives is free, which I hope is in the best spirit of encouraging the “we are all in this together” realization. After all, it is precisely when we are in service to each other that we begin to embody this emerging community consciousness a la Thomas Berry and his quest to establish mutually enhancing relationships.

There are three efforts along these lines that I would like to put forward as beneficial and inspiring contributions to this ongoing awakening, and I have been interacting with them and can vouch for their authenticity (and the fact that they are indeed free without any strings and the utmost of respect for your privacy). I should also make note for the record that I do not have any affiliation with any of these organizations and am putting these out there because I have experienced them as genuinely inspiring.

The first one is “Awakening the Impulse to Evolve ~ The Birth of Evolutionary Spirituality“.

The second: “The Sacred Awakening Series” featuring 40 of the worlds prominent spiritual teachers.

And the third, “Women on the Edge of Evolution” with 21 of the world’s leading spiritual luminaries, thinkers, artists, and agents for positive change.

I sincerely hope that you find inspiration and insight within some or all of these offerings, and that choosing to walk through this doorway will bring us closer to healing the deep divide between our hearts and our minds.
Always Love,
Eric

John Stewart of “Evolution’s Arrow” fame has published his manifesto that clearly and succinctly presents evolution as the guiding force behind any real hope that our species has of navigating through the difficult waters of our contemporary existence. It is, quite simply, brilliant, and worthy of attention.

This short book is helping to promote a significant evolutionary shift in which increasing numbers of individuals are seeing themselves as having a conscious role in the future evolution of life on earth. The Manifesto demonstrates the potential of the worldview to provide meaning and purpose for human existence, and uses it to identify the actions that we need to take if humanity is to fulfill its potential to contribute positively to the future evolution of life in the universe. I can’t help wanting to spread this powerful little booklet around as widely as possible.

You can download “The Evolutionary Manifesto” as a .pdf by right-clicking HERE and choosing “save target as” or “save link as”.

Go forth and be inspired!
Peace,
Eric