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

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

I will never forget the moment that Thomas Berry’s core message clicked as I was reading his “Dream of the Earth”. It was the first time in my entire life that I genuinely experienced a synergy. Everything clicked. Everything connected. Everything all of a sudden made sense, and had a living, vibrant, connective context within which to make sense as it continually unfolded. Needless to say he left quite an impression on me, and I experience a depth of gratitude towards him that is usually reserved for parents or an intimate. Having passed away earlier this year at the wondrous age of 94, Thomas Berry has left us a legacy that has the power to help transform our world. Or to use one of his most beloved phrases, to help usher in an era of “mutually enhancing human earth relations”.

There are numerous biographies, eulogies, memorials, and further testaments regarding the profound vision that Berry has left us with online, and if the reader is unfamiliar with his work then I most whole heartedly recommend it. There are great overviews of his life from The New York Times and The LA Times, along with eulogies found on his own website, www.thomasberry.org. My favorite tribute however comes from poet Drew Dellinger, and I can’t recommend it, or Dellinger himself, enough.

If our lives are measured by the extent that we have left the world a better place then when we found it, we would need to dig out the tape used for M.L.King, Gandhi and company, the one usually reserved for prophets and saints. The pages of this blog were originally inspired by Thomas’ message to learn and tell the Universe Story in order to firmly establish a meaningful context within which to lead our lives, and it is my fullest intention of continuing The Great Work of our times by highlighting as many efforts to inspire and nurture balanced human earth relations as possible.

Thank you father Thomas. The world is indeed a much better place for your having been. I will close this post with a clip of Thomas sharing a most powerful perspective in his own words.

Peace,
Ericuni