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Awakening the Dreamer

Biophile — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:25 +0000

The folks from the Pachamama Alliance are offering these low cost symposiums to help further along the transition from exploitative culture to a nourishing and truly sustainable one. This is a wondrously beautiful example of tell a different story, bring about a different reality. And I adore the fact that they are ensuring it is accessible to everyone. If you can find one anywhere near you, I would whole heartedly recommend attending. Their stated goal is bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth, and I can’t think of anything more worthwhile.

Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Trailer from Pachamama Alliance on Vimeo.

At it’s heart are four questions ~ Where are we? How did we get here? What’s possible for the future? And Where do we go from here? Affirming our connectedness throughout, and stimulating active community are just some of the results from this event.

Joanna Macy says “The Symposium is designed to accelerate the Great Turning to a just and sustainable world. It awakens us and reconnects us with our place in the web of life . . . I’m very impressed with the approach and the quality of the program.” And that alone makes me want to go…

Peace,
Eric

Ongoing ~ Brian Swimme perspectives

Aether — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:10:54 +0000

I am so in love with Brian Swimme, and am completely unashamed to say so. Every time the man opens his mouth something wondrous emerges to expand on our cosmological appreciation, and this interview from meaning of life .tv is no exception. If you follow this link you will get a very short segment from an hour + long interview by Robert Wright, and you can watch the whole interview below if you have the time. But I selected the “cosmic evolution” clip within the whole program because it contains one of the fundamental perspectives learned from a telling of the great story, that we are literally made of stardust. Every perspective I have encountered that relates this evolutionary fact is glorious, and this is no exception. And Brian once again tries to clarify his meaning on the wedding of science and spirituality that so many people try to pigeon hole him into. Enjoy!

The Epic of Evolution

Aether — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:50:47 +0000

Just when you thought you had seen it all…

Well, not really. But I am feeling like if I had known about Cathy Russell’s Epic of Evolution website before I had started this site, I probably wouldn’t have felt motivated to do this one, because the compendium of related sites, resources, published materials, and articles is quite comprehensive. WOW. I feel like I have stumbled upon the holy grail of evolutionary story-telling websites. This is it, a veritable treasure trove of eye opening materials presented in an extremely admirable way. I especially appreciate the balanced approach that has been taken with the areas where science and spirituality mingle. I know that this is a realm that can make it or break it with so many people, and leaving it open to personal interpretation is a nice touch of grace.

In addition to all of the available reading material, the collection of quotes itself is stunning. And the resource page, where you will find enough books on related subjects to fill a small library, will easily keep me going for the foreseeable future. When my gal wonders why I haven’t been around lately, I’ll be able to say “It’s all Cathy’s fault!”

Best of all for me, and extremely revealing in it’s own right, is the “About” page, where the overview given is so understanding of the myriad of different perspectives that people often take in regards to the subject matter of evolution. Presenting acceptance in such a way gives me such hope for the future, precisely because it is so grounded in and accommodating of the many differing realities that people often approach evolution from, especially when feeling potentially threatened by it.

I am personally thrilled that such a developed and inviting site is so readily available, and can only hope that it is as inspiring to you as it has been to me.

The Epic of Evolution